Wild Ginger Beauty

21/12/2023

We talk a lot about different ways you can help your little ones build better body image, but it’s time to hand the mic to you 🎤 share one thing you’re doing to help your kids with this below!

30/09/2023

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25/07/2023

Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie offered a group of teen girls at the Girls Write Now Awards fantastic advice about the importance of being true to yourself. She observed, "I think that what our society teaches young girls, and I think it's also something that's quite difficult for even older women and self-professed feminists to shrug off, is that idea that likability is an essential part of you, of the space you occupy in the world... [and] that you're supposed to hold back sometimes, pull back, don't quite say, don't be too pushy, because you have to be likable...

What I want to say to young girls is forget about likability. If you start thinking about being likable you are not going to tell your story honestly, because you are going to be so concerned with not offending, and that's going to ruin your story... The world is such a wonderful, diverse, and multifaceted place that there's somebody who's going to like you; you don't need to twist yourself into shapes."

For an empowering picture book about the value of being true to yourself regardless of what others think, we highly recommend "Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon" for ages 4 to 8 at https://www.amightygirl.com/stand-tall-molly-lou-melon

For an excellent book for pre-teen girls on staying true to yourself even in the midst of social pressure, we recommend "A Smart Girl's Guide: Drama, Rumors & Secrets: Staying True To Yourself In Changing Times," for ages 9 to 12 at https://www.amightygirl.com/drama-rumors-secrets

For a fantastic guide for teen girls that teaches them how to be true to themselves and strengthen their self-confidence, check out "The Self-Esteem Workbook for Teens" for ages 13 and up at https://www.amightygirl.com/the-self-esteem-workbook-for-teens

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has published a short book offering guidance on raising girls to become strong, independent women, "Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions" at https://www.amightygirl.com/dear-ijeawele

Adichie is also the author of several acclaimed novels including "Purple Hibiscus" (http://amzn.to/1q9TXCd), "Half of a Yellow Sun" (http://amzn.to/1uEGVSx), and "Americanah"(http://amzn.to/1qHkCN9), as well as the essay "We Should All Be Feminists" (https://www.amightygirl.com/dear-ijeawele) and its new accompanying journal "We Should All Be Feminists: A Guided Journal" (https://amzn.to/3ilQZjA)

She has also recently released a powerful and poignant reflection on grief based on the recent loss of her father: "Notes on Grief" at https://amzn.to/2TUtPb2

12/07/2023

Starting in Sept our weekend opening hours are changing As many of you know I have a young Daughter Ava Mae My partner and I work both work Saturdays ,we have a baby sitter who comes in and helps with Ava so we can both work but lately they have been very inconsistent and cancelling on us at the las...

08/07/2023

‘Women have another option. They can aspire to be wise, not merely nice; to be competent, not merely helpful; to be strong, not merely graceful; to be ambitious for themselves, not merely for themselves in relation to men and children. They can let themselves age naturally and without embarrassment, actively protesting and disobeying the conventions that stem from this society’s double standard about aging. Instead of being girls, girls as long as possible, who then age humiliatingly into middle-aged women, they can become women much earlier – and remain active adults, enjoying the long, erotic career of which women are capable, far longer. Women should allow their faces to show the lives they have lived. Women should tell the truth.’
Susan Sontag - The Double Standard of Aging (1972)

Annie Leibovitz - portrait of Susan Sontag.

28/06/2023

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THE FEMALE BODY

The female body was never supposed to be smooth, firm and flawless.
It was designed to create life, to host life, to feed life.
Yes there are many other amazing aspects to us all and this design in no way defines us, but…underpinning our fight to retain a ‘figure’, is a whole network of genetics, science and an entire evolutionary process which wants to create, store and produce fat for protection and hormonal health.
So, if you are losing a battle for slimness, do not for a moment think this is all your fault.
You are trying to blow away the wind.

Feed yourself well, physically, mentally and spiritually, and then enjoy your life with the vessel you inhabit.
It’s a one shot only thing.
Peace, laughter and acceptance are the best medicines around.

Donna Ashworth
From ‘I wish I knew’: https://amzn.to/3JVMJlZ



Art ‘Hilda’ by Duane Bryers

21/06/2023

Welcoming Mel to the Wild Ginger Family

We are very excited to introduce you to Mel a passionate natural health practitioner in training, currently working towards finalising her Diploma in Holistic Kinesiology and Diploma in Mind Body Medicine. Mel has also completed her Reiki practitioner training. To develop in her practice whilst stud...

10/05/2023

For many women Mother’s Day is one of great celebration. A day, perhaps, where they are lavished with breakfast in bed, or a massage, or bevy of handwritten cards and drawings en route to the kitchen fridge, a day of love and delight. But for many others, it’s a fraught or complicated affair.

The reasons for this are plentiful: the loss of a mother, infertility, miscarriage, death of a child, yearning for a child but unable due to a lack of partner, sizable funds, or the proper circumstances to have one.

This Mother’s Day as well as spoiling her with breakie in bed and a beautiful card think of donating to one of the below charities who support mums around the country tackling challenging circumstances, this unique gift idea means you can help to empower women and show your gratitude towards the people who sacrifice so much.

Here are some local charities to support for Mother's Day and beyond.

Mummy’s Wish
This organisation supports mums with children under 13 who are receiving treatment for cancer.

They help manage the burden of cancer by giving practical and tailored support during their journey
https://mummyswish.org.au

Mum For Mum

This non-denominational home-visiting program enlists trained volunteers (who are mothers too) to visit expecting mums in their final trimester right through to the first year of the baby's life to offer emotional support.

Their goal is to reduce the isolation and anxiety that can lead to depression for mums living far away from their support systems.

https://www.mumformum.org.au

Elsie’s Bookclub

Books for neonatal intensive care units

Many parents who have premature babies with complicated needs can’t hold their babies

By gifting a children’s book to these families they can read stories to their babies , and it can bring abut if normalcy to what is an extraordinary stressful time
https://riverbendbooks.com.au

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05/05/2023

You're Going to Love These! Kindness is embedded into the ethos of KIND BOD, Each product promotes kindness not only towards our bodies, but also to the environment. KIND BOD offers a fresh new approach to self-care, removing its lavish label and encouraging people to incorporate well-being practice...

03/05/2023

“Girl power in my mind is to let girls be exactly what they are. Let them be angry. Let them be resentful. And rebellious. Let them be hard and soft and loving and sad and silly. Let them be wrong. Let them be right. Let them be everything, because, they are everything.”
Amy Sherman-Palladino

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14/04/2023

We have two new Anna Lotan products ! Noni Balsam nourishing face cream and a Double Vit C face scrub Both are perfect for the cooler change of season Noni Balsam is an intensive repair night cream for normal to dry, sun- damaged skin The juice of Hawaiian Noni fruit forms the heart of this vitamini...