What if I told you we’re carving out some time - in the form of an audio/video mini series - dedicated to maternal mental health at the intersection of grief for caregiving bodies? What if I told you these messages are for everyone? What if, together, we leaned into the idea that there are certain experiences (most really) that truly touch all of our lives? Whether you are a mother, you mother other brilliant souls as a caregiving body, or you have experienced mothering in any capacity, ever, I believe that our May listening sessions will bless you right where you are at, today.

Featuring some of the most influential voices in the spaces of motherhood, caregiving, human rights and grief, Marcie Alvis Walker, J.S. Park, Dr. Christy Bauman and Emelda De Coutea each join us for this first round. These interviews center on our shared human experience, and our expansion in wildness honoring the specific paths we've been given. Because, honestly, it would be far too easy to contract and turn the other way.

Make sure you check your inbox on Wednesday for our first listening session, darling soul. We begin with Marcie Alvis Walker, best known as Black Coffee with White Friends on Instagram, the author of Everybody Come Alive and the Substack writer behind Black Eyed Stories who happens to know what it’s like to both be mothered by someone who has experienced mental illness and to mother a child who is living with mental illness.

I love you and I see you, soul friend.

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