Conceiving Courage
It has now been almost a year since I stared at that surprisingly positive pregnancy test.
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Motherhood
How a Prisoner of War Story Helped Me Prepare for Birth
I want to thank my friend Natalie for this beautiful post. We became friends because of our mutual love for birth but beyond that Natalie really is a beautiful person inside and out. –Robyn I am currently “overdue” with my FIFTH boy. Yes, my fifth. There are no girls among them. That’s a lot
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Laboring Through
All of the talk was beautiful, but do you know what my absolute favorite part was? My favorite phrase Elder Holland uttered today was this: “laboring through the battered landscape of his despair.” As Elder Holland spoke of a mother striving to bear up her son as he traveled through the darkest days and nights of his intense anguish… I can’t even really describe to you what I felt inside.
Maybe the Most Important Family Home Evening Your Family Will Ever Have!
I was so thrilled to see that the church came out with this great Family Home Evening Lesson. What Should I Do If I See Pornography? Some of you may be thinking, this doesn’t apply to me. I just have little kids. oncerningly, the average age of first exposure to pornography is 8 years old!
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Processing Motherhood with Poetry
So we moved this summer. In the process of unpacking, I found a composition book with notes, freewriting, story ideas, and poetry from the Creative Writing class I took at BYU during the last semester of my senior year. I was newly pregnant with my first child at the time and thus processing a lot
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Interview with a Student Midwife
Have you ever wondered what it is like to be a student midwife? I asked my friend, Angela Geurts, to answers some questions about life as a midwife in training. – Robyn Tell us a little about how you were guided to become a midwife. Sometimes each of us may feel that we have a calling
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Why Being a Mom is Just as Cool as Being Harry Potter
For the last six months my husband and I have been reading the Harry Potter books to our kids before bedtime. Last night we finished the seventh book, and like I always do when good stories come to an end, I felt a bit sad. Ever since I was a child I have always struggled
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The Yoga of Motherhood
Yogi Bhajan taught that it was the job of a yoga teacher to “poke, provoke, confront, and elevate.” If that is the case, no one has been a greater teacher to me than my children. No spiritual practice has done more to purify my soul than motherhood.
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Channing’s Milk-Sharing Story
My experience with milk donation is that an ounce given is received back one hundred times over in the the joy of selfless service. For both donor and recipient, an exchange of freely given breast milk is about so much more than filling bellies. It is about finding healing and bringing peace to the hearts that long for love, and that is a treasure that cannot be measured in ounces.
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Hearts Turning to the Children
As more and more of these brave and valiant spirits try to make their way to earth again, the powers of darkness are heightening their efforts at preventing their entrance.
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