EARTH MOTHER

How is it that motherhood stands as the ultimate transformation in life and yet remains so deeply misunderstood? In the blink of an eye, your entire world and sense of self are irrevocably altered....

Grief was and is a large part of motherhood. And we don't talk about it enough. 

 I mourned for my birth story as many of us do. I mourned for myself and my body.  I mourned for...

Thoughts as I nurture Violet to sleep...

Between Nursing

Pumping

Eating enough to produce milk

Anxiety with milk production 

Bathing 

Naps

Engorged, leaking breasts

Bruised, chapped...

Notes from pregnancy:

I wrote the following notes 3 days before delivering my daughter. I had just left my OB appointment and was full of fire.

"The word induction has been thrown around for the...