THE GOOD ENOUGH MOTHER PODCAST
The Soul-Work of Mothering
August 3, 2020
MINDFUL MUM, MODERN MOTHERHOOD, MOTHERING MYTHS, GENTLE PARENT, MODERN PARENTING, PODCAST EPISODE, SHOW NOTES
with a mother, scholar, and psychotherapist Dr Aleksandra Staneva
The ever-unfolding transition into motherhood is one that often asks us to connect in with our values, our desires, and our sense of identity, to embark on a journey of growth and transformation in ways that we had never anticipated before becoming mothers.
This journey of ‘soul-work’ is the focus of this conversation with Dr Aleksandra Staneva. Dr Staneva is a mother, scholar, and psychotherapist who supports women to re-member and re-integrate their deep connection with their own soul.
This episode explores how this work actually looks in practice, diving into topics such as inner-child work, the ‘mother wound’, the ‘death mother complex’, ‘shadow work’, inner re-mothering, the connections between trauma and the body, and how we can use dream work as a way to access our unconscious in supporting our own growth and development. In this episode, Aleks combined both rational, intellectualised teachings and understandings, with the non-intellectual wisdoms of our body.
Meet drAleksandra Staneva
She is a Mother, an academic, and a psychotherapist.
Her work centers around women's health and women's studies and mental health, particularly maternal perinatal mental health, pregnancy, birth, trauma and postnatal depression; I also work in youth wellbeing and cancer projects;
She write books (for children and story-tales for grown ups) because she fully believes that stories carry an enormous transformative power!
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