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Coming To Earth is Going on a
Trip
by Norma (Jennings) Edwards
Have you ever wondered what the behind-the-scenes process involves when the soul schedules a trip to earth? Well, coming to earth is much like going on a trip here on earth.
Preparation on the part of the soul for a trip to earth involves a great deal of planning, scheduling, packing and drawing up checklists as is the custom in undertaking a journey or relocation here on earth.
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My Wife’s Triumph Over
Uterine Fibroids
by Steven Hefferon, CMT, PTA, CPRS
There’s
nothing quite like sitting down on a crisp fall Sunday morning to write
about my wife’s uterus. I suppose I could have written something generic
about the topic of uterine fibroids, but I prefer to write personal stories
about true-life experiences that have the potential to inspire and motivate
readers.
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Stillborn and
Stillhere
by Diana Gardner-Williams
We arrived at our
favorite mountain cabin Christmas Eve 2003. This particular accommodation
provides a kitchenette, loft, cable TV, and indoor Jacuzzi tub. The back
deck overlooks a steep, wooded hill with a pleasantly loud, rushing creek
barely visible through the trees. The evergreen shrubs flanking the
entrance of the cabin were twinkling with multicolor lights and a holiday
mug filled with candy was centered on our kitchen table welcoming us.
Since we usually spent Christmas with our family, we were unaware of the
charming decorations provided by the owners at this time of year. So why
are we here? The fact that our beautiful baby boy was born quiet and still
has brought us to the cabin in the mountains. This is where we would spend
our first Christmas without our baby.
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Learning to Let Go
by Amy Hassinger
I started practicing yoga nine years ago because I wanted to look sexy. I
bought B.K.S. Iyengar’s Light on Yoga, and taught myself the asanas,
following his suggested courses in the appendix. Within a few months of
regular practice, I could see and feel the results. I was strong, limber,
and best of all, my stomach was flat -- a state it hadn’t enjoyed since
puberty. I was an immediate convert.
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The Power Of Touch: A Basic Human
Need for Health and Healing
by Linda Marks
“The impersonality of lie in the Western world has become such that we have produced a race of untouchables. We have become strangers to each other, not only avoiding, but even owarding off all forms of 'unnecessary' physical contact, faceless figures in a crowded landscape, lonely and afraid of intimacy”
~ Ashley Montagu, from Touching: The Human Significance of the Skin
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Fishing for Better Health: The
Benefits of Fish and Other Food Sources High in Omega 3 Fatty Acids
by Susan du Plessis
According to the American Heart Association (AHA), stroke is the third
leading cause of death in women. Every year an estimated 97,000 American
women will die as a result of stroke. Statistically, every 53 seconds stroke
will victimize someone in America. Of an estimated 600,000 stroke victims
each year about 160,000 die as a result. There is, however, an easy way to
drastically reduce these statistics.
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Devotion: One
Mother’s Perspective
by Deborah Shipley
As I gently wake in the morning to the sun’s first subtle peek through my
dark bamboo shades, I turn onto my left side and a smile quickly overtakes
the corners of my mouth. My senses are filled with my precious child,
peacefully slumbering, and perhaps dreaming of a day filled with new
discoveries and adventures. Moments such as these offer me a sense of
contentment that all is perfect in the moment.
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Fight for Your Right to Breastfeed
by Andy Steiner
When Ola, a thirty-two-year-old artist from New York City's Washington
Heights neighborhood, describes herself as "stubborn," here's a
hint of pride in her voice. If she weren't so stubborn, she says, she
would've given
up on breastfeeding early on.
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Holistic Approaches To Fertility And
A Healthy Pregnancy
by Karlo Berger
Having a child can be all too easy for some people, and painfully
difficult to impossible for others. Fortunately, there are many
alternative approaches to fertility to try alongside even the most
invasive fertility treatments. However, it important that all caregivers
involved—conventional and holistic alike—are aware of what each other
are doing so as to maximize the chances of a safe and positive outcome.
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100
Promises to My Baby
by Mallika Chopra
When I found out that I was pregnant several years ago, it was one of the
happiest and most exciting moments of my life. I was awed by the fact that I
had a living being growing inside of me. I spent hours visualizing what my
baby would look like, talking and singing to her, caressing her, and
beginning to plan for our new family with my husband, Sumant.
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Massage
by Patricia Burke with Rosita Arvigo
Catherine arrived at the yoga studio looking weary and subdued. As she
joined the circle and began to check in with the group, her story gently
unfolded. She had been experiencing increasing digestive problems and
discomfort, and awoke in the morning to discover that her uterus had
prolapsed. The cervix was extending out through the vaginal opening. She
felt as if she was carrying a bowl between her legs, and it was bearing
down on all her organs of elimination. I was horrified for her.
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Behind
the Smile: My Journey Out Of Postpartum Depression
by Marie Osmond, Marcia Wilkie and Judith Moore, M.D.
From this angle, you can see right up my
skirt.
I learned at an early age how a young woman
protects her image. If she's "sitting like a lady," no one can
see up her skirt.
I'm not "sitting like a lady"
now. I'm collapsed in a pile of shoes on my closet floor. Around and above
me hangs my clothing, which is all I can see as I lean against the back
wall of the closet. I can see straight up one of my skirts on a hanger
right over my head. It looks like a long, dark tunnel with the exit sealed
off. It looks like my life right now.
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Miscarriage And Self Blame
by Ellen DuBois
Who could I blame for this? Did I do
something wrong? Did that glass of wine I had before I even knew I was
pregnant somehow hurt my baby? Did that slip on the ice have anything to
do with it? What about the cigarettes I smoked? Or, or, or…
It's a very natural thing to blame yourself
when you suffer a miscarriage. I did. I wracked my brain in a futile
attempt to come up with some answers. Anything. Nothing the doctor said
could convince me that there wasn't something I did to make this happen.
