At every turn, I find that the policy makers of this world want to control women and women’s bodies. The latest news to hit my radar is that the FDA wants people (almost always women who work from home) to pay an annual registration fee to sell their reusable cloth menstrual pads on the grounds […]
For years, my family and I have used a fabric re-usable advent calendar. As a child, it was one of my favourite parts of the Christmas season and I was keen to recreate this with my children. My grandmother always sent a beautiful advent calendar over from Germany, and us children would delight in taking […]
For twelves years, I edited the holistic parenting magazine The Mother. I’m excited to bring you a huge collection of podcasts (the largest of its kind anywhere!) based on all the topics I had the pleasure of exploring and/experiencing, both as an editor and as a holistic parent. I will be launching in December, with […]
In December I’m launching my series of meditations: Five-Minute Meditations, on an assortment of themes. Many people know that meditation removes stress and brings inner calm, but at the same time they’ll say that they don’t have time to meditate or don’t know how. My guided meditations are just five minutes long, and can be […]
Instinctive parenting: is it an art or science? To parent instinctively means being in tune with your body and that of your baby/child. Is this an art or a science? Actually, it’s both. There’s an art to listening to your heart and the way your baby communicates with you, rather than listening to the call […]
The Powerful and The Empowered By Veronika Sophia Robinson When it comes to defining joyous birth, it’s important to understand the role of power. I believe the difference between an interfered-with birth, and a joyous ‘hands-off’ birth, is fear. Fear can come from a deep primal urge in the old brain, or from our centre […]
In issue 3 of Starflower Living magazine, I wrote a piece on mandalas as therapy. I am particularly drawn to the idea of the circle, and the importance of a baby always having access to a face. When we make nature mandalas, this helps us tap in to the innate need we have to connect […]
Rather thrilled to have the gorgeous Lucy H. Pearce writing about Wild Mothering in this issue of Starflower Living (out on Saturday ~ New Moon in Sagittarius). Lucy is the author of The Rainbow Way: cultivating creativity in the midst of motherhood and Moon Time: a guide to celebrating your menstrual cycle, as well as […]
When I was a young girl of about seven, I would walk miles along the dusty road to the nearest church. It was for Catholics, and I wasn’t one. That didn’t matter. I would walk that road with utter devotion, always with an eye out for snakes. I was off to talk with the Divine […]
This week I had the pleasure of having my daughter home for a couple of nights. Seven weeks ago she left home to begin studying music at Bangor University (on the north Wales coast). She said she wanted to spend time together cooking. Turned out, I cooked and she chatted. And ate! It is said, […]