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Hinfühlen statt Wegsehen - Erkenne deine inneren Konflikte🎙️ Was dein Kontostand über Selbstwert, Bindung und innere Sicherheit verrätDiesmal sprechen wir über Geld.Nicht über Zahlen, sondern über das, was darunter liegt.Wir schauen darauf, was Bindungsthemen mit unserem Umgang mit Geld zu tun haben –welche Glaubenssätze sich hinter Geldstress, Mangel oder Schuldgefühlen verbergen...und warum viele unserer Geldthemen weniger mit „Wissen“ und mehr mit Beziehung zu tun haben.In dieser Folge geht es u. a. um:✨ Welche inneren Muster unseren Umgang mit Geld prägen✨ Was Selbstwert und „Was bin ich mir wert?“ mit finanziellen Entscheidungen zu tun haben✨ Den Teufelskreis von: Ich möchte mein Geldthema lös...
2026-01-191h 11
Weil du Liebe bist.Rauhnächte Special - Auf dem Weg zu sich selbstDiese neue Podcast Folge ist ein besonderes Rauhnächte Special. Ein zutiefst ehrliches Interview zwischen mir und meiner Mama. Ein Gespräch über innere Freiheit über Spiritualität über Tiefe über Schmerz und über das leise Ankommen bei sich selbst. Diese Folge ist für dich wenn du die Rauhnächte liebst wenn du sie gerade für dich entdeckst oder wenn du spürst dass diese besondere Zeit zwischen den Jahren dich ruft langsamer zu werden tiefer zu lauschen und dich innerlich neu auszurichten. Jedes Jahr veröffentliche ich 12 Rauhnaechte Meditationen. Dieses Intro bringt dich an den inneren Ort, wo Rauhn...
2025-12-2517 minHinfühlen statt Wegsehen - Erkenne deine inneren Konflikte🎙️🎄Jahresrückblick & Abschluss 2025 💫Die letzte Folge für dieses Jahr. Und ja: Wir machen es uns gemütlich.Wir schauen zurück, schwelgen ein bisschen, lachen, werden leise und ehrlich.In dieser Jahresabschlussfolge sprechen wir über:✨ Wie sich unser Podcast entwickelt hat – und wie wir uns mit ihm verändert haben✨ Warum Jahresvorsätze oft gut gemeint, aber selten hilfreich sind✨ Die Herausforderung, diesen Podcast gemeinsam zu starten – und was daran wirklich Wachstum war✨ Wie wir Weihnachten verbringen – zwischen Nähe, Nervensystem und Realität✨ Was uns 2025 alles mitgebracht hat – und was wir daraus mitnehmen...
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Weil du Liebe bist.Der Schlüssel zu wahrer Intimität - Emotionale EhrlichkeitVom Mut, dich echt zu fühlen statt perfekt zu wirken
Wahre Nähe entsteht nicht durch Zärtlichkeit allein, sondern durch Wahrhaftigkeit. In dieser neuen Folge spreche ich über die Kraft emotionaler Ehrlichkeit und darüber, wie sie zum Schlüssel für echte Intimität wird.
Ich erzähle von einem Moment in meiner Beziehung, in dem ich spürte, dass Liebe nur dann atmen kann, wenn wir uns wirklich zeigen. Nicht stark, nicht abgeklärt, sondern ehrlich. Es war kein Streit, sondern ein stiller Wendepunkt. In dem Augenblick, in dem ich wagte, das Unsagba...
2025-11-0428 minHinfühlen statt Wegsehen - Erkenne deine inneren KonflikteChristins traumasensibler Weg - ein Gespräch über Kontrolle und Vertrauen „Zwischen Kontrolle und Vertrauen“ – Christins traumasensibler WegChristin ist heute unser Interviewgast.Sie teilt mit uns, wie sie von Angst, Kontrolle und alten Schutzmechanismen hin zu mehr Bewusstheit und echter Selbstfürsorge und so viel mehr Selbstwert gekommen ist.Wir sprechen darüber, wie sich ihre frühen Bindungserfahrungen in ihrem heutigen Leben zeigten und wie sich Christins Angst damals auf ihre Kinder und ihre Ehe ausgewirkt hat. Was es bedeutet, jahrzehntelang im Funktions- und Kontrollmodus zu leben Was Angst uns eigentli...
2025-11-0357 min
Hinfühlen statt Wegsehen - Erkenne deine inneren KonflikteDie Stolpersteine der Traumaheilung🎧 Neue Podcastfolge: Die Stolpersteine der TraumaheilungHeilung klingt oft nach Leichtigkeit, aber in Wahrheit bringt sie uns aber auch gleichzeitig genau dorthin, wo es weh tut.In dieser Folge sprechen wir über die Herausforderungen, die wir auf dem Weg der Traumaintegration erleben – ehrlich, nahbar und ohne Schönreden:✨ Die Angst vor Veränderung – und vor dem, was wir ohne unsere alten Muster eigentlich sind✨ Einsamkeit und das Gefühl, Menschen zu verlieren, wenn wir beginnen, uns selbst zu finden✨ Die Ungeduld, wenn es nicht „schnell genug“ geht✨ Der Mut, sich...
2025-06-301h 06
The Power of Love - Dein Podcast in die Selbstliebe#107 Vom Mangel zur Macht: Wie ich aus der Geschichte ausgestiegen bin.Wie lange willst du noch Geschichten leben, die nicht deine sind?Du bist nicht zu wenig.Nicht zu kompliziert. Nicht zu sensibel. Nicht zu laut. Nicht zu viel.Du hast es nur irgendwann geglaubt –weil dir diese Geschichte so oft erzählt wurde,dass sie sich wie Wahrheit angefühlt hat.Aber sie war nie deine.Und du darfst sie JETZT loslassen.In dieser Folge teile ich mit dir meine eigene Geschichte:Wie ich dachte, ich bin einfach "arm" – emotional, finanziell, in der Liebe.Wie ic...
2025-03-2716 min
Writer Mother MonsterWriter Mother Monster: Claire OshetskyClaire Oshetsky the author of the novel Chouette, which was longlisted for the 2022 Pen/Faulkner award for fiction and won the 2022 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. Chouette was also named to the Honor List for the Otherwise Award, given annually to works of science fiction or fantasy that best explore gender roles, and it was shortlisted for the Barbellian Prize, dedicated to the furtherance of disabled voices in writing. Claire’s second novel, Poor Deer, came out in January 2024 and has been named “One of the Best Books We’ve Read in 2024” by the New Yorker. Claire’s short fict...
2024-08-2357 min
Writer Mother MonsterWriter Mother Monster: Mary Collins, Live at Stonington Free LibraryThis episode is filmed live at the Stonington Free Library. Mary Collins is the author of articles, essays, and three books, including her most recent, A Play Book: Creating Writers, Creating Citizens. She is a professor of nonfiction for the Creative Writing Minors at Central Connecticut State University.Writer Mother Monster is a community and conversation series devoted to dismantling the myth of having it all and offering writer-moms solidarity, support, and advice. Support the showIf you appreciate what you hear, consider becoming a patron/ess of Wr...
2024-08-1458 min
Lost in RedondaEpisode 26: "Wild Milk: Stories" by Sabrina Orah Mark, w/ special guest Lara EhrlichWe’re joined today by Lara Ehrlich, a writer, editor, and longtime friend (she and Tom go back 20 years, which seems impossible). Her first story collection, Animal Wife, was published by Red Hen Press back in 2020, and her first novel, Bind Me Tighter Still, will publish in 2025, also from Red Hen. She also hosts a conversation series, Writer Mother Monster, and is the founder and director of Thought Fox Writers Den.We chat about her work as well as Wild Milk: Stories by Sabrina Orah Mark, published by Dorothy, A Publishing Project. It’s a fantastic collection: fera...
2024-05-0655 min
Writer Mother MonsterWriter Mother Monster: Megan StielstraMegan Stielstra is the author of three collections: Everyone Remain Calm, Once I Was Cool, and The Wrong Way to Save Your Life, the Nonfiction Book of the Year from the Chicago Review of Books. Her work appears in the Best American Essays, New York Times, The Believer, Poets & Writers, Tin House, Longreads, Guernica, LitHub, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. A longtime company member with 2nd Story, she has told stories for National Public Radio, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Steppenwolf Theatre, and regularly with the Paper Machete live news magazine at the Green Mill. She teaches creative nonfiction at...
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Weil du Liebe bist.9. Rauhnächte Meditation - Definiere deine Finanzen - MoneymindsetWenn du ganz ehrlich zu dir bist: Was hast du für ein Gefühl zu Geld? Wie fühlt sich Geld für dich an? Ziel der heutigen Rauhnächte-Meditation ist es, ein Gefühl von Wertschätzung, Energie-Austausch und Mehrwert beim Gedanken an Geld wachsen zu lassen.
