Category: mental health

• Boundaries

  

  I never knew of boundaries when I was younger.  That word didn’t really exist in my vocabulary.  Our family, and close knit community, was seemingly nonchalant and carefree about boundaries (or lack thereof). In fact, I’m not sure I even heard that word (used in such a context) until I was in my 20’s and…

  Sami Zabner

  September 12, 2022

  art, body acceptance, empowerment, expression, mental health, woman, yoga

  anxiety, birth, breathe, death, depression, duality, earth, expression, iamwoman, life, mental health, motherhood, movement, nature, poetry, postpartum, pregnancy, rebirth, relatable, respect, rough, woman, woman poetry, womanhood

• Alternative storytelling #8

  

  In all honesty, I am speechless when it comes to trees. Enjoy these pictures of trees in the Pacific Northwest & happy Sunday. **all photos were taken by me**View post to subscribe to site newsletter.

  Sami Zabner

  September 11, 2022

  animals, empowerment, expression, kindness, mental health, nature, ocean, photography, plants, rocks, sun, trees

  animals, anxiety, arboretum, big giants, blogging, death, depression, duality, earth, green, life, mental health, natural, nature, Oregon, photo, photographs, photography, photos, pnw, poetry, redwood, rocks, rough, snow, soft, terrain, texture, tree, tree lover, trees

• Alternative storytelling #7

  

  Rocky terrain. **all photos were taken by me**View post to subscribe to site newsletter.

  Sami Zabner

  September 10, 2022

  animals, art, empowerment, expression, kindness, mental health, nature, ocean, photography, plants, rocks, wolf

  anxiety, death, depression, duality, earth, edges, green, poetry, landscapes, mental health, mountains, mycology, natural, nature, ocean, photo, photographs, photography, photos, plants, respect, rocks, rocky, rough, soft, terrain, texture

• Life after birth

  

  When people talk about their birth story occasionally you’ll hear a resentful tone in their voice. They might speak of their labor being too long, or maybe there were too many interventions for their liking, or it was too painful, or the epidural didn’t take, or the Pitocin made it too intense, and the list…

  Sami Zabner

  September 8, 2022

  2019, 2020, 2022, art, birth, body acceptance, breastfeeding, empowerment, expression, mental health, motherhood, nature, woman

  2019, 2020, 2022, animals, anxiety, birth, blogging, breath, breathe, daughter, death, depression, duality, earth, emotional, emotions, fire, horse, iamwoman, kind, kindness, labor, labyrinth, life, mama, mental health, motherhood, movement, mushrooms, nature, passion, photography, plants, poetry, postpartum, pregnancy, rebirth, relatable, release, story, travel, twloha, woman, woman poetry, womanhood, yoga

• My daughters birthday

  

  Throughout the pregnancy, I swore she was going to come earlier than her guess date of September 6. Clearly this was just what I wanted since I had no actual way of knowing that. The closer that day came, the more the anticipation grew. Almost to the point of becoming disappointed that I was so…

  Sami Zabner

  September 7, 2022

  birth, breastfeeding, empowerment, mental health, motherhood, woman

  2022, anxiety, birth, blogging, breastfeeding, breathe, daughter, death, depression, duality, emotional, emotions, iamwoman, kindness, life, mama, mental health, motherhood, movement, passion, postpartum, pregnancy, rebirth, relatable, story, woman, woman poetry, womanhood

• Weaning

  

  Postpartum – It literally translates to “following childbirth”, which means postpartum never ends.  After I gave birth I experienced a range of emotions, anxieties, and turbulence. Mostly because of the transition into motherhood but also because of a rocky relationship and no solid foundation. All of which came together and created some really choppy waves…

  Sami Zabner

  September 6, 2022

  2022, birth, breastfeeding, mental health, motherhood, woman

  2019, 2022, anxiety, birth, blogging, breastfeeding, depression, emotional, iamwoman, labor, mama, mental health, motherhood, movement, postpartum, pregnancy, rebirth, relatable, release, twloha, woman, woman poetry, womanhood, yoga

• First latch

  

  She latched with hardly any help that morning she was put on my chest, almost as if she entered this world with a mission to find momma’s milk.  Everyday we had our time together. That moment where I turn to her to empty my breasts and she turns to me looking for food. We got…

  Sami Zabner

  September 5, 2022

  2019, birth, body acceptance, breastfeeding, empowerment, mental health, motherhood, woman, yoga

  2022, anxiety, birth, breastfeeding, daughter, depression, emotions, labor, mama, mental health, motherhood, movement, poetry, postpartum, pregnancy, rebirth, story, woman, woman poetry, womanhood, yoga

• Alternative storytelling #6

  

  The ocean series.View post to subscribe to site newsletter.

  Sami Zabner

  September 4, 2022

  animals, art, empowerment, expression, mental health, nature, ocean, photography, rescueanimals, sun

  animals, anxiety, blogging, depression, duality, earth, life, mental health, movement, nature, ocean, ocean animals, photographs, photography, photos, poetry, woman poetry

• Alternative storytelling #5

  

  When you touch the earth..View post to subscribe to site newsletter.

  Sami Zabner

  September 3, 2022

  2020, animals, birth, empowerment, kindness, mental health, nature, ocean, photography, plants, woman

  animals, bones, death, depression, earth, emotional, green, mental health, mushrooms, mycology, natural, nature, photo, photographs, photography, plants, poetry, rebirth, respect

• Unbecoming

  

  When you look into the eyes of a laboring woman, it’s hard to recognize the woman you once knew. There’s an absent gaze of desperation that comes in the middle of a contraction. With that you know the woman is traveling in between realms, bouncing from reality into laborland and back again. She’s fearful, hopeful,…

  Sami Zabner

  September 2, 2022

  2019, 2020, 2022, birth, mental health, motherhood, woman

  2020, anxiety, birth, blogging, depression, emotional, emotions, labor, mama, mental health, motherhood, movement, postpartum, pregnancy, rebirth, relatable, story, woman, woman poetry, womanhood, yoga