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Jennifer Boire Patient Expert

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Through my blogs www.msmenopause.blogspot.com and www.questinggirl.blogspot.com I hope to reach out to women who are looking for an alternative to a strictly medical approach to women's health and the menstrual cycle in particular. Middle age is the best time of life, but it seems like menopause... Full Bio
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Burying the dead twice by Jennifer Boire Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Women's Health unlocks emotions tucked away stuns the feet into stumbling along with no understanding. Normal gets lost when the other half is gone, one side of your body g ... Read on »
A Thousand Kisses Deep by Jennifer Boire Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Women's Health Don't you love Leonard Cohen's voice? so deep and passionate, so wise and admitting of vulnerability. Hearing a poem read is So much better.... This one,just found on ... Read on »
Song for the Heart: Mount Royal Park by Jennifer Boire Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Women's Health Tonight I call to my heart to return, to give flesh to the dry beanlike thing in its place. I dance looking out over the mountain at dusk, smal ... Read on »
Inspiring quote for today by Jennifer Boire Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Women's Health The boat I travel in is called Surrender. My two oars are instant forgiveness and gratitude — complete gratitude for the gift of life. I am thankful for the experience ... Read on »
The Real Work by Jennifer Boire Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Women's Health It may be that when we no longer know what to do we have come to our real work, And that when we no longer know which way to go we have come to our real jour ... Read on »
Here by Grace Paley by Jennifer Boire Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Women's Health Here I am in the garden laughing an old woman with heavy breasts and a nicely mapped face how did this happen well that's who I wanted to be at last   a wom ... Read on »
Empowering Quotes by Jennifer Boire Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Women's Health "Once you become aware of what stands in your way and become willing to release it, you signal the universe that you are ready to manifest the life you were meant to live." ... Read on »
Mother Daughter poems by Jennifer Boire Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Women's Health the daughters of alcoholics We are made able we are always stable we do not drink from deep in the darkness our souls shine phosphor ... Read on »
Desiderata by Jennifer Boire Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Women's Health Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with ... Read on »
You Learn by Jorge Luis Borges by Jennifer Boire Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Women's Health After a while you learn the subtle difference Between holding a hand and chaining a soul, And you learn that love doesn't mean leaning And compan ... Read on »
Poem for Spring Flowers by Jennifer Boire Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Women's Health April by James Schuyler The morning sky is clouding up and what is that tree, dressed up in white? The fruit tree, French pear. Sulphur- yellow bees stud the f ... Read on »
Poem for Women's Day by Jennifer Boire Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Women's Health Imagine a Woman II Imagine a woman who is interested in her own life. A woman who embraces her life as teacher, healer, and challenge. Who is grateful for the ordi ... Read on »
Meeting my Own Grief by Jennifer Boire Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Women's Health Meeting my grief, even if only halfway, sucks the breath right out of my lungs. Suddenly my bra is too tight. My counselor said, look at ... Read on »
Conversations with God by Jennifer Boire Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Women's Health Love this book. Here's an excerpt I particularly like: "The most loving person is the person who is self-centered. People think, "If I can just love others, ... Read on »
Keeping Things Whole by Jennifer Boire Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Women's Health In a field I am the absence of field. This is always the case. Wherever I am I am what is missing. When I walk I part the air and always the air ... Read on »
Keeping Things Whole by Jennifer Boire Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Women's Health In a field I am the absence of field. This is always the case. Wherever I am I am what is missing. When I walk I part the air and always the a ... Read on »
Stepping Westward by Jennifer Boire Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Women's Health Denise Levertov What is green in me darkens, muscadine. If woman is inconstant, good, I am faithful to ebb and flow, I fall in season and now is a ... Read on »
Stepping Westward by Jennifer Boire Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Women's Health Denise Levertov What is green in me darkens, muscadine. If woman is inconstant, good, I am faithful to ebb and flow, I fall in season and now is ... Read on »
Healing Retreats that only take a minute by Jennifer Boire Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Women's Health We all need to feel healed, whole. But there are times in our lives when we feel this need more strongly. Here are some Signs that you need a healing retreat, found in the b ... Read on »
Healing Ourselves by Jennifer Boire Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Menopause The one single most important thing I have learned about menopause, and it has been a wonderful learning opportunity, is about self-care. There is no fast easy way throug ... Read on »