As Mother’s Day approaches, I’m thinking of everyone this weekend who might feel tender. Those still trying to conceive. Those grieving a pregnancy, a baby, or a child. Those missing the life they hoped would be here by now. Those with complicated relationships with their mothers. Those grieving them, missing them, or longing for something [...]
In the last moments before entering a week-long silent retreat, I opened a tender email from a patient: “I can’t handle this.” She’s had a difficult fertility journey and had just received news that brought deep worry. Before turning off my phone, I reached out to a trusted Full Circle Perinatal Care colleague to help [...]
As September unfolds, there’s always a quiet sense that we’re stepping into a new year—one that doesn’t require a calendar flip to feel like a fresh start. The soft shift from summer’s expansive energy into something more grounded and intentional has always felt like the real new beginning to me. These past days, I’ve been [...]
Years ago, I heard a meditation teacher share that each morning, when she wakes up, she’s intentional about looking at her partner as if for the first time. When I first heard that, it struck me deeply—because it’s so easy to fall into patterns and assumptions about each other. Chris and I celebrated our 25th [...]
July 4th is a very special day in our family. It’s the day our daughter was born, and each year her birthday brings up so much for me—gratitude, tenderness, awe. Today she turned 13, and it’s hard to put into words how deeply grateful I feel to watch her step into her teenage years. We’re [...]
2025 is a year with lots of big milestones. Along with turning 50 (see February for my birthday reflections), this month marks 25 years since I graduated and began my career in Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine. When I think back to those early days—freshly trained, full of curiosity, and eager to support healing—I never could [...]
It was my birthday last week and it was a "big" one ... I turned 50! Each decade I’ve moved through has had its own unique flavour and tone. At fifty, there’s a lovely feeling of deepening and settling in. I trust myself more, and there’s an inner steadiness that keeps growing. I know what [...]
Mountain time is such good soul food and we're looking forward to being at Mt.Washington again this weekend. Everyone I know downhill skis, and while I miss the adrenaline of it, the upside of no longer feeling inclined toward speed (I blew out my knee and can’t fathom doing it again) is that I get [...]
As the holiday season winds down, one more holiday tradition remains: pondering those pesky New Year’s resolutions. It’s interesting that this tradition continues when research says only 8% of people actually achieve them! One of the problems with resolutions is that they can create effort mode, obsession with outcomes & notions of success & failure. [...]
For many of us, gathering with family over the holidays is stressful and on a fertility journey, there can be the added stressor of unwanted questions from relatives about "When are you going to have children?" I remember one participant in my Fertility Well-Being class last year bravely sharing that she was dreading Thanksgiving because [...]
