Fabulous Mama Chronicles: The July Fabulous Hybrid Carnival

Karine from the Fabulous Mama Chronicles and Jennifer from Hybrid Rasta Mama are pleased to announce the second Fabulous Hybrid Carnival! This Carnival will be held four times yearly (April, July, October, January) and the topics will wide and varied but focused on conscious parenting, mindful living, and personal awareness/inner work.

The July Fabulous Hybrid Carnival topic is:

BOUNDARIES!

Living consciously requires of us to evaluate and tweak the boundaries we set for ourselves and our families in order for everyone’s needs to be respected and honored. Finding this sacred balance is a process that often requires a trial-and-error process and even some difficult choices.

In the spirit of summer, the season of abundance, strength, vitality and courage, we are inviting participants to address the topic of creating/maintaining healthy boundaries.

Some suggestions:

If you come from a dysfunctional family, how do you ensure that your choices are respected when interacting with them? Have you had to limit your connection to protect the healthy boundaries you are trying to set? How do these choices affect you emotionally?
What choices have you made within your infant feeding/sleeping domains that ensured everyone’s needs were appropriately met? What kind of struggles did you face, and how did you overcome them? What was the outcome?
When it comes to parenting approaches and decisions, how do you and your partner accommodate each other’s needs and beliefs? If there are conflicts, how do you problem-solve in order to find a suitable balance? Have there been any particular decisions that you’ve felt strongly enough about to enforce a distinct boundary that was non-negotiable? How did this influence your relationship?
During pregnancy and birth, how did you go about having your rights and choices respected? Did you have trouble finding a supportive birthing team? What compromises did you have to make (if any)? Would you make different choices for any subsequent births that would honor your needs better?

Remember, these are just our thoughts and idea to get your creative juices flowing. You are welcome to write about anything related to boundaries.

We understand that some of these topics might be sensitive or too personal to share on your own blog. Therefore, we will have a “post swap” option where another blogger will host your post anonymously and you in turn will host another blogger’s post. We will handle all of the details of the post trade once we receive your submission. The host blogger will never know who the post was written by.

Submissions Deadline: Monday, July 25, 2012 - 11:59pm PST.

Fill out the webform (at the bottom of this post) and email your submission to fhcarnival{at}hotmail{dot}com by 11:59 p.m. Pacific time.

Carnival date: Monday, July 30, 2012. Before you post, we will send you an email with a little blurb in html to paste into your submission that will introduce the carnival. You will publish your post on July 30th before 9am PST and email us the link if you haven’t done so already. Once everyone’s posts are published, we will send out a finalized list of all the participants’ links to generate lots of link love for your site. We’ll include full instructions in the email we send before the posting date.

A few housekeeping items:

Please write a new, previously unpublished post for the carnival.
We will email you with specific instructions on posting before carnival day.
Please do not post your article until the carnival date.
We reserve the right to accept submissions based on relevance to the topic and quality of writing.
Please refrain from using profanity, poor spelling and grammar, and vicious personal attacks.
We will NOT be editing your post so please proofread and run a spelling and grammar check.