Friday, July 31, 2015

Celebrate your miracles...

Are you celebrating your miracles, daily? 
This week the world is celebrating breastfeeding, join us on today's #sacredBeginningsDailyReminder series on your #sacredMilk...

A baby nursing at a mother's breast... is an undeniable affirmation of our rootedness in nature.
~ David Suzuki


Today only this. <3

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Thursday, July 30, 2015

Mother's Love


#sacredBeginningsDailyReminder series, today: #sacredLove

"Mom had the kind of love for her that you could feel, like it was part of the atmosphere." 
~ Peter Abrahams


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Sunday, July 26, 2015

Reminder...


Do you also... Need a reminder every now and then...? A reminder on how many miracles you lived and live just by being a mother, a reminder on... Ok, we are starting a #sacredBeginningsDailyReminder series, today: #sacredbody

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"And I said to my body, softly. 
'I want to be your friend.' 
It took a long breath. And replied, 
'I have been waiting my whole life for this."


Oooooh this! Today only this. <3

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Growing pains of motherhood


"Through the blur, I wondered if I was alone or if other parents felt the same way I did — that everything involving our children was painful in some way. The emotions, whether they were joy, sorrow, love or pride, were so deep and sharp that in the end they left you raw, exposed and yes, in pain. The human heart was not designed to beat outside the human body and yet, each child represented just that — a parent's heart bared, beating forever outside its chest."
—Debra Ginsberg


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Wednesday, July 22, 2015

You carry your child inside... Forever.


Such an inspiring article! Scientifically... Poetic.



"Today is my youngest child’s birthday. As my mother used to tell me, we always carry our children in our hearts. I know this is true emotionally. Apparently it’s also true on the physical level.

Sometimes science is filled with transcendent meaning more beautiful than any poem. To me, this new research shows the poetry packed in the people all around us.

It’s now known that cells from a developing fetus cross the placenta, allowing the baby’s DNA to become part of the mother’s body.  These fetal cells persist in a woman’s body into her old age. (If she has been pregnant with a male child it’s likely she’ll have some Y-chromosomes drifting around for a few decades too). This is true even if the baby she carried didn’t live to be born. The cells of that child stay with her, resonating in ways that mothers have known intuitively throughout time.

Fetal cells you contributed to your own mother may be found in her blood, bone marrow, skin, kidney, and liver. These fetal cells appear to “treat” her when she is ill or injured.   Researchers have noticed the presence of these cells in women diagnosed with illnesses such as thyroid disease and hepatitis C. In one case, a woman stopped treatment against medical advice. A liver biopsy showed “thousands of male cells” determined to be from a pregnancy terminated nearly 20 years earlier. These cells helped her body recover just as fetal cells you gave your mother rush to help repair her from within when she’s unwell..."

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Saturday, July 18, 2015

Forget that you are a mother... Just for a second


Today take some time to forget that you are a mother. 
Be "only a daughter" even if just for a few minutes. 


Go to Mother Earth once more, for She is always there, and accept, accept Her nourishment. 


Accept, accept the flaws you believe you have and embrace it all.
Or let Nature, embrace you.
Believe me, it will, inspire your days.



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Thursday, July 16, 2015

Light, for the dark times...


When my motherhood days get darker... From tiredness or from doubt, I focus on this...

"When the moon is not full, the stars shine more brightly." (Author unknown to us)

How did this last Dark Moon treat you? Sending light, to all your dark nights... 
#sacredbeginnings team

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Tuesday, July 14, 2015

New Moon


"In our village, folks say God crumbles up the old moon into stars."
~ Alexander Solzhenitsyn


New moon is tomorrow (the 15th) and this is the favorite moon phase for us... a moon to honor new #sacredbeginnings .

Do you follow the moon phases?


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Sunday, July 12, 2015

Today take one deep breathe



Realizing the most precious moment of my day is when I manage to stop for just a second and take one.deep.breathe. This is it.

I go out every morning with my toddler, he sits in his stroller and on the way to the playground I grab some coffee for myself. This ordinary life habit is for me a #sacredritual, and so much healing happens in such a simple task. It gets me out of the house to begin with (for a full time mom I find this is so important!) but more than that I realized that once I have that cup in my hand and I take the first sip... that first sip of warm, fragrant coffee (probably for me infused of so many happy memories) all my body relaxes, I slow down inside out and there is a perfect, deep breathe, almost a sigh, that spontaneous and genuinely just... happens. 
And I think to myself "There! if nothing else, today I had this."

How about you?
When do you, just stop, and breathe?

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Mothers stick together



Today let yourself be surrounded by nature. Let it's roots ground you... it's winds help you to let go... it's waters heal you... it's fire transform you...
Today be with nature. 
Why? Cause mothers stick together. We are stronger like this.

Mothers gathering together with #sacredbeginnings

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Thursday, July 9, 2015

Today CELEBRATE


Only this. 
Celebrate anything, everything, whatever you want, but just celebrate.

Do you dedicate enough of your time and energy to celebrating? I know I don't...


The world gives us so many excuses to celebrate! It doesn't matter where we live, what is our cultural background or what beliefs we have, nature around us is celebrating! Join in! 

Today celebrate something, your family, your house, your sisterhood, a landscape or a song... But celebrating is SO important! It is like fuel to our lives. And remember... You are creating traditions with your little ones... Make them magical.


There is always a reason to celebrate... What is yours?



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Sunday, July 5, 2015

Will this matter in a year?


I know it get's messy sometimes. 
I know it feels chaotic often.
I know how it can be overwhelming...

What? 
Motherhood. The whole of motherhood experience is just so intense. There is so much that we have to do everyday and on the other hand so much we have to postpone for "later", "some other time", "whenever I finish this", "next year", "during his nap"... Or just so many things we feel we have to put on hold in our lives... Do you relate?
It all feels incredibly fast because the years do seam to fly by, babies turn into toddlers, young boys outgrow their clothes in a week, learn new words in few days... - and at the same time so slow... 

Sometimes so unbearably slow... The number of times we sit still, to nurse a newborn, the nights we lie together in bed reading bedtime stories, and repeating one, two, three times the same book... The slow slow walk down the street supporting a baby trying his first steps and the longest ever trip for grocery shopping managing toddler's curiosity.  
And because of this, I find myself more than ever choosing and selecting what to give importance to. Truly asking myself everyday "will this matter in a year?". 
Today I invite you to do this. And check for yourself our powerful it is!

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Thursday, July 2, 2015

Love your womb


After this intense full moon energy remember to love. Only that. And specially remember to love yourself, celebrate your nature, honor your womb and remember that it holds the power of creation, not only to birth a child (or two, or three...) but to give birth to all your creative projects, to give spark to your life.
Today #honorYourStory with #wombLove .

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