ReMothering with Clara Belize Wisner

Last night, I saw a male spiritual teacher’s post that stated: “fat people are untrustworthy.” He went on to claim that because excess weight is a result of “unmetabolized trauma” and “emotional numbing” fat people are avoiding “a necessary transformational crucible” (that would result in weight loss; I am assuming).  On one hand; I partially agree. Not that fat people are untrustworthy, but what...

It’s really interesting that as I prepare to hold a retreat experience called VILLAGE, I am being called deep into my wound of aloneness. From the outside, I’m not sure I look like someone who has a core wound of aloneness.  I have community, family, friends and, for the most part, function quite well socially.  However, for some of us who have the wound of aloneness being socially adept has been...

I awoke this morning after just 5 hours of sleep unable to fall back into a peaceful slumber. The stars were calling me.  Some people might call this anxiety, but I have come to know it as purely energy that wants my attention. It is just a little buried underneath the static layer of daily tasks and to do’s.  I am holding so much.  I am carrying so much.  We are all holding so much.  This is not...

Over the past few weeks, I have been in some deep portals of healing personally.  Whenever I hold a new frequency in service, like my VILLAGE retreat that I’ve been promoting, I am simultaneously served the medicine of it. The places in my life where I am not in integrity with the lessons and energy within the offering will be highlighted and I will have a chance to work with them more deeply. Whe...

There are a few threads that have been really present in my awareness lately:  * The metabolic health crisis we are currently experiencing in the US and a lot of western countries.  * The importance of reverence for family as a key to humanity’s legacy.  * Healing as the expansion of our range of consciousness These three things have been swirling around me non stop for the last month. It seems li...

As my girls get older and we move further away from that tender, tender infancy phase, to the phase where they can communicate, entertain themselves a bit, and generally need less from me, I am struck by how much less time we have together.  I am struck by how the days fly by and blur.. ..how leaving them overnight has become a little less heart wrenching …how I work 8 hours days largely without s...

Hello loves, This is very special and near and dear to my heart email because I’m releasing a podcast I recorded with my husband during the celebration of our 10 year wedding anniversary! We told the story of our relationship (highlights and lowlights) as well as answered the audience questions I asked for a couple weeks ago. You can listen to it, or you’re also welcome to watch the video of us ri...

Hello love, I’ve been talking a lot about family embodiment, intentional parenting and partnership, divine union on a practical level, orienting to feminine nourishment as a family, and the right relationship between the Masculine and Feminine over on my instagram stories today. I've put a call out to my community to ask questions about these topics via this link (it’s totally anonymous if that ma...

This piece has been percolating for a long time. I’ve been in active, conscious, non extractive participation with my creative process long enough that I know better than to rush something that is percolating and gestating. But I’ve been watching this one take form. When something wants to be created through me it starts to circle me. I’ll be shown other pieces of writing, conversations with frien...

This last week I’ve been on what I am calling my “body love vacation.” I took 6 nights to simply be with my body and listen. The amount my body has changed and been through in the last 5 years is really mind blowing. Two pregnancies and fully natural physiological births, co-sleeping with babies and toddlers, four years and counting of breastfeeding, gaining 80lbs over the course of this, complete...

The programming to be a good person runs deep. Our parents were programmed and they programmed us with things like “Be polite!” “Be nice!” “Include everyone!” “Don’t stare!”  In my childhood and even still in a lot of ways, it’s, “Don’t be so opinionated, big, inconvenient, needy.” “Don’t take up so much space.” “Don’t be so assured of yourself.” “You don’t know what you’re talking about.” “How ca...

I wrote the lower part of this quickly on my instagram stories yesterday during the times I had to wait for the dentist to come in and check me at my appointment. I like to share how real-life my expression is. I am deeply committed to cultivating my creativity daily. I journal pages and pages. I record voice notes to myself in the car. I write plenty of things that never get published. I am alway...

