Kate Wicker

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Ecological Breastfeeding Book Review

Over this past summer, I had the amazing privilege of personally corresponding with Sheila Kippley, a renowned breastfeeding and natural family planning advocate and co-founder of NFP International. A few months back she sent me The Seven Standards of Ecological Breastfeeding: The Frequency Factor, her latest book to hit the shelves, and it’s about timeRead the whole post >>

· December 16, 2008 · Tagged With: Attachment Parenting, Breastfeeding, NFP · Filed Under: Media Reviews, Theology of the Body

Lessons Learned

The hate mail continues (and to be fair, so do the letters of support). While I know I’m most likely preaching to the choir and that a lot of you are probably sick and tired about hearing about this, I’ve got to get a few things off my chest. Uh-oh. I’ve just slapped lesson numberRead the whole post >>

· July 7, 2008 · Tagged With: Breastfeeding, Tough Days · Filed Under: Theology of the Body

Hi, I’m Kate

I’m a wife, mom of five kids, writer, speaker, storyteller, bibliophile, runner, eating disorder survivor, and perfectionist in recovery. I'm the author of Getting Past Perfect: Finding Joy & Grace in the Messiness of Motherhood  and Weightless: Making Peace With Your Body.

I’ve tried a lot of things in my life – anorexia, bulimia, law school, teaching aerobics, extended breastfeeding, vegetarianism, trying to be perfect and failing miserably at it – and through it all I’ve been writing. And learning to embrace the messiness of life instead of covering it up, making excuses for it, or being ashamed of my brokenness or my home’s sticky counters.

Nowadays I’m striving every single, imperfect day to strike a balance between keeping it real and keeping it joyful.

 

“She could never be a saint, but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick.”

―Flannery O'Connor

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