Welcome back to the Maternal Journal podcast - a deep dive into the power of journaling and creativity to support mental health and wellbeing through pregnancy, birth and parenting.

In this episode, host Laura Godfrey-Isaacs speaks to Canadian writer and memoirist, Theresa Wong, who’s deeply moving graphic memoir ‘Dear Scarlet’ charts her motherhood journey, touching on how she moved from ‘tiredness to sadness’. Her experiences of postnatal depression shaped her early mothering experiences and is depicted in beautiful and economically drawn cartoons that communicate these Important issues in emotionally charged and redemptive cycles.

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Welcome back to the Maternal Journal podcast - a deep dive into the power of journaling and creativity to support mental health and wellbeing through pregnancy, birth and parenting.

In this episode, host Laura Godfrey-Isaacs, is joined by artist and poet Mimi Kunz. Her book ‘Mother Tongue’ brings a stunning combination of poems and drawings together, made in parallel, whilst she was taking care of her new born daughter, Iris, in the first year of her life. The book recounts moments of marvel, fear, and laughter with Mimi exploring how the body of mother and child form our first language, our mother tongue.

In this gentle conversation, we hear Mimi read some of her beautiful poems as well as her positive ideas on the framing of motherhood and creativity.

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* Trigger warning, some of this episode discusses pregnancy loss, and a near-death birth experience*

Welcome back to the Maternal Journal podcast - a deep dive into the power of journaling and creativity to support mental health and wellbeing through pregnancy, birth and parenting.

In this episode, host Laura Godfrey-Isaacs, is joined by Bestselling American cartoonist Lucy Knisley. We hear about her book, ‘Kid Gloves’ which takes us on a journey through pre-conception, pregnancy and birth to the unexpected joys of parenting. Lucy's work brings warmth, wit, and vulnerability and explores how the graphic form can become a powerful space for advocacy, reflection, and solidarity as well as the means to highlight how some modern birth practices and cultures can let us down at one of the most important moments of our lives.

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