Your Story

YOUR STORY!

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Becoming a mum. Being a mum.

How have things changed for you? How have you changed and how has your life changed?

Consider these questions:

	How did I feel once I knew that I was going to be a mum for the first time?
	How did I feel during labour - heroic, focussed, vulnerable?....a mix?
	What things make me feel happy since becoming a mum?
	What things make me feel guilty?
	What things make me feel stressed?
	Are there aspects about myself that are new or re-defined?
	Has my sense of identity changed? In what way?
	Has becoming a mum changed how I view my world and my future?
	What were those first months like looking after my new baby?
	Have I got the dream (home and kids) but lost the romance with my partner?
	What has my experience taught me?

A submission to Your Story is about giving you the chance to express what your experience has been like and how you are currently experiencing motherhood.

Articulating your experience can 'de-clutter' your brain and make your situation and your priorities more clear to you. It's also great for other mothers to read because it may help them feel less alone in their experience.

As women, and especially as mothers, we are not used to being invited to say how we feel about things. We can feel guilty or selfish - and all the more so if we are talking about our experience of being a mother; that sacred 'off limits' topic. Sometimes it's even challenging to find an opportunity to express how besotted we are, or how heroic we felt about our birth experience; we are just so programmed to down play such things and think, "No one wants to hear about that because lots of people are mothers; my experience is not so special."

This is your invitation now to write down all that has been going on for you. Good or bad. Remember that the way we are socialized has a huge impact on our experience. Your story may be as much about the emotions related to looking after your baby as it is about your perception of what is now expected of you, the way you might have changed inside (as a person and how you now view the world), and the changes that have taken place for your body.

The transition to motherhood can bring about many changes. Thinking through what these changes have been can help you validate these experiences and empower you to take the steps you need to if there is something that you are not happy about.

Submission guidelines

	It is preferable that submissions are at least 10 lines of text long.
	Think about (and maybe try to answer) some of the questions listed above.
	Submissions that simply describe events, discuss reactions to issues unrelated to the transition to motherhood, and/or ask for people to respond will be placed in the 'chit chat' section of the Discussion Board archive.
	Ask yourself:
	Try moving beyond your experience as a parent (inter-personal experience) and reflect on your experience becoming a mother (intra-personal experience).

First name or cyber/nickname? (or write 'anonymous')

Name

Which country are you from?

Country

Please enter your story in the space provided below: note-the box expands as you type

Email address so I can contact you if I need to (your email address will not be published) and, unless you tell me otherwise, so I can add you to our e-Newsletter database. Newsletters go out whenever there are entries so you can read about your submission the following month.

Email Address

Please enter a title for your story:

Title

(Optional) Choose a colour that best reflects the mood of your entry. Just add the word of the colour in the space provided and maybe explain why you chose that colour/s in your story above.

● purple ● yellow ● blue ● green ● grey ● orange ● red

Colour

*Please Note - Do not put any identifying information like names & addresses. You may wish to make a copy of your story before submitting it in case, for some reason, it doesn't submit properly. For quality control purposes this information is screened before being posted on the website. Obviously fictitious or offensive entries will not be posted up, nor will ones that obviously promote a business or activity.

Thankyou for your contribution!!! I generally post up material at the end of the month so you can look for your submission then... I hope it felt good to put 'pen to paper'!

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