Kristine Roy

https://www.goodreads.com/kristineroy

Kristine’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (181)
currently-reading‎ (0)
read‎ (360)
did-not-finish‎ (0)
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)
numerology‎ (2)
womens-studies‎ (2)
bodywork‎ (1)
contraception‎ (1)
dreams‎ (1)
folklore‎ (1)
indigenous-wisdom‎ (1)
nutrition‎ (1)
psychology‎ (1)
sleep‎ (1)

Stats | More…

Kristine’s Quotes

“The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet. Where they overlap, it is in every point of the overlap.”
― Novalis

13 likes

“It is not biology alone but heroism too that drives women to find the will and grit and creativity to put one’s own impulses aside to serve the needs of a tiny creature around the clock—especially in an environment in which that heroic choice is only casually acknowledged, much less honored, cherished, or assisted. I believe the myth about the ease and naturalness of mothering—the ideal of the effortlessly ever-giving mother—is propped up, polished, and promoted as a way to keep women from thinking clearly and negotiating forcefully about what they need from their partners and from society at large in order to mother well, without having to sacrifice themselves in the process.”
― Naomi Wolf, Misconceptions: Truth, Lies, and the Unexpected on the Journey to Motherhood

5 likes

“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

51 likes

“In the Western tradition there is a recognized hierarchy of beings, with, of course, the human being on top—the pinnacle of evolution, the darling of Creation—and the plants at the bottom. But in Native ways of knowing, human people are often referred to as “the younger brothers of Creation.” We say that humans have the least experience with how to live and thus the most to learn—we must look to our teachers among the other species for guidance. Their wisdom is apparent in the way that they live. They teach us by example. They’ve been on the earth far longer than we have been, and have had time to figure things out.”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

tags: evolution, human, native, native-american

154 likes

“Women today do not believe that their bodies know what to do, much less that their babies also know what to do. Because they are afraid and feel like they lack knowledge, they are often reassured rather than anxious when they enter the hospital. At the conscious level, they believe that all will be well within those walls. They believe this because they trust that someone else will know what to do if something goes wrong. The authority has been transferred to someone outside. But the body doesn't lie, and that is why, despite a feeling of comfort in the hospital, many women still find that their labor slows or stops on admission to the maternity unit. It is also why so many women harbor nagging doubts about the necessity of many of the procedures done - to them and to their babies - in the name of helping. It is why so many women - and most health workers today - do not know the difference between intervention and support.”
― Suzanne Arms, Immaculate Deception II: Myth, Magic and Birth

tags: birth

0 likes

More of Kristine’s quotes…