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[close] All things birth work. From breastfeeding to perinatal mental health!

[close] Share books on breastfeeding, nutrition, pregnancy, mothering, fathering, co-sleeping, cookbooks, loving guidance, etc.

[close] ...October 13, 2013 to November 12, 2013... Have you read Love For Our Afflictions? Are you interested in reading it? Talk with the author here! Ask questions, post thoughts, talk with others who might be also be reeling from affliction or on their own journey of self discovery. "As I courageously sat down to write my story, I did so with blurred vision and a keyboard drenched from all the tears. As I wept and wrote, it was with the sincere hope that my story would one day help someone else. I wrote honestly--sometimes to my detriment--but inside are more truths and revelations than I thought would be revealed. May my words help those in affliction, beyond affliction, or without affliction. This is a story for everyone." x Ariana Carruth In an age where so many secret stories are demanding to be told, the author fearlessly takes us into her broken heart in hopes of buoying others in their own afflictions. As her life is split open early, repeatedly and even savagely from threats to babies born and unborn, to a daughter’s health and longevity, and to a husband’s fidelity, she discovers the gifts that lay hidden within each. Freed from her afflictions, she finds a path to authentic living. Clearing a fiercely unconventional path to her own heart's desires, she also finds a new life as a Jew with a conversion to Judaism. Love for Our Afflictions does more than advise making lemonade out of lemons. It wakes us up to challenge an old, unchallenged belief--that afflictions are to be dreaded and feared-- and shows us how we can instead find love for our afflictions.

[close] Welcome to the Birthkeepers Bookclub 😀 If you are like me your 'must read' pile is growing and growing and time to read getting scarcer and scarcer. I am hoping that with some focus I might read some of these books. Every two months we will have a book recommendation. They might be newly published, birth classics, parenting 'gurus' fiction or poetry. The only thing they have in common is that they are in some way related to our roles as Birthkeepers. As you read you might want to consider: What surprised you? What dissapointed you? What might you share with parents? How might it affect your practise? Is it going on your shelf? In between times please share your book reviews, news of author events, new books on the horizon anything at all book related. See you soon xx