Welcome to the Mindful MamaTM community, where you can connect with parents and birth professionals from the comfort of your own home. Mindful Mama is a cutting-edge social media platform for natural parenting. We integrate the depth and inspiration of a favorite magazine into a collaborative and nurturing online space, connecting parents with birth and health care practitioners who share the common goal of building healthy and happy families.
Finally, everything you're looking for on one website!
• Original content, including: articles, video interviews and product reviews.
• Create a personal profile and network with parents and practitioners.
• Share special moments instantly by posting to our "happenings" box.
• Receive monthly newsletters and take advantage of coupons and giveaways.
• Participate in contests, sponsored by celebrities and leading experts.
Editorial Mission
Mindful Mama provides content related to lifestyles of health and sustainability to mothers (and expectant mothers) and their support circles.
We believe that mothering is a learning journey and one that is different for every woman, and therefore we seek to inform in a way that respects where each woman is on her journey. To that end, we keep our content as positive as possible, avoiding alarmism and judgment. We offer a balanced discussion that helps women make healthy choices for themselves, their families, and their communities.
We believe that mothering is a spiritual journey, so whenever possible, we infuse our articles with an understanding that we're not dealing with just bodies and minds, but also souls.
We believe that mothering is all-consuming (and time-consuming!) so we offer easily accessible, economical content. That doesn't mean we don't do in-depth features, but we want to make every word-and mothers' every moment-count.
Integrity Statement
Mindful Mama is committed to a healthy future for mom, baby and the planet. When ever possible, we actively promote: Simplicity, products that are non-toxic to mom and baby, products and services produced using sustainable practices, companies that make efforts to green their workspace, companies that actively work to reduce their carbon footprint, companies that donate a portion of profits to a good cause, and mother-owned businesses or parent-friendly workplaces.
Mindful Mama is published by Rhythm of Life, LLC.
Rhythm of Life partners birth professionals to promote healthy
lifestyles and environmental awareness among women in the child
bearing—and caring—years.
Founder
Sarah Kraft
Editorial Director and Chief Motivation Officer (C.M.O.)
Sarah is a mom, entrepreneur and social media advocate. She has ten years of professional experience in marketing, public relations, and business development. Sarah worked as the Marketing Director for Namaste Solar Electric, Development Director for Mother's Acting Up and Manager for the EDGE Girls Empowerment Program at the YWCA of Boulder County. She is a graduate of the INVST Community Leadership Program and has a B.A. in Women’s Studies from the University of Colorado, Boulder. Sarah’s passion for health and healing lead her to become a Certified Yoga Instructor, a Reiki III practitioner and to spend two years apprenticing with homebirth midwives before having her own daughter, Emma, in a birth tub at home on April 19th, 2004. Sarah founded Rhythm of Life, LLC in 2007 and launched Mindful Mama magazine and website in 2008. Sarah is driven by a desire to create positive media that engages parents and practitioners in a meaningful dialogue and contributes to a healthy and sustainable future for families worldwide.
Advisory
Elizabeth Cook, Investor and Business Advisor
Co-founder, Wild Oats Markets
Libby Cook has been practicing international and general corporate law for 24 years. Ms. Cook co-founded Wild Oats Markets, the second largest natural foods supermarket chain in North America, serving as its executive Vice President and General Counsel from 1987 to 2001. Ms. Cook founded the Renaissance School, a private middle school based on the Waldorf philosophy, in Boulder, Colorado. She has served on the Board of Directors for other private schools in Colorado and on the Steering Committee of the PeaceJam Foundation. Ms. Cook has received numerous commendations and awards including the 2000 Alumni Award for Distinguished Achievement from the CU School of Law, the 1998 Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award, the 1995 YWCA Hall of Fame Award for Entrepreneurship and the 1992 Esprit Entrepreneur Award. Ms. Cook has traveled abroad extensively, is multi-lingual and has experience directing youth community service projects in both Central and South America. She currently focuses her efforts on the ongoing work of Philanthropiece Foundation.
Andrea J. Grant, Marketing and Editorial Advisor
President & Chief Green Officer of Big Green Company.
Ms. Grant has been a pioneering force in the marketing and branding of the natural health and green products industries, as well developing large-scale public awareness campaigns for environmental issues and other socially sensitive topics. Ms. Grant's expertise includes strategic planning, branding and the practical application of communications, especially on environmental matters. She has guided companies and governments in the integration of environmental awareness and action into their value systems and policies, provided risk and crisis communications, and public outreach and media relations for clients. She also has written highly acclaimed curriculums on environmentally related topics or high schools, middle schools and elementary schools. BIG GREEN COMPANY is a lifestyle brand that represents all that is wholesome and healthy in a fun entertaining way. It's geared towards the 3 to 6-year-old demographic. The brand's goal is to reduce childhood obesity and reflect a new healthy green world. To date no one has captured this niche. The engine of the brand is a public television show, BIG GREEN RABBIT.
Maria Iorillo, CPM, Editorial Advisor
First Vice-President of the Midwives Alliance of North America (MANA)
Maria has been a practicing midwife, serving the San Francisco Bay area since 1986. Maria co-produced It’s My Body, My Baby, My Birth, an educational childbirth film that tells the story of 7 mothers in their emotional journeys to natural childbirth. She also contributed to Your Best Birth, co-authored by Ricki Lake and Abby Epstein and released in May 2009.
Aviva Romm, MD, CPM
President, American Herbalists Guild
Aviva Romm has been a midwife and herbalist for 25 years, one of this country's first CPMs (Certified Professional Midwifes). Her combined expertise in these fields led to extensive herbal care of women and children, and her numerous books including The Natural Pregnancy Book, Naturally Healthy Babies and Children, Pocket Guide to Midwifery Care, Natural Health After Birth, Vaccinations: A Thoughtful Parents Guide, and her recently released Botanical Medicine for Women's Health, a comprehensive textbook. Aviva is the mother of four fantastic "home grown" kids, now ages 15–24. She is the President of the American Herbalists Guild and owner and director of the new distance-learning course Herbal Medicine for Women. At age 39 Aviva began medical school at Yale and graduated in May 2009. The next step of her journey includes residency in internal medicine and women's health at Yale, then clinical practice, more writing, teaching, consulting, and women's health, and birth advocacy work.
Carol Ward, MD, Editorial Advisor
Obstetrics and Gynecology
Mother, wife, mentor, teacher, writer, gardener, seamstress, advocate, and obstetrician – Carol Ward has a private practice in Portland Maine, is an Assistant Professor at the Vermont School of Medicine, and Adjunct Assistant Professor at Dartmouth Medical School. Carol attended Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and completed her residency at Maine Medical Center. She served as Chairman for the Division of Ob/GYN at Mercy Hospital, Maine from 1997-2004 and is currently a board member of Planned Parenthood Northern New England.