We know that the transition into motherhood is deeply challenging. It shakes our very sense of who we are in the world; it asks us to transform and adapt and surrender, every step of the way. Not only that, but modern-day mothers are navigating this transformative...
When I read the headline citing new research from the National Institutes of Health – “Postpartum Depression May Affect Women for At Least Three Years After Childbirth” – I remembered an evening, a decade ago, that forever changed the way I thought about...
“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...
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...
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...
