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Cover Fall 2004
Archived Photo by Catherine Young.
Cover of Fall 2004 Issue.
 Welcome to the e-home of The Compleat Mother Magazine. It’s lovely to have you. It is my honour and pleasure to share our 22-year legacy with you and unveil Mother in all her glory. May this be a dynamic gathering place for our tribe.

Pour yourself a cup of tea, put your feet up and have a look around. Feedback is most welcome and appreciated. Please send your questions, comments and creative contributions to angela@thecompleatmother.com. I look forward to hearing from you. Don’t be a stranger.

Current Issue - Fall 2006

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“Just a quick note and a few photos of my five-month-old, David. I love reading the magazine and finding the names of people I know. The topics you cover are very real and timely. And keep the hippy nude photos coming! I included one of David for your viewing pleasure. Long live EC!” ~ Jennifer Stewart, Ottawa Ontario (Prairie Girl at Heart).

 

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February 4, 2007

I must confess I am a reluctant blogger. Blogging has not come easily to me. I thought I would be a natural because of my propensity for longwinded talks and verbose essays, but blogging is so much more than that. Blogging, I have come to learn, is intensely personal and revealing and I just don’t think I was prepared for that, or ready for it.

I do not consider myself guarded, but the experiences of a traumatic childhood have ingrained in me a heightened sense of awareness for safety’s sake. To my child self that translated to protect thyself at all costs and often that meant not revealing anything that might make me vulnerable. I guess it left me with a tendency […]

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Our Lineage

The Compleat Mother was founded in Ontario Canada by Catherine Young, who published the first issue in the winter of 1985.

In 1999 Catherine was diagnosed with breast cancer.  She put out a call to her readers for someone to take over publishing the magazine, as she anticipated being unable to carry on.  I sent her an impassioned letter asking her to consider me as her successor; however, Catherine continued publishing until her death in September 2001.  Her daughter, Rebecca Young, assumed ownership of The Compleat Mother and published four issues of the magazine.  In the fall of 2002, around the time of the anniversary of Catherine’s death, Rebecca ceased publishing. [...]

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