EP61: Brooke McNamara on the Poetry of Reality and Mothering as Activism

Mar 1, 2019

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.