The Re-Imagining Motherhood Podcast

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to episode ELEVEN of the Re-Imagining Motherhood podcast. I am thrilled to bring you Michaeleen Doucleff, Ph. D., author of "Hunt, Gather, Parent".   As a science journalist for over a decade, Michaeleen studies and reports on cross-cultural parenting,  psychology and neuroscience, primarily for NPR. Michaeleen began her career as a research chemist, completing h...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to episode TEN of the Re-Imagining Motherhood podcast. I am thrilled to bring you Lucy Jones, investigative journalist and award-winning author of the incredibly inspiring book, “Matrescence”. In this episode, Jones and I explore the theory of matrescence - from both personal lived experience to that of the larger cultural narrative. Jones put the concept of matrescence on...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to episode NINE of the Re-Imagining Motherhood podcast. I am thrilled to bring you Jessie Harrold, coach, doula and author of her most recent book, “Mothershift - Reclaiming Motherhood as Rite of Passage”. In this episode, Harrold and I explore the concept of matrenscence - both personally and professionally. Harrold shares personal experience and professional expertise th...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to episode EIGHT of the Re-Imagining Motherhood podcast. I am thrilled to bring you Moira Mikolajczak, Doctor of Psychological Sciences, and a Professor of Medical and Health Psychology at the University of Louvain in Belgium, co-creator of the Parental Burnout Scale. In this episode, Mikolajczak and I explore the field of parental burnout and how her research carries sign...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to episode SEVEN of the Re-Imagining Motherhood podcast. I am thrilled to bring you Tracy Sidesinger, PsyD a clinical psychologist, trained in Jungian and relational psychoanalysis, that is bringing a feminist lens into psychotherapy.  In this episode, Sidesinger and I explore the concept of matrescence as opportunity versus a potential experience of trauma for a mother. W...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to episode SIX of the Re-Imagining Motherhood podcast. I am thrilled to bring you Christine Carrig, M.S.Ed. a Montessori educator and writer in residence with Khora Lab.  In this episode, Carrig and I explore the intersection of child-development and maternal development and what it could mean for us, individually and collectively, to bring mothers more into focus. Carrig’...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to episode FIVE of the Re-Imagining Motherhood podcast. I am thrilled to bring you Miriam Liss, Ph. D., a clinical psychologist who has studied maternal guilt and shame AND so much more.  In this episode, Dr. Liss and I explore the difference between guilt and shame and WHERE it comes from for so many mothers. We also explore the main parenting ideology deeply influencing...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to episode FOUR of the Re-Imagining Motherhood podcast - a GIFT for you on Mother’s Day! I am thrilled to bring you Victoria Bailey, Ph. D., the creative, inspiring artist-scholar that uses poetry and creative writing as a form of activism.   In this BONUS Mother’s Day episode, Dr. Bailey reads one of her latest poems, “All The Ways, Always–An Ode to Mother Blame”. Grab yo...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to episode THREE of the Re-Imagining Motherhood podcast! I am thrilled to bring you Helena Vissing, Psy. D., the incredible mind behind the theory of maternal bodyfulness.   In this episode we discuss her experience as a psychodynamic and somatic experiencing practitioner lending her clinical expertise to mothers in the perinatal period - yet her unique perspective also ex...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to episode TWO of the Re-Imagining Motherhood podcast! I am thrilled to bring you Fiona Joy Green, Ph. D., the brilliant scholar behind Feminist Mothering and Feminist Mother Work.   In this episode we discuss mothering as an act of empowerment, social change and resistance to patriarchal normative Motherhood. Dr. Green is a wealth of knowledge full of wisdom to inspire yo...

Send us Fan Mail In this short episode, I bring you the summarized,  "bite sized" version of episode 1 with Andrea O'Reilly. 

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Trailer for the Re-Imagining Motherhood podcast. The idea of starting a podcast has felt overwhelming for a long while, but this knowledge and these incredible people are too important not to share. Mothers, and those that support them, need this education, these perspective shifting conversations and hope for the future. Most importantly, Mothers need words to desc...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to episode ONE of the Re-Imagining Motherhood podcast! I am thrilled to bring you Andrea O'Reilly, Ph. D., founder of Motherhood Studies and Matricentric Feminism.   In this episode we talk all things patriarchal Motherhood and Matricentric Feminism. She is a wealth of knowledge and has so much to offer mothers everywhere!  Episode Summary: We dive into the concepts o...