The Listening
The other day I was commenting to a friend how pleased I was that my recent series of acupuncture treatments had successfully dealt with an issue I was having.…
Update on Home Birth and Independent Midwives
A Maternity services review was conducted last year and it was decided that in order to improve the options and standard of care available for women for…
Aware Parenting – Embracing Joy and Sadness in Our Babies and Children
(I’ll give you a clue – we also need to embrace them in ourselves!)
When I came across…
Suddenly Teens: Refocusing Adolescent Hostilities
Long gone is the era, of my life, when successful maternity consists of balancing a baby on my hip while counting out coins at a market stall. Today, I can no…
The Next Uber-Cool Yummy Mummy Thing
Recently I was invited to submit the Nappy Free! dvd to a GreenLifestyle Film Festival taking place in Hollywood... Being that it is not often that the…
Hello Kindred Community!
I am a Texas psychologist and an activist in challenging wrong-headed ways that my so-called mental health profession deals with people (e.g., name-calling,…
Teaching Children to be Friends, Not Bullies
This year we’ve been hearing a lot about bullying. In Queensland, a 12-year-old boy was killed after being stabbed in the school toilets. The government…
Suddenly Teens: Uncomplimentary Writing Notions
Children are possessed, especially when they hit their adolescent stride, of sufficient brassiness to derail even the most confident of mothers. Consider the…
Connection is the Key to Aware Parenting – bring on the laughter…
“Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who…
Accessing Forgiveness of Self: Birth in the Context of the Childbearing…
Birth is big. That’s the paradigm I work with. There are very few events in life that have the same potential for life affirming or destructive…