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Dr Karishma Stretton
May 8, 20221 min read
HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY
A Mother’s Day Reflection Over the past few years we have witnessed a magnification of the challenges of motherhood. As mothers we faced...
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Dr Karishma Stretton
Nov 22, 20214 min read
SLEEP GLORIOUS SLEEP - 8 Ways to Improve Your Slumber
As we all know, it has been a period of great stress over the past few years for almost the entirety of planet Earth. Our once carefully...
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Dr Karishma Stretton
Aug 30, 20213 min read
LETTING GO ON OUR PARENTING JOURNEY
Detachment is the beginning of mastery. Sri Aurobindo Parenting is a spiritual journey, and children are our spiritual teachers. An...
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Dr Karishma Stretton
Aug 22, 20213 min read
CONNECTING WITH YOUR CHILDREN
'Being heard is so close to being loved that for the average person they are almost indistinguishable.' David W. Augsburger We created a...
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Dr Karishma Stretton
Aug 14, 20213 min read
DELAYED CORD CLAMPING
A recent scientific article has brought to our attention what most women innately knew was true - that is that delaying cord clamping can...
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Dr Karishma Stretton
Aug 9, 20212 min read
SCHEDULED DISCOMFORT
'As children develop, their brains 'mirror' their parent's brain. In other words, the parent's own growth and development, or lack of...
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Dr Karishma Stretton
Jul 30, 20213 min read
BORED CHILD? CELEBRATE!
'When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting' Jon Kabat-Zinn It is without doubt that our children are growing up...
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Dr Karishma Stretton
Jul 28, 20212 min read
EXHALE
It is incredible to think that is it is the movement of air that gives us life. It is the first thing we do when we are born, and it is...
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Dr Karishma Stretton
Jul 4, 20211 min read
RETURN TO NATURE
'You and the tree in your backyard come from a common ancestor. A billion and a half years ago, the two of you parted ways. But even now,...
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Dr Karishma Stretton
Jun 30, 20211 min read
MY WISH FOR ALL PARENTS
The complexity of our lives is one of a few reasons why we have become disconnected from our inner wisdom of how to parent. We need to...
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Dr Karishma Stretton
Feb 23, 20212 min read
PORTRAIT MODE
My youngest daughter one day made an interesting observation. ‘Mama when we focus on something everything around it becomes blurry, our...
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Dr Karishma Stretton
Feb 6, 20191 min read
THE RELEVANCE OF PARENTING
We need to look at the importance of parenting consciously from the perspective of humanity as a collective entity. We should not view...
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Dr Karishma Stretton
Jan 30, 20192 min read
MIRROR MIRROR
I heard a person once say that, ‘the only place I need look to make my child a better person is inside myself.’ Of course a statement of...
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Dr Karishma Stretton
Jan 26, 20191 min read
PARENTING WITH PRESENCE
Have you acknowledged your child today, by taking time to give them your full attention? We dedicate so much of our lives addressing the...
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Dr Karishma Stretton
Jan 7, 20192 min read
TEACH LOVE
Happy New Year. With the arrival of a new year, we are given the opportunity to reflect on the year that has passed, and approach the...
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Dr Karishma Stretton
Oct 31, 20189 min read
THE TRANSFORMATIVE POWER OF PAIN IN CHILDBIRTH
The way in which we bring human life into this world is experienced in a multitude of different ways. Women naturally make their choices...
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Dr Karishma Stretton
Oct 15, 20186 min read
BIOLOGICAL EXPECTATIONS – A RETURN TO AN ETERNAL TRUTH
The environment in which we now exist is so foreign to the biological expectations that we are embedded with genetically as babies. The...
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Dr Karishma Stretton
Sep 7, 20182 min read
CONGEE FOR ORAL REHYDRATION
Congee, also known as rice porridge, is an Eastern traditional food that has been used for centuries in many countries of the world....
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Dr Karishma Stretton
Sep 3, 20184 min read
THE POWER OF SURRENDER
‘Surrender to what is. Let go of what was. Have faith in what will be.’ Sonia Ricotti The process of pregnancy, birth and motherhood has...
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Dr Karishma Stretton
Aug 16, 20183 min read
RE-EMERGENCE OF THE DIVINE FEMININE
There is a palpable shift in the way in which women perceive their mind, body and spirit. We are witnessing a returning to home. Women...
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