Kristine Roy

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Kristine’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (181)
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read‎ (360)
fiction‎ (77)
doula-library‎ (68)
ebooks‎ (31)
skin-care‎ (25)
unsorted‎ (20)
health-womens‎ (16)
stone-medicine‎ (15)
ayurveda‎ (14)
chinese-medicine‎ (14)

energy-medicine‎ (12)
yoga‎ (12)
reiki‎ (11)
memoir‎ (10)
tarot‎ (9)
travel‎ (9)
craniosacral-therapy‎ (8)
shamanism‎ (6)
astrology‎ (5)
fertility‎ (5)
health-general‎ (5)
herbalism-general‎ (4)

medicine-general‎ (4)
wilderness‎ (4)
body-positivity‎ (3)
chronic-illness‎ (3)
feminism‎ (3)
southwest‎ (3)
aging‎ (2)
aromatherapy‎ (2)
death‎ (2)
french-cooking‎ (2)
herbalism-history‎ (2)
menopause‎ (2)

mental-health‎ (2)
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womens-studies‎ (2)
bodywork‎ (1)
contraception‎ (1)
dreams‎ (1)
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indigenous-wisdom‎ (1)
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Kristine’s Quotes

“Many of our problems in US maternity care stem from the fact that we leave no room for recognizing when nature is smarter than we are.”
― Ina May Gaskin, Birth Matters: A Midwife's Manifesta

tags: birth, maternity-care, nature, technology

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“To be alive in this beautiful, self-organizing universe -- to participate in the dance of life with senses to perceive it, lungs that breathe it, organs that draw nourishment from it -- is a wonder beyond words.”
― Joanna Macy

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“Remember this, for it is as true and true gets: Your body is not a lemon. You are not a machine. The Creator is not a careless mechanic. Human female bodies have the same potential to give birth well as aardvarks, lions, rhinoceri, elephants, moose, and water buffalo. Even if it has not been your habit throughout your life so far, I recommend that you learn to think positively about your body.”
― Ina May Gaskin, Ina May's Guide to Childbirth

tags: birth, childbirth, midwifery

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“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”
― J. Krishnamurti

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“This silence, this moment, every moment, if it’s genuinely inside you, brings what you need. There’s nothing to believe. Only when I stopped believing in myself did I come into this beauty.

Sit quietly, and listen for a voice that will say, ‘Be more silent.’ Die and be quiet. Quietness is the surest sign that you’ve died. Your old life was a frantic running from silence. Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking.

Live in silence.”
― Rumi, Rumi: Poems

tags: spirituality

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