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What's in The Mother's mailbag ~ pre-2006Here's a selection of letters from the current and all back issues of The Mother.I've just got TM Issue 13 today, and was just sitting outside enjoying both it and the sunshine. I felt compelled to drop you a line straight away, just to say how competent I found your reply to Rachel's letter about the summer camp. As I started to read, I felt apprehensive, in case you wouldn't say everything I myself was feeling about it. But you did. I read it thinking 'yes, yes, yes!' So thank you for saying it for me; I for one felt your reply was perfect; firm, understanding, explanatory and compassionate. I now feel even happier in my support of The Mother project, and can see how safe it is with your hands and heart to guide it. With my very best wishes, Vicky Sherrard As ever I feel truly blessed to receive the magazine. I often wondered after those first few issues, how the impetus could ever be sustained! How the raw earth beauty and gifting could possibly express into the continuum of today. And yet it has!! The uncurling of the petals, the ongoing sharing of deeper and deeper fragrance continues to touch our hearts and our core communion with The Mother. Each issue is unique. Each birth story a magickal tale of mystery and power. The ongoing inclusion of life issues from education, to rural versus urban living and soooooooooooo much more. I truly feel nourished by the reading. I applaud the natural inclusion of the dads, siblings, family. The Mother is Sacred Space - a Shrine at which life is consecrated and celebrated. As a reader, I feel so proud to be part of this and I feel so proud that you Veronika continue to stand in your circle and sing your song in beauty and strength. I love you. I honour the expression of Spirit within your heart. Namaste, Ruth Allen
Yesterday a friend passed me your mag to read an article, hence I became engrossed and couldn't put it down. I was delighted to realise that I know you from when you guys lived here (in New Zealand). We now have two boys Bodhi and Eli. Ruth was Eli’s midwife so I saw Bethany’s birth video. Eli and I are holidaying this summer in the UK to catch up with family and friends. I would love to make contact and am very interested in unschooling, healthy veggie food, etc. Veronica Lockie I can't emphasise enough what an important voice yours and the other voices in your magazine are. I think so many of us would just give up in the face of adversity and opposition if it wasn't for forums like The Mother. I'm looking forward very much to the camp. Siobhán I end each night with a little quiet time in my bed with The Mother magazine. Each night I’m inspired and comforted, so thank you! I need you guys!! I’ve been spreading the word about my terrific find. Julie Ustruck
There are a few things that I just love about The Mother that I find so original. One is the fact that spirituality and parenthood are so intertwined in this magazine. I’ve never found a magazine that has done something like that. The Mother really talks about pregnancy/childbirth for what is, an incredibly transforming and spiritual experience. And, of course, I really enjoy the natural parenting styles that are represented so normally. I really want more people to see this magazine because they will realise how very normal homeopathic parenting is. April Adams I always look forward to The Mother arriving. I can absorb myself where I feel I belong, the comfort of like minded parents and parents to be. The warmth, the love, the sharing is so important to me. Thank you for this wonderful magazine. Lee Bradford
A beacon of light amidst the commercial consumerism and materialistic crap out there! Great to realise you’re not the only ones who seem to be on an alternative to the ‘mine’s bigger/better than yours’ ethos. Thanks Rachel Pickett
I love the mag. It’s really on our wavelength ~ it’s a breath of fresh air in an insane world. Lots of thanks and best wishes. Sandra Crawford
I wait impatiently for the next issue. The Mother magazine grows and feeds my spiritual and loving nature. I have two children. My daughter Rachael and my son Ruaraidh, 18 months, who was a little miracle… a totally natural baby, unimmunised, organic, still breastfeeding. We cuddle up together every night to sleep and read articles in The Mother magazine. Ode to a natural sleep. Thank you! Eleanor Slaughter
You have opened my mind and heart ~ your magazine is an immense inspiration to me and my family. Thank you for all your hard work. Helen Rastall
