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“fear has dire consequences for birth. If a woman’s subconscious thinks there is an enemy in the room, it will shut down labor. It is vital that you see your caregiver as a member of your team”

“It was raining women in peril that day, thought Guy.”

Emotions were terrible in that they kept you from what you needed to do most.

…keeping a food diary is an amazing tool that can be very insightful. Looking back over a weeks worth of meals can teach you a lot about your habits, as well as how you can possibly improve them. P. 72

Ultimately, we suggest you listen to your body. If you feel better eliminating certain allergens such as gluten from your diet, do so. Tangible solutions can often hold more weight than a diagnosis or test result.

Eating is purposeful, and we need to listen to our bodies. There are foods that we may currently be eating that are causing inflammation and stress in the body, and, if we continue to eat these foods, we will decrease our health potential.
- forward by Dr. Robert Gucciardo

“History, memory is by definition fiction. Once an event is no longer present, but remembered, it is a narrative. And we can choose the narratives we tell- about our own lives, our own stories, our own relationships. We can choose the chapters we give meaning.”

When you’re just a reflection, what happens when the image vanishes?

‘“What do you like?” he asks me. It’s such a simple question. Unordinary. But I find myself unable to answer it. I am so used to the pleasure of habit… Is familiarity a taste? Or just an accustomed tolerance.’

“It would be a shame if you kept doing something only because you’ve done it before.”

“I find myself wishing I had a blank slate. That I hadn’t already entangled myself so deeply- marriage, a house, a life that is not movable, at least not without destruction.”

“The problem is that we hasn’t really been through everything together, because we hadn’t been through anything before. Not until now. Our life had unfolded with the ease of an open road… We were the same people who had met at twenty-two years old.”

I began to ask myself if this was the marriage I wanted to die in, if this was the marriage I wanted to see me through this, my mother’s illness, and what would, impossibly, remain after.

“At one point, she saw a book she was looking for, high up on a shelf… But right next to it was a rolling ladder, one that could slide along the whole wall.

“… I talk to inanimate objects like my teacup and the candlestick because Beau Towers doesn’t talk to me, and I feel like at any moment the teacup and candlestick will start, like, singing and dancing for me.”

And the less we reflect, the less reasonable we shall be.

If my typical man wishes to live fully and completely he must, in his mind, arrange a day within a day. And this inner day… must begin at 6 p.m. and end at 10 a.m.

Lie down again and resume the uneasy doze which you call you existence.

Not only did God make you strong enough to meet the needs of others, he made you uniquely capable of meeting the needs of the people he gives you to love.

Just like the women we meet in the Bible, every woman today also has powerful gifts, given to her by God, and the freedom to choose how to use them.

A mans desire to please a woman he loves is indeed a powerful thing, and it can be a great motivator to men to rise to higher standards.

“Demeter, goddess of the harvest- goddess of life- and to her daughter, Persephone- goddess of death… In Greek, Persephone was known simply as Kore, meaning ‘maiden’. “

It was funny… how ones life could alter in an instant, how one minute everything could be a certain way, and the next it’s simply… not.

Belly of the Beast… this building is some huge creature ready to swallow me whole.

God always picks up what the impossible lays down. May you let Him take the burden from your shoulders. May you be comfortable being seen less, because this is how you know your belonging more.

They first trusted Him, then they saw the reward. Faith came before the fruit...Deciding to follow Jesus is a decision and a process.

The enemy will attack the essence of who we are and what we do. He will gladly and enthusiastically stir up our worst fears, and before long our actions stem forth from his lies rather than God’s truth.

Return to rest, quietness, and trust. It requires so little from us, yet we say no thanks and instead grasp for our own flimsy control. We turn our way instead of God’s way... Without spending time listening for the Lord’s direction and affirmation, we’re susceptible to looking to other people to fill us up... spend time looking to God to do only what He can do: fill us up as He leads us to our belonging place.

Goodness comes from listening to and heading God’s voice in the quiet, even when He asks us to makes change or accept a new direction that takes us from a place we already feel we belong.

I’m sorry should be saved for situations that warrant repentance. It should be used in circumstances where we need forgiveness. It shouldn’t be used because we believe we’re intrinsically sorry or no good.