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Hier ein paar echte und ehrlich gefühlte Worte von mir…
Wir wachsen alle mit einem gewissen Mindset, mit einer bestimmten Verstandeshaltung gegenüber Geld auf, welches wir von unseren Eltern oder den Menschen, mit denen wir groß werden, abschauen, dessen Haltung zu Geld wir...
2024-01-0133 min
Writer Mother MonsterWriter Mother Monster: Fox NorthFox North (call them Fox!) is a critically acclaimed novelist for teenagers and adults. Fox, a graduate of the University of Florida’s MFA program in poetry, was a finalist in 2018 with the Sustainable Arts Foundation, the recipient of a Creatives Rebuild NY grant, a Publisher’s Weekly Flying Start, and an Analog AnLab’s Reader’s Choice Award winner. Their novels for teenagers – written under the name Phoebe North – have been published by Simon & Schuster and HarperCollins. Their short fiction, critical writing, and poetry has appeared with Analog, Daily Science Fiction, Flash Fiction Magazine, the YA Review Network, Umbrella Jou...
2023-12-3056 min
Writer Mother MonsterIn-Person Episode: Janet Garcia-HallettWelcome to a special live episode of Writer Mother Monster, a community and conversation series devoted to dismantling the myth of having it all and offering writer-moms solidarity, support, and advice. The show is typically streamed live on Facebook and YouTube, and then released as an audio podcast on all major platforms--but today's episode is in-person at the 2023 CT Lit Fest, hosted at Real Art Ways in Hartford, Connecticut.Today's guest, Dr. Janet Garcia-Hallett, is a criminal justice professor at the University of New Haven's Henry C. Lee College of Criminal Justice and Forensic Sciences. She earned...
2023-10-1848 minThe Power of Love - Dein Podcast in die Selbstliebe#82 Tantra - der Weg des mutigen Herzens / Interview mit Sandra von ZabienskyWie es gelingt, radikal ehrlich mit sich selbst zu sein und die Konsequenzen daraus zu ziehen? Eine Antwort ist Tantra und der Weg des mutigen Herzens. In dieser Podcastfolge ist Sandra von Zabiensky zu Gast, Yogini, Tantrikerin & Autorin. Wir sprechen darüber,• Was Tantra eigentlich ist und wie es sich auf das Leben auswirken kann• Was richtig guter Sex ist• Warum einige Frauen Schwierigkeiten haben ihre Weiblichkeit zu leben • Wie wir radikal ehrlich in Beziehungen gehen können Ich wünsche dir ganz viel Freude beim Zuhören,EVA LARA
2023-10-151h 10
Writer Mother MonsterWriter Mother Monster: Special Episode, Postpartum PsychosisA panel discussion with Chaya Bhuvaneswar, a psychiatrist and author of White Dancing Elephants, who has treated postpartum patients in-hospital, including at a forensic psych ward for women awaiting trial for harming their children. Sharline Chiang is a writer, editor, book coach, publicist, and journalist who wrote, among many other articles, Don’t Call It Baby Blues, the only existing online magazine article on Asian American survivors of postpartum depression. Kathryn Gahl is the author of The Yellow Toothbrush, a look at anxiety, depression, OCD, and paranoid thinking through the eyes of a mother whose daughter is experiencing a jai...
2023-03-301h 35
Seelengespräche - Für ein Leben im Einklang mit Deiner Seele#062 Wie Angst zu Deinem größten Motor werden kannAngst kennen wir doch alle, wenn wir ganz ehrlich sind, oder? Doch wie oft nehmen wir diese nicht wahr, oder verurteilen uns dafür? Erwarten von uns, etwas besser zu können, oder zu machen.
Wie fühlt sich Angst an und was können wir tun, mutiger zu werden?
In dieser Folge möchten wir Dir sagen, dass Du nicht alleine bist. Wir alle haben Angst, mal mehr und mal weniger. Wir möchten Dich unterstützen, Deine Angst annehmen zu können und diese zu einem positiven Aufschwung, einem Motor werden zu lassen.
Wi...
2023-03-2315 min
Writer Mother MonsterWriter Mother Monster: Elizabeth NunezElizabeth Nunez emigrated from Trinidad to the US at age 19. Winner of an American Book Award, an Independent Publishers Award, a PEN Josephine Miles Award, and a Hurston Wright Legacy Award, she is the author of a memoir and ten novels, four of which were selected as New York Times Editors Choice. She is the co-founder with John Oliver Killens of the National Black Writers Conference and executive producer of the series Black Writers in America. She has served on the jury for national and international literary prizes/awards, and is a Distinguished Professor at Hunter College...
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Writer Mother MonsterWriter Mother Monster: Samantha SilvaSAMANTHA SILVA is an author, playwright, and screenwriter based in Idaho. She’s sold film projects to Paramount, Universal, and New Line Cinema, and she is the author of Mr. Dickens and His Carol (Flatiron Books, 2017), and Love and Fury: A Novel of Mary Wollstonecraft (Flatiron Books, 2021). Sam wrote and directed the award- winning short script, THE BIG BURN, which premiered at the Sun Valley Film Festival in 2017 and adapted Mr. Dickens and His Carol for Seattle Repertory Theater in 2022. Sam has 3 children, ages 28, 26, and 22, and describes writer-motherhood in three words as NECESSITY OF INVENTION.Writer Mother Mo...
2023-02-2256 min
Writer Mother MonsterWriter Mother Monster: Rebecca Makkai(February 14, 2023) Rebecca Makkai’s last novel, THE GREAT BELIEVERS, was a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award; it was the winner of the ALA Carnegie Medal, the Stonewall Book Award, the Clark Prize, and the LA Times Book Prize; and it was one of the New York Times’ Ten Best Books of 2018. Her other books are the novels THE BORROWER and THE HUNDRED-YEAR HOUSE, and the collection MUSIC FOR WARTIME—four stories from which appeared in The Best American Short Stories. A 2022 Guggenheim Fellow, Rebecca is on the MFA faculties of Sierra Nevada University and No...
2023-02-151h 01
Writer Mother MonsterWriter Mother Monster: Artress Bethany WhiteArtress Bethany White, associate professor of English at East Stroudsburg University, is a poet, essayist, and literary critic. She is the recipient of the Trio Award for her poetry collection My Afmerica: poems and the essay collection, Survivor’s Guilt: Essays on Race and American Identity, which received a 2022 Next Generation Finalist Indie Book Award and is listed as a CLMP social justice read. Her research interests include American slave archives and contemporary African American prose and poetics. She has four children ranging in age from 14 to 26, and describes writer-motherhood in three words as Determined, Fierce, Improvisational.Wr...
2023-02-1057 min
Writer Mother MonsterWriter Mother Monster: Lisa Czarina MichaudLisa Czarina Michaud is an American novelist of Italian-Mexican origins whose work is inspired by her life experiences. She attended The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington before stumbling through adulthood in Los Angeles. In 2009, she followed in the footsteps of her jazz-singing grandmother and moved to France where she currently resides. Her first novel Slanted and Disenchanted explores complex relationships between mother and daughter, sexual tension in friendships, the confusion of adulting...and the soundtracks that get us through it all. Lisa has one son age 7. She describes writer-motherhood in 3 words as: take it easy.Writer...
2023-02-0359 min
Writer Mother MonsterWriter Mother Monster: Yexandra Diaz(November 10, 2022) Yexandra “Yex” Diaz is a multi-disciplinary artist whose oeuvre is her sobering expression of what it is to exist in a world of resistance, resilience, and revolution during a new era of renaissance rooted in healing. Chicago born and New Haven raised, the polarizing reality of oppression juxtaposed alongside privilege inspires Yex, an Oral Narrator, to employ the art of spoken word as a vehicle for messages that raise awareness around social and environmental injustices. Yex’s style uplifts afro-indigenous culture while evoking radical spiritualism to rewrite the dangerous single narratives which plague stigmatized peoples.Writer Mother...
2023-01-1356 min
Writer Mother MonsterWriter Mother Monster: Sarah M Jasat(November 3, 2022) Sarah M Jasat grew up believing her family was very strange but later discovered she was Indian. She lives in Leicester, UK, and writes short fiction about the strangeness of family. She dreams about writing a novel for older children if only she could get her own children to go to sleep.Writer Mother Monster is a conversation series devoted to dismantling the myth of having it all and offering writer-moms solidarity, support, and advice. Each episode is streamed live on Facebook and YouTube, then archived as an audio podcast. www.writermothermonster.com
2023-01-1356 min
Writer Mother MonsterWriter Mother Monster: Caroline Hagood(January 10, 2023) Caroline Hagood is an Assistant Professor of Literature, Writing and Publishing and Director of Undergraduate Writing at St. Francis College in Brooklyn. She is the author of the poetry books, Lunatic Speaks and Making Maxine’s Baby, the book-length essay, Ways of Looking at a Woman, the novel, Ghosts of America, a book-length essay Weird Girls, and her novel Filthy Creation is forthcoming in March 2023. Her work has appeared in publications including Creative Nonfiction, LitHub, the Kenyon Review, Hanging Loose, the Huffington Post, the Guardian, Salon, and Elle. Caroline lives in Brooklyn and has two kids ages 6 and 9. Sh...
