Having just returned from 3 weeks at camp, I thought I would share the autobiographical poems I wrote at Samantha Pearse’s wonderful, creative writing workshop at Druid Camp. Tears On Strangers Yesterday I cried on strangers Today friends cried on me A perfect simile Of my life And me Its Read more…
I came across this when I was updating my book of chants. I had to blog it – I have always considered Doulas wise women of old. Click HERE for more information on National and Local Birth Pool and Tens hire. Who Were The Witches? by Bonnie Lockhart copyright Bonnie Read more…
Many thanks to Therese for sharing her conception, pregnancy, birth, breastfeeding and life story with her beautiful daughter Lois. At the time I discovered my pregnancy, I had just turned 42 although I felt I was 25 still, I had a 13 year old daughter from a previous marriage, a Read more…
Having spoken to numerous women who have encapsulated their placentas, I have received nothing but positive feedback. Women often ask if they can have placenta encapsulation in different scenarios, so I turned to my good friend Jenny from Mama Bird Doula, an IPEN trained member of the Placenta Remedies Network for Read more…
Freyja is a beautiful, vibrant 13 year old girl – who shared her poem with me at the Pheonix Home Education Camp. I loved her vibrant, empowered words and I know adult women who could take a leaf out of her book and so I asked if I could share Read more…
I woke this morning And the sky was a strange, dark grey It was not night and yet The first pink, rays of dawn Were not to be seen. A mist was there Shrouding the earth Making the view hazy And more than a little surreal It was a place Read more…
Over the years I have been through quite a lot – the damage and limitations, start with school. We don’t think when we tell a child “you are the clever one” that it can be harmful to be labelled – clever is a compliment after all. Art – “Sam tries Read more…
Given the recent events in Manchester and the atrocities committed there – I thought this would be a good time to share the light and love I found in the Train Station on my way home from the uplifting Doula UK Conference 2017. My friend Jen and I were snacking Read more…
I often go to Drum Circles in South Wales and all over the country as well as other retreats and workshops, there is usually someone running things, but in the background there is often someone who works the sacred land on which we stand and whose hard work is often Read more…
Life is at full speed in a family with 4 children. Sometimes though it finds a way to make you slow down. There are precious moments, when no matter how much you have to do, you just cannot do any of it. I wrote this in March 2015, when child Read more…