The Importance of Caring for Your Mother

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I've lived with that sense of resentment for you know I'm 58 so 58 years a long time yeah. My mother also lives with fairly severe mental illness diagnosed and she is really incapable of self-care and decision proper decision-making when it comes to her own safety. So certainly on the one hand I mean she's my mother I love her and I do feel a moral obligation to make sure that she's safe but I also often say that turning my back on my mother would be like turning myback on a two-year-old child running into oncoming traffic right? She has no one else I have no siblings she has no siblings there is no man in her life or anyone

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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