Blog Awarded

Ilithyia Inspired has been given the following award by the ever inspiring Michelle of The Living Temple.

Michelle says:

It is an award for bloggers who distinguish themselves for showing cultural values, ethics, great and fun writing skills, as well as individual values, through their creative writing...Here are the award rules: To accept and show the distinct image. Show the link to the blog from which you were given the award. Choose 15 blogs to give the award to.

Thank-you Michelle, your appreciation of my blog and your respect for my values and writing is both humbling and encouraging.

The 15 blogs I would like to pass this award on to are (in no particular order)

1. Water & Spirit. The blog of a doula in Fiji.
2. Rachael Austin. The blog of an Australian Midwife working in a rural area.
3. Majikfaerie. The blog of a lay midwife who is a citizen of the world, living a rainbow life.
4. The Living Temple. I return the award to Michelle, the freebirthing, raw foodie, BirthKeeper being the change we want to see in the world.
5. Homebirth: a midwife mutiny. The blog of Adelaide's with-woman, packed with valuable birth information, her breech articles are a must read!
   
6. Gloria Lemay. The blog of Canadian birth attendant Gloria Lemay.
7. Jodi Cleghorn. An Australian writer who shares her fiction along with her nonfiction and co-editor of the Sex After Childbirth e-book.
8. One of Those Women. A great breastfeeding focused blog that always makes me feel a little less alone in my lactivism.
9. Empowering Birth Blog. The blog of a midwifery student who has discovered that birth can be empowering after homebirthing after caesarean.
10. Stand and Deliver. Dr Rixa Freeze's blog, the woman who wrote a PhD about unassisted childbirth in North America.
11. Letters from Laura. The blog of Laura Shanley, author of "Unassisted Childbirth" and creator of the Born Free website.
12. Homebirth For Dads. The blog of a Dad preparing, with his partner, for the homebirth of his child.
13. Hoyden About Town. A great Australian feminist blog with multiple contributors. Check out the work of Lauredhel in particular!
    
14. The Well-Rounded Mama. A really insightful blog that takes a look at pregnancy, birth and plus size women.
15. Kate Harding's Shapely Prose. A terrific resource for anyone interested in fat acceptance and the reality that you can be healthy at any size.
    

Enjoy checking out those 15 engaging blogs!