Interesting Links and Articles
I have been accumulating an inspiring web community – people (primarily women) who are thinking and writing and doing things in their life. Evaluating where they came from - how they want to shift old patterning. Their work is speaking to me (and maybe you) -- about self-worth issues and boundary issues, about our perfectionism and stressful lives -- and even a link to a NVC (nonviolent communication) which shares many pearls of wisdom - challenging us to identify what we feel and what we need...
We have so many opportunities to take our life experience and slowly release what what no longer serves us, and make room for the healing we took birth for. This is a lifelong adventure -- pack your gear with love, kindness, gentleness, and star gazing maps. In Love ~ Windy
World Wild Womb Blessing website -- check it out - beautiful.
Great web site -- what happens in other places in the world: Postnatal Care in France
Charter for Compassion -- on TED and the web -- “Sometimes I feel overwhelmed. But I try to work one day at a time. If we just worry about the big picture, we are powerless. So my secret is to start right away doing whatever little work I can do. I try to give joy to one person in the morning, and remove the suffering of one person in the afternoon. That’s enough. When you see you can do that, you continue, and you give two little joys, and you remove two little sufferings, then three, and then four. If you and your friends do not despise the small work, a million people will remove a lot of suffering. That is the secret. Start right now.” ~Sister Chân Không (born 1938), Vietnamese pioneer of socially engaged Buddhism
http://avivaromm.com Aviva Romm MD Integrative medicine for women and children. Also a great website, with insightful blog. For example : “Maladaptive Default Patterns. “Survival mechanisms are powerful driving forces. They also easily become hardwired as default behaviors. We may unwittingly continue to act and react to threats that are no longer present… the hint of a threat that triggers a cellular memory of the actual threat. We hold onto these response patterns for dear life even when they are no longer needed – often unaware that we are doing it. Once adaptive and protective, these patterns can eventually become maladaptive”.
NVC website: LaShelle Lowe-Charde lashelle@wiseheartpdx.org - amazing insightful, instructive blog … healing communication.
A simple practice to settle your spirit:
www.swamij.com/sohum-mantra-108.htm So Hum Mantra Meditation - Online Practice
Spiritualityhealth.com
Spirituality & Health is a bimonthly magazine and website covering the health of body, mind, and spirit.
www.wildfeminine.com/ There are many things I have already said about this work. See her website, it blows me away that such complete dense spirit work came through this woman. She is a holistic women's healthcare visionary, as well as mother ... and gentle powerful human. Shared on Google+. View the post.
Unabashedly female www.unabashedlyfemale.com - Julie Daley website and blog are amazing. “I remember, somewhere deep within me, a time when I knew life differently as a woman, a time when women walked as noble beings. .. In valuing these things, we bring ourselves back into balance, a balance of the masculine and feminine within. As we do this, as we embody our femaleness, aware of the sacredness of our bodies, we model what it is to respect the feminine in a world that has forgotten how to do so. And as we do this, we hold out our hands and hearts to the men in our lives, inviting them to do the same – to respect the feminine within us and to embody the feminine within themselves. May we all, women and men, walk on the earth with feet of love. May we all become conscious of the immense gift of life, and allow this knowing to wake us up to the joyful responsibility we have to be engaged, creative, and giving members of this world village”.
Leslie Howard
http://www.lesliehowardyoga.com/
- Leslie is a pioneer in women's pelvic care; her background consists of a deep practice of yoga as well as being a yoga teacher ... and through these experiences she found herself being present to the pelvic bowl. Leslie has a very insightful and informative website, with great (and amazing) links to the pelvic bowel anatomy. Her web site shares many peoples work that offer a clearer understanding and healing of the female root. Check it out.
Megan Devine , emotionally intelligent grief support.
refugeingreif.com
As we move through life and work with the bodies soft tissue, grief may unwind. This is a thought full approach "Somethings in life cannot be fixed. They can only be carried."
Suggestions for books:
- ) The Wild Feminine: Find Power, Spirit and Joy in the Female Body by Tami Lynn Kent.
- ) The V Book by Elizabeth Stewart. This throws light on some of the disorders and health of the pelvic bowl.
-) The Female Pelvis by Blandine Calais-Germain and Pelvic Power by Eric Franklin, have a good introduction of pelvic floor work – focused on strengthening.
- ) A Headache in the Pelvis by David Wise and Rodney Anderson, have information for women whose pelvic bowl hypertonic “too tight a grip” evidenced by chronic cystitis (UTI), vulvodynia, etc.
