Health, Happiness & the Hard Stuff
I have been practicing yoga on and off for 15 years. It’s a form of movement that I always come back to because it is a movement practice that totally prioritizes the mind-body connection. Have you been thinking of starting a yoga practice but are not sure what all the hype is about? Are you afraid that it’s not for you? Let me tell you, it is.
Here are the five reasons I do yoga every week:…
I remember the first time I got my period—July 23,1996. It had some seriously unfortunate timing because it was summer vacation and I was supposed to go out to a community swimming pool that day. I wasn’t sure how I would get out of the swimming without actually talking about my situation; and I knew your period wasn’t something that people talked about. I mean, I was pretty sure it wasn’t. I had never heard my mom talk about it. I was the first girl in my group to have gotten my period, so my friends had never talked about it. I had a brother so he definitely wasn’t talking about it….
This is what real, uncensored motherhood looks like. I was about a week post partum here. I was sore & tired & underslept. Breastfeeding was totally kicking my ass. My labour had been an empowering experience but it was peppered with it’s own traumas that I didn’t have the time or energy to deal with. I was in pure survival mode.
Despite the desperation in early post partum to give your baby everything you can, I also knew I had to take care of me. But self care can be such a nebulous concept can’t it? How does one actually do it?…
This is a bag of breast milk. This is not a bag of my breast milk. My body chose to never produce this much milk. I never responded to pumping. Breastfeeding totally kicked my ass.
It’s world breastfeeding week and I have a few things to say.
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I’m trying out something new today. Over on my personal Instagram, I’ve posted about my favourite sunscreens before and usually people are quite interested so I thought I would take a deeper dive into the topic and provide some recommendations….
