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11-Minute Prenatal Meditation
Breathe deep with this guided prenatal meditation by renowned yoga teacher Julie Peters.
Can We Reframe—and Reclaim—Father's Day?
"Mother's and Father's Day are gauntlets, radiating expectations. Even vowing to ignore these holidays, to voluntarily opt out, weighs heavily because it means going against the mainstream."
Holding Difficult Emotions on Mother’s Day: A Ritual
Mother’s Day matters, but not only because some people have a simple and loving relationship with their mom. It can also be a day where we pull out our complex feelings about mothering and unpack them a little bit.
International Women's Earth & Climate Initiative
Last month, my sixteen-year-old daughter and I attended the first meeting of the International Women’s Earth and Climate Initiative in Suffern, New York. One hundred women from 35 …
Joy in Her Bones
An American journalist honors her mother with an altar during Mexico's Day of the Dead celebration.
Letter to the Inner Child
Try this writing practice of forgiveness: Visualize the person you felt hurt by as an 8 year old.
Love, Withheld
Experiencing the heartache of being disowned, writer Ayesha Mattu reflects on the surprising elasticity of familial relationships.
Matrescence: The Deep Spiritual Transformation of Pregnancy
“This idea has struck me deeply as I have watched my body change in fascinating ways—some beautiful, some almost gory. And I haven’t even given birth yet. I entered into this pregnancy unsure if I could do it at all, and I’m amazed by how my body seems to know a lot of things I don’t.”
Motherless Mother’s Day: Communal Grieving and the Healing Process
A way to honor your mother with others who have lost their own. Sponsored Content from Celebrant Foundation & Institute.
Motherless Mothers’ Day: Celebrating Mothers No Longer With Us
Sponsored Content from Celebrant Institute
Our Tibetan Crystal Bowl Adventure
A woman embraces her mother’s desire to 'see more, hear more, feel more'
Poem: Mothershell
“I stand here now, gathering shells / whenever they appear. I hold them up / to my ears.”
Poem: The Kind of May Day It Is
“If days were colors / I would name this one pink, / a pale pink like the rose quartz / pendant I wear,”
The Awakening of a Healer
“Don’t you want your son to live?” The nurse asked. Yes, of course. And that was why I felt I had to leave . . .
The Common Denominator
A moment that has shaped this writer’s perspective on people no matter where she travels.
Things I Wish My Mother Had Said...
An excerpt from Things I Wish my Mother had Said… (or maybe she did) by cancer survivor and mother of two, Genie Lee Perron
