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Musings on women's health, sexuality, and empowerment.
I was lucky. I loved breastfeeding. It worked for me, it worked for my baby and it worked for our family. I made plenty of breastmilk that nourished and fed him until he was ready for food, and then he continued on to be physically nourished and emotionally nourished by breastfeeding along with ingestion of…
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Covid Support and Resilence Protocol I have crafted this protocol to share with you all, as people seem to be continuing to get sick. Knowledge is power. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. And preparation is everything. I purchased all the supplements I would want if my family got sick, so…
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Dark Blood Have you noticed dark blood at the beginning or the end of your menstrual cycle? Dark blood at the beginning of your cycle tends to be leftover blood from the previous menstrual cycle. Dark blood at the end of your menstrual cycle tends to be leftover blood from many moons before. What is…
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Which Menstrual Products work for you? It is one of my great passions in life to support women and other menstruating folks to love and embrace our wombs and cycles. One aspect of embracing our menstruation is figuring out what menstrual products work for you! Many people ask my opinions and recommendations, so here they…
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Are you one of the many women who struggles with painful menstruation or irregular menstrual cycles? The good news and the bad news is that you are not alone. Nearly half of women struggle with painful menses, or dysmenorrhea. Symptoms of imbalanced and painful menstruation Big emotional mood swings Unmanageable cramps leading up to or…
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Since March 15th, that fateful day when we got the call that school would be closed for 2 weeks, when people have casually asked me the date, I shrug my shoulders, smile impishly and say, “March?” A commentary on how days have felt the same since then in a certain way. As we approach the…
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Lineage v Spherage The word lineage holds the implication that time is linear and governed by the projection of dicks over time. I credit Jwow for the verbiage. Lineage is the patriarchal perception of our ancestry over linear time. Spherage (Sphere-age). Thank you again JWow for the word magic. Words matter. Spherage. Perfect word. It…
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How does a grown womban father herself? Many of us have done the work, or at least pondered the work, of what it means to mother ourselves. It is easy enough in that gendered way to imagine our adult female self mothering our child female self. I have never imagined how my adult female self…
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Grief felt insurmountable the other night. Like an undertow in the ocean, that takes us by surprise. In an actual undertow you would swim parallel to the beach as opposed to straight towards it. That is the way out of the rip tide. Swimming sideways, when we think we should be heading directly to shore. …
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Homeschooling in a pandemic: Trash Adventures Birch and I have been going on “trash adventures” into the woods around our house to collect garbage. We have now found multiple areas where people just dumped all their trash in the forest many years ago. Glass bottles, old ones. Shoes that have fallen apart. 1970s wallpaper. A…
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