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A Mother’s Rights #3: You have the right to wear clothes that fit.
A few days ago, I started a feature: 15 Mother’s Rights. It started with a Mother’s Rights #1: You have the right to get 8 hours of sleep every 24 hours. Number 2 on the list was about taking time to eat. Here comes number 3: So I am going to admit that I wore…
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A Mother’s Rights #2: You have the right to eat a meal, sitting down, from start to finish.
Yesterday I kicked off the first post here featuring the 15 Mother’s Rights. It started with a Mother’s Rights #1: You have the right to get 8 hours of sleep every 24 hours. Here comes #2 Why is this a thing? Of all the possible ways we neglect ourselves in motherhood, why does eating at…
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A Mother’s Rights #1: You have the right to 8 hours of sleep every 24 hours.
Ladies. Please don’t do what I did and think that you will catch up on sleep when your child is done night nursing or done co-sleeping or done teething or through this growth spurt or entering middle school. Good sleep is necessary for good health. It just is. Everything from skin to metabolism to immune…
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Reiki
When thinking about what I wanted to say here about Reiki, my thoughts drifted back to the most powerful experience I had with receiving Reiki. It was in 1998 and I had just finished college, despite debilitating panic attacks and anxiety disorder. My anxiety got worse after graduating, and I was living with my…
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Holding Space
Today I had a rather large emotional release. I was thinking about my senior year in college- a tough time in my life and about to get tougher. My close friends had graduated the year before and moved away, my dad and I were struggling to maintain a relationship of any kind, I was relying…