{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"EP 214: Finding Language, Sharing our Stories, and Creating New Worlds around Mothering with April Tierney","description":"In this episode, Kimberly and April discuss her most recent book of poetry titled Matter \/ Mother which shares about April\u2019s experience of traveling through the underworld of grief, hardship, and heartbreak while mothering her young child. Together, they share their desires for a culture that makes space for the depth of mothering experiences and stories through all of the different seasons of life. They also discuss how to bear the pain and responsibility of both creating a world we want our children to live in while simultaneously inhabiting the one that currently exists. Overall, their vulnerability and honest reflections from their differing seasons of mothering offers language to those deep experiences and possibility for all mothers.   Bio April Tierney is a poet, activist, craftswoman, mother, and lover of stories. Her work follows threads of ecopoetics, myth, culture, and lineage. She has been nominated for The Pushcart Prize and featured in Orion Magazine, Deep Times: A Journal of the Work that Reconnects, Clarion Poetry Magazine, and Real Ground Journal, among others.   What She Shares: \u2013\u201dMatter \/ Mother\u201d poetry and mothering \u2013Mothering in the upper world while traversing the underworld \u2013Creative process while mothering \u2013Motherhood hardship and joys of different seasons \u2013Creating the world we want our children to inhabit   What You\u2019ll Hear: \u2013Latest book \u201cMatter Mother\u201d of poetry \u2013Reading of \u201cBirth Story\u201d poem \u2013Birth as animalistic and mythic \u2013Decision behind black cover on book \u2013Longing for more mothering stories from underworld journey \u2013Writing a book during early mothering \u2013Listening to experiences not from our own \u2013Finding language for mothering experiences \u2013Finding the right voices on mothering experiences \u2013Birth culturally accepted as traumatic \u2013Mothering in the underworld while raising children in the upperworld \u2013Mothering as existential \u2013Heartbreak of mothering in these times \u2013Unable to talk about lived, ongoing way while holding children \u2013Fantasy of modern motherhood \u2013Modern living as kind of trauma we learn to cope with \u2013Four forest fires in three days \u2013Evacuating from home from forest fires \u2013Pausing from writing and trusting the quiet places \u2013Writing as torture until its tended to \u2013Bringing forth for the world what is asking to come through \u2013Books as living, breathing things \u2013Creative portion of mothering in tension with energy and needs \u2013Kimberly\u2019s surprise of mothering young adulthood \u2013Grieving and loving during mothering in all phases \u2013Importance of sharing from different stages of mothering \u2013Physical versus psychological demands of mothering \u2013Noticing the glory spots of mothering \u2013Sending children out into the world \u2013Creating the world we want our children to live in   Resources Website: https:\/\/www.apriltierney.com\/ IG: @apriltierney11   ","author_name":"Sex Birth Trauma with Kimberly Ann Johnson","author_url":"http:\/\/www.kimberlyannjohnson.com\/","html":"