Category: Voices from the MotherVerse
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Love & Resentment
I recently became aware of ‘Create Like a Mother‘ – a US based blog from writer, Katherine Fusco, with a focus on motherhood and creativity. It includes a growing series of interviews with creative mothers, similar to those featured in JourneySongs’s Voices from the MotherVerse. The first line of the opening post of the blog, […]
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Voices from the MotherVerse Q & A Series #15: Roshnii Rose
“I have an insatiable need to express myself, to put down what is going on for me or flowing through me. To suppress it would be unhealthy and ultimately damaging.” 1. Describe your current family situation I am blessed to be in a happy, healthy marriage of 13+ years. I have two sons, aged 10 […]
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Voices from the MotherVerse Q & A Series #14: Tamzin Hale Hurley
“I love to keep a sense of play in my life, to say yes, to take chances, not do the obvious, question everything and play in everything! It keeps me feeling alive and connected.” 1. Describe your current family situation I have been married to a beautiful man for 13 years and have 3 children […]
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Voices from the MotherVerse Q & A Series #13: Madeleine Forbes
“Make it non-negotiable. Show up. Tell yourself that whatever happens you’ll make something – even if it’s in a scrappy five minutes last thing at night, or dictated into your phone sitting in your car, or is just the worst thing you’ve ever made. It could be a thirty second song or a half finished […]
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Voices from the MotherVerse Q & A Series #12: Karolina Dumala
“To me, beauty, love and life are the purpose of our time here. ‘Make beauty together’, is my motto really.” 1. Describe your current family situation I am a mother of a 10 year old home educated boy, Antek. 2. In your eyes, what does ‘creativity’ mean and why is it important to you? Creativity […]
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Voices from the MotherVerse Q & A Series #11: Celine West
“When I had my daughter, I felt the rebirth of my creative and true emotional self. I rediscovered that vibrant energy and the need to create. I also felt the fears fall away: I had just given birth and was responsible for a whole other person, writing a story was a piece of cake.” 1. […]
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Voices from the MotherVerse Q & A Series #10: Alexis Blenkarn
“..it often feels like my creativity and mothering are in competition with one another. There are the practicalities of motherhood, and my familial responsibilities…and then there is the impracticality of wanting to ditch it all so that I can talk to no one, immerse myself in a writing, music, or art project, and dig into […]
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Voices from the MotherVerse Q & A Series #9: Barbara Bloomfield
“Creativity is a way of sharing, witnessing and celebrating things that can be hidden and personal. It’s a way of metaphorising internal states or states of the collective zeitgeist.” 1. Describe your current family situation I live in suburban Bristol with my partner of 35 years and a young Spanish couple. We have two daughters […]
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Voices from the MotherVerse Q & A Series #8: Debbie Manson
“(Creativity) is in the approach of living every day with awareness and intuition as part of consciousness, following the energetic journey of exploration and discovery.” 1. Describe your current family situation I live with my husband in a small village in Central Portugal. My son, 39, now lives in the U.K., having lived here with […]
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Voices from the MotherVerse Q & A Series #7: Inês Moura
“Creativity is adaptation, is discovering, is unearthing; and motherhood is all that. It is seeking within the self how to evolve with the situations that life offers.“ 1. Describe your current family situation I live with my partner and our two children, a little girl on the verge of turning seven years old and a […]
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