Motherhood category: 1477 books
Sacred Motherhood
An Inspirational Guide and Journal for Mindfully Mothering Children of All Ages
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
Written for mothers seeking to fulfill their soul’s work while simultaneously raising future generations, Sacred Motherhood offers women on the path of motherhood a guide back to themselves. It will help you embrace the reality that this is your spiritual life—every moment of every day, whether...
A Double Life
Discovering Motherhood
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
There is no denying it: motherhood splits a woman’s life forever, into a before and an after. To this doubled life Lisa Catherine Harper brings a wealth of feeling and a wry sense of humor, a will to understand the emotional and biological transformations that motherhood entails, and a narrative gift...
by Chimene Shipley Dupler
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Does motherhood matter?
Have we lost our sense of identity, especially through social media, which can pour both accolades and acid into our hearts and minds? Does our role as a mother have any lasting purpose? What about the hard stuff? Do we self-medicate more than we self-motivate to fight for...
Domestic Affairs: Enduring the Pleasures of Motherhood and Family Life
Enduring the Pleasures of Motherhood and Family Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
An unforgettable collection of essays on the everyday thrills and challenges of marriage and motherhood, from one of America’s best-loved memoirists
Witty and insightful, Domestic Affairs is an extension of Joyce Maynard’s celebrated, widely syndicated newspaper column of the same name...
Spilt Milk Yoga
A Guided Self-Inquiry to Finding Your Own Wisdom, Joy, and Purpose Through Motherhood
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
Spilt Milk Yoga is a companion guide for mothers who want to experience the happiness, peace, and purpose available in each moment, and who want to be more present and connected to themselves and their children. Author Cathryn Monro combines personal experience, honesty, and humour...
by Jill Smokler
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
From the New York Times bestselling author of Confessions of a Scary Mommy and the wildly popular blog ScaryMommy.com, a hilarious new essay collection that exposes the “vicious lies” that every parent is told.
Newly pregnant and scared out of her mind, Jill Smokler lay on her gynecologist’s...
The 7 Stages of Motherhood
Loving Your Life without Losing Your Mind
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2010
This refreshingly candid parenting book puts mothers—not children—center stage. Ann Pleshette Murphy provides a reassuring, wise, and often wildly funny mix of anecdotes and advice as she describes the seismic shifts in women’s lives and identities from pregnancy through a child’s graduation. She...
Mothers Who Think
Tales of Real-Life Parenthood
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2013
From the editors of the cutting-edge online magazine Salon come provocative essays that take an unflinching look at
the gritty truths and unreserved pleasures of contemporary motherhood.
Mothers Who Think: Tales of Real-Life Parenthood, which grew out of Salon's popular daily department of...
The Kids Will Be Fine
Guilt-Free Motherhood for Thoroughly Modern Women
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
A bracing, hilarious manifesto for motherhood as it ought to be: spontaneous, loving, and just a little bit selfish
Pre-chewing toddler food. Flash cards for two-year-olds. Endless hours of school gatherings to sit through in smiling silence. How did motherhood—which even under the best circumstances...
Regretting Motherhood
A Study
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
Women who opt not to be mothers are frequently warned that they will regret their decision later in life, yet we rarely talk about the possibility that the opposite might also be true—that women who have children might regret it. Drawing on years of research interviewing women from a variety of...
Moods of Motherhood
The inner journey of mothering
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2016
Moods of Motherhood charts the inner journey of motherhood, giving voice to the often nebulous, unspoken tumble of emotions that motherhood evokes: tenderness, frustration, joy, grief, anger, depression and love. Lucy H. Pearce explores the taboo subjects of maternal ambiguity, competitiveness, and...
by Karen Fowler
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Reflections of Motherhood is a collection of essays, short fiction, poetry and a novella-- all about the various aspects of Motherhood. Being a mom isn't all baby powder and sleeping cherubs, and Fowler approaches the many facets of motherhood with wit, honesty and cutting clarity. This book...
Motherhood Is a B#tch
10 Steps to Regaining Your Sanity, Sexiness, and Inner Diva
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
You’ve had a kid or two . . . or three. Now, every time you look in the mirror you ask yourself, Who the hell is that tired, washed out woman looking back at me?” What happened to the stylish, stiletto-wearing woman who prided herself on living the fabulous life? It’s time to reclaim your...
Surprised by Motherhood
Everything I Never Expected about Being a Mom
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
A lawyer with a well-stamped passport and a passion for human rights, Lisa-Jo Baker never wanted to be a mom. And then she had kids. Having lost her own mother to cancer as a teenager, Lisa-Jo felt lost on her journey to womanhood and wholly unprepared to raise children.
Surprised by Motherhood...