| | So grateful to all the youth who joined us for our Summer Retreat! What a powerful way to spend a weekend. You are all our teachers! Here is what the girls wrote to future girls considering becoming a Real Talk Teen... "You're never going to find a space or an energy like the space Emily and Quetzal create. Do it, I promise you'll love it." "Do it! Trying doesn't hurt but if you don't, you're missing out! Changed my life!" "If you're not sure about joining a group or coming to a retreat, just go for it. You'll find people who can retreat to you and connect with you, and it will be worth it!" "I liked going to this retreat and being part of this because it gives you a separate group that you can open up to. Also because you don't see these people every day it means that you can open up to them about your life and they can give you advice from an outsiders perspective." "I liked this retreat because I could feel comfortable with opening up and others could easily say anything they wanted to." "Please do this! You will not regret it! It leaves you with so much life experience." "To anyone who wants to do this... DO IT!!! It's amazing and you'll love it!" |
I’m 8 months into enlightenment parenting and it’s kicking my ass. I’m learning from the master Bubbi BooBoo the art of feeling the feelz and moving on, instantly - that every moment is a choice I’m being offered.
So today I’m going to pretend this was it, this sunshine baby in a tunnel kissing pure cuteness moment. Because really, none of that other stuff is worth being stuck somewhere else, when all you ever want is to not miss this. Ending the day humble, exhausted and slightly wounded. Yours Truly, Mama  I got my moon cycle for the first time since last January. 18 months.
18 months ago we decided we were ready to be a family. 18 months ago another human began their creation inside of me. 18 months ago my Moon yielded to my Son. Today, my Son yields to my Moon. This time with milk in breasts and baby in arms. Since the seed of my child was planted, his rhythms have been my own. His growth, his birth, has also been mine. Our process has been one. But now, something is separating, something inevitable. Tides greater than both of us are pulling on me again. Pushing my system back to it's own rhythm. Pulling me away ever so slightly. A forced return. The inevitability of separation is so bittersweet. It makes you nostalgic for what's barely even gone. It makes you admit what you care about most. It makes your love even more tender. So today, I honor the blood and the tidal wave of motherhood. Thank you to the Life that makes us, moves us, and keeps us soft. Happy new mama moon to me.
Surrounded by friends; hawk cries, dry summer flowers, buckeye blossoms, mama oaks and bays, their familiar presence watching over me, my extended family.
🌲 Though they do not speak in words, they are certainly speaking. In their glorious strength and vulnerability, in the power of knowing their place, in their bloom and their breaking, in their simply Being though every season. 🍂 It’s been a wild ride becoming a mama. I’m particularly feeling it on this day, supposedly celebrating some sort of glory while at the same time taking babies just like mine from new mamas just like me. Prayers for the change we wish to see, be illuminated in every spark of every firework. 🌟 Feeling humbled. Lucky. Privileged. Honest. Spiritually sober. Here. Thank you to my, our, Great Mama Gaia, for reminding me of my place, and to be grateful for every day I’m given. Thank you for reminding me I am never alone. 🕸
Great article by Advisory Council member Diana Divecha, Ph.D. featuring our family. Happy Father's Day everyone! When co-parents tend to their relationship first, everyone benefits.
 Happy day to our new Papa Bear. Thank you for loving me so well and for partnering to bring this lil Bubbi Booboo into life. What a gift to witness your joy explode with him now in our life. This world needs men and dads like you. We love you!
Wishing all the papa bears out there a joyous Father's Day ~ We couldn't do this without you!  When your first teen girl goes to college!!!! 😭 7 years as a mentor, guide and friend, and a few years as her art teacher before that! Just wild. Sending her off with gifts from all the girls. Can’t wait to deliver them and look awkwardly long into her eyes til we cry. Necessary. Harmony, you are an inspiration and this world is lucky to have you!
 Fox sighting, snake skin discovery, meadow full of bunnies, birdsongs in a redwood grove, glowing sunset and 10 years as a youth mentor! Heart feeling full. Another school year of girls groups complete! A baby and 5 girls groups later, amongst many other things - been a full year! Welcoming summer and a little break for fun 🌈☀️🌈
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EMILY FROST is an artist and mentor working with youth and families in the Bay Area. She is the founder of LOVE YOUR NATURE, a movement devoted to girls and women awakening to their inherent wisdom, power, and purpose. Archives
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