Motherhood Will Change You:  on losing yourself after having a baby

Motherhood Will Change You: on losing yourself after having a baby

    “It’s not like I’m going to let motherhood change who I am,” I remember saying, with unintended smugness, hand hovering over my resplendently pregnant belly.    It was my first baby, I felt beautiful and powerful, and morning sickness was only a...
Eight Years Postpartum:  on motherhood and the medicine of time

Eight Years Postpartum: on motherhood and the medicine of time

  Oh, sweet mama, I know.   You’re wondering:  so, when does it end? When do I feel like myself again?   When do I feel just a little less like there’s a thread tied to the ventricles of my heart and fastened so securely to this tiny being a...
Introducing the MotherSHIFT Edition of The Becoming Podcast!

Introducing the MotherSHIFT Edition of The Becoming Podcast!

  Here’s something a little different this month….   As I prepare to begin the third season of the MotherSHIFT program, I had an enormous creative urge to have conversations with some of my favourite mamas about what matrescence, or the...