Thank you for your wonderful magazine. I’m still not living a life as holistic as I would wish, but your magazine provides me with challenges and inspiration, plus a refuge from the mainstream culture I live in. Rachel Nixon
Thank you for the sample. However, I would not be able to place such a magazine in our waiting room because of too much nudity, which I find rather offensive. Name withheld, CNM
Thank you for your feedback. We realise that our magazine resonates with a unique substructure of the birthing community ~ silent, usually, for the exact common reason you have expressed. The art depicted on the pages of The Mother is reader-sent: true bliss and peace displayed through their faces. It is representative of their pregnancies and their birthing joy. With regards Lynda Cook Sawyer RNC, MBA, IBCLC
It was really lovely talking to you on the phone today ~ and I’m really looking forward to reading the magazines as well as Unassisted Childbirth. Thank you for keeping going with this amazing magazine. Lots of love Hazel Barker
I read The Mother magazine from one of my friends and am really interested in the content. I won’t hide my feelings that I’m impressed. I would like to receive your editions because it will boost my career being a student in midwifery. Ogungbemi Olajumoke
Your magazine supports and encourages me in my mothering. I particularly love the birth stories, unschooling, the Possible Mother column and reading about Earthsong! Sarah McCaffrey
I look forward to receiving every issue. The magazine goes from strength to strength. It is a comfortable refuge from what often feels like a harsh world. Elizabeth Davis
Please subscribe a dear friend on my behalf who will also help to share all these wonderfully inspiring ideas and thoughts with women in France. I appreciate hearing from women further down the line. Body Knowledge TM10, amongst many other things. Take care, and love to you all at The Cottage. Many thanks and blessings for all you are doing. Samantha Price
What a joy to read your article on homeschooling ~ The good, the bad and the snugly. I can so relate to everything you talked about and repeatedly laughed aloud while reading your article. Eliza and Ian would get along extremely well. Just the other night, Ian, Abby and I went to bed and I nursed Abby to sleep and then rolled over to be next to Ian. I thought he was sleeping as his breathing was calm and steady. I closed my eyes and started to drift into dreamland when I heard him state: “Mom, what are trains made of?” And so began the night time home schooling lesson. What could be better than encouraging learning literally all day and allowing those questions to be answered as they are thought about rather than waiting for the appropriate time? I applaud you for the great article. Sarah Bastian
In response to the article on Highly Sensitive Children, I’d like readers to know that there is a new yahoo email group for families of HSCs who practise attachment parenting and unschool. The group can be found at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hsc_ap_unschool/ Thanks for all you do! Ellen Sandoval
The New Zealand College of Midwives have endorsed the meningococcal B vaccine programme ~ after giving their affiliates under three hours (via email) to respond/comment, which is barely paying lip service. As of October, Midwives here are required to register all babies on the National Immunisation Register. Parents can subsequently opt off but this means their child’s details are still in the system! Emma Lewis
Veronika, to the moon and back, thank you! I received your magazine and it has truly changed my life. I’ve just sat and read your article about Conscious Conception out loud while Steve painted the kitchen orange and it has blown us away. It brings such reassurance to know you are there, living, loving, being. I could barely read parts of the article without openly sobbing or laughing ~ real emotions that without doubt are an essential part of the healing process. We all want to thank you for the amazing gift you are sharing with the world. It does, and is, making a difference. Today it has made a difference to our lives. With much love and light Nicky, Steve and Ruby
I have again really enjoyed the last issue of The Mother. I wanted to acknowledge you for so clearly responding to the critical voice about the camp rules. You have always been very clear in your communication and people then have a choice whether they want to be in your presence or not! Maya Morgan
