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Spirit

The Mother of All Natural Childbirth Tips: Allow it to happen

May 8, 2013

A couple of years back, my downstairs neighbour was expecting her first child, and I was inspired to write 10 Pain Management Techniques for Natural Childbirth as I watched her preparing for her first home birth. Two years later, she’s expecting her second baby and thousands of people have read and shared my original post [...]

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A little taste

April 6, 2013

Every now and then I get a little taste of what is to come. A week of sunshine in March reminds me that summer is coming. We shed our layers of wool and remember what it is like to be too hot. A focused burst of desk-work reminds me that my children are growing up. [...]

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On falling down and getting up again

March 12, 2013

We all struggle, right? We dream and we doubt, we try and we fail, we go bushwacking and sometimes we fall down right in the middle of the swamp. Partway through his first year as an entreprenuer, my husband discovered this graph and sent it on to me. He wanted me to see that the [...]

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Putting down roots

March 9, 2013

Nothing says new beginnings like planting seeds. It is a symbolic act but also a very real, tangible one. A hope for the future, an investment in possibilities. A prayer for sunshine and rain. A promise of work to come. Yesterday I made some real progress towards a successful garden this year. I finished fortifying [...]

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Slow Days

March 2, 2013

I’ve been learning a whole new dimension of slow these days. I used to think I lived a slow-paced life, back when I lived in the city. I would watch my neighbours dash off with their kids in tow five (or more) mornings a week while we dawdled about in our pyjamas, reading Life of [...]

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To the limit

February 25, 2013

Another gray day, another battle over leaving the house. My children, who used to love going for adventures in the woods, suddenly decide that they hate going for walks in the woods now that we live amidst them. A huge yard, with a playhouse and a fairy house and a space to run and play [...]

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I dream of firewood these days

February 11, 2013

Some days bring frustration and tears. Lost work, dirty dishes, the same old emotionally loaded conversation that’s been had many times before. Squabbling children, dust bunnies on the stairs, crumbs under the table. I’m sure you’ve been there too. Today I worked hard at creating a cover for The Parenting Primer print edition, then lost [...]

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Here

January 19, 2013

When I look out the window, I see trees. Blue sky, mottled with high ridges of white cloud. The wood stove sings its ping-ping-ping song as it cools a little, and I suspect it will soon be time to add another log. It is quiet, the first quiet moment with my fingers on the keyboard [...]

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One track mind

January 8, 2013

We’re moving. Did I mention that we’re moving? There are a lot of boxes around here, and I am spending the bulk of my days putting things into them and moving them from one area to another. I’m also doing a lot of letting go, handing other things to people who are glad to take [...]

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What I Learned in 2012

January 1, 2013

Reflecting on the past year is a timely thing to do at the end of one year and the beginning of another. This year I have the added reflection of sorting, cleaning, packing and selectively purging my worldly goods. In this space of mindfully choosing what to bring with me into this new year, new [...]

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No Words

December 17, 2012

What a week it has been. Intense doesn’t even begin to come close. Prophetic dreams, unspeakable tragedies, a massive and magical family decision, laryngitis. Lots of big things and the words just don’t want to come. Sometimes I need to write to process, and other times I need to be silent for a while before [...]

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Emotion Brain vs. Logic Brain

October 27, 2012

You know how sometimes your heart and your brain don’t agree on an issue, and your brain does it’s powerful logic thing and you think that issue’s all nicely wrapped up and tidied away? And then one day the spring-loaded emotions burst out and the jack-in-the box pops out and bounces all over the place [...]

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Autumn in the woods

September 24, 2012

  Went camping on the weekend with friends we’ve known since Bea was a baby. Stayed up too late, saw my breath in the night air, watched our big kids ride bikes all over the campground and witnessed the transition from summer to fall on the autumnal equinox. The light is drawing away now, and [...]

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