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#jennyhatch It has been a difficult week for those of us healing from Sexual Abuse…

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There is so much power in story.  So much truth contained in the various struggles we engage in here on Earth.

The Savior said it best when he prophesied that our day would be one of Division.

 51 Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division:

52 For from henceforth there shall be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three.

53 The father shall be divided against the son, and the sonaagainst the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.

And in the book of Micah it says:

 6 For the son dishonoureth the father, the daughter riseth up against her mother, the daughter in law against her mother in law; a man’s aenemies are the men of his own bhouse.

The Apostle Paul prophesied to the Romans that we would be without Natural Affection

 31 Without aunderstanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:

For me as a Christian caught in the web of Unnatural Affection, it is difficult to process my reality amidst so much evil being broadcast on television.

The evil around the Penn State Child Abuse story has been so horrifying, at times I have had to turn off the news, hands shaking, hives breaking out all over my body as I heard details of the various assaults on children.

My own childhood nightmare around abuse has been something that to this point in my life I have not published, as the gory details are things I do NOT like to revisit in my mind.

But since today is Thanksgiving, a key time for Family Molesters to Pounce, and if memory serves, three different times molesters in my family took advantage of my little body to use for their own selfish sexual lust around Thanksgiving gatherings, and because my life organized itself this year to allow me to spend this week mostly alone without my family around to keep me distracted and busy, I thought it would be a good idea to spend a few minutes writing for those who have been hurt.

My own children were hurt by a family member and when I phoned the police in our town, it was the first time a molester was truly held accountable for this heinous crime.  The shockwave sent through the family circle continues to reverberate today. So much shame is tied up in Family Sexual Abuse, that when a family member decides to go public and/or get some justice, it is so easy for the rest of the family to circle the wagons and starting yelling about insanity.  It is true that I have struggled with emotional illness during my life, and my family has been so willing to throw out words like Psychosis, Manic Depression, Bi Polar etc etc whenever I bring up our extended families troubles with sexual assault. Most of the time, to them, I am just fine, but if I ever start talking about Family Pattern Abuse, All of a sudden I am in a raging Psychosis in need of forced drugging and “treatment” to shut me up.

None of my family members are psychiatrists and it pains me to inform them that although it might be tempting to blame all claims of sexual abuse in our family on “Jenny’s Mental Issues”, where a little smoke is blowing, often a fire is smoldering that can and will blow up in the next generation of children and grandchildren.

Whenever I think about nieces, nephews, cousins, etc etc…I just wither in frustration knowing that a few molesters in our extended family have access to these little ones, and it just revolts and frustrates me to no end.

I want to create Wanted Posters and email them around to all of the family and warn the innocent and blind not to allow these people to have access to the babies and toddlers.  I want to yell and scream and warn whenever another person enters the family circle through marriage.  I want to shout and hit and bite and kick, put my body in the path to make certain that the babies are kept whole and safe.

If I learned nothing else as I remembered details of my abuse at the hands of my Father and his brothers and a few male cousins, they LIKED to molest pre-verbal babies because Babes who can’t talk yet… can’t tell.

But I feel that any sort of exercise towards justice and prevention on my part would be futile and so I just keep my own kids away from the molesters and pray for the safety of everyone else.  I also pray that those around the molesters in my family will have their eyes opened and be willing to see the truth when and if it smacks them in the face.  And then act on that truth…

That is my prayer on this Thanksgiving day.

Jenny Hatch

#jennyhatch Natural Family Living Class One: November 2011 Food Storage

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I taught my class last saturday here in our home.  It was extremely stressful attempting to incorporate the multimedia webinar stream on the web, and so I was grateful that the only person who attended was my friend Helen.  If I had had a houseful of strangers show up to be taught the fundamentals of Food Storage my head might have exploded.  Ben had a meltdown just before class started and was refusing to leave with his Father, who had been asked to keep the nine year old and the dog busy for two hours while I taped, needless to say I was a frazzled mess when the class started, but I gave it my best shot.

Here is the link to the class online

About the Class

Self Reliance Enthusiast Jenny Hatch lectures for 90 minutes the Basics of Short and Long Term Food Storage.

