We are rewriting
the rules of
motherhood.
The Mission
With motherhood comes expectations, demands, and stereotypes around how you should mother, what you should look like and what you should feel. What’s not provided are the tools (practical, emotional or otherwise) to actually live up to the impossible standards set by society and culture.
It is time we acknowledge the whole mother — present self and future potential — and that this is one of the most undervalued, taken for granted, challenging roles in the world. It is time we rewrite the rules of motherhood.
Windows, wide as they are tall, bring the outside in. The light envelops every piece of furniture and trees as far as the eye can see. Maybe a rabbit or deer outside, knowing this is a house of nurturing. We are safe here. Safe and warm in this pine house with big windows. There’s music playing in the morning. Some of us drink our coffee, while others brush their teeth and head out the door. Others are out in the garden, pulling radishes for breakfast, sneaking blackberries from the vine, feet in the cold soil. Every afternoon our neighbors, walk through the trees, from their pine cabins, to sit at our table. Our table, in every sense of the word. They are artists, painters, cooks, writers building worlds. Mothers sharing the load. We play some card game, laugh at our kids attempting to outrun the rabbits, watch the sun slide down the sky. Night comes and we light a fire, our littles slowly cozying up to us as they fight sleep from their eyes. We share songs of joy, recipes we’ve savored, poems we can’t get out of our head. We share it all, with each other. These mothers of mine.
The Offerings
Together, we will examine mothering and motherhood through poetry and prose. We are working towards unraveling the perfect mother myth and doing away with the good mother, bad mother binary.
writing circle
These sessions are ideal for someone who isn’t sure where to begin or would like more customized support. Using social emotional art therapy tools, we will identify expectations that have been placed on you and move towards making motherhood your own.
individual support
“We revolutionize motherhood by first revolutionizing ourself. Detoxing from patriarchal motherhood. rewriting rules. Then it’s through community. A movement.”
— Dr. Sophie Brock
ABOUT
My hope is that together we can start a new kind of revolution. One of dance, poetry, art, possibility. And most importantly, a softer motherhood and a reimagining of the 'village’. Welcome to Spool. Welcome to a new kind of magic.
