Welcome back to the Maternal Journal podcast - a deep dive into the power of journaling and creativity to support mental health and wellbeing through pregnancy, birth and parenting. In this episode, host Laura Godfrey-Isaacs is joined by artist and poet Sophie Herxheimer who shares her collaborative practice of gathering stories and making them visual. Through poetry, cut-up collage, and performance, Sophie invites us into a space where the maternal voice-often fragmented or unheard-can becom...
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Welcome back to the Maternal Journal podcast - a deep dive into the power of journaling and creativity to support mental health and wellbeing through pregnancy, birth and parenting. In this episode, host Laura Godfrey-Isaacs is joined by artist and poet Sophie Herxheimer who shares her collaborative practice of gathering stories and making them visual. Through poetry, cut-up collage, and performance, Sophie invites us into a space where the maternal voice-often fragmented or unheard-can becom...
S1E1: Maternal Rage and the Invisibility of Motherhood
The Maternal Journal Podcast
29 minutes
2 years ago
S1E1: Maternal Rage and the Invisibility of Motherhood
Laura talks to award-winning journalist and writer Saima Mir about her feelings of obscurity and anger in the transition to motherhood. They discuss the struggle to combat conflicting stereotypes imposed on mothers and how writing and creativity can offer ways to positively affect mental health and well-being. Your host is writer, artist and midwife, Laura Godfrey-Isaacs. To find out more, head to https://www.maternaljournal.org/.
The Maternal Journal Podcast
Welcome back to the Maternal Journal podcast - a deep dive into the power of journaling and creativity to support mental health and wellbeing through pregnancy, birth and parenting. In this episode, host Laura Godfrey-Isaacs is joined by artist and poet Sophie Herxheimer who shares her collaborative practice of gathering stories and making them visual. Through poetry, cut-up collage, and performance, Sophie invites us into a space where the maternal voice-often fragmented or unheard-can becom...
