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‘Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws’ Barbara Kingsolver

The Story of a Mother by Hans Christian Andersen at: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Fairy_Tales_of_Hans_Christian_Andersen_(Stratton)/The_Story_of_a_Mother

An article by Bethany Webster from her site at: https://womboflight.com/about-the-mother-wound

‘Coming into full empowerment requires looking at our relationship with our mothers and having the courage to separate out our own individual beliefs, values, thoughts from hers. It requires feeling the grief of having to witness the pain our mothers endured and processing our own legitimate pain that we endured as a result. This is so challenging but it is the beginning of real freedom’ Bethany Webster

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Plato’s cave allegory

Bridget Riley’s piece of art Escaping Centre depicts 15 circles with a moving red dot. The dot is initially in the centre and then it slowly takes different positions in the circle, and gradually, moves onto its periphery until it finally steps out of the circle. In 2013 while working for an outreach programme, mentioned in the previous post, one of the unemployed participants talked to me about how the circle around you can make you feel really small almost invisible, like a pin stuck in the centre, and a little prior to or after that, an old student of mine had met me in the local library and had narrated a similar metaphor. Read more

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The sparrow that wanted to be free

In 2013 I started working for an outreach programme. I was basically responsible for providing unemployed people with career counseling and tools to facilitate their entering employment again. The work was quite interesting, but after the first few weeks I started experiencing severe constriction in my chest and difficulty breathing, as soon as I got home, even though I would go to work feeling fine every morning.

On one such evening and after I had dozed off for a while I woke up with this short story in my mind, which I wrote down in a journal. The story had made implicit knowing of themes and dynamics available to me, and in retrospect, I understood that it not only contained past and present material, but more interestingly, glimpses of future dynamics and of what lay ahead, and also, reflected a more universal path of resistance and search for freedom. The images were created four years later within the space of a month when I was dismantling another inner wall and opening yet another door.

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