I have just received my sample copy of The Mother magazine this morning. I’ve devoured it from cover to cover and promptly ordered a subscription. I just wanted to congratulate you, not only on a wonderful magazine, but on publishing the highly critical letter you received from Rachel Gooch, and your reply. It isn’t every magazine that so readily discusses the criticisms they receive in such an honest and open way. I was pleasantly surprised. I have to be honest and say I thought I would have reservations about whether The Mother would suit me and my family. We co-sleep, use slings, breastfeed and intend on child led weaning. We use cloth nappies, are green minded and believe in natural birth. However, we also eat meat (although only free range and organic), my son is vaccinated, and being largely humanist/athiest, don’t hold spiritual beliefs of any kind. I worried that I would find the tone of the magazine dogmatic and would be unable to place myself in the landscape. However, partly because of your reply to that letter, but mostly because of the interesting, surprising, passionate and, most importantly, inclusive nature of your magazine, I felt every bit a part of the world you and your contributors discuss ~ welcomed with open arms! How satisfying to have found a publication dedicated not only to the issues I find important, but also to a wealth of other diverse topics! As a woman who refuses to conform to the cookie-cutter role of mainstream motherhood today, I find great strength in reading stories and articles of other families who dare to be different in whatever ways suit them. I enjoy the strong, uncompromising character of the magazine ~ you’re honest about what you stand for and I find it inspiring. I begin work as a trainee doula this Autumn and will be definitely recommending The Mother magazine to the mamas I care for! Thanks TM! Hannah Crittenden
If you ever have what I call a ‘human’ day, or a moment in your life when you sit at your computer feeling glum, the children being supreme experts at testing your patience, and, oh yes, yet another bill was dropped through the mailbox, you feel unconnected to Spirit, the earth and all that is beautiful around you, I would like you to remember how much your magazine has changed my life. Two years ago I was a 38 year old career woman and wife ~ nice car, nice house, comfortable life. I’d never really had all those hormones that other women had when it came to children. Yes, they are lovely, but nay, I couldn’t eat a whole one. Then I got pregnant and my friend bought me a copy of your magazine. Wow!!! I don’t even recognise that person anymore. I understood how beautiful it was to have this new soul inside me and how very precious she was. I learned all about independent midwives and had the most amazing, spiritual homebirth. We are definitely going to home educate her, against all opposition. She hasn’t been vaccinated and only eats organic food. She’s never been to see a doctor, only a herbalist. I respect her for the beautiful soul that she is...and all this came from your magazine! In between all this, after just a few weeks of our daughter’s arrival, my husband fractured his spine, leaving him out of work for over a year. He’s just got back to work doing care work, something he’s always wanted to do. We now live on £8K a year as opposed to £30K a year. The house is being sold for a much smaller two-bed, somewhere we can feel the earth. And we’ve never been so happy. I don’t wear make up any more and my nails haven’t seen nail polish since I can’t remember when. My life is more whole that it has ever been and most amazing still, I’m now a very young (but tired) 40 year old who is being honoured with another soul’s arrival. So please, on those human days, just think how much you’ve changed our little one’s life, and smile, because you are amazing. Love, light and blessings Kymi, Ken and Catherine-Star & new bump
Thanks again for the wonderful Mother. Issue 12 arrived the day after the due date of my fourth baby. It really lifted my spirits. Rosana Pedzi Nyoko eventually came to join our family on March 5th, 16 days after her due date. It was a wonderful, peaceful homebirth, unassisted and inspiring. Thank you to Georgina Kelly for her article, Birthing and saying the great yes! I vocalised throughout my two and three quarter hour labour, talking to my baby and saying ‘yes’ to all the sensations of birth. I will treasure the experience all of my life. Gemma Shepherd
I came across a copy of your magazine at Mother’s Own Birth and Women’s Centre, located in Temperance, Michigan, USA. I am a huge fan of your magazine!!! I can’t wait to receive the next issue. Shelly DeMeo
I have just read my first issue of The Mother and absolutely loved it. At last I’ve found a magazine that cares passionately about the things I do and makes me feel my parenting decisions are right. Thanks so much. Vicki Havler Thank you so, so much for your beautiful magazine. Until very recently
