Fertility Awareness & Natural Family Planning
Articles:
For birth control, what's old is new again" - CNN, January 2015
"For many, hormonal birth control an increasingly bitter pill to swallow" - Aljazeera America, April 2014
"The Hidden Wisdom of Fertility Awareness" - Spirituality & Health
"The New Old-School Birth Control" - The Atlantic, September 2013
Websites:
Beautiful Cervix Project! - Celebration and education about your cervix
The Association of Fertility Awareness Professionals
The Garden Of Fertility - Long-standing teacher Katie Singer's website
Justisse - Based in Canada, a Fertility Awareness organization offering "Holistic Reproductive Health Practitioner" certification and many other wonderful things
Kindara - On-line fertility management system
Poriutivit - Fertility Awareness colleague, Michal, and her work in Israel and abroad.
The Red Web Foundation - Menstrual health awareness organization
Taking Charge of your Fertility - from the writer of the textbook by Toni Weschler
Woomb - Resource for the Billings Ovulation Method (another form of Natural Family Planning). Also a good source for effectiveness statistics.
Books:
The Garden Of Fertility & Honoring Our Cycles - Katie Singer
Taking Charge of Your Fertility - Toni Weschler, MPH
Awakening Fertility - Amely Greenven, Heng Ou, Marisa Belger
Healthy Living
The Bioneers - an innovative nonprofit educational organization that highlights breakthrough solutions for restoring people and planet
The Environmental Working Group - non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to protecting human health and the environment
Mahina Cup - There are many menstrual cups available but this is my favorite! Great company, great product.
Reddy's - body friendly cloth menstrual pads
Food & Nutrition
Websites:
NRDC Smarter Living - great search tool on how to eat locally
Organic Consumers Association - food safety, industrial agriculture, genetic engineering, children's health, corporate accountability, Fair Trade, environmental sustainability
Weston A. Price Foundation - organization dedicated to restoring nutrient-dense foods to the human diet through education, research, and activisim
Books:
Nourishing Traditions - Sally Fallon
Nutrition and Physical Regeneration - Weston A. Price
Fertility, Cycles and Nutrition - Marilyn Shannon
Full Moon Feast - Jessica Prentice
The Yoga of Eating - Charles Eisenstein
In Defense of Food - Michael Pollen
Women, Food and God - Geneen Roth
Midwifery
Websites:
Midwifery: Citizens for Midwifery
Midwives Alliance of North America
Books:
The Thinking Woman's Guide to a Better Birth - Henci Goer
Ina May's Guide to Childbirth - Ina May Gaskin
Pursuing the Birth Machine - Marsden Wagner
Birth in Four Cultures - Bridgette Jordan
Birth As an American Rite of Passage - Robbie E. Davis-Floyd
Preconception & Fertility
Books:
Pre-Conception: The Language Of Fertility - Niravi Payne
Conquering Infertility - Alice Domar
Women’s Studies
Books:
Her Blood Is Gold - Lara Owen
Witches, Nurses and Midwives by Barbara Ehrenreich
The New Our Bodies Ourselves - Boston Women's Health Book Collective
A New View of a Woman's Body - The Federation of Women's Health Collective
Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom - Christine Northrup, M.D.
Women's Wheel of Life and Birth, Sex and Desire - Elizabeth Davis
Dear Lover - David Deida
Herbal Healing for Women - Rosemary Gladstar
Hygieia, A Woman's Herbal - Jeannine Parvate Baker
Healing Wise and Menopause, the Wise Woman Way - Susun Weed
Natural Healing in Gynecology - Rina Nissim
Allies
Alissa Vitti: https://www.floliving.com/
Aviva Romm: https://avivaromm.com/blog/
DeAnna Lam: http://www.redschool.net/
Fertility Friday (Lisa Hendrickson-Jack): http://fertilityfriday.com/
Nicole Jardim: https://nicolejardim.com/
Holy Hormones: http://holyhormones.com/
Lara Briden: http://www.larabriden.com/
Sara Gottfried: http://www.saragottfriedmd.com/
Jane Bennett: http://janebennett.com.au/
