The Mother’s Day flowers are great, and…
The Mother’s Day flowers are great, and…
Written by Dr. T.
“Weaving Generations” by Luce Domino F. Melegrito (2003)
Give me a revolution.
Fight for a movement
that transforms our systems,
so we can be held as we are...
that sustainably heals us within...
that honors mothers and women
not as passive nurturers, but also as
powerfully soft/warriors of life/
creators of community and sovereignty
The Filipina mother is a revolution.
What we need, what we want more of & What we got…
1. Rooting…
Ways to root in our healing and in our parenting may look like the books, podcasts, or ways we heal! Some books we love:
“Babaylan: Filipinos and the Call of the Indigenous” by Leny Strobel
Books by Angela Garbes: “Like a Mother” & “Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change”
“The Work of Mothering: Globalization and the Filipino Diaspora” by Harrod J Suarez
“Don’t Tell My Mother” by Brigitte Bautista
Kids books: When Lola Visits” by Michelle Sterling, “Sari-Sari Summers” by Lynnore Bontigao, “Nanay and the Moon Poetry for Children”
Podcasts you may like:
Dirty Nanay: A Nod to the Unfiltered Filipino American Mother
The Mamacademy PH Podcast
2. Healing…
Give us partners, friends, family who respect our boundaries, help us heal, and encourage our sustainability! Give us a pampering of healing providers! Being able to connect to therapists, healers, aligned wellness practitioners… WHO ARE ALSO culturally-responsive! Mothering is hard (in general), but then take away body autonomy, mothering choices of care, reproductive rights, postpartum support, social-emotional-physical safety and care, and you’re just setting mothers and our family-unit up to fail! Give us healing. give us system change.
3. Connecting…
Healing your inner child while taking care of a child (or, children) is challenging, AND a supportive network can be immensely healing. Collectively care with your kinfolx, family, or support groups who understand your journey may, not only healing, but also makes the parenting adventures FUN!
Here are a few in our community:
4. Self-care is collective care is liberation
True celebration of Mother’s Day is only possible when mothers and caregivers have the ability to care for themselves. Self-care requires supportive systems, and those systems must be rooted in collective care. Collective care is only possible when liberation, equity, and justice are accessible to all. We can’t have a Happy Mother’s Day is we cannot self-care, and we cannot self-care unless there’s systems in place that collectively care, and we cannot collectively care if there is no liberation for us all.
For your collective care and healing support, please feel free to reach out to our Therapinxy Wellness Providers and know, we gotchu…wherever you are in your healing journey!
