We want YOU (or you or you or you…)
We’re looking for a Communications Strategist! Embrace is an emerging national movement with an ambitious goal – to ensure every mother is supported from the start. This is achieved through inspiration, mobilisation and building meaningful connections for mothers. Whilst the movement is national, our hub
#TuesdayCheckIn: Our names, our selves
How are you doing this week? Today’s #TuesdayCheckIn is inspired by Embrace member Lindiwe. We asked Lindiwe about the significance of her daughter’s name and she told us: My child’s name. The reason why I chose her name is because I was happy to have her
#TuesdayCheckIn: Jumping at the Sun
#EmbraceSisterhood, how are you doing this week? Today’s #TuesdayCheckIn comes to you as we approach the end of Black Mamas Matter Alliance’s #BlackMaternalHealthWeek2019. We’ve spent most of our week thinking and reading as much as we can about the ways in which some of the
#TuesdayCheckIn: What’s My Name Again?
How are you doing this week? Today’s #TuesdayCheckIn is an excerpt of a poem by Hollie McNish. She writes: And it’s only when the stars are out and everything’s dark that my own name creeps out from under the table, and I’m able to remember the
#TuesdayCheckIn: The Mothers of Mother’s Day Celebrations
How are you doing this week? Today’s #TuesdayCheckIn is a little different: here at Embrace HQ, we’re in the thick of preparations for #MothersDayConnect2019. If you haven’t heard, here’s a short video explaining the why, how and what of the campaign. It’s one of our biggest nationwide campaigns
#TuesdayCheckIn: ALL the feelings
Embrace Sisterhood, how are you doing this week? It’s week 2 of school holidays for most of us here in South Africa and we know these holidays can interrupt well-worn routines and patterns in your and your children’s lives. And while – we know,
#TuesdayCheckIn: What the world needs now…
Okay. I’m not going to sugarcoat it, Embrace friends: this year has got off to a bit of a brutal start. It’s only week 10 and I find myself fighting exhaustion and sternly talking myself out of bed. I find myself having to dig deeper
#TuesdayCheckIn: You Belong, You Belong
This week, we’re reading Vicki Rivard‘s powerful new book, Brave New Mama. Rivard writes: mothers must mother each other, too. we must hold each other up & surround each other strong & in the ear of every new mother we must whisper, you belong you
#TuesdayCheckIn: What does balance look like for you?
This week, we commemorate #InternationalWomensDay2019. As with other such days, it is a mixed one. Whilst there is much to celebrate, with women making gains in and outside of our homes, there is still so much work to be done. This year’s theme for