How do we negotiate the nearly impossible task of nurturing partner, children, career and self in the isolation and lack of community today? The social support we desperately need to ground ourselves for the relentless tasks of motherhood is absent. How can we recreate that?
That was part of our purpose for designing The Corporate Mothers' Forum - so working mums could just talk to each other and download. Becoming a mother is one of the biggest physical and psychological transitions that a woman can go through - along with menarche (the first period) and menopause (the last period).
But of these three female transition stages - childbirth involves a change so dramatic that women often feel their lives are on the line. All vestiges of control must be surrendered and swept aside for total transformation of the woman into the mother. It often astonishes women how vulnerable we can feel after childbirth as our whole endocrine system has been turned upside down. Was this your experience?
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Thursday, January 1, 2009
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