The Essential Mommy Muse Com Toolkit 11 Empowering Keys For Your Journey Into Motherhood

The Essential Mommy-Muse.com Toolkit: 11 Empowering Keys for Your Journey into Motherhood

The Essential Mommy Muse Toolkit

While each person's journey is unique, there are essential tools that can empower every new mother in the profound transition into parenthood. The Essential Mommy Muse Toolkit is a mom-friendly self-coaching guide designed to assist in your journey and may provide you with exactly the tools you need to gather strength, reclaim and even enjoy your life again! This can also be used as a guidebook for friends or family members who want to help, offering a deeper understanding of their loved one's experience and knowledge of what is needed to help them feel better.

Inappropriate Bodies Art, Design and Maternity

This edited collection examines conflicting assumptions, expectations, and perceptions of maternity in artistic, cultural, and institutional contexts. Over the past two decades, the maternal body has gained currency in popular culture and the contemporary art world, with many books and exhibitions foregrounding artists’ experiences and art historical explorations of maternity that previously were marginalized or dismissed. In too many instances, however, the maternal potential of female bodies—whether realized or not—still causes them to be stigmatized, censored, or otherwise treated as inappropriate: cultural expectations of maternity create one set of prejudices against women whose bodies or experiences do align with those same expectations, and another set of prejudices against those whose do not. Support for mothers in the paid workforce remains woefully inadequate, yet in many cultural contexts, social norms continue to ask what is “wrong” with women who do not have children. In these essays and conversations, artists and writers discuss how maternal expectations shape both creative work and designed environments, and highlight alternative ways of existing in relation to those expectations.