We want you to meet Melissa, one of our Whole Mama Yoga Collective Members. Melissa wears many hats! She is a Licensed Psychologist, a Holistic Integrative Wellness Coach, a Trauma-informed Mindfulness, Meditation, & Yoga Teacher, and an Ayurvedic Doula. Keep reading to learn more!
Read MoreA reflection on female friendships & a celebration of International Women’s Day.
Read MoreOur dear Erin is so intentional with her monthly themes. When she told us all that she planned to focus on rest this month, and tapped me to write our newsletter’s monthly greeting, it felt as close to kismet as writing a newsletter intro can feel. I LOVE rest. Over the years, I have come to claim it and own it and nestle into it. In a world where life moves at the pace of words I don’t even know because they were invented yesterday by people 20 years younger than me, rest is kind of anathema.
Read MoreThere’s a great irony of motherhood and parenthood. It starts in pregnancy and it continues until (well, from my experience until at least age 7, but I suspect much, much longer than that.) The irony is that although I am less active (less fit, ahem), and my life offers more chances to be sedentary (all those early months sitting and nursing, rocking, nurturing baby, all the days now of watching soccer and gymnastics), I am always tired. Despite all that sitting and ostensible restfulness, I am wandering through life in need of deep, deliberate rest.
Read MoreI am a working mother. I balance my flexible work schedule with my share of the domestic work required to run a household, the self-care required to resource my body, and my share of the caregiving required to love & nurture my two-year-old son. Sound familiar? This summer I found myself in a position of less work and more caregiving (but unfortunately the same number of laundry baskets full of clean clothes yet to be folded). Here is how I survived.
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