I have been a full-time mother to my three children. My first two
children were born in hospital, taken away from me at birth and
assaulted by the usual barrage of medical interventions. Thankfully,
I realised that this was not the way for a child to be welcomed
into our world, and for the birth of my third baby I planned and
had a family home birth. Noah is now 17 months, is still breastfeeding
(to the dismay of some 'friends') and has been raised in a much
more child-centred approach. I have recently started my midwifery training: I believe passionately in birth and the birth of a family. I greatly look forward to allowing your magazine to keep me centred on a loving and natural approach. With best wishes I have made some great contacts through the magazine and had some lovely feedback. I can say quite without reservation that your mag has the most committed readership of any that I have featured in. Barry Durdant-Hollamby What a smashing read! Thanks for a wonderful magazine The Mother arrived today (the day my first born Daniel becomes 18) and the birthday of my becoming a mother. It also happens to be Thanksgiving Day today and I have so much to be thankful for! I feel quite emotional. Daniel was born in Cyprus where quite amazingly I got hold of a La Leche League's Womanly Art of Breastfeeding. So Daniel was breastfed, we had a family bed, we didn't spank him, and he was homeschooled. I hardly knew anyone who practiced even one of those let alone all! LLL and Summerhill were our 'mentors'. Daniel is now in school doing his last year of A levels before moving on to study Law. He never went to play school or school until he was 15 1/2 He's looking forward to buying his own alcholic drink tonight! And just a few days ago, my youngest son Robert, my baby, turned 11. Will I renew my subscription? Of course I will! You keep me in touch with the wonderful radicals who truly believe in their babies' birthrights and in their vocation as mothers. It's a heartening reminder that, in spite of the sad mothering I see around me, all those wonderful mothers do exist and are nurturing one another with their witnesses and stories. PS ~ What a wonderful mother you have! Leda Skeens WOW ~ What a great mag. Please send a copy to my sis. Thanks.
I would like to renew my subscription of your wonderful magazine,
The Mother. To everyone involved in The Mother. First of all a huge thank
you for such a wonderful magazine ~ I have loved every issue and
can't begin to tell you how much it supports and nourishes me both
as a mother and a woman. I would love to share the gems that I read
on your pages and would like to give gift subscriptions to two of
my like minded friends. Just received my first issue ~Summer 2004. Loved it. Please send
me back issues 2 -9. Please would you send some subscription forms
to pas onto other people. Thank you so much for a great magazine.
Its arrival was timely. Editor's notes were good medicine for me
after I weighed my baby (for the 2nd time only) and she had gone
down a percentile. I had felt she was doing great pre-weigh and
then post-weigh started to question whether I was providing her
with enough nourishment from breastfeeding. Had come to the conclusion
that she is thriving and that we'll forget the weigh-ins. She hated
it anyway! Then the next day TM popped through the door. Please send me the back issues of your brilliant magazine, # 2
~ 9. Keep up the good work ~ a first class magazine and much needed. I received my first copy of The Mother magazine yesterday. I feel
honoured and very grateful to have found your wonderful publication.
It is so personal and heartwarming. Thank you. Please find enclosed
a cheque for the back issues which I can't wait to receive. Thanks very much for a great mag. Shamefully late, but many, many thanks for a wonderful camp. Your
vision and strength are inspirational. Emily's birthday tea and
crown were so lovely, such a gentle, wholesome way of celebrating
another year. Also need to say 'wow' about the magazines. What a
privilege to be part of the publication. I love the way TM pushes
the boundaries and just when I'm getting comfortable it gives me
something else to think about! I want to thank Paul for doing his
ventriloquist show on Emily's birthday and helping to make her feel
special. I loved the music at night too and the birth video. How
brave to share such wondrous hours and what an amazing introduction
for our children to the miracle of birth! I wanted to say a HUGE thank you for all you did to make the camp
possible ~ ESPECIALLY all the cooking and SUPERB food you provided.
We really did appreciate you and your family for all that you did.
