There’s a popular narrative that motherhood naturally brings women deeper into their feminine: softness, intuition, flow, devotion.

And while motherhood can absolutely deepen those qualities, it also asks women to hold an extraordinary amount of masculine energy.

In this episode, I name what so many mothers feel but struggle to articulate: that mothering often requires structure, containment, leadership, anticipation, protection, decision-making, and emotional steadiness. In other words, it requires a tremendous amount of masculine capacity.

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• what masculine and feminine energy look like in real life
• why motherhood is not only nurturing, but leadership
• the invisible mental and emotional load mothers often carry
• how disconnection from the body often begins before motherhood
• how marriage can suffer when one person holds the tone and weight of the home alone
• why softness is not something a woman performs, but something that emerges when she feels safe enough to put some of the weight down

Motherhood is sacred work.  But sacred does not mean weightless.

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