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.
