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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 your tissue and expect to feel seen, heard, validated in your experience of Mothering today and then inspired and with conviction that indeed, Mothers hold the power of change within themselves and that love, acceptance, respect and kindness can be the pillars of Re-Imagining Motherhood for ourselves and one another.

Episode Summary:
Dr. Bailey’s work leaves me speechless - and it was a given that her poetry needed to be shared on Mother’s Day with us all. In this episode, Dr. Bailey shares her poem and then, after I collect myself from the raw emotion her words reveal in me, we further discuss her intention behind her creative writing and her hopes for what it means for ALL of us to Re-Imagine Motherhood together.

Additional episode resources:
You can find Dr. Bailey’s co-edited book, “Coming Into Being” on the Demeter Press website here and other poems published via this journal.

Dr. Bailey’’s full bio:
Dr. Victoria Bailey is a feminist artist-scholar. She is passionate about creative writing, creative-critical practice-based research, motherhood studies, and feminism – particularly matricentric feminism – and how these topics, methods, and related issues can and do intersect with, and impact, each other. She has a Creative Writing PhD by practice from Teesside University, UK, the research for which focused on reclaiming and representing the herstory of single mothers in fiction, inspired and informed by motherline stories. She also has an MA in Women’s Studies from the Centre for Women’s Studies at the University of York, UK. Her research for this program focused on the representation of single mothers in Canadian news articles.

Dr. Bailey’s poetry has been included in a wide range of publications including anthologies, journals, and magazines. She is co-editor, along with Dr. Andrea O’Reilly and Dr. Fiona Joy Green, of the Demeter Press anthology Coming Into Being: Mothers on Finding and Realizing Feminism, which includes her short collection of poetry, “Colostrum.” Her non-fiction writing has been included in feminist magazines Herizons and the f word, and she wrote about single parenting for Calgary’s Child magazine for over a decade. She has also designed and delivered creative writing courses and workshops focusing on mothers, motherlines, and writing. Dr. Bailey is also a feminist mother of three, a yoga teacher (she is the author of the yoga text, Sharing Sadhana), and she loves libraries, dogs, tea, and long walks in equal measure.

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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 expands the more traditional clinical practice to include the lens of matricentric feminism, trauma and the body.

Episode Summary:
We dive into so much goodness - from WHY we need one another - in all disciplines - to come together to explore, challenge and critique Motherhood to her groundbreaking theory of maternal bodyfulness and so much in between - including exploring more deeply matricentric feminism. This episode will leave you "daring to believe" that we can find agency in our experience of Motherhood and that when we work towards empowered mothering, connecting with ourselves as women and mothers and the felt bodily experience. Mothering is an embodied experience, one that allows us to resist Patriarchal Motherhood - you'll have to listen to some of Vissing's nuggets of gold as they hold within them such wisdom and power!

Additional episode resources:
You can learn more about Helena Vissing's work here.
IG: www.instagram.com/helenavissing
And find her book, Somatic Maternal Healing here.

Dr. Helena Vissing’s full bio:
Helena Vissing is a Licensed Psychologist certified in Perinatal Mental Health (PMH-C) in private practice in California. She practices psychodynamic and trauma-informed somatic psychotherapy as a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner. Dr. Vissing is experienced as Adjunct faculty at several graduate institutions, including Reiss-Davis Graduate School, Antioch University, and The Chicago School of Professional Psychology. She also has experience offering consultations and trainings for perinatal providers. She has published book chapters and articles on the topic of the psychology of motherhood. Dr. Vissing has written a book on her somatic and psychodynamic model for treatment of trauma in the Perinatal Period titled Somatic Maternal Healing: Psychodynamic and Somatic Trauma Treatment for Perinatal Mental Health (Routledge). She has done psychodynamic training at the C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles and the Saturday Center for Psychotherapy. She is also host on the New Books in Psychoanalysis podcast and on the editorial board of the International Journal of Body Psychotherapy.

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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 you on your quest to Re-Imagine Motherhood.

Episode Summary:
We dive into the concepts of Feminist Mothering and motherwork, as well as the importance of knowing and/or reconnecting with your feminist Motherline. If Motherhood is oppressive, then mothering can be empowering as Rich once explained - this episode aims to inspire you to feel into your mothering in ways that are aligned with YOUR values, YOUR hopes for the future and YOUR intentions to be part of social change for future generations!

Additional episode resources:
You can find many of Dr. Green’s publications on the Demeter Press website linked here.

Dr. Fiona Joy Green’s full bio:
Dr. Fiona Joy Green (she/her) is a cisgender temporarily able-bodied feminist mother who believes in the power of revolutionary feminist motherwork. She is a white settler and holds the position of Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Winnipeg, located within Treaty No. 1 Territory, the traditional lands of the Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) and Nehiyaw (Cree), and the homeland of the Métis. Dr. Green is the author of Practicing Feminist Mothering (ARP) and co-editor of eight Demeter Press collections that address ever-changing feminist parenting practices and maternal pedagogies. Recent titles include Mothers, Mothering and COVID-19: Dispatches from a Pandemic (2021), Parenting/ Internet/ Kids: Domesticating Technologies (2022), Coming into Being: Mothers on Finding and Realizing Feminism, (2023) and two forthcoming co-edited collections, The Mother Wave: Theorizing, Enacting, and Representing Matricentric Feminism (2024) and Revolutionizing Motherlines (2025).

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