Jacqueline Kelly - The Power Of No

A tiny word, but oh how disallowed it is. For mothers especially, setting boundaries around your time and work and responsibility and duties is more than unsettling, in fact it's so challenging that conversations around a mum's vast remit of expectations are things that usually don't happen thoughout the entirety of a lifetime. A lifetime spent struggling to meet expectations of selfless devotion.

But it's time to lift the lid and seek out these darker places and bring them out to meet the sunshine of real life. Can we start to have the conversations that scratch the surface of society's impossibly perfected image of motherhood, to acknowledge the subtle yet profound value in steering away from self-sacrifice, whilst still observing and cherishing the selfless act of mothering? Of true parenthood? 

This was a blissful and revealing conversation with a wise and insightful human being - go follow @our_bravehearts and treat yourself to some comforting discomfort and whole dose of mother-loving reality.