I was speaking to another circus mom the other day and she mentioned enjoying flying trapeze because of the adrenalin rush. I was shocked. “Oh man! Adrenalin rush – GAH! I do NOT have an enjoyable relationship with adrenalin!” […]
When I first met Allena Gabosch and Teri Ciacchi over 6 years ago, I had no idea Sex Educator would become one of my many hats. In fact, years later after speaking and presenting at numerous events specifically focused on […]
Ultimately, I support Human Rights in Childbirth (HRiC) because I believe it is a fundamental human right for a woman to choose the circumstances of her birth. HRiC is the only organization I know that actively works for the representation […]
I blamed my mother. Didn’t you? Do you still? It is so handy isn’t it? And people seem so happy to support us in our choice to blame our mothers don’t they? If life is hard, it must be […]
There is a population of us who have worked our way out of an existence of purely surviving. Some even say we are thriving. We know the pain of living, wondering when the next panic may flare. Is it […]
Several friends of mine have written blogs recently focused on the topic of women to women horizontal violence. This summer, Cristen Pascucci of Improving Birth wrote “Catty B****s”& Why we’re All Losing the Mommy Wars. Kathi Valeii of Birth Anarchy […]
That Sexuality and Birth are interconnected is indisputable; however, our existing social conversation has divorced itself so completely from this idea that we, as individual humans, struggle with their marriage as a concept, let alone as an embodied reality. As […]
Loving Anger One of the most powerful moments of my life came while having tea with a colleague in New York City. I can’t even remember what we were discussing, but he stopped mid sentence and said to me, “I […]