Inner Autumn and Outer Imbolc (late winter): How we can honour our womanly and Earthly cycles.
My Inner Autumn is here, enter raging mean mum mode, unable to mask my frustration in the school yard after my 3 year old was so badly behaved in his sister’s school assembly that me trying to manage him talking and clapping during presentations, breaking up bits of bark, pulling along screeching chairs, running around, […]
My FREE e-book: “You must be so tired.”
You must be so tired. Poems, posts and solidarity for mums of young ones.Words by Karissa Jade.Cover Art by Yuki Tsugawa @yuki_t_illustrator
My Appy Ending? (or Our Humble Beginning?)
I am so happy that my 26th and 27th business goals of designing a prototype and developing an app have been achieved! It was so exciting and such a relief to see the MyRnR app, first on Google Play and then on the App Store, when WPNativeApps.com completed this project for me last week. It […]
My own RnR
Mirror Chatz with MySelvez – A MyRnR series – on YouTube and Instagram If you can’t get some space and quiet to care for your self at home then get some on MyRnR.space (or send the Gift Card link to your loved one/zzz for a not-so-subtle Xmas present hint-hint 😉 The MyRnR app is now […]
*On the contrary
Do I always feel like shit? No, quite the opposite. Many things do depress me but other things stimulate me. For almost every tale I tell of feeling and falling down, I can spin another story about filling and firing up. Like this voice gift I sent to some friends who had given me a […]
My PANDA Story
Did you know that Founder of MyRnR, Karissa, became a Community Champion for PANDA this year? Two months ago she also fundraised $628 for the perinatal mental health charity by hosting a screening of positive body image documentary Embrace Kids at her local cinema. In honour of Perinatal Mental Health Week 2022, and to raise […]
*Under the thick cloak of darkness
10:25pm I just want the day to end. So my poor sore body And muddy muddled mind can mend. But you want your dream feed Your this, that and the other need Met by me, or Daddy, but mostly me. And me? I just want to be deep enough in a dream to not feel […]
My brand new website – MyRnR.space
*Welcome to the World Wide Web, MyRnR.space 💫 (Original announcement posted on @MyRnR on Instagram) myrnr.space My little dream came true tonight, a day after her due date. 7.11.22 | 10:19pm I am over the moon to finally have you spaceside 🌝 #restwellmotherloverzzz ✌🏻🌙 (Announcement wording inspired by amazing new mum, my sister, and my beautiful 3-day-new […]
*It feels so bad
So insurmountably bad. Each hour, each minute of sleep not had. Like a zombie with a confusing responsibility. On top of ‘Don’t Die’, keeping them alive is key in this reality-show-meets-documentary-meets horror movie. It’s a low budget film, this one. Who am I kidding? It’s no budget. You’re spent. You’re done. “The day will end”, […]
My A – Z (About Me)
A – Anger is something I struggle with these days. B – Books are the basis of most of my hobbies. C – Clare is my maiden name. D – de Leeuw (lower case ’d’) is my married name – Dutch for ‘the lion’. E – English-Welsh-Scottish is my estimated ancestral background. F – Fuck […]