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Mothering

Fertility and Your Liver

August 7, 2011

The liver plays a critical role in fertility, according to Traditional Chinese Medicine. Along with paying attention to the state of kidney energy, practitioners have long relegated great importance to the state of ‘Liver Blood’ in treating infertility, and a range of other gynacological problems that commonly affect women.   In fact, the Liver is [...]

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Pregnancy – a Time of Swift and Profound Changes

May 15, 2011

                                       During pregnancy you will go through change on all levels of your being more rapidly than at any other time in your adult life. The only other time your body and mind changed so swiftly and [...]

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In Support of Teen Mothers

May 8, 2011

  How inappropriate is it that Julia Gillard’s latest foreshadowed tax cut targeting disadvantaged teenage parents who refuse to attend school or training and punishing them by taking away their benefit, hit the headlines in the week prior to Mother’s Day?   From my perspective, apart from the fact that this particular social group is [...]

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Embracing the Divine Feminine

December 19, 2010

  When women artificially control their hormones and their fertility they are affecting more than just bodily processes. For example, taking the contraceptive pill can result in physical side-effects such as weight gain, as well as personality changes including depression. When a woman is on the pill it is so much more difficult for her [...]

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What is the Divine Feminine?

November 26, 2010

We hear so much about the incoming Divine Feminine energies but what does this mean for contemporary women from all walks of life, and in the various stages of womanhood? The “Divine Feminine”, “Return of the Feminine”, the Sacred Feminine ” are all metaphors for the return to higher consciousness. We seek balance between the [...]

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Effective Parenting – the Importance of Daddy

March 18, 2010

One of the workshops that Spirit of Woman conducts is called the Energy of Parenting, which covers the absolute power of positive parenting on the health and well-being of offspring. I was delighted to hear on the Health Report this week (15th March, 2010) a discussion on the power of positive parenting, including positive fathering [...]

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Risks of Caesarean Birth

November 12, 2009

According to two recent Radio National Health Reports (2nd November and 9th November) about one third of all babies being born in Australia are being delivered by Caesarean section, that is a surgical cut through the mother’s abdomen. There are two main groups of women having caesareans: those who choose it and those who consent [...]

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The Diabetes Epidemic

August 29, 2009

On Friday 21st August on Tony Eastley’s AM morning program on ABC Radio National there was a discussion on the alarming increase in juvenile diabetes in Australia. More Australian children are being diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes than ever before. A new report reveals that were 900 new cases notified in 2007. That represents a [...]

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Epidural Epidemic?

July 17, 2009

In the Courier Mail on the 14th July 2009 there was an article titled “Epidural Epidemic– No labour pain, no bond gain”. It reported the comments of Dr Walsh, an associate professor in midwifery at Nottingham University in Britain who stated that more women should be prepared to endure the pain of labour because anaesthetic [...]

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Older Sperm Makes Less-Healthy Babies

May 29, 2009

I read an article in the Weekend Australian Magazine dated May 16th – 17th 2009, which has profound ramifications for those women (and their partners) struggling with their fertility. A recent University of Queensland study showed that children born to older fathers have, on average, lower scores of tests of intelligence than those born to [...]

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