Category: MOTHERHOOD

Learning to Love Myself Through My Breasts – Breastfeeding and Trusting Stillness Within

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by Luz Helena Hincapie, 35 years, BA Architect, Colombia, South America

As with any other subject in this world, Breastfeeding comes with its own set of ideals and beliefs.

The obsession to do the best thing for our children above everything else, including the mother, seems to be normal and accepted. Ideas on breastfeeding have a great impact on women, as it did on me. Women can feel good about themselves if they produce enough milk and choose to breastfeed for a LONG time, or sad with a secret sense of failure if they don’t. Continue reading “Learning to Love Myself Through My Breasts – Breastfeeding and Trusting Stillness Within” →

Being Pregnant – Putting Caring for Myself First

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by Nicole Serafin, Age 41, Tintenbar, NSW

I had my first child at 35 years old and my second at 40. Actually, it was closer to 36 and 41 as my birthday was only a few days after both children were born.

I was not overly active during my pregnancies, however I was aware of the fact that having a baby would affect and possibly change my body. Changes affect everyone differently, so I was not sure how it would affect me, or even if it would. All I knew was that I had to be open to the possibilities and be flexible with what might be needed during and after that time.  Continue reading “Being Pregnant – Putting Caring for Myself First” →

Learning to Love Myself Through My Breasts – Trusting I Knew What to do When Breastfeeding

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by Luz Helena Hincapie, 35 years, BA Architect, Colombia, South America

What was I REALLY feeling about Breastfeeding? 

After all that I had been through with breastfeeding so far (See my previous blog: Learning to Love Myself Through My Breasts – My Experience with Breastfeeding), I realized I felt negative and burdened, but I could not deny I also loved it as I was learning so much from the process. In my mind I stubbornly decided not to stop until the baby was 1 year old at least: no matter what, I was determined not to complain that much and keep it all to myself. I saw everything as black or white, with no other possibilities in between. I had a pesky feeling all along, like a sense of failure because I thought breastfeeding and motherhood didn’t seem to come as natural to me as to other women. Continue reading “Learning to Love Myself Through My Breasts – Trusting I Knew What to do When Breastfeeding” →

Learning to Love Myself Through My Breasts – My Experience with Breastfeeding

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by Luz Helena Hincapie, 35 years, BA Architect, Colombia, South America

During the process of rediscovering and learning to love myself and understand more about me through my breasts, something which I didn’t plan at a very conscious level occurred and it beautifully, but challengingly disrupted the process altogether…

I fell pregnant. Continue reading “Learning to Love Myself Through My Breasts – My Experience with Breastfeeding” →

From Self-Loathing to Self-Love After Abortion: Learning to Accept ALL My Past Choices

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by M, 44, Australia

Self-love is something I have been deepening both my understanding and practice of since becoming a client and student of Universal Medicine about 6 years ago. What I became aware of, particularly through having Esoteric Breast Massages (EBMs), was that one thing stands in the way of self love – self-loathing. I had no trouble recognising this in me for I have been my own worst critic, constantly judging myself, putting myself down, and it has taken time to gently identify and heal the many little (and some big) pockets of self-loathing that have been held in my body.

Continue reading “From Self-Loathing to Self-Love After Abortion: Learning to Accept ALL My Past Choices” →

New Mother: To Breastfeed or Not to Breastfeed?

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by Nicole Serafin, Tintenbar, Australia

I recently gave birth to my second child. I also have a 5 year old daughter whom I breastfed and then progressed onto solids when she was ready. Our son is also breastfed but has a much bigger appetite than our daughter and I decided to include some formula feeds. Formula never entered into the equation with our daughter, but with our son it has been a completely different experience. Of course, breastfeeding is pushed by many midwives and a lot of mothers, but some women are not as lucky and for one reason or another are unable to, or choose not to, breastfeed.

I have felt the inadequacy that some women face from this – it is huge, and so wrong and unnecessary.

I did not think that I had an issue with formula or not breastfeeding. I had been lucky with both of our children and was able to breastfeed them both without any problems, so I never had to consider any other options. When it came time to give our son formula in place of one of his feeds, I could feel myself begin to question if what I was doing was the right thing, if I should really do it, or should I just keep feeding every 2 hours and wait until he began to wean himself? Continue reading “New Mother: To Breastfeed or Not to Breastfeed?” →

My Period, Pain, Depression & Endometriosis: Supported by Esoteric Breast Massage

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by Rowena Stewart, Somerset, UK

The initial elation at beginning my menstruation at 13 soon evaporated as month after month brought increasing pain. To begin with I could just about tolerate it. As I grew older I started to take paracetamol to control the pain, but as this was only a management strategy things got steadily worse. Eventually I would prepare for each period with paranoid dread, always making sure I had a huge stock of painkillers to see me through, often taking time off school and in later years, days off work, in order to cope with the pain. Looking back on it now, it seems odd that no-one in my family considered this to be abnormal or sought any professional advice. It was just considered to be bad luck and to me, an unavoidable curse that was destined to continue month in, month out, year after year for the rest of my fertile life. Continue reading “My Period, Pain, Depression & Endometriosis: Supported by Esoteric Breast Massage” →

Lessons on Healing and Truth from Pinocchio

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by Deborah Savran, United States

When I was a very young child my father owned a bookstore. Being in a literature-focussed family I was used to having and reading many picture books on my shelves. Of all the stories, none compared to that of Pinocchio. I wanted to read this book every day and night, and over years I drew and painted a plethora of Pinocchio-themed art, and even named my two favorite dolls Pinocchio and Jiminy Cricket! I never lost my connection to this story. One of the lessons in it – that our body’s messages are never in truth ‘curse’, but instead can be blessings that help us return to truth – is something that I have finally come to understand.

Earlier this year I heard Serge Benhayon, founder of Universal Medicine, mention the story of Pinocchio and I started to feel that for me it was a story full of whole truths, and this brought me to tears. Of course! How much sense it made that as a young child I had so strongly aligned to this story – a story that talked about returning and choosing to be who we truly are; a story about taking responsibility and about how our choices transform our lives and those around us; about a person whose body would give him a big message via his nose growing when he was not being honest…   Continue reading “Lessons on Healing and Truth from Pinocchio” →