Books I read in 2019

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I LOVE getting book recommendations so here’s my list and mini reviews! A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as If it Were Your Last by Stephen Levine I’m still reading this one, but I am LOVING it!! Divine Beauty: The Invisible Embrace by John O’Donohue this sits on my table and I dip in and get blown …

Who Holds The Women Who Hold The Women?

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I’ve had a tough week. Premenstrual, which in perimenopause means a ramping up of all the ‘manifestations’ – migraines, insomnia, hot flushes, night sweats, and dark, dark moods. My body is calling me to stop, to rest, to have peace and quiet, to go within. How do I let go of it all? Who can hold me so I can …

How to Ease Flooding!!

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Flooding is one of the biggest issues women are coming to me with – from young women just starting their periods, through to women who have just ‘put up with it’ for years, to women in perimenopause who have just begun to experience it. The medical term for excessive bleeding is menorrhagia. So I want to remind you all, that …

Moon- Pause Sharing…come sit and have a cuppa and a chat with me

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#therealtruthaboutmenopause   Breaking taboos, breaking the silence against ‘menopause’ women are speaking out more and more on their journey to elder. We are going through a process of self initiation, our bodies are initiating us , but while in this cocoon of change, we are changing woman, don’t expect too much from us! Here I share my top tips for …

Girls Lodge

The Daughters of the Earth Lodge l am available to support you setting up a group, for mentoring and coaching- see my rates here- however I am not running mother and daughter groups/retreats/days at the moment or for the foreseeable future.  This page is filled with wisdom gathered from running our girls lodges over 4 years- 2013-2018. From the original …

Acceptance…a teaching from my womb

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I’ve been posting over on my Instagram about #selflove and #selfkindness which to me feels a huge part of acceptance and surrender. For me, my cycle awareness has taught me a lot about acceptance- especially now I’m in peri-menopause and I just don’t know what’s going on with my cycle! Because I have practiced listening to my womb for so …

Reclaiming our Thresholds…Community is KEY!

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THIS IS THE COUNTER CULTURE TO SOCIAL MEDIA. This is real connection. Those of you who have followed my story will know I moved to Wales with “Community” as my goal…and interestingly along side my failed community venture (read more about that here!) I’ve come to see that I did manage to create community…..in the Red Tent, in our Mother …

#vaginarevolution It’s Time We Empowered our Vaginas!!

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So in my last newsletter I spoke about reclaiming my power at my cervical examination by asking to insert the speculum myself 🙂 This got me thinking about vaginal health in general, and then pondering more specifically on vaginal dryness that can happen when breastfeeding and more common when in perimenopause, menopause and beyond. I was to start this #vaginarevolution …

Cervical care, womb packs, yoni steams and womb massage

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So how do we “care” for our cervix when she is so tucked away and invisible…? Here I share what I do for my cervical care! First, Womb Packs. Ever since reading Alexandra Popes Wild Genie book, I’ve been doing castor oil packs on my womb…they are so soothing, they ease cramps and generally help you relax…but, they are so messy…oil …

Breaking the Patriarchal business model

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In response to whats going on in the world right now, on global scale, UK scale and community scale, I’ve been sitting with how we women can model a better way of being in business. I wrote a bit about this in my last newsletter- how I see the Wise Womans Way of running a business. I’ve been in business …