by Monica A. Coleman | Sep 26, 2011 | Blog, Monica's Blog, The Beautiful Mind Blog
I wanted to be pregnant if only for the possibility of helpful hormones. “Pregnancy is great for some women with depression,” my psychiatrist says. “The hormones can help.” I think of my women friends with depression who tell me that pregnancy nearly killed them. That...
by Monica A. Coleman | Sep 19, 2011 | Blog, Monica's Blog, The Beautiful Mind Blog
I grew up in a state of unionized workers. My mother was in a teachers’ union. My father worked for one of the “Big Three” automakers and UAW is an acronym every Michigander knows. Every year, there were talks of negotiations and talks of strikes. The only thing worse...
by Monica A. Coleman | Sep 14, 2011 | Blog, Monica's Blog, The Beautiful Mind Blog
My parents called it “talking back.” Some people call it “sassing.” It’s that willful behavior that children have when they just have to respond to what they’ve been told—sometimes with attitude, snarky upturn of lip or obvious petulance. The admonition not to “talk...
by Monica A. Coleman | Sep 12, 2011 | Monica's Blog, The Beautiful Mind Blog
A lot of religions consider blood to be an appropriate sacrifice to God or gods. Kill the fatted lamb, say scriptures in the Hebrew Bible. Lay the ram on the altar – instead of your son, God tells Abraham. Place the blood upon your doorposts, and the angel of death...
by Monica A. Coleman | Sep 8, 2011 | Blog, Monica's Blog, The Beautiful Mind Blog
I long became comfortable with bleeding. The Red Tent, Honoring Menstruation and Sacred Woman guided me into a healthy relationship with my womanhood, my womb and the cycles of the moon. I didn’t know what to do when I stopped bleeding. It felt like weeks before I got...