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Writer Mother MonsterWriter Mother Monster: Anna Hogeland(December 1, 2022) Anna Hogeland is a psychotherapist in private practice, with an MSW from Smith College School of Social Work and an MFA from UC Irvine. She lives in Vermont. Her essays have appeared in LitHub, Gloss, Big Issue, and elsewhere. The Long Answer, sold in 8 countries to date, is her first novel.Support the showIf you appreciate what you hear, consider becoming a patron/ess of Writer Mother Monster. Depending upon your level of support, you can tell me who you want to hear and topics you’d like to hear about, send me qu...
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Weil du Liebe bist.9. Rauhnacht Meditation - MoneymindsetWenn du ganz, ganz ehrlich zu dir bist: Was hast du für ein Gefühl zu Geld? Wie fühlt sich Geld für dich an? Ziel der heutigen Meditation ist es, ein Gefühl von Wertschätzung, Energie-Austausch und Mehrwert beim Gedanken an Geld wachsen zu lassen.
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Bei der heutigen Mediation fällt es mir enorm schwer, direkt in die Meditation zu starten, da es mir beinahe auf der Seele brennt, ein paar meiner Gedanken zum Thema Geld mit dir auszutauschen. Daher habe ich mir überlegt, dass ich meine Gedanken hier vorweg st...
2023-01-0133 min
Writer Mother MonsterWriter Mother Monster: Lindsay Lerman(October 27) Lindsay Lerman is the author of two experimental novels, I’m From Nowhere (2019) and What Are You (2022). She is also a translator. She has a Ph.D. in philosophy and sometimes teaches philosophy and creative writing. Her essays and short stories have been published in LA Review of Books, New York Tyrant, Entropy, and elsewhere. She is working on her third novel and a screenplay. She has a nine-year-old daughter, and describes writer motherhood in three words as TOO MUCH LOVE.Writer Mother Monster is a conversation series devoted to dismantling the myth of having it al...
2022-10-2758 min
Writer Mother MonsterWriter Mother Monster: Toni McLellan(October 20) Toni McLellan is a marketing writer by day and a round-the-clock phrase-gatherer. For two decades, she’s written for major magazines and brands, including a stint as an outdoor family travel writer. She’s also published essays with Outside, KitchenAid, and Fort Collins Magazine. In 2022, Toni started New-to-me Phrases, a weekly newsletter dedicated to curiosity, language, and humor. She lives in a quaint town northwest of Chicago with her husband, their three neurodiverse & queer adult kids, three parrots, a fish named Al Carpone, and a pink axolotl named Mimi.Writer Mother Monster is a conversation series devo...
2022-10-2057 min
Writer Mother MonsterWriter Mother Monster: Caroline S. Leavitt(October 13) Caroline Leavitt is the NYT Bestselling author of 13 novels, including With or Without You and Cruel Beautiful World. She is also the cofounder of A Mighty Blaze, a blogger/columnist for Psychology Today, and a book critic for People Magazine. A New York Foundation of the Arts Fellow, she was long-listed for the Maine Readers Prize, and was a Sundance Screenwriting Lab finalist.Writer Mother Monster is a conversation series devoted to dismantling the myth of having it all and offering writer-moms solidarity, support, and advice as we make space for creative endeavors. Each episode is...
2022-10-1357 min
Writer Mother MonsterWriter Mother Monster: Shin Yu PaiShin Yu Pai is a poet, essayist, and visual artist. She is the author of several books of poetry, including VIRGA (Empty Bowl, 2021), and served as the fourth poet laureate of the city of Redmond. In 2014, Shin Yu was nominated for a Stranger Genius Award in Literature. She is the creator and host of The Blue Suit, a podcast on Asian American stories, for KUOW, Seattle’s NPR affiliate. She lives with her husband and 9-year-old son in the Pacific Northwest and describes writer-motherhood in three words as interrelated, elusive, empowering.Writer Mother Monster is a conversation se...
2022-10-0855 min
Writer Mother MonsterSpecial Episode: Poets Writing Motherhood(May 5) This is a special episode on poets writing motherhood with Emily Pérez and Nancy Reddy, co-editors of The Long Devotion: Poets Writing Motherhood (UGA, 2022). bell hooks said: “No woman has ever written enough.” This truth demands that we make space for the essential writing of mothers, too. Motherhood is an experience central to all our lives, and The Long Devotion: Poets Writing Motherhood features work from queer mothers, single mothers, adoptive and foster mothers, women whose experiences with motherhood include infertility and loss and childlessness and abortion, and more.Writer Mother Monster is a conversation serie...
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Writer Mother MonsterWriter Mother Monster: Elana Bell(May 19) Elana Bell is the author of Mother Country (BOA Editions in 2020), poems about fertility, motherhood, and mental illness. She is also the founder of the Mother-Artist Salon, a virtual community dedicated to supporting mothers in their artistic practice. Elana’s debut collection of poetry, Eyes, Stones (LSU Press 2012), was selected by Fanny Howe as the winner of the 2011 Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets, and brings her complex heritage as the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors to consider the difficult question of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.Writer Mother Monster is a conversation series devoted to di...
2022-09-0958 min
Writer Mother MonsterSpecial Episode: Writing Motherhood and Sex(May 26) This is a special episode on writing motherhood and sex with Tracey Livesay, Cat Sebastian, and Julie Tieu. Tracey Livesay’s latest release, Like Lovers Do, was named one of the 100 Best Fiction Books of 2020 by Kirkus Reviews and one of the Top 10 Romances of 2020 by Entertainment Weekly. Cat Sebastian has written sixteen queer historical romances and her books have received starred reviews from Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, and Booklist. Julie Tieu is a Chinese American contemporary romance author based in the Los Angeles area. Her debut novel, The Donut Trap, is loosely inspired by the years sh...
2022-09-091h 04
Writer Mother MonsterWriter Mother Monster: Lian Dolan(April 21) Lian Dolan is a writer and podcaster. She is the author of three best-selling novels, The Sweeney Sisters, Helen of Pasadena and Elizabeth the First Wife. Her latest book, Lost and Found in Paris, was published in April 2022 and is a Southern California Indie Bestseller. Lian has written regular columns for Pasadena Magazine, O Magazine and Working Mother Magazine and is the creator, producer, and host of Satellite Sisters, the award-winning podcast she created with her four real sisters. In 2017, Lian was given the Podcast Pioneer Award by Women in Podcasting. She lives in Pasadena, California with her...
2022-04-2256 min
Writer Mother MonsterWriter Mother Monster: Chaya Bhuvaneswar(April 14) Chaya Bhuvaneswar is a practicing physician, writer and PEN American award finalist for her debut collection WHITE DANCING ELEPHANTS: STORIES, which was also selected as a Kirkus Reviews Best Debut Fiction and Best Short Story Collection. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Salon, Narrative Magazine, Tin House, Electric Literature, Kenyon Review, The Millions, Joyland, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Awl, and elsewhere. She has received fellowships from MacDowell, Squaw Valley/ Community of Writers and Sewanee Writers Workshop. Chaya has 2 kids, age 9 and 12 and describes writer-motherhood as arduous, irrational and fun. Writer Mother Monster is a...
2022-04-2157 min
Writer Mother MonsterWriter Mother Monster: Mireya VelaMireya S. Vela is a Mexican-American creative nonfiction writer, storyteller, and artist. Vestiges of Courage is her work of collected essays. In her work, Mireya addresses the needs of immigrant Mexican families and the disparities they face every day. She tackles issues of inequity and how ingrained societal systems support the (ongoing) injustice that contributes to continuing poverty and abuse. Her work has been published in Hippocampus Magazine, Noble/Gas Quarterly, Not Your Mother’s Breastmilk, The Nasiona, Miracle Monocle, Blanket Sea, and Collective Unrest, and she is also a visual artist. She she lives in Los Angeles has two...
2022-04-201h 09
Writer Mother MonsterWriter Mother Monster: Special Episode, Writing, Motherhood & Gender IdentityThis is a special episode on Writing, Mothering & Gender Identity with Stephanie Burt, Jennifer Chen, and Toni McLellan. We talked about writing and mothering nonbinary and trans children, and writing and mothering as trans and nonbinary mothers. It’s no accident that we held this conversation on International Transgender Day of Visibility, even as LGBTQ+ rights are being attacked throughout the US, from child welfare investigations targeting families of transgender children in Texas to the Florida Senate passing the “Don’t Say Gay or Trans” bill to a bill that sought to repeal New Hampshire’s ban on “conver...
