The Relationship Between My Mother and My Mother

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"My mother is tall or was tall and and lanky and thin and the kind of person you can drape a burlap sack over and it looks like she's wearing hot couture," he says. "She did not know that she was pregnant with me for six months um and she is that sort of disconnected from her body and the workings of her body." He adds: "From the first time I was able to say the word no to her and children learned to say no usually in earnest when they're about 10 or 11 years old certainly girls do my mum"

Welcome to the Wintering Sessions with Katherine May.

This week Katherine chats to Elissa Altman, author of ‘Motherland’ and more.

Katherine finds Elissa in that pre-Christmas zone, which serves as the perfect jumping-off point for a very upfront, candid and fascinating conversation on family. Specifically, Elissa's relationship with her mother. Like every family, it's a relationship which is unique and comes with its own inimitable history, and as such, informs where the two find themselves this present day, and it's a wonderful thing to hear Elissa talk openly about all that is contained within this box of memories and present moments. In addition, Elissa catches up with Katherine about the New England Winter, being a feeder, her relationship with her father, mental wellbeing, getting out of the 'swamp' via nature and its grounding properties, rediscovering and reprocessing her musical proclivities, and all with a real glint and sparkle.

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