Mothering Our Mental State

My mother (who is an ‘un-mother’ now that I reflect upon it) - her relationship to food and cooking was non-conforming to traditional gender roles. Remember when Hillary Clinton made some offhand comment about housewives and later that week she was baking cookies in public as a campaign tactic? (Other than being women this is probably the only thing my mother and Secretary Clinton have in common, truth). Even her way of talking about being a mother was rebellious and trans-mothering. LIke a number of single female heads of household, they play both roles of mother and father. She had three rules (which I’ll talk about in Values & Ideals---which is on the same mental plane as Food and Aligning With Intention).

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