Describe exactly what you hear right now...
Sixty-two self-identifying mothers participated in a six-week group text prompt experiment.
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Sixty-two self-identifying mothers responded to 18 text prompts. Read them here.
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Jul 5, 2023
My biggest worry is...
Sixty-two self-identifying mothers participated in a six-week group text prompt experiment.
Jul 5, 2023
The last time I said goodbye to my kiddo I felt...
Sixty-two self-identifying mothers participated in a six-week group text prompt experiment.
Jul 5, 2023
Dinner tonight looked like…
Sixty-two self-identifying mothers participated in a six-week group text prompt experiment.
Jul 5, 2023
Today I Felt Loved When...
Sixty-two self-identified mothers participated in a series of text prompts for six-weeks.
May 8, 2023
Mother of Pearl
© by Suraj Holzwarth 2022 There is nothing more intense, no labor harder, physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually, nothing more...
Mar 23, 2023
Birthday Cake
I sat alone at the kitchen table. My daughter on a stool at the counter with her breakfast. I started to sob. again. A continuation from...
Mar 22, 2023
Dripping from the Water of Yesterday‘s Bath
Tonight I treated myself with a bubble bath the water filled to the tippy-top, As I lie in the tub I am drawn to the effervescent sound...
Jan 2, 2023
My Son Didn't Mean to Hate Me.
My first husband was dissatisfied with his mother and when later in our marriage, he fell on hard times, he made it clear that he...
Jan 2, 2023
My mother looked down at her hands and said…"I’m pregnant."
I would say my life has been defined in a large part by the lack of agency my mother had in her choice to have children. She was married...
Sep 23, 2022
How Our Generational Parenting Practices Were Interrupted
I didn’t understand with my first child how much historic trauma had damaged my ability to be touched and express love with my kids. I ...
Sep 23, 2022
The Sonogram Tech Gave Me No Signs
Three. For some reason three was the magic number in my head. Number one was so hard to conceive, to carry, to birth, to nurture. Number...
Jul 28, 2022
Strike One, Strike Two, Strike Three
My entry into motherhood wasn't sunshine and daisies. From the moment I found out I was pregnant I was scared. And I remained scared for...
Jul 23, 2022
Conversations with My Seven Year Old
7 yo: I need a bandaid. Me: For what? 7 yo: My knee. Me: What’s wrong with your knee? 7 yo: I’m afraid it’s going to faint. :: After...
Jul 13, 2022
The sound of that heartbeat cemented my faith
My husband was out of town for the day of my scheduled checkup. Home with our first born (via emergency cesarean), I was well into my...
Jul 11, 2022
I had never felt so much love as when she was placed in my arms.
I spent eight months worrying about what it would be like when I finally went into labor. I had heard so many stories about painful birth...
Jul 11, 2022
I was not ready to make this commitment, and neither was he.
When I was in college, after a spell of indiscriminate sex partners who were not at all interesting or good to me, I met an artist who...
Jul 11, 2022
It was a time when abortion was legal and accessible
As a college student in the early 1980's, I married young and briefly, and had two abortions. I trusted a man who turned out not to be ...
Jul 10, 2022
We were not ready to start a family.
It’s almost 1am here. I’m wide awake after cleaning up the vomit filled bed of my eight year old. I’m also pregnant with my third child,...
Jul 10, 2022
Abortions are health care.
She was trying to become pregnant after so much planning. She’s so smart, such a planner. She was so thrilled to finally get a positive...
Jul 10, 2022
I know my healing continues as I share my story
My husband and I already had two beautiful, healthy children that were well into self-sufficient ages. Two children were all we could...
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