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For sometime now, I feel like I’ve been the Town Crier.

I’ve gone into the trenches of Motherhood, and heard what women are saying.

I’ve read their stories, I’ve shared my own.

I’ve held the space as they cried the minute they introduced themself.

I’ve gathered thousands of them together to explore what we really need.

I know what’s happening to women as they try to navigate motherhood and life… and it’s time I cried out.

We need a better way.

And matrescence is the map to navigate us there.

We are meant to have stories of becoming as guideposts on our mothering journey.

We’re meant to be inspired and comforted by the stories of other women’s lives and experience.

We’re meant to tell the truth about the emotional cost of mothering and who bears it... and what we can do about it.

Here are some of those stories, both my own and others, to ignite the change we all crave.

EP #51 – THE GRIT TO FACE ANYTHING WITH SALLY OBERMEDER

What is Grit? And why is it so important? Imagine at 41 weeks pregnant, about to become a first-time mama, you find a lump in your breast. You’re suddenly whisked in for tests after tests and, just hours later, you’re told you have aggressive breast cancer, and treatment must start immediately if you are to…

“Why can’t I just allow myself to sit down and relax? Why do I always feel like I need to be doing more?” A Happy Mama asked these questions recently, and prompted Amy to look at our addiction to busyness. Why can’t we slow down? Why do we find it so hard to allow ourselves…

How do you trust life, if life seems to keep throwing you challenges? How do you believe in the bigger picture when the present feels so overwhelming? These are the questions author, journalist and mama Amy Molloy has spent most of her life seeking answers for. After facing her own traumatic life events early in…

It’s the ultimate love/hate relationship of modern times, isn’t it? Our love of being connected, and our hate of being always connected. Hundreds of mamas have shared with me their struggles with social media: they feel addicted, they know it takes them away from their family, they don’t know how to switch off. So how…

What if that awful anxious feeling inside your chest was actually a messenger – trying to get your attention, and tell you something important? As so many of us continue to feel the rising stress of day-to-day life, learning how to befriend your anxiety and not let it rule your life is paramount to our…

What would happen if we viewed everything – and I mean everything – in our lives as a gift? How would it feel to know that everything is working out for you, all of the time, no matter how tough it feels in the moment? This has been a life-changing shift in focus for Amy…

Before children, we can be consumed with our own ideas of success and happiness. The world we live in can be very masculine, and the way ‘forward’ is often a masculine road. It certainly was for me. I didn’t even know a different way of living before mamahood came along. It was all about ambition,…

One of the greatest struggles for mamas at the moment is the belief that when we return to work, we need to pretend we are not mothers. To be successful, we have to be just like everyone else, and just like we were before kids. And if we aren’t, we’ll be judged. But how do…

Imagine you’re a go-getting, ambitious woman, having completed all the ‘right’ studies and followed the ‘right’ path. You were ticking all the boxes. But then, something started to stir inside you, saying ‘is this really it?’ And once mamahood came along, that stirring turned into a calling. This is what happened for my two guests…

How can you break the cycle of negativity and overwhelm on those tough days? In other words, how do you turn your day around? In this episode, Amy looks at why we often avoid doing those things we know will help us feel better, and keep ourselves STUCK in a bad mood. Using the teachings…