Half a century on the planet and you learn a thing or two. Throw in a major life event, and you are bound to gain some enlightenment on the path to self-healing.

motherly is a space to house all that I have learned so far on my self-healing and self-discovery journey.

A collection of the advice I’ve received and the knowledge I’ve gained. All that I’ve been passing along to my teenage kids and friends who keep telling me, “You gotta write this shit down!”

Some of it is ideas and quotes from authors I admire or podcasts I am obsessed with. Some of it is from conversations with wise friends, my mom and sister, or my therapist.

Some of it is my own journaled thoughts — my attempt to process and try to figure it all out.

The work I’ve been doing while I’ve been doing “the work.”

I hope it resonates. I hope it helps. Because being human is hard.

—mo