What do you do when you have a full time job, parenting, helping your husband move permanently to the US, and launching a novel? You start a podcast with two of your best friends! (Not Quite) Losing It is the podcast I wish I’d had when I was a new mom who felt completely erased by motherhood. We’re three friends and moms, at different stages of parenting, but all trying to find ways to keep our creative identity alive.
Nurturing your own creative expression is incredibly important, even though the demands of motherhood make it feel impossible sometimes. We want to create resources and a community that help other women connect with each other and their own identities. We’re excited to welcome anyone who wants to be a part of a cozy, encouraging, judgement-free creative community, but we imagine our conversations will resonate primarily with mothers who have always valued their creative expression but who feel like they are in danger of losing it.
Why are we doing this? That’s a great question, and one we’ve asked ourselves. We’re a busy crew. I work full time. Melissa works part-time and is raising four boys. Katie is has three kids and is keeping the youngest one alive with food produced from her own body. So none of us were like, sitting around bored and needing another project. Between work and parenting a total of eight kids between us, it actually seems kind of dumb for us to be taking something else on.
Except: We all really wanted to. At some point, we’ve all felt on the verge of losing ourselves in the onslaught of maternal responsibilities. We’ve all had moments when tending to our creative spirits felt like just one more mouth to feed, and that it would be easier to just let that part of ourselves go dormant. But we’ve each fought through those moments and fed that extra mouth anyway, because we all believe our kids deserve a mom who is a whole, full, fulfilled person, and we think we deserve to be that kind of mom. We think all moms deserve to be that kind of mom.
I’ve struggled to find time to write since going back to work full-time. I’ve struggled to muster the energy to even read in the evening. There’s so much advice saying “If you love it, you’ll make time for it.” What does it mean that I haven’t made the time in years? I’m bringing those fears and hope to reignite my spark in community with other creative moms. So join us as we raise children, find ways to be creative that are both sustainable and sustaining, and come together to share some inspiration, advice, lots of laughs and remind each other that, despite all appearances, we’re not quite losing it.
You can listen to (Not Quite) Losing It on Substack, Apple podcasts and Spotify.
