Priya Logan

Permaculture Womens Guild

Education and gradual friendly change is more way effective than division.

Permaculture Womens Guild

By Priya Logan I previously wrote a post about identifying and even celebrating your “inputs and outputs”, as a human that is a complicated, sometimes fun and organic practice. That is unless you just think of it as a put food and water in — -> get waste out. Of course, we all know that much of what makes us energised and fulfilled is a bit more ephemeral than that — that is once we are able to easily meet those basic needs. It’s also good to also take a moment regularly to acknowlege our wealth if we have no subsistence problems. I have…

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Permaculture approaches to landing during pregnancy. By Priya Logan As a birth doula and mother of fifteen years and counting I often see and distincly remember how it is to view your pregnancy and impending parenthood, or expanded family, through a lens of duty to your responsibilities and often a profound narrowing of resources and energy. For most of us it can feel overwhelming to be faced with an archetypal expectation of what a parent should be or how they should feel even if we know that those ideals are narrow or there are many ways to approach anything. When…

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When I enrolled in a Permaculture Design Course in 2013, my youngest child was only three months old, and we had only recently landed in Scotland. I had spent most of my adult life away from Scotland…

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By Priya Logan ( Even in the face of larger ones) Breaking down is natural, think of anything in nature. Reimagine it as composting, stir, add food and rest.\ NB( this has been mainly inspired by punk music; the benign void in my brain; personal experience with real compost and prolonged emotional meltdown, though to be clear those two have never converged in real time, and is dedicated to everyone who gets stuck and unstuck) Invite the worms: do activities that churn your ideas of yourself into something new: take up something physical, wrestle with interesting but unsavoury ideas and…

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How to reconcile creativity and parenting

Permaculture Womens Guild

Doulas and permaculture ethics.