HeyJaredThe Secret Life of Mothers
Join us as we delve into the inspirational Secret Life of Mothers! These are real stories from real women sharing the real story of matrescence (becoming a mother); the experiences that shaped and challenged, but didn’t break them.
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Matrescence with Lucy Brook (opens the original)
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Fantastic to have a conversation with Lucy Brook @lucybrooksays about her life, her experience of #matrescence, her research for her book and how important it is for mothers to have the support they need, not only for them, but for those who support them
A Conversation About Matrescence (opens the original)
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Maggie Gordon-Walker, founder of Mothers Uncovered, matrescence advocate and founder of the Matrescence Matters campaign in conversation with: Michelle Welsh - MP for Sherwood Forest, National Maternity and Neonatal Adviser and Chair of the Maternity APPG. Charlotte Faircloth - Professor of Family and Society st the UCL Social research Institute. Leading a study 50 Years of Becoming A Mother revisiting Ann Oakley's seminal text From Here To Maternity. Laura Kyrke-Smith - MP for Aylesbury and the
From Holiday Romance to Matrescence (opens the original)
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Abigail Yardimci is a neurodivergent author who helps other neurodivergent people find their voice through writing.She writes novels that spark joy and connection and believes in everyone’s stories being heard and celebrated. Abi is a Geordie girl living by the sea in South Devon with her Turkish husband and two terrifying teenage boys. Herexperiences of neurodivergence in motherhood are tumultuous to say the least, especially considering they are set against a multi-cultural background as she a
Motherhood Laid Bare (opens the original)
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Eirinie Carson is an award-winning Black British writer and college dropout living in California. She writes about sexual taboos, death and dying, illegal substances, hauntings both real and imagined, and ancestral inheritance in a world desperate to sever the connections between what came before and what isto come. Her work has appeared in LitHub, the Notre Dame Review, Electric Literature, the Sonora Review, the Los Angeles Review, The Unibrow, and other venues. Her first work of fiction, the
The Poetry of Motherhood (opens the original)
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Lily Redwood writes poems that connect us to the mess and the magic of being human. Described as "visceral, loving and brave", her work explores the tangled landscape between birth and death. Her debut pamphlet, You Make Me Think of Swifts, is a raw navigation through the landscape of early motherhood. The book features a foreword by Lucy Jones, author of Matrescence . Lucy says: "Electrifying and radical; anoasis, a healing balm [...] a generous, consoling and powerfulcollection which swells wi
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