Being a non-binary parent shouldn’t be such a stressful experience for you, yet it is the reality of our society right now. Redefining family can be scary, but you deserve to live in your truth. Learn more about gaining support and where to go next if you need additional guidance.
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For most caregivers of little ones, parental overwhelm is a near constant state. We are tasked with an insurmountable amount of work. Add in the heavy sense that the society we live in is crashing down around us, and it can feel hopeless at times.
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I think it’s important to talk about how the systems we live in affect motherhood and how we parent. And when we talk about the systems we live in, we have to talk about capitalism. And when we talk about capitalism, we have to talk about white supremacy. And when we talk about white supremacy, we have to talk about patriarchy.
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When I was pregnant with my son, I had this blissful image of how breastfeeding would go. I had watched countless birthing videos, and I was besotted by the images of newborns crawling their way up their mother’s belly and latching to the breast.
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I recently experienced a miscarriage. My living, breathing, healthy body rejecting an embryo felt so surreal. It still feels surreal, writing about it now.
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I am here to remind you of your divinity. Too often, we forget our power as mothers. The power of our womb. The power of our heart. The power of our touch. The power of our voice.
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The challenge arises in how we as parents can cultivate in our children a love, respect, and understanding of who they are and where they come from when they were born outside or taken away from the land of their blood.
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As we officially welcome in the winter season, the invitation is to rest. This may feel counterintuitive since we live in a society and culture that has its New Year’s celebration smack in the middle of winter and demands that we constantly do and produce and go, go, go, go.
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I was asked how being a refugee informs my motherhood and my work. I realized that there is no aspect of my life that being a refugee has not affected.
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This has been a year in which many of us have started seeing things from new, different, intersectional perspectives. November has had me thinking of Thanksgiving and the meaning and symbolism of the holiday.
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As we enter Autumn, there is an invitation to practice slowing down and doing less. Our bodies and psyches are organically tuned to the natural rhythms of the seasons, but we’re too often unable to acknowledge it since most of us are barely able to keep afloat as we juggle all the demands of life. This is especially true as a parent.
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Can we talk about nighttime parenting? I didn’t even hear that term until, strangely, after I had my son. Before giving birth, I had this blissful and very naive idea of how postpartum would look and feel. Spoiler alert: It turned out to be nothing, I mean nothing, like how I had envisioned it.
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