Today I’m proud to welcome my friend Diana, who has written a post for The Body Image Carnival about her journey to loving her body. Diana is a foodie-goddess-extraordinaire, writer and massage therapist. She has written the food column for Cottage Magazine, and contributed articles for Shambhala Sun, Chatelaine, Flare, Vancouver Magazine, and Western Living. On [...]
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Welcome to the April Carnival of Natural Parenting: Parenting advice! This post was written for inclusion in the monthly Carnival of Natural Parenting hosted by Hobo Mama and Code Name: Mama. This month we’re writing letters to ask our readers for help with a current parenting issue. Please read to the end to find a [...]
Ah. Breasts. It’s not just men who obsess about them. We do too. It starts in adolescence. “Are they growing fast enough? Will they be big enough to attract a boy? How do they look in clothes?” We love them or we hate them. Sometimes we’re ambivalent towards them. But not usually. My own feelings [...]
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Welcome to the first day of The Body Image Carnival being hosted by Breastfeeding Moms Unite! and Maman A Droit. I’m thrilled to start this wonderful week off by hosting a giveaway from one of my favorite breastfeeding companies – Bravado Designs. And in spirit of the theme of the week I got brave and [...]
Once upon a time I lived in a little lake cottage in the woods with two male roommates who meant the world to me. We cooked together, we ate together, we stayed up late stoking our wood stove fire and talking about school, partners, spirituality and how we might change the world. We talked about [...]
Last year I received a copy of Shari Criso’s My Baby Experts™ Simply Breastfeeding DVD. It was wonderful and I gave it a rather glowing review that you can read here. This time I was sent the second edition of the Simply Breastfeeding DVD and the Breastpumps and Briefcases audio CD, together known as “the working mom’s [...]
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My first birth was an unavoidable emergency cesarean section. For my second birth I was determined to do things my way. This meant a midwives assisted homebirth. This meant spending my labour baking a cake with my oldest daughter. This meant following my birth plan. My second birth went very well. I had the homebirth [...]
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