Mic 1#02

The speaker, known as Embodied Mother, shares her journey from being a martyr to becoming an embodied mother. She intends to use her experiences to help and support other mothers who are facing similar challenges. She wants to inspire them to embrace their authenticity and mother from a place of their own genius. The speaker admits to falling off this path multiple times but is determined to find her way back. She acknowledges that the martyr pattern has been present in her life and attributes it to her own mother's example. The speaker's transformation began with a traumatic birth experience, which led her on this path of self-discovery. She is now ready to share her story, starting with the birth of her son, which was also the birth of herself as a mother. Welcome, welcome, welcome. This is Embodied Mother. My musings from my journey, which is ongoing, from martyr to becoming an embodied mother. And so I'm going to use this as medicine, not only for me, to be sharing and expressing what's alive for me, what's raw for me, what's real for me. Because I know in sharing my stories, I will help and support other mothers who are navigating the same murky waters, trying to unravel from the same stuck patterns, aligning with their essence, their rawness, their realness, so they can mother from a place of authenticity. They can mother from a place of their own genius. They can wander and wonder with their children and feel so fucking alive and embodied. I have fallen off this path many times in the last five years, but I'm flexing my muscle. I'm finding my way back. Each time I fall off, I get back on again. This pattern of the martyr has been rife within me my whole life. I watched my own mother forsake herself. I've watched many mothers. There was no one showing me the way to be embodied in motherhood until a traumatic birth set me on this path, this reckoning, and I'm ready, so ready to start to share it. The first sharing will be, of course, about the birth, because it was the birth of my son, but it was also the birth of me from maiden to mother.