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 Book 3 of The MotherShip ... The Annals of Mothering Wisdom 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