My Blog
Why Writing About Motherhood Is Hard for Me
Exploring the difficulty of articulating the subtler layers of my psyche’s reactions to motherhood.
WANTED: Images of Empowered Mothers (No Pregnant Torsos Please)
Our society lacks a variety of images and versions of empowered mothering, and its up to us as mothers to create and vision ourselves as empowered in our mothering.
Experience is Everything
About a year ago I started searching for resources on feminism and motherhood. When I realized that a lot of my pre-motherhood feminist ideals of independence, financial autonomy, and career advancement (that had given me a sense of empowerment) were not what I was...
Creating a New Possibility of Empowered Mothering
Since becoming a mother almost seven years ago, I have been involved in an ongoing identity shift around newly emerging, and at times conflicting, values and roles. Recently I have become aware of the ways in which I unconsciously devalue my role as a mother. As...
How Core Strength In Your Body Is Like Secure Attachment In Your Relationships
Photo by Lucian Gaddis, Canyonlands, UT. Becoming securely attached in our most important relationships is something really huge and foundational to our development. We all have the biological imperative (meaning a survival need) to attach. It is a largely...
When We Force Pregnancy On Women And Girls: Some Thoughts As A Mother And Therapist
I had a client once who was deciding if she wanted to have a baby or not (she was not pregnant at the time). She was concerned that I could not support her in this deliberation because she had seen (through social media and public speaking) how much I valued my role...