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The Inner Child

By: redtentwomen August 17, 2020August 15, 2020

Day to Day, Femininity, Monthly Themes, UncategorizedBlessing your Body, body, female body, Haley Wiggers, Inner Child, Kindness to self, Motherhood, Mothering, Mothering a Baby, Mothering yourself, Pregnancy, self-care2 Comments

I place a hand on my heart and a hand on my belly. I take a deep breath in and say, “How can I best nurture and honor and serve you today?”

War and Peace In My Body

By: redtentwomen July 8, 2019July 7, 2019

Femininity, Intentional Living, Monthly ThemesBody image, Embrace, female body, Janet Stark, Lindsay Kite, Resilience, Self Acceptance, Shame, Tara Brumfitt18 Comments

I stared at the number on the scale, then stepped off quickly so it would disappear before my husband made his way into the room. How could I have let it get this bad? I began to run the numbers in my head, each one a new accusation. I was scarily close to my self-defined…

Human Anatomy

By: redtentwomen March 25, 2019May 27, 2019

Day to Day, FemininityAging, female body, female relationships, Libby Kurz, Plastic Surgery, retinol11 Comments

No topic is off limits in the operating room. While we reconstruct, remove, or generally alter various body parts, my coworkers and I open up about our own lives and bodies to a backdrop of 80s love songs. Over time, I’ve realized that health care professionals are completely desensitized to topics that might wig out…

Two Poems to Mary

By: redtentwomen January 9, 2019January 7, 2019

Femininity, Monthly ThemesAnne Sexton, female body, Femininity, Mary of Bethany, Mary of Magdala, patron saints, Poetry, Prayer, Simona Chitescu Weik3 Comments

To Mary of Bethany, the Patron Saint of Single Women “Everyone in me is a bird, I am beating all my wings” – Anne Sexton We are a strange breed – birds without nests, without young to feed. Starlings. Migratory creatures. We arc the sky in shapes of letters, illuminate, rename this world with our…