The Healing Trauma Podcast with Monique Koven
Monique Koven and I discuss Mother Hunger on The Healing Trauma Podcast.
Interview on the Connectfulness® Practice Podcast
Listen to my conversation with Rebecca Wong on the Connectfulness® Practice Podcast!
‘America Doesn’t Care’ and Mother Hunger
Sharing this excellent article by Meg Conley, America Doesn’t Care About Mothers. It’s a powerful testament to the existing, systemic struggle mothers navigate every day, and how an enduring pandemic is creating toxic stress for women and children. I love the way she wraps it up in a nutshell saying: “If we can’t fix our culture, can …
Maternal Mental Health and the COVID-19 Pandemic
Like many of you, I’m a bit out of sorts and somewhat disoriented right now. Our collective mental health is deteriorating during Covid-19. Recent stats report an increase from 20-40% of adults struggling with mental illness since the advent of the pandemic. Maternal mental health is particularly at risk. Helping children with distance learning, navigating …
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Being There & Mother Hunger
I love Erica Komisar’s words from her wonderful book Being There; Why Prioritizing Motherhood in the First Three Years Matters. “I often hear working mothers say how great it is for young women to see their mothers in high-powered careers. That may be true, but when it comes to babies and toddlers, they don’t care …
Thoughts on Gender, Fear, and Covid19
During a pandemic, understanding the female fear response is really helpful. Because sometimes, as women, our behaviors make us feel crazy. Even if we intellectually know that it’s okay to be in a heightened state of anxiety, the standard theory of fight and flight doesn’t quite explain the intensity of our emotions as we fold …
A conversation with Terri Wellbrock on The Healing Place Podcast
Watch my discussion with Terri Wellbrock on Pandemic Self-Care Strategies!
Gender Inequality
Mother Hunger is a symptom of systemic gender inequality that diminishes the critical role of mothering.
Comfort
Love is supposed to feel good, so what happens if Mom is unpredictable, unavailable, or frightening? We turn to something else for comfort.
Primary Caregiver
Research shows that children who have a safe, attuned primary caregiver can weather life’s adversities with less risk of emotional trauma.