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.