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Writer Mother MonsterWriter Mother Monster: Jessica PiercePoet Jessica Pierce is the author of Consider the Body, Winged, and has been published in numerous magazines, including Nimrod International Journal selected her as a finalist for the 2020 and 2021 Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry. She was also a finalist in poetry prizes from CALYX Journal, the New Ohio Review, and MVICW, where she also earned a fellowship. Jessica earned her master’s in education from Harvard and works in a large public school district in Oregon to create anti-racist alternatives to exclusionary discipline. She has two children and describes writer-motherhood in 3 words as: fuck the patriarchy.Wr...
2022-03-1356 min
Writer Mother MonsterWriter Mother Monster: Hilda RazNote: Due to technical difficulties, there may be moments of awkwardness in this interview. Apologies!(February 17) Hilda Raz has been a director, award judge, and contributor in this country’s most prestigious poetry journals and contests. She has published 14 books as a poet, nonfiction writer, and editor, including the poetry collections include What Happens (2009), All Odd and Splendid (2008), Trans (2001), and Divine Honors (1997). Her current projects include a book of poems, List and Story and a nonfiction book about transitions. She was editor of the literary journal Prairie Schooner and served as president of the Association of Writers an...
2022-02-181h 02
Writer Mother MonsterWriter Mother Monster: Alena Dillon(February 10) Alena Dillon is the author of Mercy House, a Library Journal Best Book of 2020, which has been optioned as a television series produced by Amy Schumer, The Happiest Girl in the World, a Good Morning America pick, My Body Is A Big Fat Temple, a memoir of pregnancy and early parenting, and Eyes Turned Skyward, a novel forthcoming Fall 2022. Her work has appeared in publications including The Daily Beast, LitHub, River Teeth, Slice Magazine, The Rumpus, and Bustle. She teaches creative writing and lives on the north shore of Boston where she has a 3-year-old son and a...
2022-02-1856 min
Writer Mother MonsterWriter Mother Monster: Crystal MaldonadoCrystal Maldonado is a young adult author with a lot of feelings. Her debut novel, Fat Chance, Charlie Vega, was a Cosmopolitan Best New Book and a POPSUGAR Best New YA Novel. Her next novel, No Filter and Other Lies, explores teenage life in the social media age—and the lies we tell to ourselves and others. By day, Crystal is a social media manager working in higher ed, and by night, a writer who loves Beyoncé, shopping, spending too much time on her phone, and being extra. Her work has also been published in Latina, BuzzFeed, and the Har...
2021-12-1758 min
Writer Mother MonsterWriter Mother Monster: Sara Hosey(November 11) Sara Hosey is the author of Home Is Where the Hurt Is: Media Depictions of Wives and Mothers, which looks at representations of the domestic in popular culture, as well as 2 young adult novels: Iphigenia Murphy and Imagining Elsewhere. She has a Ph.D. in American Literature and is a professor of English, Creative Writing, and Women and Gender Studies at a New York area community college. Sara has an 11-year old and a 9-year old and she and her partner are certified foster parents; they recently had a 4-year old foster daughter staying with them. Sara describes...
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Writer Mother MonsterWriter Mother Monster: Anna V. Q. RossAnna V. Q. Ross’s most recent book—Flutter, Kick—won the 2020 Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award and is forthcoming from Red Hen Press in 2022. She is the author of 3 previous poetry collections: Figuring, If a Storm, and Hawk Weather and her work has received fellowships from organizations including the Fulbright Foundation. She is poetry editor for Salamander, teaches at Emerson College, and lives with her family in Dorchester, MA, where she runs the performance series Unearthed Song & Poetry and raises chickens. She has two kids ages 11 and 14 and describes writer-motherhood in three words as Fractured. Brilliant. Sleepless.Writer...
2021-12-0759 min
Writer Mother MonsterWriter Mother Monster: Sheba Karim(November 4) Sheba Karim is the author of the YA novels Skunk Girl, That Thing We Call a Heart, which made several Best Book lists including Bank Street and Kirkus, and Mariam Sharma Hits the Road, which was named a NPR Best Book of the Year, and The Marvelous Mirza Girls (May 2021). Her fiction and essays have been featured in 580 Split, Asia Literary Review, Femina, India Today, Literary Hub, Off Assignment, Shenandoah, South Asian Review, The Rumpus, Time Out Delhi and in several anthologies in the United States and India. She has an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and is...
2021-11-1046 min
Writer Mother MonsterWriter Mother Monster: Kristie Robin JohnsonNote: Apologies for the technical difficulties at the start--our intro song refused to play! Kristie Robin Johnson is an educator, essayist, and poet from Augusta, GA. She is the current Chair of the Department of Humanities at Georgia Military College’s Augusta campus where she is an Assistant Professor of English. A graduate of the MFA Creative Writing program at Georgia College and State University, Kristie’s writing has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has received other awards and recognition including the 2020 Porter Fleming Prize for Nonfiction and the 2021 Page Prize for Nonfiction. Her work has...
2021-10-3157 min
Writer Mother MonsterWriter Mother Monster: Ramona AusubelRamona Ausubel is the author of two novels and two story collections. Her most recent book, Awayland, was a New York Times Editors’ Choice selection, a Finalist for the California Book Award, Colorado Book Award and long-listed for the Story Prize. She is also the author of Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty, No One is Here Except All of Us and A Guide to Being Born. She is the recipient of the PEN/USA Fiction Award, the Cabell First Novelist Award and was a finalist for the New York Public Library Young Lions Award. Her work has ap...
2021-10-291h 00
Writer Mother MonsterWriter Mother Monster: Tara LaskowskiTara Laskowski’s debut suspense novel One Night Gone won the Agatha Award, Macavity Award, and the Anthony Award, and her second novel, The Mother Next Door, was published in October 2021. She is also the author of two short story collections and was the longtime editor of the online flash fiction journal SmokeLong Quarterly. A graduate of Susquehanna University and George Mason University, Tara lives in Virginia, where she has a nine-year-old son and describes writer-motherhood in three (and a half?) words as “learning to be efficient.”Writer Mother Monster is a conversation series devoted to dismantling the my...
2021-10-2957 min
Writer Mother MonsterWriter Mother Monster: Diksha BasuDiksha Basu is an actor and the author of the novels Destination Wedding and The Windfall, which is under adaptation for a television series by Shonali Bose. ELLE magazine said The Windfall broke stereotypes of exoticism surrounding India while The Wire called it a “shrewd and unstintingly funny story about the neuroses of New Delhi’s 1%.”Writer Mother Monster is a conversation series devoted to dismantling the myth of having it all and offering writer-moms solidarity, support, and advice as we make space for creative endeavors.Support the showIf you ap...
2021-10-2956 minThe Power of Love - Dein Podcast in die Selbstliebe#37 Ehrlich Sein mit Neelam - Erkenne Dich und dein LichtDie wundervolle Neelam ist diese Woche zu Gast im Podcast. Neelam ist eine wundervolle inspiration für mich, die so kraftvoll, lichtvoll und liebevoll ihr Sein mit der Welt teilt. Und ihre Berufungen lebt. Die Berufung, die sie verköpert, diese kraft, dieses Licht und diese Liebe mit der Welt zu teilen. Neelam ist KundaliniYogalehrerin, und Mantrasängerin, gemeinsam mit ihrem Man David in der Band Laeela. Und sie reisen viel. Und teilen ihre Magie an vielen verschiedenen Orten. Lausche ihrer Stimme, tune dich mit ein und genieße, Neelam auch an diesem Ort. Bei Dir.
2021-09-2544 min
Writer Mother MonsterWriter Mother Monster: Kelly Sue DeConnick(September 2, 2021) Kelly Sue DeConnick is the force behind Carol Danvers’ reinvention as Captain Marvel and is the first female writer of an ongoing Avengers title in AVENGERS ASSEMBLE. In 2013, Kelly Sue debuted on the independent scene with the mythological Western PRETTY DEADLY, followed by the sci-fi kidney-punch BITCH PLANET. She began writing for DC Comics with the ongoing series AQUAMAN in 2018 and develops TV with her husband and partner, Matt Fraction, as Milkfed Criminal Masterminds. Kelly Sue has two children ages 11 and 13 and describes writer-motherhood in three words as Personal, Hilarious, Clarifying.Writer Mother Monster is a co...
2021-09-0857 min
Writer Mother MonsterWriter Mother Monster: Leslie LehrAuthor of seven books, Leslie Lehr explores the duality of today’s women to navigate a new path between sexy and sacred. Salma Hayek is developing Leslie’s critically acclaimed new memoir, A Boob’s Life, into a comedy series for HBO Max.Writer Mother Monster is an interactive conversation series devoted to dismantling the myth of having it all and offering writer-moms solidarity, support, and advice as we make space for creative endeavors.Support the showIf you appreciate what you hear, consider becoming a patron/ess of Writer Mother Monster. Depending upon y...
