Wonder Woman: The First Day on Earth
In our increasingly fragmented world, few pregnant women have ever seen (let alone attended) a birth when the time comes for their own child to be born. We are far removed from instinctual womanhood, developed and nurtured by having close women friends and family-members attend to one another in labour and birth. […]
Wonder Woman: Preparing For Baby
There must be an epidemic … within the first 10 weeks of this year, three major South African magazines ran substantial features on fertility. Worldwide, fertility specialists are saying that about 25% of all women, and a staggering 33% of women over 30 will have difficulty conceiving.
The Language of Destiny
“We defend ourselves with descriptions, and tame the world by generalising," wrote the prolific novelist, Dame Iris Murdoch. It’s so true, isn’t it? Most of us learned when we were quite little that some words would get us into trouble, and some would get us out of it.
Wonder Woman: Faster, Higher, Stronger
Citius, Altius, Fortius. Faster, higher, stronger: the motto of the modern Olympic games, and the ever-shifting goal of endurance sports. In different cultures, physical endurance has long been a symbol of spiritual commitment. From the Lenten fast and the sacred pilgrimage to the strenuous four-day long Sundance performed annually by many Native American people, so […]
When Love Comes To Town
Marriages, relationships, flirtations … put two or more women together for any length of time and here’s where the conversation leads: love. It’s as though we’re genetically programmed to talk about nothing else with as much hope, uncertainty – and frequency! And perhaps we are genetically programmed: As lovers and mothers we are archetypal […]
Womanhood
The gsport team has been discussing the introduction of a “Womanhood” column for several months, and I’m excited and honoured to be a conduit for what we hope will become a place of stirring questions and awakened possibilities in the months to come.
Inspiration
When last did you feel inspired? And can you create inspiration within yourself rather than waiting – and hoping it’ll descend, lightning-like, into your life from an outside source?