One True Media Version of this montage found on my share page.
Thanks for everything Mom, I love you, and am so grateful for the legacy of wellness that you gave to all of us. When I think about the 14 children my sisters and I have welcomed into the world, the young daughters who are being brought up and prepared for motherhood, and the daily nourishment that I know is going on in all of those homes, I just have to yell to anyone interested….I have the best Mother in the World!
Jenny Hatch

Here is a link to my Share Page at One True Media (just in case you can’t watch the movie on my blog!)
This video is the final portion (Ch 8) in my Video Book, Liver Cleansing during the Childbearing Season. Go Here to view the whole video.
In this video I reference a book by author Laura Davis Here is the link to her book, The Courage to Heal Workbook.
This video also contains an additional explanation for why I stopped Blogging and has a challenge for women.
Jenny Hatch

Hatch Family 1997
I have been doing some thinking and have decided to end this blogging adventure.
I have really enjoyed this project, and have thrilled to have a place where my voice is not edited out of my own writings.
I spent many years as a frustrated writer. I would spend hours writing articles, books, and letters to the editor to newspapers, magazines, and publishers….but they always managed to edit my voice, especially my political voice, out of my work. Or they refused to publish me.
Blogging has satisfied something deep in my soul.
I have a great passion for singing, and have decided to spend my blogging hours rehearsing my Music. I don’t have alot of free time, and want to use these years that I still have a singing voice to develop my talents to a much higher level and audition for some of the many companies and theatrical groups that exist here in Boulder County. Musical Theatre is my passion and I would love to carve out some time to perform in a show. My whole family performed in The Music Man when I was twelve, and it was one of the most fun things we have ever done together.
My family in our Music Man costumes


Here is a picture of our Family 20 years later in 2000.
(My older brother Dave was not in either picture).

With Spouses and Grandchildren at that same reunion!
Since this reunion two of my siblings have married, and eleven more grandchildren have been born.
I thought I would use this final post to dedicate the montage below and these words to my own mother Carolyn.
If you have benefitted at all from my rants, recipes, or realities on this blog, most of the credit has to go to my own Mama, who taught me patterns of living during my childhood which made it easier to adopt certain habits of health and wellness. My mother understood the importance of the hours she spent in her kitchen. She didn’t believe the Feminist lies of the 60’s. And she made sure to teach all of her children patterns of happy living. With my parents focus on the gospel of Jesus Christ they taught all eight of us children to keep the commandments, repent when necessary, and find happiness in family life.
We spent so many happy hours singing together as a family. Often we turned on music and just danced around the living room. Singing rounds in the car taught us how to harmonize together, and many hours were spent practicing instruments. My favorite memories are of my Dad singing to us as we fell asleep. One of the pictures I put into the montage is of my three sisters and I singing Scarlett Ribbons for our Dad at a family reunion. I loved the way he sang that song to us.
Daily habits of joyful family life have felt somewhat out of my grasp as I fumbled to learn how to be well after mental illness. In some ways it has felt like I was on this long, drawn out quest to learn a couple of things. Why did I go nuts? What is the best way to treat myself when in the throes of depression and anxiety, and HOW can I prevent it happening in the future?
Taking my parents habits of happy living to a much higher level in terms of discipline with nutrition, sleep, focus on the basics, and carefully nourishing my brain with nutrients are what freed me from the tentacles of psychiatric enslavement, and then pushed me past the pain and sickness into wellness.
I figured my healing journey was an important story to share, and so I have used this blog and my books and web site to share the stories that maybe will help you to move past your own medical bugaboos into proactive healthy living.
If I have learned nothing else during my years of mothering, it is that the daily habits of life are what create health. And not just physical health, but also emotional and spiritual health.
In fact, once…many years ago, my mom and I talked about writing a musical called Daily Bread that would promote the idea that it is the things we do every day that are the most important. Maybe someday we’ll get around to writing that show.
For now, I want to sing.
So, I bid you all a fond farewell. Please enjoy my archives. I plan to leave them up for a while.

And here are links to my three favorite posts:
Dissertation on Motherhood
Images from the Iraq Election – Purple Power!
Brahams A German Requiem

One True Media Version of this montage found on my share page.
Thanks for everything Mom, I love you, and am so grateful for the legacy of wellness that you gave to all of us. When I think about the 14 children my sisters and I have welcomed into the world, the young daughters who are being brought up and prepared for motherhood, and the daily nourishment that I know is going on in all of those homes, I just have to yell to anyone interested….I have the best Mother in the World!
Jenny Hatch
PS I don’t mean to diss my four brothers and the awesome families that they are creating, nor would I wish to dismiss Pauls six siblings and the amazing legacy of his own mother. I could not have asked for a better mother in law. I just wanted this final post to be a tribute to my own mother, her four daughters, and my two daughters. This is a blog focused on natural family living, with motherhood as the primary topic. And so it feels right for the final post to be a tribute to the best Mother I know.
Here is our Christmas Greeting for family and friends for 2007!