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Are
Hypnosis-Assisted Birth Techniques for Everyone?
by Deborah Issokson
Every woman has a unique history that will have an impact on her
experience of pregnancy, birth and parenting. In many cases, a woman's
history needs special attention in the process of preparing for birth so
that her issues and dynamics do not impede the birthing process. In our
culture, preparation for childbirth is a ritual in and of itself.
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Expert Tells You What Really Works, What Doesn't, and Why
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Does the New Technology Work?
by Sherman J. Silber
Solving Seemingly Impossible Infertility
Problems With The New Technology
In the mid-1980s I saw a lovely woman who
had undergone surgery by a well-meaning gynecologist for severe pelvic
adhesions (scarring) caused by previous infections. (Nowadays if I were to
see a woman with such severe adhesions in the pelvis, I wouldn't even
attempt to try to solve her problem surgically, but would go straight to
in vitro fertilization [IVF], a relatively simple, outpatient procedure.)
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Clear
Visions: Premature Birth
by
Cyma Shapiro-Roland
The year was 1957. Dr. Seuss wrote Cat
in the Hat, Humphry Bogart died. West Side
Story opened in New York City, and I was born. A premature baby, I
came screaming into the world six weeks early — a full 3 Ibs. 2 oz.
In a way, I've waited 40 years to tell this
painful odyssey. And although there are many other similar stories filled
with similar pain and trauma, this is my story.
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From
Baby to Bikini: Keep Your Midsection Toned Safely During Pregnancy and
Flatten Your Abdominals Fast After You Have Your Baby
by Greg Waggoner and Doug Stum
There is nothing quite like motherhood and
a new baby. Those first few days are filled with such delight, and the
early weeks are so sleepless, that you barely notice what has become of
your figure. Then one day you step out from the shower (the first free
moment you have had in weeks), and you accidentally glance into the
mirror. That maternal glow dims as you realize that those pounds you
packed on so easily while "eating for two" are no longer
bringing joy and smiles into your life. The task of regaining a fit and
well-toned body seems impossible, overwhelming. You don't have the time,
work looms, the baby is crying, and you desperately need a nap.
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The
Breastfeeding Book: Everything You Need to Know About Nursing Your Child
Why Breast Is Best
by Martha Sears, R. N. and William Sears, M. D.
IN THE EARLY DAYS of learning to
breastfeed, there may be times when you feel like tossing in the nursing
bra and reaching for a bottle. You may be tempted to believe those
advisers who suggest that formula feeding is easier or just as good. Or
you may worry that you’re "not the type of mother" who
succeeds at breastfeeding. Yet when you consider how breastfeeding
benefits your baby, your family, and yourself, you will find the
determination you need to overcome any obstacles and master the womanly
art of breastfeeding. This chapter describes some of the innumerable ways
that breastfeeding builds healthier brains, healthier bodies, and
healthier families.
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Where
Two Worlds Meet: Home Birth and Hospital Working Together
by Linda Marks
My worst fear was going to the hospital.
Pregnant at last at age 36 and preparing for motherhood at 37, I wanted
everything to be conscious, natural and easy. As a body-centered
psychotherapist who had seen first hand the emotional artifacts of the
schizoid wound, ever so prevalent in our culture, I wanted to avoid
prenatal and birth trauma in even the smallest ways. I wanted my baby to
feel wanted and welcome, that the world was a safe and supportive place.
Having read and embraced Jean Liedloff's Continuum Concept, the
last thing I ever wanted was to have my child suffer a technological and
traumatic birth.
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The Mother-to-Be's Dream
Book:
Understanding the Dreams of Pregnancy
by Raïna M. Paris
Around the time of conception
and well into the first trimester, a woman's dreams will act as a
therapeutic tool to help her clear up unresolved issues from the past, so
that she may be psychologically prepared for her new offspring. Dreams of
the past often appear at this time, including images of old homes and
family members or friends with whom relationships need to be worked out-a
father, a mother, ex-boyfriends, for instance. These dreams, though not
directly related to the pregnancy, are the way the unconscious brings to
the surface certain issues that might interfere with the mother-to-be's
capacity to mother her child.
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Prenatal Yoga Delivers
by Portia Brockway and Pat Burke
Imagine being in labor. For months in yoga
class you have been practicing deep abdominal breathing - rocking the baby
forward on each inhale and hugging your child close with each exhale. Now,
in the labor room, your mind wants to run away from the pain of
contractions in your belly, yet over the months you have disciplined
yourself to stay with the sensations. Now, internally bonded with your
soon-to-be-born child, you send a "welcome to the outer world,
farewell to the inner world" message to your child. You may draw a
circle of golden light around your baby on the inhale, then send light
through your baby like nectar through a sieve on the exhale. This is the
inherent power of yoga: to witness, to be with even the most painful of
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Baby Yoga: An Interview With Helen
Garabedian
by Pat Burke
Many women continue with formal yoga instruction after the birth of a
child. In some cases mom and infant classes are offered. Classes can focus
on helping the mother to restore her own fitness level using the child
primarily as a prop. Other classes consist of yoga exercises for the new
mother accompanied by some movement for the infant. Yoga instructor Helen
Garabedian offers classes which focus on babies and toddlers where mothers
who may or may not have previous yoga experience teach their babies. We
spoke with Helen about her work with baby yoga.
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Painless Childbirth
by Celeste Longacre
Painless childbirth? Am I kidding? Well,
maybe I am exaggerating just a bit; I did feel one contraction in each of
my three deliveries. At that point, I told myself that it was time to
CONCENTRATE. I figured that my body knew what to do and it was up to me to
get my brain out of the way. And, it worked. I literally felt nothing
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