A Womb With A View

12/21/2025

Happy Holidays!

12/20/2025

🕯️ Mother’s Night 🕯️

Mother’s Night is the sacred night that falls on the eve of Yule, steeped in deep ancestral memory and feminine power. It is the night we honor our Mothers - ancestral spirits, matriarchs, and divine feminine forces who guard lineage, fate, and home. Those who have watched over us and helped us in our times of need. It is a night of stillness, mystery, and reverence, when the veil feels especially thin, and the old wisdom stirs.

Mother’s Night also marks a turning inward. The darkness has reached its peak, and the world pauses in breathless quiet before the return of the light. This is not a night for outward celebration, but for reflection, remembrance, and honoring what has carried us through the long year.

Candles are lit in silence, offerings are made, and prayers are whispered to those who came before, especially the women whose lives, labor, and love shaped the path beneath our feet.

Mother’s Night holds the womb-space of the year. It is the sacred pause between ending and beginning, where intentions are not yet spoken aloud but are gently formed in the heart. Grief, gratitude, and hope are all welcome here. Nothing needs to be fixed or decided. Simply being present is enough.

As the final night before Yule’s rebirth, Mother’s Night reminds us that light is born from darkness, strength is rooted in lineage, and transformation begins in quiet devotion. It is a night to honor where you come from and to trust what is quietly growing within you.

12/19/2025

12/18/2025

🍁 Ontario has passed Bill 6 and Bill 223 - laws that make the toxic drug crisis even deadlier.

Bill 6 expands police powers to target, displace, and arrest people for suspected drug use outdoors. Bill 223 threatens supervised consumption sites - the very places people rely on to stay alive.

✨These laws put lives at risk. Indigenous people who use drugs, especially Indigenous women, will face the greatest harms. People who use drugs have rights, and these laws violate them.

Take action now: Send a letter to Ontario’s government to repeal Bill 6 & Bill 223 and invest in community-led harm reduction.
🔗amnesty.ca/human-rights-news/ontario-bill-6-and-bill-223-public-safety

Your voice matters - public pressure can stop policies that punish survival.

12/18/2025

This is a privileged, blinkered, and shame-based view.
That claim leaves out the core issue. These aren’t just personal habits. They’re states of being that depend on a nervous system with enough safety, steadiness, and margin to access them.

Movement costs nothing, but when a body has been pushed past its limits or is carrying too much survival adaptation, movement isn’t simple.

Sleep isn’t a purchase, but in a culture built on overwork and threat vigilance, sleep doesn’t arrive on command.

Sunlight is free, but getting outside requires time, stability, and a body that isn’t in shutdown.

Breath practices don’t cost money, but they depend on a system that isn’t bracing for the next hit.

Community doesn’t require a fee, but the domination hierarchy strips people of connection, time, and energy, then tells them to fix it alone.

The basics of human thriving aren’t expensive, but the conditions that allow us to access them have been undermined by the structures and systems that profit from our depletion. This isn’t personal failure. It’s a reflection of how hard it is to reconnect with what’s natural when the culture keeps pulling us into survival mode.

12/18/2025

Your story matters. And learning to share it can be a powerful step toward connection and healing.

On December 21, MSTH welcomes David Sheffield for a virtual session on Everyday Storytelling. A space where lived experience, creativity, and community come together.

Everyone is welcome.
Register today at: https://www.momsstoptheharm.com/events/2025/9/15/msth-connects-everyday-storytelling

12/17/2025

So frustrating how some programs designed to support individuals with disabilities lack the knowledge to build the infrastructure needed to make them work. I started the process to finalize a Registered Disability Savings Plan for my daughter back in October. Two months later, we’re hitting a roadblock that shouldn’t be here! The assumption seems to be that everyone with a disability has the same capacity, independence, digital literacy, and executive function to complete every step. With just two weeks left in the year, I may have to pause this, and look for another person. It shouldn’t be this difficult!

Sadly, this is just another day in our world. This is an example of something on the Caregivers Wish List I posted the other day: #4 Help that doesn’t create more work.

As always though, my daughter lightened the load. She randomly asked me if I’m looking forward to Christmas… (because she sure is)! I laughed, said I’m trying, but wondered if my survival navigating bureaucracy counts as a holiday win.

12/16/2025

12/15/2025

Today I am officially 13 years sober! ❤️ I’ve never felt so high in all my life! I did drugs from age 11-23! So young! I almost died of drug addiction as a teenager and in my early twenties... I am so so happy to be alive. Happy to be free from the poisons of colonization!

We need no mind altering chemicals to do what we came to Earth to do! We only need the mind the Creator gave us! It is enough!

When you find it hard to put down the drugs or the alcohol, just remember that it isn’t just for you, it’s for all the people who need you and are going to need you.

YOU are medicine, just like me. And that medicine can only shine clear and true— like a solid note from a flute—when the vessel is free from the crap and clutter of chemicals. So sing your song! Sing it loud! Love yourself! Be you!

And remember that getting sober is not only an act of self-preservation, it is an act of preserving your vessel and spirit on Earth so that it can continue to FIGHT for Creator here. You are only on Earth for a short time... make it count!

You are a warrior for the Creator, that is why the other side has beat you up so bad. Indeed it has tried to kill you. Kill your spirit. It knows what you’re capable of when you put all the drugs down and dust yourself off. It doesn’t want that! It has been trying all your life to kick you down.

But you were not born to lay on the ground. You were born to stand and fight. To fight because you are a warrior for the Creator, with love and peace and courage and faith and service as your “weapons”.

So just remember, the children need you, the earth needs you, THE PEOPLE need you. Things need you that you don’t even know need you yet. But you will know when you connect to Creator and remember all that you are.

These things are worth fighting for. They are worth being sober for. So fight on warrior, and never stop!

It took me three years of standing up and falling back down before I finally kicked the drugs and alcohol for good. Sometimes you just have to keep praying for help.

You only need food, and clean water, and the love in your heart. What a liberating truth that is.

12/15/2025

"A new report from Canada’s Federal Housing Advocate says homelessness is deepening in Cambridge amid active hostility from municipal leaders, limited services and systemic barriers to build supportive housing"

12/15/2025

One short enews sent! Today was 90% rest - but by 18:30 I started to feel a bit alive again. So I sent out a stickman communications enews (the last task I had to do this week). Now I'll get a hot drink and a snack, and curl up in my recharge nest again. I need to get beyond 'just about ok' if I can!
(The enews is here if you are interested https://www.stickmancommunications.co.uk/so/c3PiJr05t?languageTag=en )