Anami Roots

Anami Roots 🌿 Empowering women through pregnancy, birth, postpartum, parenting & healing.

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10/12/2026

Happy Thanksgiving everyone 🇨🇦🦃

10/09/2026

As a child I was bullied in school, by the teacher & classmates

At home, my dad was emotionally absent, and as a teen his anger landed only on me.

My parents divorced when I was 18 & I was heavily involved in their conflicts by my mother...

My mother kicked me out also at 18, and I was on my own working 2 jobs to make ends meet...

A severance check bought my ticket from Portugal to Canada at 22, alone...

In 2016, I married a Muslim man pretending to be someone he wasn't. I lost a baby. Had two more.

In 2019, when my son was three weeks old & my daughter 18 months, I left and went to a shelter.

Seven years of solo parenting, through a pandemic, homeschooling, and building a business, going to college since...

Years of healing. Cutting toxic people out of my life. Remembering who I was ...

Now my nervous system finally feels calmer.

They call it boring, they say I am lucky...
I call it the life I fought for.

Your thinking brain is only 5 to 10% of the story in birth.In my experience, as a doula & a Mother , I've watched this p...
10/09/2026

Your thinking brain is only 5 to 10% of the story in birth.

In my experience, as a doula & a Mother , I've watched this play out again and again. A mother can plan everything perfectly with her thinking brain, and then her emotional brain walks into the birth room carrying every scary story she's ever heard, every past hurt, every expectation she absorbed without choosing it.

That's just how we're wired. Birth happens mostly in the emotional and instinctive brain, the 90 to 95% running underneath.

The beautiful part: your brain is always learning and can change throughout life. The stories you hear, the environment you birth in, the breathing and preparation you practice, they all shape those automatic patterns.

Your story might be different. But if you're preparing for birth, don't only prepare your plan. Prepare your nervous system too.

Next Wednesday I'm going deeper on this in a video inside the community. Come join us.

Link in bio

10/08/2026

Years of homeschooling paying off...
A group of older kids came to the playground on lunch break. No adults around..

The swearing, the name-calling, the inappropriate games, the yelling, spitting... My kids saw all of it...
And instead of joining in, they looked at me. We talked about it right there. What they noticed, how it felt, why kids act like that when nobody's watching, what would my kids do...

I am not sheltering them from the world, but I am not normalizing this behavior by exposing them every day to it , I am raising kids who know how to behave when no one's watching, who don't follow the crowd, who choose to be the example...

& a lot of people might say .. well, not everyone is privileged enough to Homeschool.. I am a Solo mom of 2.. no help from their dad, no child support, no family in Canada to step in..

I built my life, my business, around the kids to make it happen..
I don't drive or own a car, I meal prep, I run my home like a business with systems to be able to afford staying home with them...

When you are committed to break cycles, you do what you have to do to make it happen!

I am not saying all public schools are bad, but where I live, there is no way I would put my kids there !

I was raised by a school teacher. My grandmother was a school teacher too.I don't remember much of my life with my paren...
10/08/2026

I was raised by a school teacher. My grandmother was a school teacher too.

I don't remember much of my life with my parents. But I have vivid memories of school. The bullying I endured. How it felt. What it did to my confidence.

As an adult, I can say my parents don't know me. I've been 15 years in Canada and I changed a lot. I found the real me.

They didn't know the real me when I was a kid either. The kid I could have been if I wasn't bullied, if I wasn't made to feel shame of being. They didn't spend enough time to get to know me. And when I showed the true me, they shoved it down. They shamed it. They threatened it. They made it quiet.

Homeschooling gives me 16,000 extra hours with my kids.

16,000 hours to know them. To see them. To never make them quiet who they really are and will grow to be...

And I can say: I know my kids. I know who they are now. I will know who they evolve to be and become.

That's my Why!

10/04/2026

Wearing Countless hats as a solo Homeschooling mom of 2 , Homeschooling them while running 2 businesses from home ..

10/04/2026

54 founding mothers. Thank you 🎉
I thought we'd reach 50 by December. You got us here in early October

Here's how our village works: the community is always free. Every mama gets prenatal classes, community, vetted professionals, and resources, free forever.

And I'm extending the founding member circle to 100. The first 100 mothers also get free access to some premium courses inside.

Link in bio to join us. Let's reach 100 by December.

Your story is welcome here.

Parenting with understanding, with love, with respect and connection takes time, takes patience, takes a lot of work and...
03/27/2022

Parenting with understanding, with love, with respect and connection takes time, takes patience, takes a lot of work and shadow work to break generational cycles. But it's so worth it.

Connect and comfort your babies and children as much as your heart tell you to mama. Your intuition knows what's best for your baby.

The best way to learn, trough play :)
11/06/2019

The best way to learn, trough play :)

“Children more than ever, need opportunities to be in their bodies in the world – jumping rope, bicycling, stream hoppin...
11/06/2019

“Children more than ever, need opportunities to be in their bodies in the world – jumping rope, bicycling, stream hopping, and fort building. It’s this engagement between limbs of the body and bones of the earth where true balance and centeredness emerge.” ~ David Sobel

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