2021-09-0259 min
Writer Mother MonsterWriter Mother Monster: Dorothy AllisonContent warning: Childhood sexual abuse(August 5, 2021) Dorothy Allison’s novel Bastard Out of Carolina was a finalist for the National Book Award, became an award-winning movie, and has been translated into more than a dozen languages. She was an award-winning editor for numerous early feminist and lesbian & gay journals and her many publications include The Women Who Hate Me, Trash, and Cavedweller, which became a NY Times Notable book of the year and was adapted for the stage and screen. Dorothy lives in Northern California with her partner Alix and her son, Wolf Michael, and describes writer-motherhood in...
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Writer Mother MonsterWriter Mother Monster: Margaret Adams(July 22, 2021) Margaret Adams writes short fiction, creative nonfiction, and essays. She was a Best American Essays 2019 Notable, the winner of the Blue Mesa Review 2018 Nonfiction Contest, and the winner of the Pacifica Literary Review 2017 Fiction Contest, and she’s a fiction editor for JMWW. Originally from Maine, she currently lives on the AZ/NM border in the Navajo Nation where she works as a family nurse practitioner.Writer Mother Monster is a conversation series devoted to dismantling the myth of having it all and offering writer-moms solidarity, support, and advice as we make space for creative endeavors....
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Writer Mother MonsterWriter Mother Monster: Rachel Yoder(July 8, 2021) Rachel Yoder is the author of Nightbitch (Doubleday), which has been optioned for film with Amy Adams set to star. She is a graduate of the Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program, holds an MFA in fiction from the University of Arizona, and is a founding editor of draft: the journal of process. Rachel grew up in a Mennonite community in the Appalachian foothills of eastern Ohio and now lives in Iowa City with her husband and son. Writer Mother Monster is a conversation series devoted to dismantling the myth of having it all and offering writer-moms solidarity, s...
2021-07-2958 min
Writer Mother MonsterWriter Mother Monster, Special Episode: Writing Motherhood & Mental Health(July 1, 2021) With Alicia Elliott, author of the thought-provoking essay collection A Mind Spread Out on the Ground; Liz Harmer, author of a memoir about wrestling with bipolar disorder, her hospitalization as a teenager, and postpartum depression; and Meg Leonard, a poet with a new collection, book of lullabies, that grapples with mental illness and new motherhood.Writer Mother Monster is a conversation series devoted to dismantling the myth of having it all and offering writer-moms solidarity, support, and advice as we make space for creative endeavors.Support the showIf you appreciate what...
2021-07-081h 24
Writer Mother MonsterWriter Mother Monster: Kate Baer(June 10, 2021) Kate Baer is a #1 New York Times bestselling author and poet based on the East Coast. She has been featured in publications such as Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue.com, Entertainment Weekly, & Literary Hub. Her first book, What Kind Of Woman, is out now with HarperCollins. “In these confident and fearless poems, Baer suggests that the deepest and most vulnerable love is found in life’s imperfections.” (Publisher’s Weekly)Writer Mother Monster is a conversation series devoted to dismantling the myth of having it all and offering writer-moms solidarity, support, and advice as we make space for creati...
2021-07-0759 min
Writer Mother MonsterWriter Mother Monster: Kendra DeColo(June 3, 2021) Kendra DeColo is the author of three poetry collections; most recently I Am Not Trying to Hide My Hungers From the World (BOA Editions, 2021). She has received awards and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and others, and her poems and essays have appeared in American Poetry Review, Tin House Magazine, Waxwing, Los Angeles Review, Bitch Magazine, VIDA, and elsewhere. She has performed her work in comedy clubs and music venues including the Newport Folk Festival, and she has taught at Sarah Lawrence College, Vanderbilt University, and the Tennessee Prison for Women. She currently teaches at...
2021-06-041h 01
Writer Mother MonsterWriter Mother Monster: Tananarive Due(May 27, 2021) Tananarive Due teaches Black Horror and Afrofuturism at UCLA and is an executive producer on Shudder’s documentary Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror. A leading voice in black speculative fiction for more than 20 years, Due has won an American Book Award, an NAACP Image Award, and a British Fantasy Award, and her writing has been included in best-of-the-year anthologies. Her books include Ghost Summer: Stories, My Soul to Keep, and The Good House. She and her late mother, civil rights activist Patricia Stephens Due, co-authored Freedom in the Family: a Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Ci...
2021-05-291h 00
Writer Mother MonsterWriter Mother Monster: Lan Samantha Chang, “A lot of my younger students write stories about middle-aged characters who are angsty and bored, and I’m thinking, ‘No, that’s not what it’s been like for me.’ It’s been one crazy thing after another!”(May 13, 2021) Lan Samantha Chang, Director of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, is the author of Hunger; Inheritance; All Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Lost; and The Family Chao (W.W. Norton, 2022). She has a 13-year-old daughter and describes writer-motherhood in 3 words as “Need more time.” In this episode, Sam talks about growing up one of the only Chinese kids in Wisconsin, offers advice for applying to residencies, and explains her method for writing while raising a family and holding down a demanding career. And, she talks about a real dog in an imaginary book.Writer Mother Monster is an intera...
2021-05-151h 03
Writer Mother MonsterWriter Mother Monster: Sadie Hoagland, “I write dark things. Once I had children, I became more careful; if I’m gonna engage with darkness, I’d better do it for a good reason and with a sense of responsibility.”(April 29, 2021) Sadie Hoagland is the author of Strange Children and American Grief in Four Stages and has two children, ages 6 and 2. She describes writer motherhood as “exhausting, hilarious, real.” In this episode, Sadie talks about multigenerational motherhood, why ambivalence is underrated, her changing relationship with darkness, and the language of trauma. And, she reads an excerpt of her book–from a ghost’s perspective.Writer Mother Monster is an interactive conversation series devoted to dismantling the myth of having it all and offering writer-moms solidarity, support, and advice as we make space for creative endeavors.Support...
2021-05-071h 00
Writer Mother MonsterWriter Mother Monster: Deesha Philyaw, “We think the worst thing is for our kids to feel unloved if we’re not there, but the worst is if we’re not there for ourselves; if we don’t show up for what we’re passionate about, to have unrealized dreams as a mot(May 6, 2021) Deesha Philyaw’s debut short story collection, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies was a finalist for the 2020 National Book Award in fiction and won The Story Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Her children are 17 and 22, and she describes writer-motherhood as “intense, complex, evolving.” In this episode, Deesha talks about starting her writing career when her daughter was 2, what she learned from sending fan mail to other writers, revisiting an abandoned novel, and how she ended her award-winning collection with a sigh.Writer Mother Monster is a conversation series devoted to dismantling the my...
2021-05-071h 00The Power of Love - Dein Podcast in die Selbstliebe#28 Ehrlich Sein mit Birthe Schütz - Dem Weg des Herzens folgenGehst du den Weg deines Herzens, kann es endlich fließen.Das Herz ruft und doch kommen Ängste & Zweifel, die ihre Berechtigung haben, auf diesem unbekannten, neuen Weg.Diese Woche spreche ich mit Birthe Schütz ganz ehrlich, authentisch über den Weg in die Selbstständigkeit. Wir sprechen über den Weg des Herzens, und wie auf diesem Weg Herausforderungen warten können. Die einfach gemeistert werden möchten. Wir reden auch darüber, Wenn du spürst, da ist noch etwas Anderes, das auf dich wartet, dann tauche ein in diese Podcastfolge. Wir teilen mit...
2021-05-021h 01
Writer Mother MonsterWriter Mother Monster: Stephanie Burt, "I was raised with the expectation that I would excel in a career and have time left over for kids, rather than the reverse, because the people who raised me didn’t know I was a girl."(April 24, 2021) Stephanie Burt is a poet, literary critic, professor, and transgender activist who the New York Times called “one of the most influential poetry critics of her generation.” She has two children, ages 11 and 15 and describes writer-motherhood in three words as “busy, conflicted, resourceful.” In this episode, Stephanie talks about claiming motherhood, finding kinship with Mr. Spock, the horror of The Giving Tree, the misery of octopus motherhood, role-playing games, X-Men, and more.Writer Mother Monster is an interactive interview series devoted to dismantling the myth of having it all and offering writer-moms solidarity, support, and advice as we ma...