For me every day is earth day. She is my greatest comfort and my greatest inspiration. We are all cells within the being that is Gaia. This may sound woo woo or esoteric but to me it actually feels like the real-est thing I’ve ever known.  She is our Mother. We are her children. The very matter of our being made of the same star stuff that She is.  Her beauty is our beauty.  Her waters our waters....

* I shared this on Instagram a couple days ago and am resharing here because it’s gotten a lot of action and I’m announcing a free class I’m teaching tomorrow. I got a question from a follower yesterday, “why are we still fat when we eat well and move our bodies?” This question has been the source of so much inspiration for me since yesterday because it’s actually a question I have been asking mys...

Current beauty trends strike me as some of the best examples of the collective’s loss of the ability to think from a place of commonsense.  Someone who is willing to inject their body with “fillers” or poisonous substances on a regular basis or slice into their precious tissue for any reason that isn’t life threatening, strikes me as someone who either cannot listen to their body or is willingly a...

Today is the day we know as Easter. I suspect if you’re following me here; it isn’t news to you that most of the collective symbols of Easter and possibly even the resurrection story itself, stem from pre-monotheistic religion or pagan rituals and iconography.  The Easter egg? A pagan sign of fertility and rebirth.  The Easter bunny? A pagan sign of prolific fertility, similar to that of rabbits. ...

I want to tease out some concepts around “listening to your body” and what that actually means.  I am a proponent of listening to your body. All of my work with my clients and my students revolves around teaching people to listen to their bodies.  In my nutrition work I guide people into a relationship with their food and nourishment that is self lead and oriented from the inside out. I don’t give...

*I have been writing daily posts on my instagram sharing what I am deeply grateful for in my life as a 30 day practice for a program I am in. This particular post just wanted to be way longer than instagram can hold so I’m sharing it as an article on here. The journey I have been on with my body and movement is a long one.  My body is and always will be my most potent teacher.  I have always been...

For the last 2 weeks I have been in a forced pause because I’ve been sick and my kids have been sick. A part of my mind really did not like this. I am smack dab in the middle of promoting one of the highest stakes things I’ve ever promoted, my retreat SAVOR, and I have been left exhausted, plagued by brain fog, and unable to get myself up on the floor.  But, today, I started to feel my energy come...

We have been programmed to believe that our bodies are not to be trusted.  We collectively believe our bodies are fickle, prone to break and get sick, full of unruly needs for food, rest, and sex. We collectively believe we need to default to someone else to tell us what is wrong with us and what we should do about it.  If we are constantly exhausted it couldn’t possibly be as simple as we need re...

What is required for you to live from a place of overflow? For you to be fed, full, nourished? What would you need to feel like you had the capacity to be generous with your love and your being? I guarantee it’s a lot more than you think or want to admit. If you think sneaking in a hot bath on a Sunday while your husband takes the kids to the park or getting a yearly massage with a gift card your...

A woman in her true power is a woman in her sex. For a woman, these two things cannot be separated. True power is not domination or force, it is innate. It is the thing that just is. In this sense, my power doesn’t diminish your power. Me becoming more powerful does not mean you need to become less powerful. In fact, in this way of interpreting power, me being more powerful may actually invite out...

Responsibility is a word that typically can send people in one of two directions:  * Victimization/Resentment: Responsibility takes something from me. I resent how much I have to hold. I feel bitter about the amount of responsibilities I have. * Self-Punishment/Martyrdom - I need/should/have to do this. I need/should/have to be responsible here. Even though a part of me doesn’t want to, I have to...

I have been taking my time processing what is happening in the world right now. I have been taking in what I can while staying grounded and rooted. I’ve been in a pressure cooker of personal stuff and intense emotional waves for the last couple weeks, as I know a lot of people are. As a person who is not Jewish and does not have any personal ties to Israel or Palestine it can be easy to tell mysel...

In the spaces I hang out in, there is this kind of return back to traditional ways of living. Some examples are: growing your food, raising your own meat and eggs, valuing local food, building tight knit community, birthing babies at home with midwife or free birthing, spending more time with your babies and resting postpartum, valuing motherhood, breastfeeding and extended breastfeeding, taking c...