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Simply GNV-Birth & Maternal Health Where women’s health and writing coexist. Writing and client education for female founded women’s health businesses.

Virtual fertility awareness and birth education classes offered.

05/27/2026

The way my brain chemistry was altered✨

I’ll tell you why:

The Four Agreements for me is a grounding reminder to stop carrying around perceptions, guilt, and “supposed to be’s” that were never mind to begin with. It is always a nice reminder esp when the kids are in moods to remember to never take anything personally. It’s helped me show up in ways that I had always felt were difficult because of my past but are made possible when I remember the agreement to always do my best. There’s so much here to unpack but my mom brain feels so warm and cozy when coming back to this short but valuable read.

The Alchemist wow…idk where to begin. I started this when I was feeling disconnected from myself in the midst of anxiousness, depression, and loneliness. It was a great reminder that my purpose, intuition, and dreams are God given desires because I make the intention to live in divine alignment. Even in the middle of raising babies.

101 Essays That Will Change the Way You Think is perfect for the thoughtful, health aware mom, but still wants to go deeper and more towards vitality. Many of these essays help reframe anxiety, certain habits, identity, and emotional overwhelm.

These 3 are staples that I come back to over and over🤌🏽

Have you read any of these?
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books for moms | moms who read | bookish moms

05/25/2026

This is MINE but let’s be honest—little hands will be here to rummage soon🤣

Happy snacking!✨
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Mom snacks | wfh mom | homeschool mom | nourished mom

05/22/2026

The Wind in the Willows🐀🐸🦫

I’ve been increasingly passionate about helping my boys fall in love with reading as an effort to keep them off screens and build imagination and wonder✨ and this was a sweet cozy story about friendship, truth, and courage!

This story was a perfect read-aloud for both my boys (10 & 5). The age gap needed something engaging with a story anchor for my oldest and the youngest loves the constant adventure of these little creatures✨

It’s set along the riverbank and story follows gentle Mole, a wise Rat, a Badger, and the wildly adventurous and sometimes troublesome Mr. Toad.

It’s illustrated well and the scenes described spark imagination and creativity which I love! You watch the little creatures navigate friendship, home, curiosity, and growing up. It’s full of cozy picnics, woodland homes, little adventures, and meaningful conversations that we all enjoyed talking about after each read.

I found the chapters to read almost like bedtime stories which was good for the little one. Younger children are drawn into the charming animal characters and playful adventures, while older kids can appreciate the humor, deeper themes of loyalty and belonging, and the rich, imaginative language.

The chapters read almost like little bedtime stories, making it easy to enjoy slowly as a little family rhythm🕯️

05/20/2026

Let’s chat neuroplasticity, but for moms!

Comment READ to get the link to the full article📖

After birth, a woman’s body and brain go under a biological metamorphosis to support the caregiving of a brand-new baby. The brain literally changes in neural structure to become attuned to infant cries and cues and enhance responsiveness. This shift comes as a vital component in infant survival.

✨Motherhood is peak neuroplasticity

✨Brain fog/mom brain is purposeful

✨So we’ll just never be the same. Cool
But in the best way possible.

✨Self-awareness is a refined skill which takes place in the brain

✨“Slow motherhood” is not what you think

✨This is a long term transformation

✨Birth experience matters

So let’s change the negative “mom brain” conversation from flaw to superpower ⭐️to

💌Full review is out on Thursday—I highly recommend this read👇🏽This isn’t a novel it’s a call to action in my opinion.A c...
05/18/2026

💌Full review is out on Thursday—I highly recommend this read👇🏽

This isn’t a novel it’s a call to action in my opinion.

A call to stop performing.

A call to reconnect with who you really are before society asked you to think, talk, and dress a certain way, before you were told you were too much or your needs were inconvenient.

A call to reject the monetization of every little thing in life.
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Call me crazy but I actually loooowkey liked Natalie most of the time.

She’s the unlikable protagonist and no one likes her from what I’ve read but Natalie is point blank attempting to navigate a system (patriarchal, religious, and maternal) that has reach new heights of impossibility.

We never really get to know Natalie. We might get glimpses of her through her thready thought processes, but the full picture through her narrative is unreliable at best.

She’s all over the place—cursing and then apologizing to the Lord in one sentence.

She’s almost at odds with herself and tbh aren’t we all at some point?

Motherhood was not enjoyed, it was performance of enjoyment.
Being a wife was not enjoyed, it was a performance of enjoyment.
Being a daughter and sister was not enjoyed, it was a performance of enjoyment.

I need a detailed reflection of Clementines POV asap.

Speaking of: Children know. Our kids know when we’re off, our mood fluctuations, when we’re disengenous, when we’re not quite giving them the full picture or being real with them. It shows in more ways than one in this book.

Sheltering our children from the real world back fires every single time. It’s clear until the very last page of this book.

Comment READ and I’ll send you the link to get the review in your inbox💌

🍋🌿Save this one for later!📌I made this tea the other day that Micah actually drank!He is used to taking herbs and all of...
05/13/2026

🍋🌿Save this one for later!📌

I made this tea the other day that Micah actually drank!
He is used to taking herbs and all of these little potions that I make the boys, but this one was a toss up because of how potent it is.