EXCELLENT - loved it all. Really love the inclusion of general
'life stuff' - loved all the pics, adored your editorial sharing
re ~ your mum (bless you both). I feel this is about more than just the content (which is wonderful) - I personally feel it's about the sincerity/integrity and depth of commitment you feel in this work and I want to celebrate you Veronika for your passion and love. I soooooooooooo respect and appreciate and celebrate the work you
are doing. Thank you for the best mag I have ever read. I really feel I'm
not going mad when I read it, most of the time I feel so out of
step with other people! We are midwives who have chosen to practice independently so to
promote natural pregnancy, birth and early parenthood and for women
and their families to have the experience they want. One of our
clients gave me your magazine, it's an inspiration! Please can I subscribe to your wonderful mag? Not having had much love or much of a relationship with my own
mother I found I had a deep fear of how I would be with my own children.
My son, Joel Jaya, brought with him a deep connection with Mother
Earth and six years later my daughter, Tehya Lola, brought a connection
to The Mother magazine (another story). I have laughed and cried
along with Joel, Tehya and The Mother magazine and will be eternally
grateful for that opportunity. Hello! Thank you so much for kindly sending me the last copy of
The Mother magazine. It has a lovely, special story to it. My husband
and I have been trying to create life for a couple of years and
although I am fortunate in being able to talk to and work with my
unborn children, they haven't arrived here yet! I have been losing
heart a bit, actually. I am sending my renewal form to TM. I have been inspired, enriched,
moved to tears and laughter, challenged, informed and felt a real
sense of love and friendship among the readers of your magazine.
It is a much needed publication in these materialistic, logic orientated,
reductionist days, reminding us of the magic of childhood. I would
love to be in contact with other readers in the Derbyshire/South
Yorkshire area. A wonderful new year to you all. I just love receiving The Mother
~ it is very reassuring and always has new and fascinating articles
~ never written in a way which is critical of people's fixed ideas
but always gently and encouragingly supporting a much more natural,
child centred, loving approach. The magazine is wonderful. Congratulations on the birth of your new baby..The Mother magazine!
I'm loving reading it and feel as if it's the beginning of something
very exciting. Thanks for having the vision to share all this stuff
with other mums! Power to The Mother! Hearty congratulations on your brave and beautiful magazine! I
honour you! Thanks on behalf of everyone of us for starting something none
of us felt brave enough to take on! The bit about vaccine ingredients
made our hair stand on end…anti-freeze? Aborted human foetus
cells? Bacterial and viral DNA? Paint thinner? How on Earth can
they justify these as ingredients? Same when they try and feed babies
the worst bits scrapped off the factory floor, I suppose…because
no-one will notice by the time the food colouring is added and it's
been squished down into a jar labelled BABY FOOD. Blessings from
the Universe and much love. If you are ever in the City for a day or to lead a weekend conference
on "How The Mother magazine was responsible for the world wide
eradication of Crap in A Can; The Bankruptcy of Nestle and the current
trend for Orgasmic Childbirth (which is greatly disturbing male
obstetricians), which I'm sure you will be soon, then we will definitely
have to meet up! Am speechless! Your mag is amazing. The content, the vibe, the
layout, everything is spot on. Very professional, filled with love
and not scared to speak the truth. Fab, fab, fab! Well done I received your magazine today. WOW. You have done an excellent
job with The Mother magazine. It is a credit to you. The word CHALLENGED
was certainly an understatement when reading some of the articles
but I love it ~ keeps me true to my instinct…mothering by the
heart. Thank you for your beautiful magazine. My friend and I have devoured
them page by page with such excitement and joy. It's six days till
my due date and I am full of such love and excitement. Can't wait
for it all to start: such magic. Thanks again for your divine magazine. I just wanted to say thank you for committing yourself to The Mother
magazine….it is a voice that needs to be heard. There is so
much in it! It is great and is giving me the confidence to carry
on doing what I though I should be doing anyway though everyone
around me thinks I have lost the plot. Thanks once again for a superb
magazine. Let me add to the chorus of congratulatory heart song. Already
you are producing a magazine for mothers with information that I
want to read! The Mother magazine brings out my jubilant heart and
gives hope for the future of our shared planet.
