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I am the bird in the cage plucking out my feathers
So as the rest of the world is trying to speed up every moment I am trying to slow it all down. As many are readily inviting digital and AI and instant hot water taps and robot typed messages and automatic everything, I am inviting analogue and using my brain and waiting for the kettle to boil and letters and manual everything.
Carly Chandler-Morris
Jul 294 min read
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A Scandinavian Inspired Unschooling Winter of Farming
Farming with my child in tow was dreamy in the summer and autumn last year but as it started turning cold and went and windy towards the end
Carly Chandler-Morris
Mar 61 min read
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Beware the Trappings of Domesticated Womanhood
When our hair is straightened smooth it stops us dancing in the rain,
And with our lashes painted black we hold back tears and hide the pain
Carly Chandler-Morris
Dec 8, 20241 min read
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Baby Sensory - Enrichment for Captive Babies
It's just that I've come to see these things for what they are - enrichment for captive babies.
That's not me saying that we've made our ba
Carly Chandler-Morris
Jun 26, 20245 min read
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Bringing Children Back into Society
As I move about my day running errands and catching up with friends we're often the only mother toddler dyad I see.
Carly Chandler-Morris
May 31, 20244 min read
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Where are the Wild Children?
Humans spend so much time fighting for threatened species without realising that WE are a threatened species. How many wilder humans are the
Carly Chandler-Morris
May 9, 20243 min read
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It's Still Not Safe For Women To Feel It All
Last week I was setting up the central altar for our Wild Woman Yoga class. I popped on a playlist and found myself dancing, singing and...
Carly Chandler-Morris
Mar 5, 20242 min read
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Healing Through Homemaking
I adore a good book. I could write a bibliography of my life through books. I love the journey they take you on, the way they make you...
Carly Chandler-Morris
Feb 5, 20244 min read
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Rewilding sleep - how modern baby, toddler and teen sleep advice is affecting our mental health
I have never thought about, talked about or longed for sleep more than I do these days. Other than a brief period of calorie deficiency...
Carly Chandler-Morris
Jan 8, 20244 min read
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I can't 'just be' is there something wrong with me? An alternate view of the holy grail of wellness
Hey loves, I'd love to unpack a mindfulness concept in the context of... yes you guessed it... anthropology. 'Non-doing', 'just being'......
Carly Chandler-Morris
Dec 18, 20232 min read
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Is gentle parenting the domesticated version of natural parenting?
Books have been an incredible way for me to undo cultural and familial conditioning and reconnect to the parent I truly want to be. I...
Carly Chandler-Morris
Dec 7, 20234 min read
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Healing by returning to our natural home
The benefits of being in nature are many... Standing barefoot on the earth reduces inflammation, stabilises our blood glucose and...
Carly Chandler-Morris
Nov 1, 20232 min read
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Rewilding practices for families
Motherhood is one of the most contentious things to write about and I've mostly avoided it until now but I've come to see that it's...
Carly Chandler-Morris
Oct 23, 202312 min read
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You can trust the growing pains of your transformation
The moon waxes into light as effortlessly as she surrendered to the darkness that came before. She has done this countless times before...
Carly Chandler-Morris
Sep 8, 20212 min read
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