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Amplifying motherhood. Together.

AMPLIFYINg MOTHERHOOD.

together.

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We believe that mothers are our greatest asset and we need to do a better job of supporting them and their families.

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Modern mothers need their village back and that village starts with sharing and talking.

together, let's break the stigmas, stereotypes,  and judgement around motherhood.

 

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#Repost @subliming.jpg ・・・ VOTE VOTE VOTE
Such an important reminder from the wonderful @droscarserrallach ・・・ Just a reminder - it is not about trying harder, or not being good enough. The conversation is about someone who is struggling because somewhere in the equation there is not enough support. Our starting point is the acknowledgement, and then it's working out how to start getting the support that is needed. Day by day. And the journey will eventually shift from the seeking of support, to the giving of support. - - (Quote from The Postnatal Depletion Cure @goop publishing) - - #postnataldepletion #postnatal #postnatalwellbeing #pregnancy #birth #thepostnataldepletioncure #mothercare #mother #postpartumpractices #motherhood #matrescence #4thtrimester #health #wellbeing #healing #transformation #nutrition #hormones #selflove #selfcare #authenticity #gratitude #community #futureisfeminine #mothersmatter #traditionalwisdom #femininewisdom #functionalmedicine #functionaldoctor
The future is in the hands of our youth. And from where we’re sitting, the future looks pretty bright. Thank you @amplifierart for offering this opportunity, to @obeygiant for creating this awesome art and to @winterbreeanne for taking the lead! 🙌 ・・・ Meet teen voter mobilizer, @WomensMarchYouth organizer and @TheCrookedMedia youngest contributor, @winterbreeanne. Winter was one of the young activists who organized the March 14th #ENOUGH National Student Walkout, and she’s continuously calling on her fellow young people to vote. We’re excited to team up with Winter to put voting on the minds young people, encouraging them to harness the power of their voice, and reminding them that they are in control of their own futures and that taking their #PowerToThePolls is a dynamic, first-hand opportunity to create change. This artwork by @obeygiant is available as a limited edition silkscreen print at the link in our header. #WeTheFutureNow
We couldn’t agree more @innatetraditions 🧡🙏🧡 ・・・ YOUR HEALTH IS MY HEALTH. We have free will to tend to our own health and well-being in the way that we see fit. We also live within a SOCIAL NERVOUS SYSTEM- where we are impacted by the power structures and dynamics of the collective. Our health is dependent upon the health of this collective. . Our immediate family systems are the microcosm to the macro. Mothers are children's first teachers- because LIFE BEGINS IN THE WOMB- and nervous system development and regulation begins in the womb. If a Mother is dysregulated, this dysregulation BECOMES that which creates baby's neural wiring. Baby's health is contingent upon Mother's health. And Mother's health is contingent upon: her responsibility to her own wellness AND the community's responsibility to help take care of MOTHER. . On a practical level- within a family system- if one adult is unwell, this impacts the health and well-being of the whole family. For example- if one parent within a family system is unwell, then the other parent needs to pick up the responsibilities the unwell parent typically tends to. The burdens of two, now become the burden of just one. . We have a responsibility to our own health and wellness, because we have a responsibility to our communities: local and global. If we want to create GLOBAL change, we begin through our own healing. . Image @mollyccostello #familywellness #collectivehealing #maternalhealth #innatetraditions
🙌🙌 #Repost @blogher ・・・ Roar. 💥 . . . . . . 📸 @makerswomen #womensupportingwomen #blogher #blog #blogger #blogherhealth19 #health #feminist #feminism #women #strong #strength #change #instagood #christineblaseyford #roar #mom #mombloggers #bloggerlife #inspiration
This is so important. In the sharing and telling of our stories we have the capacity to break and prevent harmful patterns in raising our own children. When we stand in our truth, we teach our children to do the same. Thank you @gracefullbirth 🧡 #shareyourstory ・・・ When we honor our stories and listen to share truths, we teach our children to do the same. Here’s to paving the way & raising the next generation in radical self love and expression ♥️ photo by @elliana_allon #listentowomen
We believe you. 🧡 #hero #christineblaseyford #timesup #survivor #trauma #patriot #sexualviolence #cancelkavanaugh #thankyou #speakyourtruth
