Finding Me
I am feeling overwhelming gratitude right now. I feel like a vessel that has opened up and the universe is filling me with love. Or, rather, the love is flowing into me and back out. I am light – both lightness and illumination – and love and peace seep into and out of me. I have no negative thoughts or feelings – or, when I do, they are able to flow back out because I’m open. Three years ago I was the opposite. I was in a bad situation, yes, but more than that I was tight – like a ball of rubberbands. There was no space in me. Everything was inward...
Read More5 Myths About Gender Neutral Parenting
This article was originally posted on Everyday Feminism. This Thursday 4/4 I’ll be on EF Talk Radio taking questions about Gender Neutral Parenting! Tune in and learn more. Practicing Gender Neutral Parenting - Thur, 4/4, 8 pm EST/5 pm PST Credit: NAYEC The day I found out the baby I was carrying was a girl, I bought a frilly, pink dress. It had taken me a long time to get pregnant and I wanted a girl. Yes, I wanted a “healthy baby” but I was honest enough with myself to say I preferred a girl. In retrospect, it seems incongruent with my feminist views that I did...
Read More4 Things Easter Can Teach Us Non-Christians
I’ve decided I like the term Post-Christian instead of Ex-Christian. ”Ex” implies some type of break up with perhaps some lingering animosity or denial of the former path. Like I said before I feel that my devout study of christianity led me here. I think the bible is a wellspring of information and while I might not believe Jesus is the son of God I do think he was a wise man and path pointer. Christmas this past year was a weird time of wistful melancholy as I mourned the loss of my belief. For example, the first time I heard Do You Hear What I Hear, one of my...
Read MoreCome Visit the NEW Baby Dust Boutique + SALE!
Hello readers! Thanks so much for always visiting my blog and saying hi through the years! If you’ll remember I started an Etsy shop a few years ago with stuffed animals and some baby items. It was fun but never really went anywhere. This year one of my new year’s resolutions was to be a stronger voice for infertility. Hmmm, maybe these two things could go together? I’d always wanted mother’s jewelry that honored my kids’ unique entry into this world. My IVF miracle and Snowflake babies! Out of this the NEW and IMPROVED Baby Dust Boutique was born! I...
Read MoreThe Oxymoron of “Personhood” Legislation
I am one mad mama right now! Watch out! The ongoing list of atrocities to woman-kind that is the “personhood” movement is astounding. Personhood is the name given by its proponents to legislation intending to circumnavigate the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision by granting full rights to a two-cell, microscopic zygote only moments after sperm penetrates egg. North Dakota, Mississippi, and Oklahoma currently have personhood legislation in the pipeline. These thinly-veiled attempts to curb the legal right to abortion have bled over into a litany of other anti-woman...
Read MoreGood Food v. Bad Food
Recently, my post 15 Tips for Raising Kids With a Positive Body Image, has received a lot of comments. I’m so glad people are finding the post and discussing this important topic! I have two follow-up posts: Big Fat Myths About Fat and this one. Many commenters had problems with #6 and #13 in my list; Do not label foods as “good” and “bad” Avoid talking about a nutrionalist approach to food – disassembling “food” into fat, carbs, calories, and other things that need to be obsessed about and counted (difficult since it is explicitly taught in many schools). For...
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