Topics Covered Include:

1. Whole Grains and Beans
2. Flax Seeds for fresh oils
3. Sprouting
4. Canning vs. Freeze Dried Foods
5. Rotation and Inventory

To view and listen to the previous webinars, click HERE and HERE

The Next Class will be on December 17th at 9 AM

December 17th 2011: 72 Hour Kits

*Most Emergencies require a three day window of self-reliance before outside help arrives. This class will cover the ins and outs of survival at home or in a shelter 

Register at WizIQ if you would like to join the class online!

Jenny Hatch 

#jennyhatch OK, I admit it, I was really upset over the weekend…

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My daughter Allison went to a dance on friday night.

Since she was a small baby I have followed her around with a hairbrush.  In fact, when she was five she had this beautiful head of brown hair that she would not let me touch.  I sometimes used to sneak into her room with a hot curling iron and curl her hair for church when she was asleep. (*Warning….do not try this in a business setting, only professional Mothers can handle this task while breastfeeding the baby and soothing the two year old, at the same time as curling the sleeping five year olds hair)

When she started dating and going to parties we spent hours working on her hair, trying to come up with the perfect look. I was the hair fixer extraordinaire…With three little sisters I had plenty of practice braiding and curling as I grew up. The night of the 9-12 Tea Party, which I had spent months organizing, was her homecoming dance, and I almost cancelled the tea party when I realized the dance was the same night, so I could stay home to help fix her hair.  A beloved friend fixed it for that dance.

I asked her if Michelle was going to roll her hair for the dance and she said her friend Sierra wanted to do it.  I think I could have handled it better if we had kept this task in the family, something about a friend doing it made me feel sad.

I must admit, part of me wanted to just jump on a plane and fly out to Utah and spend hours helping her get ready for the dance.

But Sierra is a gifted girl and she came up with a beautiful french braid of curls that was a work of art.

When I saw the pictures I was reconciled, but must admit I cried a little bit because I wasn’t part of the fun.

Jenny Hatch

#jennyhatch U.S. Cesarean Rate Drops for First Time in More Than a Decade

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 The CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics just released the latest birth statistics for the United States. According to the report, Births: Preliminary Data for 2010, the national cesarean rate dropped from 32.9% to 32.8%. This is the first time in more than a decade that the rate has not increased.

 

• The birth rate for teenagers has declined for the last three years and 17 out of the past 19 years, falling to 34.3 births per 1,000 teenagers ages 15-19 in 2010. This is a 9 percent decline from 2009 and the lowest rate ever recorded in nearly seven decades of collecting data. Birth rates for younger and older teenagers and for all race/ethnic groups reached historic lows in 2010.

• The cesarean delivery rate dropped for the first time in over a decade.  In 2010, the cesarean rate was 32.8, down slightly from 32.9 in 2009.

• The overall fertility rate as well as the total number of births in the U.S. declined for the third straight year in 2010.  The general fertility rate fell 3 percent from 66.2 births per 1,000 females aged 15-44 in 2009 to 64.1 in 2010.  The total number of births also declined 3 percent, from 4,130,665 in 2009 to 4,000,279 in 2010.

• The total number of births to unmarried mothers declined for the second year in a row in 2010 (1,633,785, down from 1,693,658 in 2009), as did the rate of births per 1,000 unmarried mothers (47.7, down from 49.9 in 2009).  Also, the percentage of all births to unmarried mothers declined slightly in 2010 (40.8 percent, down from 41 percent in 2009.

• The birth rate for women in their early twenties fell 6 percent in 2010, and the rates also fell for women in their late twenties and thirties. However, the birth rate for women in their early forties increased in 2010 by 2 percent to the highest rate since 1967.

• The preterm birth rate declined for the fourth straight year in 2010, to just under 12 percent of all births (11.99) – a 6 percent drop from 2009.

• The low birthweight rate was essentially unchanged between 2009 and 2010 at less than 8.2 percent in 2010, but is down slightly from the record high of 8.3 in 2006.

 

Jill has one of the best Birth Blogs on the web, check out The Unnecesarean here…

Jenny Hatch

 

 

Tit for Tat: Can’t we all just get along? Young Living vs. doTERRA

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Yesterday it was my joy to spend a couple hours with two homeschooling Moms who introduced me to doTERRA Essential Oils.  My friend Heidi knew of my love for oils and took the risk to call me up and ask if she could share and spend some time in my home.  I suggested we head over to the park so the children could play while we talked.  With eleven homeschooled little ones ripping around my small house, I did not think we would be able to visit.

