Wednesday Tidbits: Gifts
Two weeks ago, I received a beautiful batik in the mail from Orgasmic Birth! I won it on a Facebook giveaway. It is so beautiful! I waited to post about it because I wanted to post a picture of it on...
View ArticleRise for Justice
Okay, so I knew I would enjoy The Vagina Monologues. How could I not, right?! Well, I did not expect to be SO blown away by the power, presence, and passion of my magnificent friends. They were...
View ArticleInternational Women’s Day: Body Prayer
I roam sacred ground my body is my altar my temple. I cast a circle with my breath I touch the earth with my fingers I answer to the fire of my spirit. My blood pulses in time with larger rhythms past,...
View ArticleThe Goddess of Willendorf & Does My Uterus Make Me Look Fat?
“Loving, knowing, and respecting our bodies is a powerful and invincible act of rebellion in this society.” ~ Inga Muscio Replica on my birth altar. I do not remember the first time I ever saw her, but...
View ArticleTuesday Tidbits: Cesarean Courage
“Her courage is written on her body.” –Molly (Talk Birth) Last year I made several cesarean birth art sculptures by request. It felt like a “risk” of sorts to make them, like I was trying to interpret...
View ArticleBreastfeeding as an Ecofeminist Issue: Collage Project
Since January I’ve been working with an independent study student from Prescott College on a self-designed course called Breastfeeding and Ecofeminism. Her class ended this month and her final project...
View Article100 Things List!
As part of Leonie Dawson’s Amazing Year workbook, I wrote a list of 100 things to do in 2014. My blog has been fairly quiet lately, but that doesn’t actually mean I have been! A lot of the energy...
View ArticleRolla Red Tent Event!
On August 2, 2014 in conjunction with Rolla Birth Network’s annual MamaFest event, we will be hosting the Missouri Premiere of Things We Don’t Talk About: Women’s Voices from the Red Tent. I am...
View ArticleSHE…(Hysterectomy Sculpture)
Recently I received a special request to create a sculpture in honor of a woman’s hysterectomy experience. I haven’t really been taking custom orders for a while now, since it hard to keep up with...
View ArticleRed Tent Reminder!
If you’re in Rolla, Missouri or nearby areas (or, heck, anywhere in Missouri!), remember to mark your calendar for MamaFest on August 2nd from 4-8:00 at Tara Day Spa and join us there for the Missouri...
View ArticleSacred Pregnancy, Week 1, Part 2: Connecting
The focus of the second part of the first week of Sacred Pregnancy training was about connection. This was perfect, because I keep feeling like I have been going through the motions of being pregnant....
View ArticleRed Tent!
In 2012, when we held our first Mamafest event, my eye was caught by this room within the beautiful setting of Tara Day Spa: I wanted to have a Red Tent in this room! I could just feel it calling to...
View ArticleWednesday Tidbits: Mother Care
“I watch her face become alight with joy and ecstasy. ‘You’re here, oh look, you’re here! You’re so beautiful! I love you! We did it!’ It hasn’t been easy, but it was worth it…She knows–in a way that...
View ArticlePap Smears I Have Known
Photo by Karen Orozco, Portraits and Paws Photography “Your body is your own. This may seem obvious. But to inhabit your physical self fully, with no apology, is a true act of power.” –Camille Maurine...
View ArticleMother Blessings and the Power of Ritual
You are the most powerful intelligent inspirational Woman Close to my heart. You continue to become exponentially more amazing. Always giving others the step UP. Force of the cosmos connecting the Web...
View ArticleEmbrace Possibility…
Usually when I create a new design for a pendant or figurine, I know who I’m making when I begin. Last spring, I created a new design who emerged as a mystery. When she was finished, I loved her. But,...
View ArticleWisdom from Moon Time for Red Tents
“At her first bleeding a woman meets her power. During her bleeding years she practices it. At menopause she becomes it.” (Traditional Native American saying) One of my favorite books to have available...
View ArticleFrom Mother Blessings to Red Tent Circles: What comes after a Sacred Pregnancy?
In 2008, a small postcard at the local Unitarian Universalist church caught my eye. It was for a Cakes for the Queen of Heaven facilitator training at Eliot Chapel in St. Louis. I registered for the...
View ArticleRed Tent Initiation Program Launch
Following the spiral path of maiden, mother, and crone… Do you want to take a journey into a deeper understanding of yourself? Do you wish to unlock insight and understanding? Do you want to reach out...
View ArticleTalk Books: Earthprayer, Birthprayer, Lifeprayer, Womanprayer
Looking for readings for women’s programs or mother blessings? My newest book might be just the collection you need!This the wisdom of woodspaces this is the meditation of Earthplaces… Earthprayer,...
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