Be Wild and Free

Wow! I feel like it has been an eternity since I sat down and wrote a blog post. Life has been crazy lately... But I'll get into all of that in another blog post that I plan to publish sometime next month.  For now, we talk about Work Doula Week! March 22-28, 2017 is marked as World Doula Week and its purpose is empower doulas all over the world to improve the physiological, social, emotional, and psychological health of women, newborns and families in birth and in the postpartum period.  We are celebrating doulas all over the world this week! The word “doula” first used in an article published in 1969 by Dr. Dana Raphael, a medical anthropologist who believed in the need for female companions to guide mothers through pregnancy, birth, and postpartum. In the midst of their research on maternal-infant bonding, Drs. Marshall Klaus and John Kennell verified the benefit of labor support. They first published an article documenting these benefits in the New England Journal of Medic...

The loss of a loved one is never an easy journey to travel and no two losses are ever the same. In our case; he was a daddy, he was a husband.  October 15, 2015 began just like any other day in the Sloan household. Except for the fact that the heart of our family was in the Wyoming Mountains with 9 of his cousins, uncles and/or family friends. They were enjoying day 6 of their hunting trip searching for the biggest Elk and/or Mule Deer they could find.  To keep some normalcy in the house, I woke up at the same time Ben typically woke for work and I made a pot of coffee. I wasn't even much of a coffee drinker, but I was missing my husband so much after 6 days of not hugging or kissing him and after 3 days of not hearing his voice. I poured some coffee that morning and sat down at the computer to pay bills and finalize my meal plan list; just as I did every single Thursday morning before. I was excited because we had finally made the last payment on a credit card we had to charg...