2021-04-251h 06
Writer Mother MonsterWriter Mother Monster: Kim McLarin, "Writing was a way of imposing myself, of making a world that was hostile and wanted to render me invisible or dead acknowledge me and deal with me."“Writing was a way of imposing myself, of making a world that was hostile and wanted to render me invisible or dead acknowledge me and deal with me.”(April 22, 2021) Kim McLarin is a journalist, playwright, novelist, memoirist, literary critic, essayist, and co-author of a memoir by Malcolm X’s daughter Ilyasah Shabazz. She has two children, ages 21 and 23, and describes writer motherhood in three words as “contradictory, depleting, enriching.” In this episode, Kim talks about writing to change the world, navigating the expectations of white-middle-class motherhood, why writing seems less urgent now than in her youth, and why sh...
2021-04-2459 min
Writer Mother MonsterWriter Mother Monster: Riché Barnes, “Black women have had to come up with strategies for the survival of their children, families, and communities. It’s a toolkit passed down through the collective memory of Black mothers.”(April 15, 2021) Riché J. Daniel Barnes, a socio-cultural anthropologist who studies Black families, is the author of Raising the Race: Black Career Women Redefine Marriage, Motherhood, and Community. She has a 20-year-old daughter and twin 18-year-old sons, and she describes writer-motherhood in three words as: “Supporter. Creative. Industrious.” In this episode, Riché talks about raising kids while pursuing a PhD, redefining “family time,” and Black Strategic Mothering. And, she reveals the talent she performs at her family talent show!Writer Mother Monster is a conversation series devoted to dismantling the myth of having it all and offering writer-moms solidarity...
2021-04-171h 09
Writer Mother MonsterWriter Mother Monster: Special Episode, Writing Motherhood & Miscarriage with Shannon Gibney & Kao Kalia YangCW: Miscarriage(March 31, 2021) This special episode is devoted to an issue so many women struggle with, and so few people discuss. Shannon Gibney and Kao Kalia Yang, co-editors of What God Is Honored Here: Writings on Miscarriage and Infant Loss by and for Native Women and Women of Color, talk about why it’s important to give voice to this common pain.Writer Mother Monster is a conversation series devoted to dismantling the myth of "having it all" and offering writer-moms solidarity, support, and advice as we make space for creative endeavors.Support th...
2021-04-031h 16
Writer Mother MonsterWriter Mother Monster: Jennifer Chen, "My greatest pieces have come out of places of vulnerability and shame and fear.”CW: Miscarriage(March 25, 2021) Jennifer Chen is a freelance journalist who has written for the New York Times, O: The Oprah Magazine, Real Simple, and Bust on subjects ranging from emotional labor and pro wrestling. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and twin 5-year-old daughters, and describes writer-motherhood in 3 words as: “longest shortest time.” In this episode, Jennifer shares how to bathe twin newborns, how she deals with internet trolls, and why she writes about miscarriage. And, Jennifer talks about using her platform to raise awareness for the Stop Asian Hate Movement. Writer Mother Monst...
2021-03-271h 01The Power of Love - Dein Podcast in die Selbstliebe#27 Ehrlich Sein mit SEOM - Erinnere dich, was für ein wundervolles, kraftvolles Wesen du bistEs ist so leicht gegen etwas zu sein, wenn es zwickt oder eng ist, wenn da Wut kommt, Empörung, Traurigkeit. Was ist es aber, was ICH möchte? Wonach sehnt sich mein Herz? Wohin möchte ich meine Aufmerksamkeit richten? Und kann ich demnach FÜR etwas sein. Kann ich ruhig werden und spüren, was da wirklich ist. Und dann gehe unter dieses „Gegen“, schau noch ein bisschen tiefer. Das Gegen ist ein Schutz, mit dem wir unser Herz schützen wollen, unseren Kern. Es ist ein Schutz, es ist ein Kam...
2021-03-2150 minThe Power of Love - Dein Podcast in die Selbstliebe#26 Ehrlich Sein mit Christiane Ameya - Die Weisheit der GebärmutterDa ist so viel Weisheit, in deinem Körper, in deinem Tempel, in deiner Gebärmutter. Der Ort, an dem Leben gebiert. Körperlich und so sehr darüber hinaus. In dieser Folge spreche ich mit Christiane Ameya über die Kraft der Weiblichkeit & die Weisheit der Gebärmutter.Wir sprechen darüber wie du mit deiner Gebärmutter in Kontakt treten kannst & Was die Verbindung mit der Gebärmutter mit der Kraft deiner Intuition zu tun hat. Ein wundervoll weibliches Gespräch.Genieße es. Tauche ein....
2021-03-1438 min
Writer Mother MonsterWriter Mother Monster: Rosanna Warren, “The book that I started in 1985 just came out in 2020, if that gives anybody courage to keep on going.”(March 11, 2021) Rosanna Warren has been publishing “poems of riveting, compassionate darkness and social conscience for nearly 40 years” (LA Review of Books) and is the recipient of awards from the Academy of American Poets, The American Academy of Arts & Letters, the Guggenheim Foundation, and many others. She describes writer-motherhood in 3 words as: “frazzled, passionate, surprised.” In this episode, Rosanna talks about writing lines like knife stabs, growing up as the daughter of famous authors, putting poems in a compost heap, and why her girlhood was like Halloween.Writer Mother Monster is a conversation series devoted to dismantling the myth of...
2021-03-121h 04The Power of Love - Dein Podcast in die Selbstliebe#25 Ehrlich Sein mit Mirko Betz - Streit als Spirituelle PraxisStreit, so unangenehm es auch ist. Irgendwas lernen wir doch auch, meistens… manchmal.In dieser Podcast Folge erwartet dich ein sehr authentisches Gespräch. Ehrlich Sein mit Mirko Betz & mir. Über unser Streiten in Beziehung. Und was das mit Spiritueller Praxis zu tun hat.Wieso streiten wir? Woher kommt das? Und was sind unsere Erkenntnisse aus den letzten 4 Jahren Streit bzw die letzten 4 Jahren Beziehung … Wir reden über Kommunikation, Innere Kinder und IllusionDie 5 LiebessprachenUnd Ideen zum selbst die eigenen Bedürfnisse erfüllen.Ich freue mich s...
2021-03-0650 min
Writer Mother MonsterWriter Mother Monster: Meagan McGovern, “Just because other people figured out how to use hangers doesn’t mean I’m ever gonna figure it out.”“Just because other people figured out how to use hangers doesn’t mean I’m ever gonna figure it out. I mean, there’s certain things I just don’t want to spend my time doing.”(March 3, 2021) Meagan McGovern, who recently went viral in braids and a Target prairie dress, writes about homeschooling, social justice, and the odd quirks of American life. She lives on a farm in Washington state and just finished a memoir about growing up on the run with a mother who was a con artist. She describes writer-motherhood in 3 words as: “Everything is copy.” In t...
2021-03-051h 06
Writer Mother MonsterWriter Mother Monster: Beth Ann Fennelly, "My daughter came home from daycare smelling like another woman’s perfume. I had this sense of betrayal."(February 25, 2021) Beth Ann Fennelly, Poet Laureate of Mississippi, has published 3 books of poetry and a book of essays, Great With Child: Letters to a Young Mother. She lives in Oxford, Mississippi, and describes writer-motherhood in 3 words as, “monstrous, magical, mind-bending.” In this episode, Beth Ann talks about how reading about vomit led her down the poetry path, bartering haikus for hamburgers, and why society’s romanticized representation of mothers is damaging. Plus, she shares what makes motherhood more dramatic than Greek myth.Writer Mother Monster is an interactive interview series devoted to dismantling the myth of having it all...
2021-02-271h 03The Power of Love - Dein Podcast in die Selbstliebe#23 Ehrlich Sein mit Sigrid Spoerk - Mach dir die Welt, wie sie dir gefälltMach dir die Welt, widewidewi sie dir gefällt - so hat schon Pipi Langstrumpf meine Kindheit besungen. Und das hat sich einfach leicht angefühlt. Und gleichzeitig orientieren wir uns ganz natürlich an der Welt im Außen. Versuchen irgendwie hineinzupassen. Und manchmal da merken mir, wir passen hinein, aber es passt nicht für uns.Sigrid Spoerk ist eine großartige Künstlerin, Sängerin, Schauspielerin und erlaubt sich schon seit langem einen unkonventionellen Lebensstil. Wie sie es schafft, in Leichtigkeit und Lebenskunst ihren Alltag zu designen teilt sie in Retreat Reisen und ihrem Frauenkr...
2021-02-2126 min
Writer Mother MonsterWriter Mother Monster: Kristin Bair, “Every Facebook moms’ group has a provocateur.”(February 18, 2021) Kristin Bair is the author of three novels, most recently Agatha Arch Is Afraid of Everything, and writes about China, bears, adoption, and off-the-plot expats. She lives north of Boston with her husband and two kids and describes writer-motherhood in three words as “Are they asleep?” In this episode, Kristin talks about surviving COVID, the time a famous male poet stomped on her poetry, and why a teenager’s brain is like a snow globe. Plus, she shares what happened when she was locked in a cabinet with a pride of lions.Writer Mother Monster is an int...
