I’m excited to announce that our Holistic Pregnancy Tele-Summit starts TODAY at 5PM Pacific/8PM Eastern. Our topic for tonight’s session is “Your Best Birth: Are You Really Ready?” and our speaker and resident expert, is Stephanie Dawn. I invited Stephanie to kick-off our tele-summit because I think the work she is doing to expand consciousness and empowerment around giving birth –especially from a spiritual perspective– is so important. I just know she will inspire us with her message and empower our Tele-Summit participants what she’s going to share with us tonight.
Together, she and I have set an intention for tonight’s session: To provide our participants with tools and guidance to help them stay centered throughout pregnancy and create an environment that supports them in having their ideal birth.
Stephanie is a super cool lady who has done a lot to support expectant parents in creating a “conscious” birth and train birthing professionals to do the same with their clients. She is an Agape Licensed Spiritual Practitioner with over 20 years of experience in the healing arts, and over 9 years of offering support around pregnancy and birth as a spiritual path for expectant parents.
Stephanie is the creator of Sacred Birth Work, a teaching she offers to birth professionals around the world through her Sacred Birth Mentor Program.
She is also the author of The Sacred Birth Workbook –a step-by-step method of transmuting fear, creating confidence, engaging in excellent self-care practices, fostering understanding of the importance of pleasure and birth, and creating a heightened awareness of the transformative landscape of birth.
Tonight we’ll be talking about:
- What it means to have a Sacred Birth and why it matters
- Creating your Sacred Birth Team –who should be on it and what to ask when deciding
- Getting a Sacred Birth Plan together to support you in having your ideal birth
- Spiritual tools and secrets to overcome your fear before it overcomes you
Make sure you stick around to the end of the call to find out how you can get Stephanie’s generous gift AND her surprise BONUS for tonight’s participants!
There’s still time to register and get onto this call. If this subject interests you then please register now. Even if you can’t make it to tonight’s call you can still access the audio replay up until midnight pacific time on Thursday, May 23rd –which coincidentally, is the date of the 2nd call in our Holistic Pregnancy Tele-Summit series.
It’s amazing how much has happened since my last post. Wow! First there was the legendary performance of the San Francisco Giants leading up to and right through the World Series. Now I must confess that I don’t normally follow what’s going on in the sports world with more than a passing nod, but the excitement rippling through the city here during those 10+ days was so palpable that even I got swept up Giants fever and watched the most of the last 7 post-season games with some enthusiasm. Go Giants!
October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. In the breast cancer world there’s always a lot of talk about “finding the cure.” I don’t know that it’s possible to find a cure for any type of cancer. I think that addressing cancer has to consist of a two-pronged approach: 1) Focusing on the causes so we can effectively engage in prevention and 2) Finding better (i.e. more effective and less devastating) treatment options for those who already have it. I firmly believe that prevention is the best long-term solution for significantly reducing the incidence of breast cancer (or any other type of cancer for that matter) and developing better tools and technology for early detection are also critical. There are many things we can do to lower our risk of developing cancer, but at the end of the day, if we’re not so lucky, having a wider range or treatment options would make a difficult situation a whole lot better and improve our odds of survival.
Some people are fond of saying that our memory is the first thing to go as we age. The conventional wisdom is that as we age, our memory inevitably gets worse. We just have to accept things like not remembering where we parked the car or forgetting a new person’s name within seconds of meeting them, as unavoidable signs of aging.
Of course camping these days looks a lot different than it did when I was a child! When you spend time in the splendor of majestic Redwood or Sequoia trees like the kind you find in the California mountains, it’s hard to imagine hauling in all the stuff that was a necessary part of the camping experience back then. Sometimes you want to camp in a designated campground with facilities and hook ups, which obviously makes it easier for a family style vacation. But sometimes you want to go deeper into the woods, get away from it all and “rough it” a little so you can experience a true communion with Mother Nature. If you are an experienced backpacker then you already know how critical it is to pack light and bring items that are multipurpose and/or re-usable no matter where you go.
As busy as our lives are these days, even something as simple as planning a vacation in the great outdoors can become a source of stress. This goes double if you’re trying to incorporate the green living techniques you use at home while you’re miles away from civilization. Here are four simple ways to minimize your footprint and keep it green any time you go camping.
