Sparks Conference 2011 launched our new HALO apparel line. Custom orders will be available outside of this annual conference, and occasionally through Hive and Grove. 
(Contact scentintentions@live.ca to arrange custom orders and delivery or on site pick up.)

We are pleased to suggest this fantastic book Bearing Witness, which one of our our extraordinary Doula Instructor writes a birth story.

Here's what Beth has to say:
When I am not doula-ing or teaching others to doula, I am usually doing one of three things: baking, painting, or writing. Writing for me is reflexive, almost automatic: by putting pen to paper (or fingertips to keyboard!), I process everything from the ethereal to the mundane. Take from me the means to write and you will see a person who paces like a caged jaguar; a restless, irritable soul who needs release.


It is not uncommon for me to write about the births that I attend. It is a service that I offer clients, but it is also something I do for myself. Personally, birth is such an intense, breathtaking, amazing, and sometimes nerve-wracking experience - it is hard to bear witness to the strength of women and their families and not have something to say about it. As Rolling Stone Magazine once said about Susie Bright, I cannot ``be accused of shutting up.``

Imagine my delight, then, when I learned that one of my birth stories, ``In`shallah`` is being published in a very special anthology called Bearing Witness: Childbirth Stories Told By Doulas, edited by Lisa Caron and Dr. Lisa Doran. Bearing Witness is the first collection of birth stories told through the unique perspective of those of us who support families along their birth journies as doulas. It has received rave reviews from Ina May Gaskin, Ricki Lake, Barbara Katz Rothman and Laurie Stavoe Harm, all very prominant figures in the rich and varied fields related to childbirth.

Available at all fine book retailers.