So despite the cold we headed over and spent an hour sniffing oil bottles.  I have been a Young Living Essential Oils distributor for the past fifteen years, and have used a variety of brands since I bought my first bottle of Lavender at a health food store when I was a teen back in the 80’s.  I had informed Heidi that I would only give her an hour of my time as I was skeptical that any oil could be better than my beloved Young Living brand.  Frankly, I was more interested in spending time with other Moms who share similar interests than I was in learning about this brand of oils.

But I opened the bottles and started sniffing and used a few drops of Peppermint, Lavender, and the balancing oil blend on my skin.  I immediately knew that these were an excellent addition to my arsenal of natural family living products and was thrilled to learn of the Family Physician Kit of oils that they have put together for parents to use around the home.  I have long believed and taught on this blog that Mothers hold the key to wellness for their children.  And with powerful therapeutic oils on hand to aid in wellness, I understand that any company that takes the time and energy to create quality products deserves to have a chance.

This morning I spent an hour clicking around the web to see what sort of garbage was being said about doTERRA  and Young Living as competitors and was not surprised to see that a variety of blog posts and controversies were blasting around the web for all to see.  As I told my friends yesterday, there is enough room in our world for a couple hundred essential oils companies, and I look forward to the day when that is the case.

If a group of people decide they want to add products to the marketplace and provide some healthy competition for those who are selling similar products, that is what the American Free Enterprise System is all about.

Now does my choice to become a doTERRA distributor mean that I am going to start dumping on my beloved Young Living and never again use their products?  No.  I look on this choice as simply learning more, enjoying more, engaging more, and widening my circle of friends and colleagues.  I intend to make the steps to become a distributor next month for doTERRA.

I have long believed that parents are groomed to ask the wrong questions.

When a child is sick the question should not be, “Pink Antibiotic or White Antibiotic?” It should be Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, or Thyme?

When a child is being born the question should not be, “C Section or Walking Epidural?” It should be What type of birth would be ideal for this baby and this mother?

I organized the second Husband/Wife Homebirth Conference back in 2001 and as we closed down the Conference an interesting thing occurred. As Jeannine and Rico were giving the closing keynote address, a blast of lighting hit right as they said the words “Medical Profession”, and the lights in the room went out.  It took several minutes for the pandemonium that ensued to quiet down and as the final portion of the conference closed down…It left all of us feeling quite jumpy. In the above video I referred to the incident as the conference was ended.  Then I followed by saying that an inclusiveness is what is called for when considering the debates between Allopathic (drugs and surgery birth) and the other forms of childbirth.

I believe this inclusiveness is also important when considering the questions of how best to heal our children when they are ill.

I don’t care if others vaccinate, but millions of dollars have been invested in educating the public that I as a non vaccinating mother am a menace to society and a threat to my children.

I don’t care if doctors and midwives don’t approve of my choice to give birth at home alone, but some of them seem to be extremely upset by the supposed threat that Homebirth, Lotus Birth, and Empowered Natural Mothering is to their profit streams.

I don’t think it is just the money that is tied to birth that upsets the profession, I believe it is also the questioning that takes place when those doctors and midwives who have been carefully indoctrinated in the birthing status quo at school engage in when they are confronted with the reality that a group of parents do not want to purchase what they have to sell.

The doctors and midwives have literally piled up hundreds of thousands of dollars in student loan debt betting on the status quo of a 99% monopoly over birth when they set up Obstetric and Midwifery practices, and the idea that the vast majority of parents could potentially birth children alone is simply noxious to their world view and plans for a prosperous professional life.

And it is this reality of a Birth Monopoly and a fixed income stream from hospital birth that is extremely threatened by anything new or different.

I believe an inclusive approach to healing and wellness is what will save humanity from the foibles and folly of current medical insanity around birth and healing.

As doctors and midwives begin to explore the wonderful world of essential oils for healing and open their hearts to the reality that home birth is a viable and safe option for many families, hopefully they will come to learn that trusting Mothers and consumers to make wise choices for the health of their families will ensure a bright and healthy future for all of us.

Doctors and Midwives may not make the buckets of money currently tied to medical birth and drug and surgery healing, but we will all benefit from a more holistic approach to life and health.

Jenny Hatch

UPDATE: Since the time this post was written in November I have closed down my Young Living business and am working doTERRA, they have a better marketing plan, more generous compensation, and a very dynamic group of leaders.