2021-02-201h 06
Writer Mother MonsterWriter Mother Monster: Lori L. Tharps, “My mom would tell me about a patient who lacerated his liver on the escalator because he didn’t tie his shoes.”(February 11, 2021) Lori L. Tharps is a journalist, podcast host, and author of a novel and 3 nonfiction books, including Different Colors: Confronting Colorism in America’s Diverse Families. She has 3 kids and describes motherhood in 3 words as: “inspiring and exhausting.” In this episode, Lori talks about how her children’s different skin tones prompted her latest book, why she buys her kids only dark blue clothes, and how her mother gave her “the talk” by describing a badger’s persistent erection.Writer Mother Monster is an interactive conversation series devoted to dismantling the myth of "having it all" and offering w...
2021-02-131h 05
Writer Mother MonsterWriter Mother Monster: Ann Hood, “When I was in labor, I was judging the Barnes and Noble First Book Award.”CW: Child loss“When I was in labor, I was judging the Barnes and Noble First Book Award.”Ann Hood is the New York Times best-selling author of 14 novels, 4 memoirs, numerous other books, and possibly hundreds of essays. She lives in Providence, Rhode Island, with her husband and is the mother of Sam (27), Annabelle (16), and Grace, who passed away at age 5. In this episode, Ann talks finding a narrative in grief. She also shares stories from her modeling days and her time as a flight attendant, and explains why she describes writer-motherhood in 3 words as “...
2021-02-031h 10
Writer Mother MonsterWriter Mother Monster: Rachel Zucker, “The person who made Candy Land should be killed.”“The person who made Candy Land should be killed.”Rachel Zucker is the author of 10 books, including, most recently, SoundMachine. She lives in Maine where she is the mother of three boys ages 21, 20, and 13, and describes writer-motherhood in 3 words as “attachment, attachment, attachment.” In this episode, she explains why she identifies with Rip Van Winkle, what it’s like to go through a divorce in the midst of a pandemic, and why she thinks the maker of Candy Land should be killed.Writer Mother Monster is an interactive interview series devoted to dismantling the myth of ha...
2021-01-291h 11The Power of Love - Dein Podcast in die Selbstliebe#20 Ehrlich Sein mit Mirko Betz - Beziehung als Spirituelle PraxisWir haben Bedürfnisse, Wünsche, Gedanken, Vorstellungen. In Partnerschaft sind wir meist viel miteinander, öffnen uns immer mehr - dem Anderen und uns selbst. Das klingt zunächst romantisch. Darunter versteckt sich gleichzeitig auch eine enorme Herausforderung. Umso näher wir uns kommen, umso näher kommen wir meist auch uns selbst. Und unseren Schatten. Den unbewussten Anteilen, den ungemütlichen Bedürfnissen und unsere Projektionen auf das Gegenüber. In dieser Podcastfolge teilen Mirko & Ich unsere Herausforderungen und Herangehensweisen in Beziehung zu sein. Denn all die spirituellen Konzepte bringen dem Ego gar nichts. Und so fing unsere Reise an...
2021-01-2450 min
Writer Mother MonsterWriter Mother Monster: Elle Nash, “I loved being pregnant in Arkansas.”“I loved being pregnant in Arkansas.”Elle Nash is the author of the novel Animals Eat Each Other (Dzanc Books), hailed by Publishers Weekly as a “complex, impressive exploration of obsession and desire.” She lives in Colorado with her husband and 3.5-year old daughter, and she describes writer-motherhood in three words as “boundary-building, productive.” In this episode, Elle talked about witchcraft, being pregnant in Arkansas, transgressive fiction, magic, mountains–and more! Find out if Elle can do magic, what she sacrifices for art, and why she doesn’t want to peak until she’s 60.Writer Mother Mons...
2021-01-191h 01
Writer Mother MonsterWriter Mother Monster: Lyz Lenz, “Labias to the wall, ladies!”“Labias to the wall, ladies!”Lyz Lenz is the author of Belabored and God Land and her essay “All the Angry Women” was included in the anthology Not that Bad edited by Roxane Gay. She lives in Iowa with 2 kids and 2 cats and describes writing-motherhood in 3 words as “creative and chaotic.” In this episode, Lyz shares the story of how President Biden once (sarcastically) called her “a real sweetheart,” why she no longer matches her socks, and why men get mad at her. Find out why Lyz was kicked out of an online mommies group–and discov...
2021-01-151h 03
Writer Mother MonsterWriter Mother Monster: Creating Community for Writer-Moms, with Scribente Maternum, “I’m for women being just a little bit selfish.”“I’m for women being just a little bit selfish.”This special episode explores how to create community around motherhood and writing with the co-founders of Scribente Maternum, a community of writers that explores our emotions as mothers, provides space to recharge, facilitates connections with other writers, and inspires personal and collective action. Featuring Rachel Berg Scherer, Carla du Pree, Caytie Pohlen-LaClare, and Elizabeth Doerr.Scribente Maternum at scribentematernum.com.Writer Mother Monster is an interactive interview series devoted to dismantling the myth of having it all and offering writer-moms solidarity, support, and ad...
2021-01-1455 min
Writer Mother MonsterWriter Mother Monster: Melanie Conroy-Goldman, “Motherhood turns you into a milk cow.”“Motherhood turns you into a milk cow.”Melanie Conroy-Goldman is the author of The Likely World and a Professor of Creative Writing at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. She volunteers at a maximum security men’s prison and lives in Ithaca, New York, with her husband, daughter and step-daughters. Melanie describes writer-motherhood in three words as: “richly entangled identities.” In this episode, she talks about balancing addiction and motherhood, the urgent need for childcare, and crossing boundaries in writing from life. Find out why she threw Karl Ove Knausgård’s My Struggle across the room.Writ...
2021-01-0857 minThe Power of Love - Dein Podcast in die Selbstliebe#17 Ehrlich Sein mit Mirko Betz - Jeder Weg ist heiligZum Jahresbeginn hab ich mich mit Mirko vor das Mikrophon gesetzt & eine Podcastfolge aufgenommen. Wir haben den Jahreswechsel in einer kleinen Hütte im Schnee verbracht & uns Zeit genommen diese Tage bewusst wahrzunehmen. Daraus ist ein authentisch ehrliches Gespräch entstanden, in dem wir darüber reden , welche Fragen wir uns zum Jahresbeginn stellen. Wie wir ohne zu wissen was kommt, in Gelassenheit dieses Neue, Unbekannte auf uns zukommen lassen. Es gibt so viele Möglichkeiten diese Erde zu erfahren. Jeder Weg ist heilig. Und jeder Weg hat seinen Zweck. Zumindest für eine gewisse Zeit. Auf das dieses Jahr...
2021-01-0332 minThe Power of Love - Dein Podcast in die Selbstliebe#15 Ehrlich Sein mit Michael Kreuzwieser - Radikale Ehrlichkeit schafft IntimitätMich selbst und den Anderen spüren. Ist es nicht das, wonach wir uns sehnen? Was braucht es dafür? Wir dürfen uns zeigen, mit dem was gerade da ist. Und so Ehrlich sein, mit unserem Gegenüber, mit uns selbst.Der wundervolle Michael Kreuzwieser ist diese Woche im Podcast Interview und spricht darüber, was es bedeutet Radical Honest zu sein.Wir reden über Partnerschaft und Eifersucht, über das Raum Halten für ehrliche Gespräche & wie ich meine eigenen Bedürfnisse spüren kann. Was ich überhaupt, wenn ich ganz ehrlich mit...
2020-12-2036 min
Writer Mother MonsterWriter Mother Monster: Katie Gutierrez, “I was surprised at the depth of my anxiety.”“I was surprised at the depth of my anxiety.”Katie Gutierrez is the author of More Than You’ll Ever Know, forthcoming from William Morrow in 2022. She lives in San Antonio, TX, with her husband and two children, ages 2.5 years and 3.5 months and describes writer-motherhood in three words as “never enough time.” In this episode, Katie shares that she signed her book contract while breastfeeding. She talks about exploring desire, challenging the messages about motherhood she’d internalized, and rethinking what she considers “writing.”Writer Mother Monster is an interview series devoted to dismantling t...
2020-12-1757 minThe Power of Love - Dein Podcast in die Selbstliebe#14 Ehrlich Sein mit Esther Guggisberg - Die inneren Archetypen der Frau als kraftvolle RessourcenDie weiblichen Archetypen. In dieser Podcastfolge tauchen wir mit Esther Guggisberg in diese tiefe, mystische Thematik ein. Esther ist eine unglaublich kraftvolle Frau, die seit jeher verbunden ist mit Märchen und Mythen & sich heute in ihren Coachings, ihren Onlinekursen und ihrem Buch „Die 9 Archetypen der Frau“ dieser Thematik ganz natürlich und so verbunden, widmet. Ihre Erfahrungen und ihr Wissen mit uns teilt.Es ist ein wunderschön, berührendes Gespräch mit Esther & ich freue mich sehr es mit dir zu teilen.Wir reden unter Anderem über:Was sind Archetypen?Wo kann ich sie fi...
