#55 Speaking Up Via Poetry - An Interview with Kay Loveday

Mums F**king Matter

I met Kay at a Poetry Night that a friend, Fi McQuay (ft. Episode no.16) and I organised at my local bookshop on International Women's Day, earlier this year. It was a very special night!

Since then it has been lovely to connect more with Kay as fellow Mums and poets and I'm delighted to share this conversation and more about Kay in this episode.

In this episode we speak about:

• Kay's journey with writing poetry and sharing it
• birth, motherhood and Kay's experience of Matrescence so far
• raising children with dual heritage
• judgement and racism in society and at school
• supporting and being advocates for our children
• how 'we' need to be better at having difficult conversations
• apologising with integrity
• knowing our capacity and not judging ourselves
• busting motherhood myths and the ripple effect of that
• Kay's video for her poem 'This Is My Body' and working with Her Story and Co.
• body image and loving ourselves more at any stage/age

Themes: mothering, poetry, matrescence, racism, story writing, boundaries, body image, mental health

You can connect with Kay and her work here on Instagram. And you can find a link to the amazing video and poem we speak about, 'This Is My Body' here.

At the end, I share a poem written by me.

I mention my Goddess Circles, and you can find out more about those HERE on my website.

I also mention Harriet Lerner's book 'Why Won't You Apologize? Healing Big Betrayals and Everyday Hurts'. And 'Eating in the Light of the Moon' by Anita Johnston.

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