HeyJaredBeneath the Magnolia
Mother, writer, nonprofit founder, criminalized survivor, speaker, advocate, perpetually politically homeless.
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Eight years ago I gave birth unassisted, and two people were born that day. (opens the original)
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There’s a video from Iris’s birth I sometimes go back and rewatch. I’m kneeling on my bed, rocking back and forth. I’m smiling from ear to ear, holding my slippery, tiny 6-pound baby to my chest. Behind me is a narrow mirror on the wall, in which you can make out my ex-husband standing beside the bed. I’d asked him to take pictures.I dreamt her existence the night before taking a pregnancy test. Iris was born on a Saturday in September, too early for the midwife to arrive to witness her birth. I
He talks to you like that because he hates you. (opens the original)
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Allow me to save you months and years of psychoanalysis and cognitive behavioral therapy by telling you that your husband hates you because you’re a woman.That’s it.He belittles women, makes sweeping generalizations about women, denigrates women, and makes broad essentialist claims like “all women do XYZ” - not because he’s misunderstood, or because of childhood trauma, or because someone hurt him. Those things might all be true anyway, but they don’t justify his deep-seated hatred for women. He
I thought I’d be a Waldorf Mom. And then I met my kids. (opens the original)
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As a new mom at 22, I lived on a homestead in Naples, NY with my best friend’s older sister and her family of Waldorf homeschoolers. I assumed, like anything else, that I’d homeschool my daughter in Rudolf Steiner’s way. I’d picked up a copy of Last Child in the Woods and The Kingdom of Childhood. Waldorf seemed like the logical next step. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5Ru2!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstac
“In the best interests of the child.” (opens the original)
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We received our custody order, and it’s unlike anything I’ve seen.While we’re all still processing, I’ll tell you the good news and I’ll tell you the bad news.Good news? I get to pick her up and bring her home. She gets to sleep in her bed in her room, snuggle her baby brothers, and run around her backyard with her sister. She gets to collect eggs from her hen, IzzaBig, and play at the store we’ve spent the past year building.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn
When He Couldn’t Threaten to Rip My Throat Out Anymore, He Sued Me Instead. (opens the original)
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In the past 3.5 years of The Mama Wilder Foundation’s existence, we’ve screened hundreds of applications for cash assistance from women, and there is a common, overarching theme among these requests:Women leaving abusive relationships are often surprised to find that upon physical separation, the abuse does not end; it transforms into something more insidious and in many cases, far more destructive.Enter Post-Separation Abuse.Unlike punching holes in the wall, breaking dishes, slamming cabinets
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