Many people think telling a birth story begins with the onset of contractions, or the details of an induction, or maybe the pregnancy test and ends with the child’s birth. What […]
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January 6, 2021 Until I researched “magical thinking,” I had mistakenly relegated all of it to naivety and irrational thinking. After doing a little study of it, I’ve come to
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A baby born into a world of beliefs has no beliefs of its own until it learns its mother tongue, hears opinions and reasoning of adults, and begins to think
Which Came First, The Birth Story or Beliefs? Read More »
Picture us sitting together over a cup of tea. If your birth story could be dried like tea leaves, what would be the essence, the flavor of what happened? If
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Our deep aesthetic, “like our fingerprint, . . . leaves its unique mark on everything we touch.” —Susanna Ruebsaat, PhD I’ve been in a process of inquiry about: What informs my/our
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When Part III of our online course ends, students tell us they have more confidence but are still hungry and want more! What to cook up next? NECESSITY IS THE
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This winter, give your loved ones a memorable and traditional gift: a Great Story and Soup. For centuries, before the 1960s brought the television into our private homes to entertain
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Every decision we make is informed—by something. Research-based evidence has become the holy grail, and yet in any given moment, more often than not, we are informed by old beliefs,
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Pam England My son Sky told me a story about how changing the gut microbiome of koalas in Cape Otway in Victoria, Australia, saved their lives. In 2013, 70 percent
Microbiome III: What We Learned from Koalas and Science Read More »
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