I feel compelled to subscribe after reading the first two issues
of The Mother magazine lent by a friend. It is refreshingly uncompromising
and empowering. Congratulations! We love your magazine!!!!!!! Your magazine is truly wonderful. Such a spiritual perspective
is much needed in these times. I received your magazines and adore them! Just what I needed, there
is nothing else like it out there!! What a great voice, vision and
courage! You're doing a brilliant job with this mag…it's the talk!
It's networking people …people are meeting up and talking about
it and discovering they all know, or know of, each other! It's personal,
relevant, approachable, friendly, welcoming, honest, beautiful and
true.
I came home to find issue 4 in our mail. What a treat! Great cover
photo and great, great stuff on the inside. So positive and uplifting.
A big, huge thank you Veronika!!! I am not sure any words would suit how happy I am that you make
the time for such a wonderful life purpose ~ children, love and
empowerment for wombyn ~ us mothers out here! I never want to stop my subscription I loved your article for the radical Unschooling section in this
latest TM. I loved it not only for its gentle window into a comfortable
(enjoyably humorous) way of learning/teaching, but more so for the
window into your life and home! Thank you for the fantastic magazine ~ so full of inspiration! Thanks again for a really wonderful magazine. Thank you for a wonderfully inspiring sample copy of your magazine
~ it was packed with so much I completely resonate with ~ so nourishing
to connect with kindred spirits! Enclosed SAE for details of the
August camp. It sounds magical. And the photos of last summer's
camp are beautiful! Thank you so much for issue 7 of The Mother, which finally arrived
today... my life felt so empty without her! I don't need to tell you that you and your magazine are perfect,
but I will anyway. The Mother Magazine....truly inspirational....a lighthouse on a
sometimes dark and dangerous coastline....bringing light to those
who choose the alternative from the conventional....don't ever give
up the voyage… Ahhhhhhhh, it has arrived. I *******LOVE******* it! I love your magazine and it is helping me to gradually change my
life. From seeing it as very extreme I now see it as a wonderful
companion to the new path I am walking. Thank you very much for
so many deep thoughts. I have just read and made up a batch of the baby wipes that Hillary
Smith suggested, they are fantastic! Although in the Cloth Nappy
Tips section, they can be used by all. My daughter is almost out
of nappies now, I only wish I had had the tip earlier! I will never
buy wipes again. I use the bounty wipes version in a tub by the
loo for potty training. Thank you for such brilliant ideas and comments
and just for an all-round wonderful magazine! Just a quick note to say --THANKS! I love your magazine, it's simply
beautiful. I have been showing it off to all of my friends. Everyone
is quite impressed. I love how you layed out my article, it looks
great. Wonderful graphic. Thank you so much for making a space for
me in your beautiful magazine. I am thrilled. I've just subscribed to the magazine and it's wonderful. I just
love it and HAVE to have all the back issues. Please can you tell
me how to order them? Hello! I absolutely love your magazine and I share my copy with
all new mums I know! I am an aromatherapist and infant massage instructor
who used self-hypnosis and flower essences during my home waterbirth
on Halloween for baby number three this past year! I listened to
your CD (Peaceful Pregnancy) before and during labour and it was
wonderful. It helped my water to completely release because of the
soothing words. I truly believe that your CD is much better than
many others out there for helping women visualize and meditate. The latest mag was - as usual - brilliant! Many thanks for this
valuable resource and inspiration! Thank you for an intelligent, informative magazine. Reading Barry's article, "Challenging the Monkey" (Winter,
Issue 8) made me laugh out loud! I was recently shown a copy of your magazine by my antenatal yoga
teacher and I was very impressed by the articles which gave natural
remedies to common complaints and recipes for making your own baby
wipes!
Please find enclosed the booking form for the camp. We are really
looking forward to this and meeting up with the other mad and wise
women who love The Mother magazine.
