

Stepping into Motherhood
I am the mother of three beautiful daughters. My entrance point for motherhood was unconscious, patterned behavior. I was not awake. It felt like I was stepping into shoes that were too big, and didn’t belong to me. Nonetheless, the shoes called to me. I tried them on like a child trying on her mother’s shoes. It was awkward, uncomfortable and I stumbled a lot. The stumbling, however, was the best thing that could have happened. It finally landed me on my face. Face down in t