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This past week there was a lot of buzz about a book called “Women,Food, and God”.  The author, Geneen Roth was on the Oprah show. She also had a great interview with Alex Mandosian which you can listen to.

I share this with you because it got me thinking how this book can also relate to childbirth and parenting.

Childbirth encompasses so many feelings and changes; fear, worry, enthusiasm, excitement … changes in friendships, family members, even with the partner. Yet it goes deeper than that. It challenges a woman’s internal being of who she is and her abilities to birth a baby. Just like parenting, that constantly begs the question “am I doing the right thing in caring for my child?”

Using food as comfort, an activity when bored, stressed, etc., can be a numbing means to avoid what’s really going on - beneath the layers of emotion and the desire to mask it.  When it comes to pregnancy and birth most women embrace it while a few may be in denial, or detached from it.

This book, I think can help all women (and men) – regardless what the situation or circumstance is, overweight or not, pregnant or not, a parent or not.

This book speaks to our core in self-love and acceptance of who we are.

Because,  when we appreciate ourselves and see our true individual, innate abilities – our potential is limitless – no matter what is happening in our lives.