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From the hearth to your hands.

March 30, 2026

Death in a Nut

A Mother's Retelling of a Scottish Tale on Raising Children and Letting Go...

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March 15, 2026

Mothers are Living Thresholds (and other things the fairy tree knows)

A walk with hawthorn through folklore, herbal wisdom, and practical uses for motherhood....

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February 16, 2026

I Thought Motherhood Would Make Me a Nobody

On Productivity Culture and the Hidden Generative Power of Motherhood...

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February 4, 2026

Rhiannon and the Judged Mother

Reclaiming Maternal Intuition and Understanding our Culture of Mother-Judgement through Rhiannon's Myth and the Judged M...

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January 18, 2026

Rosemary for the Threshold of Motherhood

Rosemary and the Art of Remembrance: Ancient Herbal Uses for the Modern Threshold of Motherhood...

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January 9, 2026

Frigg's Tale

Beyond Control: What Frigg's Myth teaches us about the boundaries of a mother's control...

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December 29, 2025

Start Here: MotherLore

A living archive of motherhood, myth, and healing plants...

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December 15, 2025

The Yielding Mother: Why we cannot control motherhood

Navigating the rupture of trying to control motherhood through psychology and mythology...

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December 2, 2025

A Mother of Frost and First Light

A Mother's Retelling of the Cailleach and Brigid...

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November 25, 2025

Becoming Two: When Loving So Much Feels Like Losing Yourself

Exploring the split-self in motherhood through developmental psychology and folklore...

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November 21, 2025

The Tale of the Selkie Bride

Written and narrated by Ayla De Grandpré...

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November 21, 2025

The Selkie Bride

A Mother's Retelling...

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