EP61: Brooke McNamara on the Poetry of Reality and Mothering as Activism

What She Shares:

• How the birth of her son was a psycho-spiritual death experience
• The rich depth of her postpartum experiences
• Practicing as a Zen Monk AND parenting
• About her new course "Write to the Heart of Motherhood"

What You'll Hear:

• Recognizing when you need to surrender, and when you need to stand in your strength
• Expanding your boundaries to build resiliency
• Feeling the pain of childbirth as power
• Pushing yourself out of love, not punishment
• Birth and postpartum as a rite of passage, and incorporating afterward
• Re-integrating with society at a new level after a rite of passage
• Sharing your learning with your community
• Viewing the interruptions of life as life itself
• Committing to what resources you
• Allowing space for creativity and inspiration to come organically
• Finding ways to interrupt your habits and inner critic
• Harvesting what is already happening in your mothering

Brooke McNamara is a professor at Naropa University, the author of "Feed Your Vow: Poems for Falling into Fullness", and creates dance theater performances through her company Eunice Embodiment. She's a poet, a performer, a zen monk, mother of two, a movement educator, and a mindfulness coach.