Brittany Meng: "We're in the goop"-reflection, resilience, and trauma since March 2020

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 It’s March 2022. I don’t know about you, but my mind (and
Facebook memories) is filled with reflections on the last two
years.  I’m tired. I know you are too. We’ve all been
through a LOT since March 2020. 
 
 Our motherhood narratives are filled with the unexpected,
parts we would never have chosen for ourselves and our children.
We know about the shift that happens: in our bodies, our hearts,
our souls, our expectations, our jobs, our loves, our
priorities. 
 
 We have been here before. This is the goop. Our
pre-pandemic lives have dissolved, are dissolving. It’s horrible
and real and frightening and exhausting. We are being remade,
even as we resist the transformation. I think that’s why it can
be so painful. 


 In this solo podcast, I’ve collected my thoughts, your
stories and stats, and my research and stories to reflect on how
the pandemic has affected me as a woman and mother. 


 This episode is NOT a Patreon download this month because I
wanted everyone to be able to listen, reflect, and share their
experiences about surviving during this unique era. If you
participated in the polls and reflection posts on the Motherhood
Metamorphosis Podcast page in March, you may hear your story on
the podcast too. 


 If this episode encouraged you, I’d love to have you
consider a Pateron donation. The $5 per month tier grants you
access to the last two solo episodes, “How to strengthen your
intuition” and “Good mother/bad mother: reframing the narrative
in our heads”.

Works Cited:
 Our Brains Want the Story of the Pandemic to Be Something
It Isn’t By Joe Pinsker


Addressing the pandemic’s mental health fallout 


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