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From the hearth to your hands.

July 20, 2026

Good Mothers Keep Their Children Safe at All Costs... Right?

What life, risky play research, and European fairy tales taught me about raising children who can meet the world....

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July 5, 2026

Before Google Told Mothers to Panic, Fairies Did

What changeling stories reveal about maternal hypervigilance, impossible responsibility, and the myth that a good mother...

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June 16, 2026

Today Is the Last Day You'll Mother This Version of Your Child

Hiraeth, Branwen, and the places motherhood asks us to leave behind...

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June 8, 2026

When Others Write Your Motherhood Story

What Rhiannon's story reveals about maternal judgment, self-trust, and remembering who you are...

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May 25, 2026

What do the Drowned Women of Celtic Myth Have to Teach us About Motherhood?

Part 1: Maternal Transformation, Sacred Wells, and River Goddesses...

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April 29, 2026

Becoming a Mother Still Has No Story

Building A Reading List for Matrescence...

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April 19, 2026

Why Mothers Need Stories Too

4 Reasons Why Stories are Essential for Mums, Not Just our Children...

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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 Selkie Bride

A Mother's Retelling...

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