‘Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws’ Barbara Kingsolver
The Story of a Mother by Hans Christian Andersen at: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Fairy_Tales_of_Hans_Christian_Andersen_(Stratton)/The_Story_of_a_Mother
An article by Bethany Webster from her site at: https://womboflight.com/about-the-mother-wound
‘Coming into full empowerment requires looking at our relationship with our mothers and having the courage to separate out our own individual beliefs, values, thoughts from hers. It requires feeling the grief of having to witness the pain our mothers endured and processing our own legitimate pain that we endured as a result. This is so challenging but it is the beginning of real freedom’ Bethany Webster
Plato’s cave allegory
Bridget Riley’s piece of art Escaping Centre depicts 15 circles with a moving red dot. The dot is initially in the centre and then it slowly takes different positions in the circle, and gradually, moves onto its periphery until it finally steps out of the circle. In 2013 while working for an outreach programme, mentioned in the previous post, one of the unemployed participants talked to me about how the circle around you can make you feel really small almost invisible, like a pin stuck in the centre, and a little prior to or after that, an old student of mine had met me in the local library and had narrated a similar metaphor. Read more