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Motherhood & Boyhood Initiation

Motherhood & Boyhood Initiation

I am filled with such joy and appreciation my heart is bursting. Witnessing the joy, love and radiance pulsing from my son’s Niko and Maika, as we land back to Auckland after our Fijian Initiation Adventure. I notice a part of me that wants to dull down and not be so ecstatic about the

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Taking back my life from the patriarchy is no joke.

Untangling shame

Being a woman taking back my life from the patriarchy is no joke. In fact, a reckoning. An undoing.

On the average day I could distance myself/ separate/ numb from the impact of having absorbed into my very cells the discourse and narratives of a system founded on the oppression of woman. The

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The Echo of Rage

The Echo of Rage

I can still hear the echo’s of their screams in my heart as I write this. The first of 6 rage spaces took place this weekend. Huge waves of sadness rumble through me, heaving deep into my belly, wobbling, aching, the tide pulls back from the land then crashes hard again and again. Building in

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Doubt

Doubt

My heart and soul are hungry for something else. This modern culture game I’ve become “successful” at, leaves me thirsty for another way of being in the world. My sons already with tight defended boxes around them about how life goes. Becoming teenagers 12 & 10 years old looking to the outside to

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