-) Ending Female Pain by Isa Herrera offers an insightful book on working with vaginal pain and has great step by step advice for self care.
We have so many opportunities to take our life experience and slowly release what what no longer serves us, and make room for the healing we took birth for. This is a lifelong adventure -- pack your gear with love, kindness, gentleness, and star gazing maps. In Love ~ Windy
World Wild Womb Blessing website -- check it out - beautiful.
Great web site -- what happens in other places in the world: Postnatal Care in France
Charter for Compassion -- on TED and the web -- “Sometimes I feel overwhelmed. But I try to work one day at a time. If we just worry about the big picture, we are powerless. So my secret is to start right away doing whatever little work I can do. I try to give joy to one person in the morning, and remove the suffering of one person in the afternoon. That’s enough. When you see you can do that, you continue, and you give two little joys, and you remove two little sufferings, then three, and then four. If you and your friends do not despise the small work, a million people will remove a lot of suffering. That is the secret. Start right now.” ~Sister Chân Không (born 1938), Vietnamese pioneer of socially engaged Buddhism
http://avivaromm.com Aviva Romm MD Integrative medicine for women and children. Also a great website, with insightful blog. For example : “Maladaptive Default Patterns. “Survival mechanisms are powerful driving forces. They also easily become hardwired as default behaviors. We may unwittingly continue to act and react to threats that are no longer present… the hint of a threat that triggers a cellular memory of the actual threat. We hold onto these response patterns for dear life even when they are no longer needed – often unaware that we are doing it. Once adaptive and protective, these patterns can eventually become maladaptive”.
NVC website: LaShelle Lowe-Charde lashelle@wiseheartpdx.org - amazing insightful, instructive blog … healing communication.
A simple practice to settle your spirit:
www.swamij.com/sohum-mantra-108.htm So Hum Mantra Meditation - Online Practice
Spiritualityhealth.com
Spirituality & Health is a bimonthly magazine and website covering the health of body, mind, and spirit.
www.wildfeminine.com/ There are many things I have already said about this work. See her website, it blows me away that such complete dense spirit work came through this woman. She is a holistic women's healthcare visionary, as well as mother ... and gentle powerful human. Shared on Google+. View the post.
Unabashedly female www.unabashedlyfemale.com - Julie Daley website and blog are amazing. “I remember, somewhere deep within me, a time when I knew life differently as a woman, a time when women walked as noble beings. .. In valuing these things, we bring ourselves back into balance, a balance of the masculine and feminine within. As we do this, as we embody our femaleness, aware of the sacredness of our bodies, we model what it is to respect the feminine in a world that has forgotten how to do so. And as we do this, we hold out our hands and hearts to the men in our lives, inviting them to do the same – to respect the feminine within us and to embody the feminine within themselves. May we all, women and men, walk on the earth with feet of love. May we all become conscious of the immense gift of life, and allow this knowing to wake us up to the joyful responsibility we have to be engaged, creative, and giving members of this world village”.
Leslie Howard
http://www.lesliehowardyoga.com/
- Leslie is a pioneer in women's pelvic care; her background consists of a deep practice of yoga as well as being a yoga teacher ... and through these experiences she found herself being present to the pelvic bowl. Leslie has a very insightful and informative website, with great (and amazing) links to the pelvic bowel anatomy. Her web site shares many peoples work that offer a clearer understanding and healing of the female root. Check it out.
Megan Devine , emotionally intelligent grief support.
refugeingreif.com
As we move through life and work with the bodies soft tissue, grief may unwind. This is a thought full approach "Somethings in life cannot be fixed. They can only be carried."
Suggestions for books:
- ) The Wild Feminine: Find Power, Spirit and Joy in the Female Body by Tami Lynn Kent.
- ) The V Book by Elizabeth Stewart. This throws light on some of the disorders and health of the pelvic bowl.
-) The Female Pelvis by Blandine Calais-Germain and Pelvic Power by Eric Franklin, have a good introduction of pelvic floor work – focused on strengthening.
- ) A Headache in the Pelvis by David Wise and Rodney Anderson, have information for women whose pelvic bowl hypertonic “too tight a grip” evidenced by chronic cystitis (UTI), vulvodynia, etc.
-) Ending Female Pain by Isa Herrera offers an insightful book on working with vaginal pain and has great step by step advice for self care.