Mental Health

If you want to maximize the chances of your being fertile through the all-natural way, traditional Chinese medicine can help you a lot. In a seminar held in Brooklyn, New Yark, Alexander Goldberg,who is an acupuncturist and natural fertility specialist, emphasized the role of traditional Chinese medicines (TCM) in reversing …

If you have been trying to lose weight you will have most likely figured out something by now. Weight loss is not purely physical, there is a massive mental component involved in this process too. Let’s face it, losing weight is not easy is it? What I have personally encountered …

One of the greatest feelings for a mother is to keep her baby close to her heart and in sight always. We carry our babies in the womb for nine long months and know that they are warm and safe in there. But, once born, the little child has to let …

During the last two weeks I have read numerous articles on mums who have testified on how they have worked out mental and other methods of taking care of themselves, before working their bodies into oblivion, taking care of their children, husbands and households. It got me thinking about, well …

It is an undisputed fact that we are can only be born and die once, but being a woman seems to have multiple layers of newness and beginnings. We are constantly evolving as women. Our approach, interpretation and understanding of the world is totally different from that of men. We are …

Here I am. I’m lying in the grass and my mouth tastes of mud. It isn’t raining so the mud must be from the tears. I have so much pain all over my body from tensing my muscles and my throat hurts from screaming into the dirt. I can hear …

Ok so let’s just get it out there and say the word out loud that nobody is comfortable saying out loud… Sex. Let’s not get stupid here, we’ve all had it and hopefully we all still are too. It’s not like sex is a swear word. Let’s push it a …

I hope you all had a great Easter holiday! I had a great one, but I found all those Easter eggs adding to this mum tum and it was the final straw for me. Being a naturally skinny person I now find myself with this flabby, stretch marked tummy and …

Another milestone: today I am 5 years clean and I am not ashamed to say I am an alcoholic and an addict. I cannot believe how my life has changed in the last 5 years. I would like to say a special thank you to everyone in my journey, especially …

Enuresis is better known as bedwetting.  A diagnosis can only be made at the age of 5 years when a child should be toilet trained and is chronologically of the age where the child is able to control the bladder.  Provided by this age no diagnosis was made where any …

Hi, my name is Lynne and I’m an alcoholic and addict. I have said those words so many times in meetings and in rehab that sometimes now when I meet someone I often almost automatically blurt this out! For a very long time I was resentful and angry because I …

I wonder how other moms find this elusive balance and the answer came to me about 2 weeks back when I had a private message on the Kaboutjie facebook page from a mom. She was writing to me personally to ask me how I balance being a mom, working, being …

Did I suffer from Post Natal Depression or was it Baby Blues? To be honest I will never really know, but I think I suffered from PND for the first 6 months after the birth of my baby girl. All I can tell you is my story and what I …

I hope that this little story of my post natal depression helps someone out there. I want you to realize that PND is not a myth, its not something people are faking, its very real and its very horrible. My name is Lee-Ann and it took me 3 pregnancies to …