The Importance of Tending to Your Postpartum Story with Molly Caro May
Molly Caro May is a writer whose work explores body, place, and the foreign/familiar. Her latest book, Body Full of Stars: Female Rage and My Passage Into Motherhood, was named a “searingly eloquent memoir” by Kirkus and excerpted in TIME and Lenny Letter. Her first book, The Map of Enough: One Woman's Search for Place was called “addictive” by Elle Magazine. She teaches personal narrative and story workshops online and across the country and gave a TEDx talk called “Female Rage and Resilience in the Modern Era.” Her mission is to work with story as a healing tool.
In this episode, you'll hear about:
- Her experience of the pandemic
- Body Full of Stars: Female Rage and My Passage Into Motherhood book
- The Map of Enough: One Woman's Search for Place book
- Postpartum story
- How to prioritize yourself
- Boundaries with your kids
- Be the change
- Mom guilt
- Metabolize your postpartum stories
- Writing workshops with Molly
- Morning Pages
- 31 Days of Writing Prompts: Learn More + Sign Up
- Birth Yourself Writing Workshop
- Transform Your Old Story Writing Workshop
Website: MollyCaroMay.com
Instagram: @mollycaromay