Core Values, LLC

06/22/2025

**Special in-person offer! We generally offer this class virtually, but we always think that the more we can be together in community, the better.**

Did you know that there are many many options available to you regarding how to bring your baby(ies) into the world via cesarean? Having this knowledge is empowering and beautiful, so we built a class with this in mind. In this class we will help you prepare for your upcoming cesarean birth by creating birth preferences to share with your provider, and share what it will be like before, during and after your cesarean in the hospital. We also cover postpartum recovery expectations, resources and suggestions to ensure the birthing person is recovering well, and everyone in the home is adjusting.

Register here:

https://beyondbirthing.as.me/schedule/821f2100/?appointmentTypeIds[]=78942036

06/19/2025

Office flowers look so pretty!!

06/18/2025

Please pass along to anyone local who has had an abortion. Mini retreat June 29

06/02/2025

Peer program for women breaking free of narcissistic relationships

05/29/2025

05/12/2025

Verbal Abuse in Childhood Rewires the Developing Brain
New research reveals that verbal abuse in childhood can alter the developing brain, leading to long-term emotional and cognitive consequences.
Harsh, demeaning language from adults activates the brain’s threat system, making children more likely to interpret neutral cues as threatening.
At the same time, the brain’s reward system becomes blunted, reducing responsiveness to praise, affection, and positive experiences.
These neural changes can impair relationship-building, self-worth, and mental health well into adulthood.
Verbal abuse increases the risk of anxiety, depression, substance use, and difficulty with emotional regulation.
Experts urge greater awareness and prevention, emphasizing that nurturing, respectful language is essential for healthy brain development and lifelong wellbeing.

New neuroscience research highlights how verbal abuse in childhood can alter brain development and increase the risk of mental health issues later in life.

05/11/2025

Thinking of all the mom’s out there today. I celebrate you and I hold space for you.
🌸Moms grieving the loss of their baby through pregnancy or infant loss and TFMR
🌸Moms whose children have died
🌸Moms trying to build a family - naturally, with fertility treatment, assisted reproductive technology, adoption, fostering, guardianship
🌸Motherless moms
🌸Stay at home moms
🌸Working moms
🌸Moms who don’t have a positive relationship with their own mom
🌸Pet moms
🌸 Stepmoms
🌸 Grandmothers
🌸Mother figures

05/11/2025

05/11/2025

05/11/2025

WHEN YOU HAVE A DIFFICULT RELATIONSHIP WITH YOUR MOTHER...

From the moment we start to grow, we are connected to our mothers.

Joined by a cord - a lifeline - that nourishes us, grows us, nurtures us.

And then we come into this world and the cord is cut, replaced by an unbreakable bond of love between mother and child that continues to nourish and nurture and help us grow.

But what happens if that bond is broken? What happens if it never really forms?

What happens if your mother could not or would not love you in the way you needed and deserved to be loved? The way you realise now you should have been loved.

Well… you grieve.

You grieve in a way that is hard to explain and painful to articulate.

You grieve for someone who is still here.
You grieve for the bond you wish you’d known.

You grieve for the times you were starved of affection or hungry for love.

You grieve whilst clinging to the end of that rope, that cord, that bond which should have been unbreakable. But wasn’t.

And now you are left holding a broken piece of your inner child. Of your heart and of your soul.

The most complicated losses to bear are the whispers of what
should have,
could have
been.

The echoes of
the unfinished,
the unresolved.

So yes, you grieve.

But you also break the cycle.
You build unbreakable bonds with those you love.
You nurture them and you nourish them.
You feed their hearts and souls with love.

And in doing so,
you begin to feed you own soul too.
You learn how it feels to be loved without expectation. Without transaction. Without stipulations and provisos and conditions.

And slowly, you start to heal that child within.

And you start to realise that, whilst it is not what should have been,
this loss is now what has to be.

It is a loss you have to bear,
a loss you have to grieve,
in order to learn how to love yourself

To love yourself the way you always should have been loved,
right from the beginning.

Unconditionally.

*****

This gorgeous artwork is called "She thought she was broken, but she was blooming" by Paige Payne (her page is tagged below). I think it's a beautiful reminder of the importance of nurturing yourself - especially if someone else didn't or couldn't.

Becky Hemsley 2023
Poignant artwork by paigepayne_creations

Ahead of Mother's Day here across the world - for all those that need this.