2020-12-1338 min
Writer Mother MonsterWriter Mother Monster: Daria Polatin, “There’s only so much pie, you know?”“There’s only so much pie, you know?”Daria Polatin is a playwright, TV writer-producer and author who is developing a TV limited series based on her novel Devil in Ohio for Netflix. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and 11-week-old son and describes writer-motherhood in 3 words as: “stunning, shifting, softening.” In this episode, Daria talks about what it’s like to maintain a fast-paced career in television with a newborn at home…in a pandemic. And, find out why she didn’t tell her colleagues she was pregnant until the last second.Writer Mo...
2020-12-0757 min
Writer Mother MonsterWriter Mother Monster: Katie Peterson, “Dolly Parton and Obama are really good grownups.”“Dolly Parton and Obama are really good grownups.”Katie Peterson is the author of four collections of poetry and directs the MFA program in Creative Writing at UC Davis. She lives in Berkeley, California with her husband and their 3-year-old daughter, and she describes writer-motherhood in 3 words as: “always play first.” In this episode, Katie talks about how having a daughter has awakened her to her own animal nature, her generation’s ambivalence about family, finding poems on walks, what it means to be a grownup. Plus, she just SAYS poetry like: “The truth is its own difficul...
2020-11-201h 00The Power of Love - Dein Podcast in die Selbstliebe#11 Ehrlich Sein mit Anika - Design the Life you Love. Eine Reise durch das Human Design SystemDiese Woche teile ich ein wunderschönes, inspirierendes Podcast Interview mit dir, das einfach Spaß macht.Gast ist Anika, die mit so einer Freude und Passion sich dem Leben hingibt. Sie ist zertifizierte Quantum Human Design Analystin, Coach, Speakerin, Café Betreiberin. Genießerin. Heute 8000 km entfernt wohnt sie in Indien. Gemeinsam hat sie dort mit ihrem Partner ein Café, einfach aus der Freude heraus. Und sie hat für sich das Human Design entdeckt. Dort geht es um verschiedene Design Typen, jeder von uns komplett unterschiedlich und individuell. Anika sagt, wenn du deinen Typen kennst, und de...
2020-11-1553 min
Writer Mother MonsterWriter Mother Monster: Tzynya Pinchback, “Getting cancer made me a better writer.”Note: Due to technical difficulties, there may be moments of awkwardness in this interview. Apologies!“Getting cancer made me a better writer.”Tzynya Pinchback is the author of the book of poetry How to Make Pink Confetti and was a finalist for 2020 Poet Laureate of Plymouth, Massachusetts. She lives in Massachusetts, has a 23-year-old daughter, and describes writer-motherhood in 3 words as: “primal. theater. sanctuary.” In this episode, Tzynya shares how her poetry has evolved throughout her battle with cancer, how her role as a mother shifted when helping her daughter through trauma, and how...
2020-11-1355 minThe Power of Love - Dein Podcast in die Selbstliebe#9 Ehrlich Sein mit MoJoh - Liebe ist größer als AngstTell your worst enemies ‚I LOVE YOU‘ and subsequently we will become like the Tree of Life.Diese Woche habe ich einen weiteren wundervollen Interviewgast im Podcast. MoJoh - Musiker, Künstler, Yogalehrer, Krieger der Lieber. Wir reden darüberWarum es so wichtig ist in Kontakt mit deiner Intuition zu sein.Was Liebe für uns bedeutet und welche Facetten es hier gibt.Wie sich die Liebe statt der Angst ausbreiten kann, wenn wir unseren Fokus ändern.Wie wichtig es ist, die eigene Wahrheit zu spüren, als wundervolles Tool in die (Selbs...
2020-11-0137 min
Writer Mother MonsterWriter Mother Monster: Liz Harmer, “I’m interested in my own desire.”“I’m interested in my own desire.”Liz Harmer is the author of The Amateurs and Strange Loops, forthcoming in 2022. She’s a Canadian living in California with her children who are 13, 11, and 8, and describes motherhood in 3 words as “challenge and delight.” Liz came to our interview straight from the ER, and there’s probably a lesson in there about how mothers feel the need to be superwomen, pushing ourselves to exhaustion. She also talks about transgression, mental health, and the evolution of desire.Writer Mother Monster is an interview series devoted to dismantling...
2020-10-2859 min
Writer Mother MonsterWriter Mother Monster: Blair Hurley, “It’s a powerful desire to become.”“It’s a powerful desire to become.”Blair Hurley is the author of the novel, The Devoted, and lives in Canada with her husband and 7-month-old daughter. Blair shares her joy in new motherhood and her eagerness to see how this shift in her identity will play out in her writing. She explores the difference between sentiment and sentimentality in writing, why we pass judgement on transgressive women characters, and writing on a thin edge between tenderness and viciousness.Writer Mother Monster is an interview series devoted to dismantling the myth of having...
2020-10-231h 03The Power of Love - Dein Podcast in die Selbstliebe#7 Ehrlich Sein mit Alexia Chellun - The Power is here nowAlexia Chellun ist so eine berührende, starke, kraftvolle Frau. Die mit ihrer Musik viele Herzen berührt. In diesem Interview spricht sie über ihre Musik, wie diese zu ihr kommt & über die Magie der Pause und vor allem die Wichtigkeit zu Pausieren, wenn es dran ist. Und wie dann Kreativität wirklich fließen kann. Wir sprechen darüber, dass es eben nicht den einen, richtigen (spirituellen oder what ever) Weg gibt, sondern immer nur(!) deinen ganz eigenen, individuellen. Auf meinem Weg, lass ich mich so so gerne von Alexias Musik berühren. Als wirklich ein ganz enormes We...
2020-10-1839 min
Writer Mother MonsterWriter Mother Monster: Amy Shearn, “Growing a person in my guts. That’s bananas.”“Growing a person in my guts. That’s bananas.”Amy Shearn is the author of the novels Unseen City, The Mermaid of Brooklyn, and How Far Is the Ocean From Here and lives in Brooklyn with her children ages 9 and 11. In this episode, Amy talks about giving up on perfection, how divorce has impacted her writing, practicing stoicism, and how “bananas” it is “to grow a person in your guts.” Find out how a woman at a playground inspired Amy’s second book.Writer Mother Monster is an interview series devoted to dismantling the...
2020-10-161h 04The Power of Love - Dein Podcast in die Selbstliebe#4 Ehrlich Sein mit Mevanya - Glaub einfach was du willst!Mevanya ist eine wundervolle Frau. So eine Frau in die du dich direkt verliebst, mir ging es zumindest so bei dem ersten Video, das ich von ihr sah, und direkt berührt war. In meinem Herzen. Was berührt mich? Ihre Präsenz, ihre Authentizität, ihr Sein. Und die Liebe die sie ausstrahlt.Glaub doch einfach was du willst. Darum geht es in dieser Folge:Mevanya teilt mit unsWarum es kein richtig & kein falsch gibt. Warum wir jeden einfach sein lassen dürfen.Was es bedeutet einen Raum zu halten und warum ein Raumhalten für Gru...
2020-09-2754 minThe Power of Love - Dein Podcast in die Selbstliebe#2 Ehrlich Sein mit Nives Gobo - Eine Reise in die WeiblichkeitDas große Thema Weiblichkeit. Wir reden über die Archetypen der Frau und wie diese im Zusammenhang mit dem Mond stehen. Wenn wir sie kennen und kennenlernen, können wir ihre Qualitäten in unser Leben einladen und integrieren. Und vielleicht auch einfach mal verstehen, warum wir uns so fühlen wie wir uns fühlen, und das von einem auf den anderen auch mal komplett umschwenken kann. Und warum es so wichtig ist, das anzunehmen. Uns selbst. Wirklich zu spüren. Mit dem was eben gerade da ist. Nives Gobo ist Mystikerin der heutigen Zeit und hat mit...
2020-09-1346 min
Past ForwardLara EhrlichLara Ehrlich is the author of the short story collection Animal Wife (Red Hen Press, Sept 2020), which won Red Hen’s Fiction Award, judged by Ann Hood. Lara lives in Connecticut with her husband and daughter.Animal WifeRed Hen Press, 2020A World Without Books was created to help writers connect with readers during the pandemic. This Micro-Podcast provides authors a platform to share stories about writing, discuss current projects, and consider life without books. Listen on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you podcast.Without Books®, a division of Heritage Future, is an aut...
2020-07-2003 min