Regarding the recent article Killing her Softly, I think it is
a very clever text and a potent eye opener! It is frightening what
we do to our own bodies if we follow the advice of advertisers for
cleaning materials and cosmetics!! If anybody is interested to read
more background and find alternatives, read Cleaning Yourself to
Death by Pat Thomas ISBN 0 7171 3162 9 (Published by NewLeaf, www.gillmacmillan.ie
) It is a comprehensive source of info about the toxicity of toiletries
and household products. It explains how the body reacts to that
overload and offers non-toxic alternatives. I certainly cleared
out a lot of creams, cleaners etc after reading it. Luckily I did
it before I was pregnant or breastfeeding. RE: Mother's medicine Bag, issue 8 editorial (letter to a new subscriber on the motherlylove egroup) Today I duly received the most recent copy. Thank you, and am going
to renew my subscription. Thank you unreservedly and often tearfully for The Mother magazine.
I discovered it long after both my births and now I know that I
am not alone and such a controversial freak! It's been said before but I'll say it again anyway: thank you
for your wonderful, inspirational and supportive magazine. I really
look forward to each issue, it always leaves me feeling nurtured
and encouraged. Please keep up the good work… Living in Portugal, it is always with great pleasure that I read
The Mother. An excellent reminder of not being alone. I particularly
enjoy your homeschooling experiences as we are on the 'radical unschooling'
road with our three children. It is an endless journey ~ learning
all the time. Thank you for such an inspirational and educational
magazine. I've loved every moment reading The Mother magazine and wished
I'd come across it during Faith's first few months….although
she is now only 9 1/2 months old and so feel blessed to have come
across it at all! You do a great job on the magazine. It is so fantastic and I show
it to everyone who is interested. Keep up the good work Great magazine - I really love it! Thank you again and again for your words!! Still absolutely savour
each article, photo and story! I am feasting!~ you have done once again a wonderful job. The Sandpiper story did bring joy… and soaked my cheeks with tears... how beautiful! If it were possible, I held my tiny babe that much closer still after reading… and we lived several lifetimes together with total appreciation of the other in that one moment… and those that followed. Then came the perfectly timed 'Conscious Conception and Peaceful Pregnancy'…I wonder how many of us reading saw reflections of our own time spent in our mother's wombs, our own childhoods and journeys… I wonder how many of us suddenly felt a greater appreciation of the work we do… and how we're turning it all round for OUR children? Anyone who ever felt that motherhood is not a 'real' job… that 'real' jobs can only be obtained outside the home and involve a wage coming in must surely now reappraise the situation.
The rest of issue five was great - as usual... TM is always eagerly
anticipated... even better now I have time to sit down whilst breastfeeding!
Again I send you the strength of a fleet of angels to help you continue
in all you do. WONDERFUL magazine!!!!I am in love. Thanks for being such a beautiful spokeswoman for the wild Goddess
and for the wildness in all of us. I appreciate you creating this magazine and look forward to reading
many more!! I received TM10 today and it is brilliant! I have spent tonight
reading it. Your magazine is changing the way I live my life. I
love reading your column on radical unschooling. A big thank you for the camp at Moondawn! We enjoyed it very much
and clearly an enormous amount of energy had been channelled into
making it a success. It was! I can honestly say that the camp was something of an epiphany for
me…I haven't been camping in 15 years and to live really simply
for just that few days and among people who share many of the same
views, has just been mind-blowing. I have loved every minute of
it. A huge thank you from the bottom of our hearts for such a wonderful
camp experience. inspiring people with fantastic advice and some
incredible stories. We learned so much. I'm so impressed with your magazine and just love Jeannine Parvati
Baker's question and answer column. Her words speak the truth, a
truth that has become unspeakable in our culture. It is a relief
to hear it. Such cutting edge, high quality. Thank you Thank you for your supportive and quite unique magazine. Many thanks for a wonderful, empowering magazine. Keep up the fantastic work. You are making such a difference in
my life. It really is an inspiration piece of work and each issue brings
smiles, laughter and sometimes tears into our house. I'm looking forward to the next issue ~ I feel like a hungry wolf
that devours it as quickly as possible! It fills such a deep gap
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