February is barreling into her second half and so much is happening! It’s a good reminder for me to slow down. In slowing down, I’ve been practicing listening. My head is often so noisy inside and pinging with, frankly, a bunch of crap that I don’t need to hear. However, these past few days, I’ve been homing in on listening to my intuition “SLOWING DOWN”
I live to support women. Truly. It’s my favorite thing to support my friends and any woman in my vicinity who is living. It’s so fucking hard to be female, and even harder to be female, parenting a human, working on something for yourself whether it’s vocational or avocational, and balancing what my guest Anna Lovind calls the ‘patriarchal fuckery’ “The MILF Community: Strong, Supportive, Sometimes Messy, Badass Women”
This is something I have deliberately not talked about publicly since my split with my husband because, well: respect. And privacy. Many of my friends, and even my team members, have asked me to talk about this on the podcast and in my writing, but I’ve been hesitant and kept this part of my life close to my vest… until “Dating as a Single Mom, Swipe Apps, and Self-Discovery”
Often times when people learn about MILF Podcast, they ask me what prompted me to start a podcast. The short answer: the healing power of the feminine journey through story. The long answer: I suffered alone through deeply painful postpartum depression, the worst of which was the torturous dichotomy of having a beautiful, perfect son whom I wanted so much “Why “MILF” Podcast?”
“Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind, is written large in his works.” — Virginia Woolf Whether you are a writer or not (we all are, by the way, in some form or another), you understand ‘Journey.’ We’ve all had them. It started in a blaze of fury out of the birth “A Writer’s Journey”
As I barrel toward my 44th birthday next week, I’ve been thinking a lot about my life’s journey. Because I’m now a single parent, and an entrepreneur/writer/artist, I have had to investigate my value. What value do I bring to the world? But first, what do I value? Integrity. Compassion. Empathy. Kindness. Awareness. Acceptance. These are the core values that “My Own Definition of Value”
Six dreaded words every parent fears hearing from their young adult child: either, “I want to be an actor,” or, “I want to be a writer.” Ugh. The hearts and faces of said parents fall, then they try to explain to their child that this will only lead to a life of hardship, heartbreak, and likely poverty. They wonder why “So you wanna be a writer?”
I’ve just been sick in bed for 8 days. Literally in bed. Only out to go to the bathroom and maybe get a drink of water. Completely laid out. When I get sick like this, and it’s about once a year, I always blame myself. And well-meaning friends always ask, “How did you get it?” or “Where do you think “Why I won’t blame myself anymore”
What does “Unlocked” mean? It means a thousand things: opening, discovering, uncovering, revealing, releasing, unfolding, unwinding, unpacking… on and on and nuanced AF. In my creative coaching work, for me, “Unlocked” means assisting writers and storytellers in letting go of the false beliefs that: a) they don’t know how to tell the story they want to tell and … b) “Unlocked: My Free Online Writing Workshop!”
Do we need to unionize Sex Ed in our kids’ schools? How can we set a fair standard for talk about our bodies, our ovaries, uteruses and vaginas? Our Clitoris? Do we need to unionize as a sex? I’m not suggesting that, per se, but after talking with this week’s guest, Cobie Smulders, about how difficult it still is for “Unionize the Uterus!”
