![]() Rachel is contining her study in the scope of Bodywork for Children, currently enrolled in a BA Program at Maharishi University of Management for Ayurvedic Medicine and Integrative Medicine all while nuturing her new five month old baby boy. Rachel has been in practice for six years and owns her own Massage Therapy and Bodywork Practice for three. This is where she learned that through integrative medicines, nutritional support, meditation, and much dedication the body can heal itself outside the realm of standard allopathic care. Her passions run deep for Integrative Wellness much of which was inspired by her son’s journey through Tricuspid Atresia a congenital heart defect and Pediatric Medulloblastoma, a form childhood brain cancer. Rachel is a Licensed Massage Bodywork Therapist with a focus on Pediatrics, Structural integration, Thai massage, and Prenatal work. She is an innate empath, a wife to a superman of a husband and mother of five children. She is a lover of music, food, coffee & life. A Chicago Native, Rachel brings the great essence of the midwest to the south. Roth LMBT, CPMT is a woman who’s whole life is inspired by curiosity and love. (I’ve been there too.) Celebrate your muscle. Let yours be that of one that is sometimes dirty, creative, messy, full of love and laughter, connected with your partner, your children or celebrate your badassery of being a single mom. Not what the Joneses have… let that be their life. ![]() Do you have the clarity to take that on your own and take your time back? Create a life that YOU want your family to have. So this mom hustle that I speak of, MUSCLE. Children really need the most minimal of entertainment. Ditch the expensive stroller and for God’s sake let them walk and explore, or wear them. Stop doing extra, say no to playgroups and reconnect with your children. Let’s remember what moved us to have a family in the first place. My point here is have we so lost our way that we have been reduced to this commercialism parenting? TAKE IT BACK! Let’s focus on the needs of our family, THE FAMILY. How this is the culture that is missing in a “motherhood.” I later googled motherhood and shopping websites came up, SAD. One of my friends tended to me, one made lunch for the kids and the other sent my husband off to have a nap! The four of us woman sat and talked about that later. However, plot twist, there are people there to help. So picture this, your sick laid out with a 101.9 fever & 34 weeks preggo, your husband is down with a fever and you have four hungry children at lunchtime. It just so happened that it was on a weekend when a dear friend of mine was throwing a shower for our family and three of my closest friends were in town. Recently, our family was stricken with the flu. I have really come to think that “LABEL” moms destroy a culture that we strive to create as women, where we celebrate each other’s strengths and support one another’s needs- not how much time and money you have spent in the PTA or at playgroups or that your two-year-old is in dance and yoga. Just because your neighbor or a mom down the street has a top-shelf stroller does not make her an impeccable mother, nor does the newest Coach bag. See, I think this is where we go wrong as women. I have the incredible honor of living the life I created for myself and that I did not allow to be dictated by other people. I married my best friend, blended this beautiful family and I run a household. I am also, a mother to four beautiful children and pregnant with my fifth. Are you a mother? Do you hustle through your day trying to be all things to all people and have nothing left for yourself? First, I am a woman, I love music, free thought, I am a small business owner and a healer.
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