Motherhood explores how events like pregnancy, the calamities of childhood, and the empty-nest experience are invitations to an adventure into the wild frontier of your own soul. Here you will discover:
- How the challenges of motherhood send you on journeys into your innermost source
- Seeing the value of conflict with your child even while working to solve it
- “The dark passage” of confronting and dispelling the energy of childhood wounds
- “The thirteenth fairy”—how to recognize when we are resisting inconvenient or uncomfortable truths
- Understanding how anger, rage, and aggression arise in parental relationships
- Recognizing the ways that you have been taught to ignore your deepest instincts
- How to navigate the inevitable periods of grief that accompany your child’s many life changes
- Why much of successful mothering requires surrendering your sense of control
