by maharanifaleiro | May 29, 2025 | Being Human, Birth, Community, Pregnancy and Infant Loss
“A baby fills a place in your heart you never knew was empty.” Anonymous A young mother-to-be asked to join a Motherhood Group that I facilitated. She had just found out she was pregnant and wanted to be with other mothers and learn from her sisters. ...
by maharanifaleiro | Dec 11, 2024 | My Journey, My Story, Society, Womb & Cycles
The word menopause causes even greater cringing and shame than menstruation. Collage by Maharani Faleiro 4 years ago, I was 49 when I honored my transition into Menopause, a lion-hearted transition, Menopause was preceded by PeriMenopause & followed by...
by maharanifaleiro | Dec 11, 2024 | Womb & Cycles
Menarche could be a bold-hearted transition from girlhood to womanhood. Image by Shamana Seery And yet… It is the first silencing and first taste of invisibility. The blood must remain invisible. The change is a curse. Society pretends we don’t bleed, and we...
by maharanifaleiro | Dec 11, 2024 | Birth, Womb & Cycles
Motherhood is a life-altering, heart-opening experience. Image by @spiritysol on Instagram Who celebrates the maiden as she transitions into motherhood? Who holds the mother when she is newly born? The vulnerability of the open-heart is vast. The responsibility of the...
by maharanifaleiro | Dec 11, 2024 | Emotional Intelligence, Intergenerational Trauma, Society
Personally, I have found naming and acknowledging ancestral trauma somehow "sets it free". I suppose the respectful and compassionate validation of the inhumane, unjust, unimaginable experience somehow breaks the "spell". What Is Trauma? Image by...
by maharanifaleiro | Dec 11, 2024 | Being Human, Emotional Intelligence
If anger is the deepest form of compassion, then what is hate ? Collage by Maharani Faleiro Of all the feelings humans experience, hate is most reviled. So much so, that we suppress, repress, forbid it’s expression. It is that powerful and that destructive. Yet...
