What are the components of healthy self-esteem?
What kind of parental attitudes help build self-esteem? What attitudes can be harmful to self-esteem?
What makes up a sense of security?
Why is self-knowledge so important?
One-of-a-kind, or just like everyone else?
Can adult expectations be harmful? Are they sometimes too extreme?
Is it important to belong to a group? What does it give us?
What is a sense of competency?
What are the qualities of a competent parent?
Is self-esteem the solution to every problem?
...and many other questions!
Stop listening to the horror stories.
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Find out how beautiful and powerful birth can be.
Discover the keys to planning your own positive birth - the best beginning to motherhood.
Birth Journeys is a diverse collection of 29 encouraging and inspiring birth stories by real women (and men).
It includes a wide range of birth experiences and choices: hospital, birth center, homebirth, unassisted birth, water birth, IVF, caesarean, VBAC and twins.
Some stories are warm and lighthearted, some are serene and peaceful, while others are a wild whirlwind experience.
Each story is positive, uplifting and empowering.
Birth Journeys also contains contributions from health care professionals, academics, birth educators and authors including Dr Sarah J Buckley, GP and author of Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering;
Hannah Dahlen, Associate Professor of Midwifery at the University of Western Sydney;
Renee Adair, founder and principal educator of the Australian Doula College;
Jane Hardwicke Collings, founder of the School of Shamanic Midwifery;
and David Vernon, editor of Men at Birth.