What a gorgeous offering. Thank you @howtohealabadbirth 🧡🧡 ・・・ Story by Melissa: “After my traumatic birth, I didn’t know why I was struggling to cope. I didn’t even know I’d had a traumatic birth - I just knew I didn’t feel right. My body didn’t feel right either. It felt like I wasn’t ‘put back together’ properly. In desperation, I began to take my baby for walks. These walks saved me. I could feel my feet determinedly pounding the pavement like they were sounding out a drum riff, a rhythm, a heartbeat that said, “I’m here. I exist. Even though my pain is invisible. And I feel invisible. I. Am. Here.” Plodding along, trying to will my baby to sleep. And once he was asleep, and it was just me - and the breeze...I felt a teeny tiny bit more in control of my skidding-all-over-the-place life. When he got older, I took those walks with him in a hiking backpack. I took us up the steep hills around our little home, tentatively pushing myself further, unsure of how my ‘new’ postpartum body would respond. He would plop his plump little feet into my waiting hands and stand himself up in the backpack with delight. We’d sing together breathlessly while we climbed to the top of the hilliest street. And my body felt a little more ‘mine’. A little less damaged. A little less scarred and broken. And a lot more alive. This was the start of a process I didn’t even know I needed - reclaiming my body. Reconnecting with it. I didn’t realise that I was angry with my body then - that I had disconnected because I felt it had let me down. (It wasn’t until much later that I understood that at no point did my body let me down. It was doing its darndest under circumstances not conducive for a birthing body. But I didn’t know that then.) I DID know that those walks helped. They helped my little man and I - finding laughter and curiosity and camaraderie on those walks. We stopped and watched construction vehicles. We patted cats. We plucked fragrant flowers from bushes that spilled onto the footpath, and we breathed in life together.”
Thank you for this @motherbirth.co ・・・ Postpartum is hard. Like, really, really hard. Even though we talk about it more these days than ever, it's still something that most of us don't want to admit to when we're in the throes of it.⠀ ⠀ And it's not just the physical recovery or adjusting to life with a baby that needs you around the clock. There's the raging and fluctuating hormones but maybe more than anything is the shifting identity that can feel so much like loss...⠀ ⠀ This week on the podcast we hear from Kate (@ktpostpartumdoula) about the non-negotiability of postpartum support, and how we can get it even if we don't have built in community, family or live in an area with a ton of resources. This conversation is so near and dear to our hearts as one of our greatest passions is for the health of the WHOLE mama as she goes through the incredible transformation of motherhood... and we know how invaluable support is to this process.⠀ ⠀ Tune in to hear Kate's own birth stories, how she began providing the support she had desperately lacked the first time around, and how you can set yourself up for success ahead of time! Listen in iTunes, any podcast app, or at the link in our bio. ❤️⠀ ⠀ Gorgeous photo of @funkygine in all her postpartum glory/reality. 😘⠀ ⠀ #motherbirth #postpartum #postpartumsupport #postpartumdoula #doula #midwife #midwifery #postpartumrecovery #postpartumhealth #perinatalhealth #ppd #postpartumdepression #birth #birthstory
Another gem from @subliming.jpg 💜 #receive #trusttheprocess #beyou 💜
THIS! 100% THIS. #yes #moreyes 📷: @iconundies
We love @droscarserrallach 🧡 Click the link in bio to pop over to our News page and read our Q+A featuring Dr. Serrallach and his book, The Postnatal Depletion Cure ・・・ #repost I love this concept of "deep, supported Matrescence” that I saw on @motherthemother The transformation into motherhood is not a 2D occurrence and does not occur simply at the scene of the birth. Motherhood is intergenerational. How our grandmothers and mothers were mothered sets a woman up whilst she herself is in utero, to commence the journey and continue the matrilineage. Whether or not a woman has children - as a child she is exposed to all the subtle and not so subtle societal norms, expectations and pressures relating to being a woman and what it means to be a mother. She continues to receive subconscious programming while she plans her family, conceives her child, carries her baby in her womb and brings new life into the world. Through pregnancy and birth, she experiences massive biological changes to the very core of her physical being, via a shifting hormonal landscape, and a reorganisation of “information gathering” receptors (and also via mechanisms not yet discovered ) she begins her transformation. All her ideas and subconscious programming about motherhood blend with her hopes and dreams about the future. These often collide with the reality of circumstance, creating an existential dissonance in the process. The changes, the collision, the adjustment… is why she needs her village. A new mother can feel more than she has ever felt before. To expand herself in a way to accommodate her new wisdom requires appropriate support and guidance, which over the years can give rise to a whole new integrated majestic being. Motherhood is a time of turbulence and reintegration. When it is not guided and not supported, it can lead to the deepest of despair and an uneasy confusion that can lead to a profoundly depleted state. It takes a village to raise a child. This is self evident. It also takes a village to raise a mother. This should be self evident, but our society has lost it ways, corrupted its wisdom and downgraded the most important of roles. #ittakesavillage #motherhood