What Meaning do Breasts hold Today?
Mention breasts today and invariably we speak of breast cancer. Online search results overwhelmingly reflect a medical view on breasts informing us of the prevention, treatment and recovery from breast cancer. The only other occasional references relate to the function of women's breasts as tools of breastfeeding and the representation of breasts as commodities of someone else's sexual pleasure. 
The sexualisation of breasts in particular has made breasts forbidden at times even to  women themselves. Breasts have become a commodity, so commonly traded for their sexual allure that our perception of them has become so distorted and their sacredness so sullied that even the simple, natural and nurturing act of breastfeeding has become an offensive act when done in public spaces.

Given the growing recognition by organisations as influential as the World Health Organisation, that lifestyle choices affect breast health and overall health and wellbeing, it makes sense that we make paramount a woman's relationship with her own breasts and body, as it is ultimately she who makes the choices that impact the health of her body. 
The fact that more women than ever before are undergoing elective cosmetic breast augmentation exposes a disturbing level of breast dis-satisfaction amongst women across all ages. And if a woman dislikes or even loathes her breasts, she is likely to have  little to no motivation to care for them, until there is an imminent threat of disease.
As a collective, women today have become so disenfranchised from their own bodies and breasts that they have accepted their breasts are fundamentally not their own – the role of breasts has largely been reduced to feeding, pleasuring and looking good for others.

​The Role of Foundational Breast Care 

Foundational Breast Care offers access to a source of educational information arising directly from women’s bodies and their experience of re-connecting to a stillness within, a state in which the  woman understands the role of breasts in her connection to and expression of nurturing, a fundamental quality that informs the way she cares for herself in a naturally more precious, responsible and honouring way.
Regardless of whether a woman's breast tissue is present, replaced or removed, the potential for her to feel beyond the impositions of the world and know herself as far more than the expectations of society remains forever accessible to her through this area encompassing the breasts, heart and the lymphatics.
By way of our online presence and engagement through workshops and presentations, Foundational Breast Care is a resource that can support individual women of all ages, along with medical and complementary health practitioners and educators, to see the profound value in understanding breasts beyond fashion, function, sex and disease.