
010. Family food & feelings
“When I first had a baby I thought… ‘have I totally fucked my life up?'”
“When I first had a baby I thought… ‘have I totally fucked my life up?'”
“I don’t want to be a martyr, I don’t want to sacrifice all that I am, and all that I love to be a mother.”
“You feel that you have to work as though you don’t have kids, that to be to Mum-ish in the workplace is to leave yourself open to criticism.”
“Motherhood doesn’t define me, it’s one of the many caps that I wear and I wear it very proudly, but all the other caps that I do wear, they give me purpose too.”
“I feel so fundamentally different to who I was pre-baby and yet I’m still the same person. It’s so complicated and layered.”
“If I’m happy and making time for my art and music than the whole house is happier. If Mum’s taking care of herself, the whole house benefits”
This podcast is recorded & produced on Darkinjung Country.
We pay our respects to the traditional custodians & Mothers of the land on which we work & live.