Mother Citizen Coaching

03/25/2024

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Henri Matisse
“Nu Bleu VI”
1958

03/18/2024

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Princess + Priestess Takush*t at the National Archaeological Museum of Athens.

03/16/2024

I was one of “those ‘’ that I thought I would never be. I was in a state of shame, blame, fear + doom. 24 weeks into my first Pregnancy I received a call from my OB telling me I was now a “High-Risk” Pregnancy after having received a diagnosis of Gestational Diabetes.

Every year in the USA, about 7% of all pregnant Women will be diagnosed with Gestational Diabetes. According to the CDC: recent studies from 2000 to 2010 found the ‘percentage of pregnant women with gestational diabetes increased 56%.’

What could be behind this increase?

MY experience proved to be one of the major catalysts in my life for research + discovery + GROWTH. It wasn’t until 5 years later when I studied under WHAPIO that I really understood what was behind the history + definition of Gestational Diabetes in ADDITION TO the diagnosis, statistics and treatment.

See PART I + PART II to further explore…..xA

Further Reading/Sources:

Book by Lily Nichols: Real Food for Gestational Diabetes: An Effective Alternative to the Conventional Nutrition Approach

Article by famed French OBGYN MICHEL ODENT: “Gestational Diabetes: A Diagnoses Still Looking for a Disease.”

Article by Researcher HENCI GOER: “The Emperor Has No Clothes.”

Article by Dr. Rachel Reed: “Gestational Diabetes: Beyond the Label.”

03/15/2024

03/13/2024

🌞We are taught to fear the SUN, but I believe it should be the complete opposite. We should revere and worship the Sun, as many civilizations have done for 1,000’s of years. Why are we fearing the SUN when it gives life to EARTH and everything on the planet? It gives us vitamins and minerals and grows our trees to breathe. I am here to explain why I have stopped using SPF + Sunglasses + Supplementing with Vitamin D all together (including my children)… and why Seed Oils (+ GMO’s) increase inflammation + make you burn more. 🌞 see my Hilites for more in-depth slides.

There is a mythical power to the sun + it has always been a fixture of what makes life possible — it cultivates the food we eat, it creates the pleasant temperate climates we and all animals enjoy, it allows us to see the beauty of the world around us, it gave us the ability to tell time long before we ever had mechanical clocks, and it even energizes and restores our bodies through direct exposure to its light. It’s no wonder that nearly every ancient religion featured some kind of sun deity or worship.

Ancient Egyptians worshipped the sun god Ra, the central deity of their pantheon, and a being so powerful and regarded, he was thought to have created everything. The Pharaohs were often seen as earthly extensions of the mighty god.

Egyptians explained the natural and essential cycle of the sun rising and setting as Ra sailing across the heavens each day on his boat + dying at the end of his voyage, only to be reborn at the start of each new day.

We used to rise with Sun and sleep with the Sunset. But since the dawn of the industrial revolution we have come so far from nature and thus our biological clocks and circadian rhythm cycles are messed up. We have photosensitive cells in our eyes that speak to our hypothalamus and directly support our hormones. The sun pulls us up and switches on our bodies for the day (and turns them off at night). I believe we can do better for ourselves, our bodies, our hormones + our children? Let’s start by understanding better the impacts of sheltered non-natural light living + FEARING THE SUN.

03/11/2024

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‘Femme Dansant’
Corbusier
1954

03/08/2024

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL DAY OF THE WOMAN

03/04/2024

.samadhi.design

03/01/2024

Quietly the grief
loudly the pain.
The accumulated poison
love faded away
Mine was a strange world
of criminal silences
of stranger’s watchful eyes
misreading the evil.
darkness in the daytime…
Was it my fault?
I admit, my great guilt
as great as pain
it was an enormous exit
which my love went through.

—Frida Kahlo, from her diary

02/28/2024

Just want to take a moment to say Thank you for Being My Sun, My Son + My Joy. Thank you for giving me one of the biggest teaching moments of my life i.e. your emergence from my body and the expansion of my soul then and everyday since. Love, Mama