It took some coercion at first but by the end of it he said it was bad.

Aside from support for sickness, I drink it occasionally in the morning on an empty stomach to help with digestion, metabolism, and reducing bloat.

Also…I’m turning 40 this year and I’m trying to tweak little habits here and there for vitality and longevity because that’s what health really is to me.✨

04/15/2026

Comment READ to read the full article✍🏽

I’m breaking down each of these 3 concepts in a full post because I clearly needed reminder that a tight grip on the need for control will always backfire-in both birth and motherhood.

Peep the first part of this essay and comment READ and I’ll send you the full article:

past week, I’ve been weighed down heavy by the need for control. This tends to center around my kids and lately it’s been pre-teen things like his friendships and making sure he’s adjusting well to immersing back into school and then my spirited, firey, 5 year old that has loads of food sensitivities tied to behavior and it just feels like I’m doing all the things and nothing was working.

Now, I am hyper aware of how devastating it can be when uncertainty comes knocking, but it never fails that when I’m at the end of my rope of panic and anxiety, that I teach a childbirth education class. It would seem like the worst timing to teach others about surrender, but the timing never misses because everything I’m about to teach I need to hear.

I’m not pregnant, but the concepts I teach, 3 of them are exactly what I always end up needed to hear and reiterate in my own life just at that time. So in the depths of my spiral for lack of control, I started session 1 of a birth class.

It’s ok. We all need the reminder🩵

I keep wondering why being “healthy” feels so hard and why pregnant women are feeling crippling overwhelm with having he...
02/05/2026

I keep wondering why being “healthy” feels so hard and why pregnant women are feeling crippling overwhelm with having healthy pregnancies and advocating for and ultimately making their own birth choices.

When you have one trusted industry dismissing your symptoms and needs and influencer filled spaces telling you to decline every intervention possible but take their supplement protocol, it’s no wonder we burnt out from being healthy.

I’ve sat with hundreds and hundreds of women many with one common underlying factor: indecision. Indecision based in fear of not knowing enough, a belief in not having the tools they need to make educated decisions, and a belief that health is just out of reach unless they do what someone else who knows better says to do. But this isn’t true!!

And for that, I’m starting a series of empowerment. A curriculum to guide women through body and emotional literacy to have better experiences across maternal health. Experiences where we ditch anxiety from indecision and embrace the tools we already have to wake up and take accountability for our bodies by bringing health home.

This curriculum is going to take you through the art of noticing, identifying, connecting, remembering, and responding all through the path to body and emotional literacy.

More details in my last two letters in I Mean Honestly w the 🔗 in my bio. We start Feb 19🎀
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📌Save this for your next Trader Joe’s trip!I became obsessed with these for many reasons:~I needed something easy to thr...
02/02/2026

📌Save this for your next Trader Joe’s trip!

I became obsessed with these for many reasons:

~I needed something easy to throw together
~they taste so yummy as is
~versatility

Keeping these on hand is really helpful if you have a last minute party where you need to bring a dish, guests coming over last minute, or quick protein packed light dinner.

Most of these were kid approved! Although my Micah [5] is a toss up tho one day he loves something and the next he hates it with his whole 45lb body so you know how that goes🤣
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I think we’ve all been there. Is it my hormones?Is it burnout?Am I insane?I feel like d all of the above is appropriate ...
01/22/2026

I think we’ve all been there.

Is it my hormones?
Is it burnout?
Am I insane?

I feel like d all of the above is appropriate answer at times, but if we actually took the time to figure out what it might be specifically, that gives us a chance to address the root cause.

In this article I’ll actually discuss:
~how to identify hormonal chaos through body literacy
~how to identify burnout
~the simple ways the nervous system and hormones are weaved together
what to do to regroup

there are pieces of data and research of course to connect the dots 😉

its live in the 🔗 so go read, learn, and be part of the I Mean Honestly community where we talk about creative evidence-based ways to integrate body literacy and emotional health for moms, so we can live, work, and nurture with clarity.
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I’m doing my best trying to support my body through this period of stress and I know you are too.(also- don’t you miss p...
01/20/2026

I’m doing my best trying to support my body through this period of stress and I know you are too.

(also- don’t you miss pictures if plated food? because I do and I got lots of ideas from pictures of food. just sayin)

anywaaaays…

I’m practicing what I preach in all my classes-focus on what you CAN control vs what you can’t.

One of those things you can control is what goes in your body. Because what goes in there can either support your body through seasons of stress or exacerbate the problem.

Sweet potato is a fan favorite right now.

You can make it into:
Fries w/ sea salt
Grilled in butter w/ or without cinnamon for a sweety
Mashed on top of millet or soaked oats
Blended in homemade sweet potato loaf, pancakes or waffles

There are options are endless and so versatile. Your own women’s health isn’t always complicated sometimes it’s just adding in a different food to shake things up for a natural dopamine hit🍠🍯

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