The American Woman: Telling Our Story
Ginger in the UK at the beginning of her own "Eat, Pray, Love" journey in 2004 A few weeks ago, a BITL reader wrote to tell me know how much this blog had helped her get her life back. After...
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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Motherhood: Recognizing the Signs
With my son, at the beginning of our own healing process, in 2008. This week's post on Breathing In This Life is from Michelle Rosenthal, of www.healmyptsd.comBeing a mom is a wonderful, magical and...
Living Wide Awake in 2011
Introspection(Our Family Christmas Vacation 2010)Reflection. You see your own in the mirror day in, day out.But who do see? The person you were, the person you are, or the person you want to...
Cultivating Compassion in Children
This week's guest blog is by author and activist for children and gentle parenting, Licia Rando. This post is Part Two in a series on Compassionate Parenting. We all want a more...
Gift Giving for World Peace & Equality for All
Okay people, if you are looking for some last minute Christmas gifts, and especially if you are looking for a great read...here is a fantastic list of books from Riane Eisler, PhD, the co-founder of...
DIY: Prenatal Yoga That Fits You
Me as the Unsuspecting Expectant New Mom with My Boys. Fall 2010A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. ConfuciusThe journey of motherhood could be described as perhaps the...
Compassionate Parenting (Part One in a Two Part Series)
This week's guest blog is by author and activist for children and gentle parenting, Licia Rando. This post is Part One in a series on Compassionate Parenting. To parent with compassion...
Eating To Improve Heredity
Organic fruits of laborA shot from the harvest of Ginger's family's 2010 organic garden This week's guest post is from Certified Nurse Midwife & Yale graduate, Beth Genly, CNM, MSN. Nutrition...
New Updates to Quelling Nausea During Pregnancy
If you haven't (and especially if you have) read the Quelling Nausea During Pregnancy post from last week, be sure to download the new version here. It includes new updates and both anecdotal...
Quelling Nausea (Naturally) During Pregnancy
My Beautiful Cause For Nausea (My second son, taken in 2007)My last few posts have been dedicated to parenting (Read the Yoga of Compassionate Parenting) and getting pregnant (Read the Fertility and...
The Yoga of Compassionate Parenting
I am learning that parenting gets more difficult, in different ways, as my children grow and develop. Whereas in the early years I was sleep deprived and physically exhausted, now that they...
Women’s Rights: Are You Exercising Yours?
This year marks (only) the 90 year anniversary of women earning a basic human civil right: the right to vote. As a woman - and as a mother, I have both been an observer and a victim of the...