"A Woman in harmony with her spirit is like a River Flowing, she goes where she will without pretense and arrives at her destination prepared to be herself and only herself"
Female
31 years old
the atlantic ocean, Virginia
United States
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·..~danelle~..·'s Interests
General
**If you are ever planning to birth a baby, or are working as a doula, midwife, or women's health instructor, I HIGHLY recommend getting this DVD: "Birth As We Know It" available at Amazon. It is BY FAR the best birthing DVD I have ever seen. I'll get you a copy if you message me for one.**
"I would prefer to die of a hemorrhage giving birth at home with a midwife, if that were my fate, than to go to the hospital to give birth again."
— Said to Judy Slome Cohain, CNM, MSN, by a 20-year-old woman carrying her second child, during a prenatal check.
traveling, teaching, beach-laying, dog-walkin, ocean-dipping, organic gardening, health & wellness, la musica, feminist/humanitarian/human rights issues, tennis-playing, photo-taking, early christianity/judaism, women's history, midwifery, doulas, homebirth, waterbirth, freebirth, breastfeeding awareness, learning, singing, worship, yoga, writing real letters, -----stretching-----
Powerful Strong Voices in so many genres. huge music fan. i especially love worship musica
Movies
Television
The Office, Weeds, Grey's Anatomy, Men in Trees, Desperate Housewives
But really, I'd always rather be outside doing something...anything...so I'm not in watching tv very frequently.
Books
Newly Designed INTERNATIONAL BREASTFEEDING SYMBOL for use in all public places. Many natural photos of breastfeeding babes have caused mother's profiles to be deleted by MySpace. Sign the Petition to MySpace Here.
Heroes
My Mother, My Father, My Beautiful Strong Grandmother who still mows her lawn, shovels her driveway, serves meals to others at the mealsite, and gives me wise advice at 94 years of age
My partner and best friend, Nicholas, the most gentle, yet strong, person I know.
Midwives all across the United States - especially those risking it all to serve women and their babies in states where midwifery is pushed undergound.
University Of Northern Iowa
Cedar Falls, IA
Graduated: 2006
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Master's Degree
Major: Women's & Gender Studies
Minor: Health & Human Sexuality
Clubs: THESIS PUBLISHED: Crystallized Pathology
2004 to 2006
University Of Northern Iowa
Cedar Falls, IA
Graduated: 2006
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: Religion
Clubs: *it was quite the challenge to finish this additional BA at the same time as my Masters...mostly because of all the administrative BS that goes on in academia
2004 to 2006
University Of Northern Iowa
Cedar Falls, IA
Graduated: 2003
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: Education/Secondary Teaching Certification
Minor: Psychology, Sociology, Health
2002 to 2003
University Of Northern Iowa
Cedar Falls, IA
Graduated: N/A
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Master's Degree
Major: Clinical Psychology
Minor: Family & Relationship Therapy
2000 to 2001
University Of Northern Iowa
Cedar Falls, IA
Graduated: 1999
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: Psychology
Minor: Spanish
Glyconutrients have made an amazing, excellent, positive difference in the optimal health and wellness of so many people (myself included). They are the natural building blocks of how the body's cells communicate, repair, regulate, and give you your wellness, health, and healing. I cannot emphasize enough how vital this information is. If you do not feel that you are in the BEST health you could ever be, please research glycobiology and glyconutrients. Let me know if you'd like a few DVDs or further literature on the topic. If books are your thing, a good one to start with is: "The Healing Power of 8 Sugars" written by 21 doctors in various fields.
Glyconutrients are derived from plants (and are present in breast milk as well), however we only get 1-2 of these 8 essential nutrients in our modern diet. The best, most scientifically sound organization I have found that combines all 8 glyconutrients into 1 bioavailable product is Mannatech. This company also fully guarantees that individuals taking the glyconutrients will see a extreme, positive difference in their health within 6 months, or every penny is returned. And they have a phenomenal distribution setup so that anyone, no matter their income level, can receive glyconutrients for free each month.
I still have not met anyone who wasn't in significantly better health after starting glyconutrients - including family and friends dealing with MS, extreme fatigue, joint pain, arthritis, anxiety/depression, PCOS, fibromyalgia, PMS, allergies, autism, down's syndrome, diabetes, cancer, epilepsy, and other immune-suppressed states. Glyconutrition is a huge passion of mine because of people's lives I have seen dramatically changed.
ALWAYS KEEP PEOPLE IN YOUR LIFE WHO CHARGE YOUR BATTERY, NOT THOSE WHO DRAIN IT.
If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. ~ C. S. Lewis
Among Women, COURAGE is often mistaken for Insanity
If you are not outraged, you are not paying attention
God is Not an American
Feminism has fought no wars. It has killed no opponents. It has set up no concentration camps, starved no enemies, practiced no cruelties. Its battles have been for education, for the vote, for better working conditions...for safety on the streets...for child care, for social welfare...for rape crisis centers, women's refuges, reforms in the law. If someone says 'Oh, I'm not a feminist,' I ask 'Why? What's your problem?'"
- Dale Spender, author of
For the Record: The Making & Meaning of Feminist Knowledge, 1985
I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman. ~Anas Nin
If there is equality, it is in His love, not in us. ~C.S. Lewis
Because we are too short, too tall, too thin, too small of foot, too old, too young, too wide, & our pelvises are too narrow, too small, too untried, or unproven or the wrong shape, & our uteruses are too scarred, or pointing the wrong way, or we are too multiparous, too fertile, too infertile, too female, too small, too big, too fat, too emotional, too detached, too strong, too weak, too intelligent, too well designed to birth, not designed well enough, & our vaginas are too scarred, too unproven, not stretchy enough or too stretchy, & we're too inconvenient, too unpredictable, too demanding, too informed, too loud, too messy, & our bodies labour too long or not long enough, & our cervices don't dilate 1cm an hour on command & because when you hire a surgeon you get surgery & hospitals are for sick people…& for so many other reasons, we are part of the homebirth movement.-Janet Fraser
Who I'd like to meet: FUN FRESH PEOPLE...OLD FRIENDS... MICHEL ODENT, INA MAY GASKIN, MARSDEN WAGNER, CYNTHIA CAILLAGH, Any Homebirthin' Moms People with glyconutrient stories to tellHave you ever been
How's it goin, darlin? Are you still your beautiful round birth goddess self or are you holding your precious little one? I got a new tat yesterday I think you'd really like. Will send you the pic. Thinking of you. Love and blessings, Amy
Nice new default pic. LOL That's great! You look beautiful! HOw are you feeling? Are you completely done and bored with this whole pregnancy thing yet? When does your man go back? I'm just full-o questions. Thinking of you. (Pssst you could have your baby on my birthday tomorrow *wink*)
are we contracting yet? any concerns about meconium? =) i want a birth story. aaahhh..you are so awesome for waiting so long...i would be attacking my husband everyday. are you using evening primrose oil?
or if you're crazy like me you will give birth, have a MASSIVE post partum hemmorage, get up 5 hours later and post your birth pics on myspace with no blood left in your body and a newborn on your breast. =) i am however CRAZY.
ok i will know you are in labor or have had a baby when i see that you have not logged into myspace for a day or more. =) put me out of my misery soon k? it's all about me and my anticipation of your birth. haha, jk. sending prayers and birth energy your way friend.
is your midwife going to strip your membranes or do a foley-catheter to get things going or are we just going to wait for baby's sweet time? :) you are a trooper though if baby is still cooking in there...i was going crazy impatient on my due date with grace!!
