The Mother Ship - Living Book

By Ciara Heneghan Did you ever feel like you just weren’t equipped for the part you have to handle? The phase of motherhood and childhood staring you straight in the face. Eyeballing you like it's got your number and knows you haven’t a clue what to do next? Have you ever felt like you might know what the answers to the questions popping up are, but listening to those answers could change the trajectory of your parent-child bond and that scares the bejaysus out of you? Hav

By Sandy Hart “Step aboard!” they said! “It will be a magical voyage!” they promised … HELLO beautiful fellow mamas out there on those stormy seas called life! In “The Mother Ship 2 Book, my share was around the storms of divorce. Which is anything but fun or easy, but today, I think I would take D-I-V-O-R-C-E- over bone scans and CT scans looking for cancer. What I know in my last 1/3 of both this epic book journey and life, is that it simply doesn’t get easier; we truly do

Musings on inspiring women By Aine Heneghan ‘Mum had the girls so the lads could laugh at your fuck ups’. This was a flippant remark made at a family gathering. We all laughed, but inside I wasn’t laughing. That statement hit its target and struck deep. I gave that statement power in that moment. I let that statement rock my already unsteady foundation. I was in my thirties and had just boarded the motherhood ship. I’m guessing that some of you reading this will concur that m

By Juli Thomys Becoming a mother has changed everything. It made me realise that it sets you apart from anything you have been and done before. There was the whole non-parental experience of life, and then there is Motherhood. It is the good and the bad and the ugly; we become incredible maternal Goddesses, and frumpy jog-bottomed Cinderellas at the same time. We are flying the highest we could have imagined, and we are hanging on the cliff with our bare gums from sheer exhau

Welcome Mothers ... from wherever you are reading this. A new time has begun and we are bringing everything back to community, connection, sharing, truth, and the knowledge that we are not alone, though we may be doing it alone. These stories are for you, by you and in you, and you are welcome to this space. xoxo Ciara