Nurture: poems from motherhood

Nurture is a collection of poetry from the lens of early motherhood, with insight from nearly a decade of meditation and mindfulness practice by the author. From pregnancy to postpartum depression to the first birthday, a move across the country, and the birth of her second baby, Curran walks the reader through the seasons of her internal landscape during the early years of mothering. Curran writes about navigating the rebirth that inevitably happens when one becomes a mother, the darkness that often silently sweeps over women when motherhood flips their world upside down, finding glimmers of hope to see themselves out of it, both the euphoric highs and painful sorrow many experience while mothering and the wisdom that they’re often left with after making it through hard moments and hard seasons. Read more