There is a particular kind of unraveling that comes for most women at least once in a life, and often more than once. It rarely announces itself. It arrives instead as a slow loss of color, a restlessness that good news cannot soothe, a grief with no obvious cause. You are doing everything you were […]
We are taught to watch for the firsts. We mark them in baby books, capture them on our phones, and announce them to the grandparents, the first smile, the first step, the first word, the first day of school. And we’re right to celebrate them because they are genuinely worth celebrating. The firsts arrive with
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There is a particular ache that comes over many mothers when they go looking for themselves and cannot be found. You scroll back through the months and the years of photographs, thousands of them, a whole archive of your children growing up, and you notice with a quiet sinking feeling that you are barely in
The Invisible Mother: On Being in the Picture Before This Season Ends Read More »
If you spend any amount of time in spaces devoted to feminine embodiment, spirituality, or personal growth, it will not be long before you encounter the Wild Woman. She appears in books, workshops, social media posts, and countless inspirational quotes layered over photographs of forests, wolves, and women standing barefoot beneath the moon. She is
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The Sacred in the Seemingly Ordinary Some people wait for magic to appear.But for the families I’m called to serve, the ones who wander through their garden with bare feet, trace the evening light across the kitchen floor, and cradle their children through midnight feeds, magic is already here. It is woven into the
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