{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"EP 213: Navigating Single Motherhood, Finding Sisterhood, and Forming Kinship with Marysia Miernowska","description":"In this episode, Kimberly and Marysia discuss how they\u2019ve navigated the challenges and benefits of single motherhood. In many ways, their lives and stories run parallel: surprising pregnancies, marrying into another culture, becoming single mothers with babies, and living out single motherhood while being entrepreneurs. This honest, raw, and tender conversation offers vulnerable testimonies and nuggets of wisdom for other single mothers. They emphasize the difficulties but importance of building kinship and community, undoing internalized shame, and tending to community. Marysia\u2019s School of the Sacred Wild is now open for enrollment with Kimberly as a guest teacher!   Bio Marysia Miernowska is a teacher, author, Earth activist, green witch, folk herbalist and healer rooted in the Wise Woman Tradition of Healing. Born in Poland, she carries with her a lineage of European folk herbalism. Marysia honors plants as sentient beings, elders, healers and teachers. As a Plant Spirit Communicator, Marysia channels messages from the Earth spirits and guides students to connect with plant spirits through meditation and through their bodies, to receive guidance and learn about the constituents, energetics and properties of plants. Registration is now open for the School of the Sacred Wild and can be accessed through the link below. What She Shares: \u2013Journeys into pregnancy \u2013Trauma and shame around single mothering \u2013Finding kinship and community   What You\u2019ll Hear: \u2013Marysia\u2019s surprising journey into motherhood \u2013Managing cultural differences as a couple \u2013Traumatic experience becoming a single mother with a baby \u2013Kimberly\u2019s pregnancy and divorce \u2013Single motherhood sisterhood \u2013Navigating single motherhood challenges and joys \u2013Marysia entering single motherhood \u2013Receiving judgment for divorcing \u2013Physical manifestations of wounds and healing \u2013Functional freeze reactions for survival \u2013Finding the village as single mothers \u2013Fairy godmothers and aunties \u2013Bringing in chosen family for children \u2013Cultural differences in background and local living \u2013Anticipating the death of empty nest \u2013Reviewing mothering choices \u2013Grief and cultural isolation \u2013Predictability and calm in hiring anticipatory help \u2013Working through shame in asking for more help \u2013Nervous systems and being trapped \u2013How culture is physically organized disruptive to kinship \u2013Spontaneous social interactions \u2013Taking risks and extending our ways of gathering \u2013Doing it imperfectly and letting go of shame \u2013Tending to the ecosystem of families, parents, and single mothers \u2013School of the Sacred Wild herbalism program \u2013Creating kinship and a deep sense of belonging between human & non-human \u2013Holding vitality of the Mother archetype and cutting back, releasing, and discerning \u2013September 7th registration closes \u201310% off code for listeners \u2013Kimberly to guest teach in School of Sacred Wild   Resources Website: https:\/\/www.schoolofthesacredwild.com\/ IG: @marysia_miernowska Course Link for Listeners: here   ","author_name":"Sex Birth Trauma with Kimberly Ann Johnson","author_url":"http:\/\/www.kimberlyannjohnson.com\/","html":"