Exploring Holistic Approaches to Postpartum Healing, Birth Preparation, Women’s Circle Wisdom, and Village Support: Topics Include Birth Trauma Healing, Perinatal Mental Wellness, Art and Mindfulness as Healing, Seasonal Living, Rituals, Womb Healing, Traditional Folk Medicine, Ancestral Reverence, and Other Pathways to Healing and Connection.
Vagina Steaming for womb well-being & fertility
I’m always speaking with pregnant women and new mums about the importance of self care. Taking the time to care and nourish our bodies through times of stress and busyness is a challenge most of us know well. One practice that I return to when I’m feeling tired,...
Holistic Birth Preparation (part 3) Learn Ways to Cope With Pain!
In my work with pregnant women one of the most common things I hear is that women are afraid. Afraid of pain. Afraid of not knowing what will happen. Afraid of birth. There is lot to talk about with this and why this might be the case socially and culturally, but I'm...
Holistic Birth Preparation (Part 2) – Birth as a Journey
“The Labyrinth is an ancient, universal symbol representing our journey through life ordeals and initiations... The journey into the labyrinth’s center is symbolic of death (psychic and physical), and the journey out of the labyrinth represents birth or rebirth.”...
Holistic Birth Preparation (Part one) – Look Within
What does it mean to prepare for birth in a holistic way? "Ho·lis·tic adj. relating to or concerned with wholes or with complete systems… to treat both the mind and the body." In a culture that mostly confines childbirth to the medical realm, many women are now...
Why Have a Doula at Your Birth?
I just love when science 'discovers' through research what women have been saying forever. What we know actually works for most women in labour and birth is being supported throughout the experience, not to feel alone, abandoned, or more vulnerable then is needed....
Three Kinds of Knowing
This article is written by Pam England and Virginia Bobro of Birthing From Within. "We used to say that women needed two kinds of “knowing” to give birth: primordial and modern knowing. Today, we believe holistic preparation for birth and parenting requires three...
Anne Castles, BSocWk
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I pay my respects to the Turrbal and Jagera people, the First Peoples with an ongoing connection to the land I create and offer my work from in Meanjin (Brisbane). Always was, Always will be Aboriginal Land.
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