Featured Authors

Liz Childs Kelly

Liz Childs Kelly is a writer, award-winning researcher, educator, community builder, and host of the popular Home to Her podcast, which is dedicated to amplifying the voices of the Sacred Feminine.

Her writing has been featured in a variety of online publications, including Forbes, Mashable, Rebelle Society, Human Parts (a Medium publication), and Braided Way, as well as the Girl God Books anthology Just As I Am: Hymns Affirming the Divine Female.

An initiated priestess in the 13 Moons lineage, she also holds certifications in Reiki, as well as Vinyasa and Yin Yoga.

Liz lives in rural Virginia with her family, and can often be found exploring the nearby Blue Ridge Mountains or wandering in the woods behind her home.

Bridget Supple

Bridget Supple has spent the last twenty years supporting women through all stages of pregnancy, labour, and parenting. A mother of four herself, she works as an antenatal teacher for the NCT, the NHS, in particular a major UK Maternity Hospital and Birth Companions a charity supporting pregnant women in prison. She is the founder of an information resource all about the Infant Microbiome (www.babysbiome.org) and runs workshops on parenting, brain development and hypnobirthing. She has also contributed to and worked on the International Journal of Birth and Parent Education (www.ijbpe.com) since its beginning.

Bridget learnt her skills from some of the most influential traditional childbirth figures including Robin Lim (Bumi Sehat) for birth wisdom, Angelina Martinez Miranda (traditional midwifery), and Dr Rocio Alarcon from Ecuador (rebozo and Closing the Bones).  She has attended workshops with some of the greats of childbirth such as Ina May Gaskin, Mary Cronk (breech workshop), Sheila Kitzinger (birth trauma workshop), Jean Sutton (optimal fetal positioning workshop), Andrea Robinson (Childbirth education), Gail Tully (Spinning babies).

Bridget lives in Shropshire with her husband and four children.

Featured Artist

Arla Patch

Womancraft Publishing is proud to celebrate not just the words, but the images of talented women too.

ARLA PATCH, creator of “Please Abide with Me” on the cover of Home to Her, is an artist, writer, teacher and “creativity midwife,” using art as a tool for healing. Her own challenging history provided the source material for using creativity for personal transformation. Making art has offered a powerful opportunity for her and those with whom she has facilitated artmarking: breast cancer survivors, incarcerated women, at risk teens, and survivors of sexual abuse and domestic violence.

Arla is the author of A Body Story and Finding Ground: Girls and Women in Recovery, each of which won IPPY Awards. She also wrote A Heart Story and A Heart Story Coloring Book. 

Healing continues to be a central interest in her life as well as nurturing her spirituality. She is also an activist in the area of Indigenous Justice and a co-founding member of the Coalition of Natives and Allies. Arla is a member of Doylestown Friends Meeting (Quakers) and has a BFA, Ed and an MFA.

This piece is polymer clay; a technique she calls “coil drawing.” Her greatest joy is her grandson Anders.

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