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Caitlin Gemmell's avatar

How beautiful! What a lovely read. I used to help facilitate mother blessings (what we called "blessingways") and would create fiber nests and handpainted stones that I would infuse with magic for mamas with a little one on the way. It was a beautiful experience getting to be a part of these sacred rituals/rites of passage.

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Laura Durban's avatar

That sounds wonderful, what a sweet idea with the nests Caitlin! And painting stones feels very meaningful, too. Anchoring the strength of the earth and women around one at birth, wow

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Lisa Kampker's avatar

thank you so much for sharing, I feel inspired. may the birth be blessed!

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Richard Donnelly's avatar

You are taking care of yourself and it shows. A lot of people think the way to being centered is by cluttering up their lives. This doesn't make sense.

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Laura Durban's avatar

Yes absolutely, I’m happy I found my way through the clutter. I definitely had attachment to that too. Especially from moving around a lot as a child I clung on material things a lot to make me feel safe and stable. So I have compassion for it, maybe materialism is taking such deep roots because we are all disconnected and unrooted

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Richard Donnelly's avatar

My goal is to just have just one tee shirt and one pair of pants. My wife told me I'm kinda already doing that : )

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Laura Durban's avatar

you are an achieved man Richard ;)

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Silver Mary's avatar

Beautiful! Thank you for sharing this and raising awareness ❤️

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