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Surrounded by love and support under the pink night sky

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On the days when I am able to pull myself off the floor, there are arms to steady me. By Maria McDonnell

March 16, 2023 Family, Parenting Challenges

Art and motherhood: is there really a way to do both?

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I might be a mom by day, but in my heart I am a writer. By Reannon Muth

January 25, 2023 Culture, Parenting Challenges

On pie charts, motherhood, and my uneasy relationship with feminism

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My decision to stop working felt retrograde, a betrayal of my gender. By Jenny Raj

December 15, 2022 Culture

Why I feel ambivalent about Mother’s Day

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I want the roses as much as I hate them. By Leslie Stonebraker

May 4, 2022 Parenting Challenges

Motherhood: Facing and Finding Yourself

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Motherwell talks to Jungian psychologist Lisa Marchiano about her new book, and motherhood as a journey of self-discovery.

April 27, 2022 Books, Parenting Challenges

Learning to walk (alone) again. This time without my kids.

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I was a morning walker well before I was a mother. By Emma Wilkins

March 17, 2022 Family

Teaching my kids how to make focaccia helped my family find peace

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There’s power in knowing you can do something creative, even in a world turned upside down. By Sarah Walker Caron

January 24, 2022 Culture, Parenting Challenges

How curiosity can help lead women to their unicorn space

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Why is the question—what makes you feel the most like you?—so often met with an extended pause? By Eve Rodsky

January 12, 2022 Books, Culture

The beauty and tumult of a very big family

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With six children, you learn to spread anxiety thinly over everyone until it ceases to have much impact. By Jodi Bartle

November 17, 2021 Parenting Challenges

I’m a single working mom, trying to do it all in a pandemic. It’s really hard.

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I have a full-time job and yet I still feel like I’m waiting for my ex-husband to see me as an equal human. By Katherine Sargent

October 21, 2021 Family, Parenting Challenges

The day I re-thought what to say, and not say, to tired mothers

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Somewhere in my garage there is a bin of all the tiny rubber boots my children used to wear. By Kim June Johnson

September 23, 2021 Family

My grandmother’s handwritten recipes helped me find comfort in who she once was

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Not all recipes need to be cooked, but they all deserve to be read. By Tahnee Freda

September 15, 2021 Family, Parenting Challenges

Q&A: Mom Brain

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Motherhood changes the way we think and feel about ourselves. We talked to Ilyse Dobrow DiMarco about how to cope with this upheaval.

September 9, 2021 Books

I dream what would happen if my two husbands met

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When Steve died, I found it hard to imagine ever finding love again. By Sarah Kilch Gaffney

June 15, 2021 Parenting Challenges

After years of rejecting a beauty regime, this is why I finally embraced one

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My mother was praised her whole life for her beauty; I preferred praise for my mind. By Emily Franklin

May 5, 2021 Culture, Parenting Challenges

How a hopeful dance became part of our family’s new bedtime ritual

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The Naked Baby Dance encompasses all of my favorite parts of toddlerhood. It is both silly and sincere. By Martha Quinn

March 31, 2021 Family

Women and caregiving in the pandemic, there’s hope on the other side

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We didn’t ask for this new life, this set of unattainable demands and responsibilities. By Karen Paul

March 4, 2021 Culture, Parenting Challenges

The things I tell myself one year after giving birth

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In the past twelve months you have become Mama and Mommy and Mum, but you are also still you. By Emily Brisse

February 3, 2021 Family

Why Christmas cookies are bittersweet to my brother and me

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In our small town everyone talked about everyone else’s business, but no one talked to us about why our mom was sick. 
By Elizabeth Creaswick

December 21, 2020 Parenting Challenges

Motherwell talks to best-selling author Christie Tate

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One of the rules in group therapy is no secrets. The members become your support system, and everyone can talk about anything they want, without limitations.

December 2, 2020 Books

My breast cancer made me reevaluate breastfeeding

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After my diagnosis, there was no question in anyone’s mind that my daughter was going to be bottle-fed. By Jenny Leon

September 23, 2020 Family, Parenting Challenges

Why I don’t like the phrase “mommy brain”

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Behind every “mommy brain” story, there’s a fuller picture. Modern motherhood makes impossible demands. By Nicole Graev Lipson

September 21, 2020 Family

Cancer taught me you don’t need to be a perfect mom

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My daughter was born four weeks after I was diagnosed with breast cancer. By Jenny Leon

August 10, 2020 Family, Parenting Challenges

How not to kill your kid in the kitchen

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Have you ever watched a five-year-old pour a package of cooked green beans into a bowl? I have. And let me tell you, it nearly did me in. By Debra Arbit 

June 17, 2020 Family

Why I used to hate taking my kids to the park

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Nothing epitomized the drudgery and boredom of those early parenting years quite like an afternoon at the park. By Ilyse Dobrow DiMarco

June 12, 2020 Culture

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