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It was never about physical size. A culture that teaches women to suppress their appetite will eventually teach them to suppress their desire, and a world without women’s desire is a world that lacks the Mother. I came across Appetites , a brilliant book written almost 25 years ago by Caroline Knapp. Her commentary on cottage cheese reads like a warning for 2026. After her eating disorder’s roots that lay in relationship to women’s wants, I imagine she would be appalled to se

How the feminine birth cycle mirrors the Earth and opens the moment when dreams are conceived. Every year there is a moment in the turning of the Earth when dreaming begins again. We are approaching a special moment in the turning of the year. The peak of Pisces season and the arrival of Spring when dreams are revealed so they can be carried into form. This is the moment when we begin creating them with the support of the Earth, Sun, and Moon, and the generative birth cycle t

Desire and devotion as the origin of creating structures for our family.

This essay exists because motherhood required me to look directly at how we teach our children to understand danger, compassion, and belonging. In a world increasingly disconnected from nature, many parents are sensing that something essential is missing. I have come to find this key ingredient to our survival is instinct . This reflection emerges from lived experience, conscious parenting, and a deepening inquiry into re-wilding motherhood: how we restore discernment, self-t

How to make an inheritance in your motherhood through devotion and structure

If there was one big takeaway I found in preparing for two physiological births, it was this: We do not spend nearly enough time preparing for the birth journey because we have forgotten its architecture. We have forgotten that birth is a natural process that is embedded in feminine physiology and structure. And, birth is a rite of passage that doesn’t just happen to the body—it reshapes the psyche, rewires the nervous system, and expands the spirit. There is the outer prepar