I just want motherhood to matter. And not just alongside all parenting in general, but the work of mothering in particular.
We all know that mothers are the glue that holds society together, yet motherhood continues to be the most undervalued and overly exploited role in our country. WHY??!!
I woke up today with so much anxiety around this fact coupled with the fact that I need to hurry up and get some money flowing back into my life with some of my “professional” work all the while I am constantly working at my job of motherhood which never counts in the world of financial value except to just drain my bank account, in all honesty...
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Becoming a mother isn’t supposed to be a death sentence for a woman’s sensuality. (Heck, most women couldn’t become mothers without it! 😂) Motherhood is an initiation into a new dimension of sensations that expands upon the many possibilities for playful, feminine self expression. After all, mothers are the ultimate creatrixes!
Yet our culture is still uncomfortable with the seemingly mutual exclusivity of the sacred and the sensuous in one female body...
Look, as a mother of four, I know how depressing it is to look in the mirror and not even recognize yourself many months after having a baby. (Where is that woman who used to be so passionate and alive? What is this new body I have been left with …again? Who AM I now??)
I also know how frustrating it is to not even KNOW what you want anymore because your new role of motherhood has completely taken over your former existence. Or to feel like your life is completely out of control as time feels amorphous. (Doesn’t anyone notice that I am barely staying afloat from one minute to the next in between the waves of this new life crashing down upon me without the family support and/or sisterhood of times’ past??)...
I have always been a seeker of open spaces.
The expansive feeling of looking out over an unobstructed horizon and not being constrained by the illusion of limitations deeply inspires me, fueling my passion to pursue freedom (and infinite possibilities!) in all that I do.
I also crave the wiggle room of smaller cities over metropolises. For me, they elicit a feeling of spaciousness around creativity. That sense that there is still more to do rather than it already having been done...
