by Sarah Rudell Beach | Feb 22, 2016
I really like ~ in fact, love ~ being a mom. But sometimes, I don’t “like” motherhood. We can pretty much say this about anything else in our lives without people batting an eye. Think of how acceptable it is for women to complain about and mock...
by Sarah Rudell Beach | Feb 15, 2016
Many people find my blog every day searching for “mantras.” What intrigues me is the kinds of mantras people are looking for, and what they believe the mantras will do: “mantras to control children,” “mantras to control stress,” “mantras to control anger,” or the very...
by Sarah Rudell Beach | Feb 1, 2016
Meditation is not about NOT thinking. Anyone who has sat down to observe their breath for more than a few seconds knows that the monkey mind tends to go apesh!t the minute we slow down enough to listen to it. After seeing all the cute posts about what dogs and cats...
by Sarah Rudell Beach | Jan 1, 2016
Happy New Year!!! I hope you have had a joyful, restful holiday season. Today, we venture into a new year. And although it’s really just another day, there is something powerful about changing our calendars and going back to month number 1. We spend a bit of...
by Sarah Rudell Beach | Dec 14, 2015
“And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled ’till his puzzler was sore. Then the...
by Sarah Rudell Beach | Nov 2, 2015
The next few weeks are shaping up to be pretty emotional for me. First, tomorrow is the publication day for Mothering Through the Darkness: Women Open Up About the Postpartum Experience. This powerful book challenges the myths about and breaks the silence...
