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I thought perfection was the glue of secure attachment, that rewriting the story was the hallmark of redemption. But when I stopped running from the mother I didn’t want to be — when I forgave my mother for the narrative she unknowingly authored — I could finally give my son what he needed all along: my presence.
The rocks and rivers speak the story of our healing and the renewal of our lost wonder — if only we learn to listen.
Has motherhood swallowed me whole or have I been burying myself in it?
Courtney Martin reflects on the end of five years of breastfeeding her daughters, and the wisdom and the weirdness of the body.
Kao Kalia Yang on miscarriage and the fragility of motherhood and its tremendous strength, how it lives beyond life and death.
My mother was Moxie for only a decade, but I wish I had known her then. Her happiness and sense of possibility must have been magnetic. Despite the war and all the absences and hardships she endured, those were her golden years.
How do we make sense of our life and work in the context of the generations that come before us? An interview with Terese Marie Mailhot about her debut memoir, "Heart Berries."
Learning to accept the anxieties of motherhood can help bring in wonder and gratitude for the mundane moments of parenting.
On sisterhood and the layers that make up shared wombs, lineages, cultures, and histories.
To be a tía — an aunt — is a singular honor. On the bittersweet truth of choosing not to have children, and the gift of deeply loving a child who isn't one's own.
At a certain point, we come to the realization that our mothers have interior lives entirely separate from us. On the conceptual challenge of seeing our mothers as whole human beings.
Our columnist gets honest about missing true solitude as a mother of young girls, and reflects on how crucial it is for women to carve out space to nurture no one but themselves.
Through the intimacy of chosen mother-daughterhood, a woman navigates the fraught territory of craving Chinese identity as a white American — and recognizes that some identities cannot be earned or learned, but are gifts passed on.
Can being lost be productive? Our columnist on lingering in the mystery of our purpose — and surrendering to the paths that choose us.
The elemental closeness of a mother to her children, and to her own body.
Courtney offers up a fear- and judgment-free space, and draws forth the perspectives of women who don't have kids, by choice or otherwise.
There is beauty in what makes us human, but also in what reveals us as creatures. A woman shares her evolving perspective on the animal nature of family life, and the raw freedom she finds therein.
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