*downloads immediately* (your timing is impeccable, as currently on a two-week half term…which arrived just as I finally started to feel I’d caught up after Easter 😂) xx
This is brilliant! I can't wait to listen and it's exactly the kinds of conversations we need more of. And thanks for sharing all the self-doubt, it's very very relatable. Xxx
Loved this Marisa, so glad this creation is here, it is brilliant and so needed. I identified a lot with the becoming/unbecoming of mothering. And yes to the constant wondering if anyone else is finding it this hard?! And of course the division of self between children and creativity. I am grateful to have found so many others living/creating/writing in the edges of mothering here xx
This is absolutely brilliant. I am still pulling bits of hedgerow out of my hair eight years on! Loved the mentions of how embarrassing being a mum was before we became mothers (hello internalised misogyny), how important naming us as our actual names (not just “Mum”) and language are. Thanks Marisa, and thank you Lucy x
Totally identify with your self-doubt about putting something out there! Even 6 months into LIVE LEARN CHANGE weekly posts I still feel anxious that people will think "what is she wanging on about? none of this makes sense and I don't relate to it at all" or worse "she's embarrassing herself again"! But, like you say the trick is not to listen to the self-grit and publish anyway and gradually the comments come and the connecting happens and you're reaching people, just as you have reached me today. Thank you ♥️
I am empty nesting for the first time this year and that, combined with a chosen change in work circumstances, has turned me full round to thinking about creativity and how 'squashed down' this has been for the last two decades.
Here's to re-awakening our creative contributions to the world (however long they have been dormant)!
Can't wait to listen too.
Well done you - such an important topic. Thank you ♥️
I need so much to know that other people (mothers) have that chronic self-doubt now nestled in their bones… but Do The Thing anyway. Thank you for pushing through and making these. I can’t wait to listen
Thank you Marisa! I don't know how to fully articulate my thanks to you and Lucy ..because I'm brainy fogged to fuck with my 9 month on and two year old.
But her book was a gift from the feminist Gods in Matrescence 1 and your Substack is my mini lifeline in Number 2. And now a podcast. Cherry, cake!
I've just turned 40, so I've got far too many transitions going on for one woman. Funnily enough yours and Alice's memoir workshops are the only writing courses I've done since the babies and they inspired me...i think they made me feel like me, maybe a tiny fraction, although wtf that means is tbc.
I feel like you lot are the friends I've needed in my Matrescence. I've got lovely Mum friends and non Mum friends...but this particular brand of conversation I can't have with them. Not in this way where I feel like what you say resonates on every vibration and then heals me.
So I debrief/process my experiences through all your ladies' words, written and spoken. I nod vigorously and feel seen and heard and less angry and more sane and more able to cope.
Thank thank thank you for having the courage to be vulnerable and put your heart and soul into the pages and the ether. It's important, it's an intervention! Xxx
*downloads immediately* (your timing is impeccable, as currently on a two-week half term…which arrived just as I finally started to feel I’d caught up after Easter 😂) xx
This is brilliant! I can't wait to listen and it's exactly the kinds of conversations we need more of. And thanks for sharing all the self-doubt, it's very very relatable. Xxx
Loved this Marisa, so glad this creation is here, it is brilliant and so needed. I identified a lot with the becoming/unbecoming of mothering. And yes to the constant wondering if anyone else is finding it this hard?! And of course the division of self between children and creativity. I am grateful to have found so many others living/creating/writing in the edges of mothering here xx
This is absolutely brilliant. I am still pulling bits of hedgerow out of my hair eight years on! Loved the mentions of how embarrassing being a mum was before we became mothers (hello internalised misogyny), how important naming us as our actual names (not just “Mum”) and language are. Thanks Marisa, and thank you Lucy x
This sounds amazing, and so needed!
Totally identify with your self-doubt about putting something out there! Even 6 months into LIVE LEARN CHANGE weekly posts I still feel anxious that people will think "what is she wanging on about? none of this makes sense and I don't relate to it at all" or worse "she's embarrassing herself again"! But, like you say the trick is not to listen to the self-grit and publish anyway and gradually the comments come and the connecting happens and you're reaching people, just as you have reached me today. Thank you ♥️
I am empty nesting for the first time this year and that, combined with a chosen change in work circumstances, has turned me full round to thinking about creativity and how 'squashed down' this has been for the last two decades.
Here's to re-awakening our creative contributions to the world (however long they have been dormant)!
Can't wait to listen too.
Well done you - such an important topic. Thank you ♥️
Congratulations! Well done for pushing it through. X
Amazing - cannot wait to listen! X
I need so much to know that other people (mothers) have that chronic self-doubt now nestled in their bones… but Do The Thing anyway. Thank you for pushing through and making these. I can’t wait to listen
Thank you Marisa! I don't know how to fully articulate my thanks to you and Lucy ..because I'm brainy fogged to fuck with my 9 month on and two year old.
But her book was a gift from the feminist Gods in Matrescence 1 and your Substack is my mini lifeline in Number 2. And now a podcast. Cherry, cake!
I've just turned 40, so I've got far too many transitions going on for one woman. Funnily enough yours and Alice's memoir workshops are the only writing courses I've done since the babies and they inspired me...i think they made me feel like me, maybe a tiny fraction, although wtf that means is tbc.
I feel like you lot are the friends I've needed in my Matrescence. I've got lovely Mum friends and non Mum friends...but this particular brand of conversation I can't have with them. Not in this way where I feel like what you say resonates on every vibration and then heals me.
So I debrief/process my experiences through all your ladies' words, written and spoken. I nod vigorously and feel seen and heard and less angry and more sane and more able to cope.
Thank thank thank you for having the courage to be vulnerable and put your heart and soul into the pages and the ether. It's important, it's an intervention! Xxx
This sounds amazing Marisa.....really looking forward to listening!