Tag: writing
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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 #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 #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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Shaking off Stuckness
After reading Lotte Kauffman’s Voices from the MotherVerse Q&A, I started thinking about the ways in which our thoughts can sabotage the creative process. For me, the desire to create comes from a heart and soul level but the mind is incredibly powerful in its ability to distract and undermine. Lotte says that the reason […]
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Voices from the MotherVerse Q & A Series #6: Lotte Kauffman
“I think what makes us feel stuck is our limited beliefs. When I am stuck I go inside and often see things like: ‘I want it to be a certain way’… ‘I am not worthy of being creative’, ‘I feel guilty making time for creativity’. When I see this conditioning arising, this is the moment […]
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Voices from the MotherVerse Q & A Series #5: Charlotte Alling
“Creativity is as essential as breathing for mothers. Mothering is a creative process that requires all senses, all kindness, all maturity, all perspective. It is ever changing and ever evolving.” 1. Describe your current family situation I am a grandmother, with one daughter and a three year old grandson. We do not live near each […]
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Voices from the MotherVerse Q & A Series #4: Moyra Scott
“To be creative is to be utterly in the present and open. It is a form of meditation for me that I find incredibly nourishing on a soul level.” 1. Describe your current family situation I am married with one son who is now 11. 2. In your eyes, what does ‘creativity’ mean and why […]
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Voices from the MotherVerse Q & A Series #3: Ellie Greenfield
“The uncertainty of creativity and of mothering are what force me into a state of trust, openness, and humility. Uncomfortable, but worth it in the end.” 1. Describe your current family situation We are a family of four, living in a riverside village in the least populated region of northern England. My husband earns a […]
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