Music of Motherhood

Kate Bush is back and has remade her album The Sensual World. The new album is titled, The Director's Cut, and you can read the interesting story about the remake and hear the new album on NPR's First Listen.

Hearing the new album, particularly the song This Woman's Work, brings me back, way back; for me it touches a deep place of mystery about the work of mothering as well as the anguish in the outer fringes of anticipation. This Woman's Work was paired well with the cesarean birth scene in the movie She's Having a Baby. Up until I read the book, Baby Catcher, this scene was my only vision of birth; I think, while I was about to birth my second child, I even said the same thing that "Kristy Briggs" says in that scene.

This is the scene and the song; it may be a trigger for you if you have had a traumatic birth experience, so use your judgement in deciding whether or not to watch.

Also on the She's Having a Baby soundtrack, though not by Kate Bush, is another favorite song of mine about the tenderness of mothering--Apron Strings by Everything But the Girl. Sigh...I love this song....

Who Does She Think She Is? Screening Party this Saturday!

Screening Party of Who Does She Think She Is?

October 23rd at 1pm!

Please join us.

We will have a community art project for those who are interested.

About the film:

In a half-changed world, women are often forced to choose: Mothering or working? Your children's wellbeing or your own own? Responsibility or self expression? Who Does She Think She Is?, a documentary by Academy Award winning filmmaker Pamela Tanner Boll, features five fierce women who refuse to choose. Through their lives, we explore some of the most problematic intersections of our time: mothering and creativity, partnering and independence, economics and art. Along the way, the film invites us to consider both ancient legacies of women worshipped as cultural muses and more modern times where most people can't even name a handful of female artists. In the end, the diverse women in the film demonstrate that our creativity and our caregiving are not mutually exclusive, but deeply connected. In fact, their co-existence might just be the key to finishing the job.

Heartwise Mamas: Supportive Group for Mamas Having a Difficult Time Settling into Motherhood

This supportive group is:
For women who are having a rough start on their journey of motherhood. Through rich guided discussions, story-healing activities, and gentle interactions with their baby, mothers become attuned with emotions, thoughts, and needs and engage and bond with their baby.

If you are:

• traumatized from a difficult birth experience


• feeling Motherhood shock (this is not what I expected)


• feeling disconnected from your baby


• feeling isolated, stuck, unsure, exhausted, or overwhelmed


• searching for the missing you that you barely remember

...then this group is for you.

This group starts October 24th and will meet weekly at 12:30pm-1:45pm in 5 week segments. $20/group meeting or $90/5 group meetings. Please call or e-mail Mychelle Moritz to register 971-344-7527 or mychelle@nurturepdx.org