Self-led motherhood: supporting mothers around the world

About this episode

The episode discusses self-led motherhood and projects supporting mothers globally using IFS principles.

In this episode, we welcome Ana Morante, Ann-Katrin Bockmann, and Mary Petro to discuss the topic of Self-led motherhood . They will be sharing several important projects that integrate IFS principles and techniques to help support mothers around the world, including those at various stages of their motherhood journey and those who are parenting under extremely challenging conditions, such as poverty and life in war-torn regions. Here is a link to the project’s website ,   for those interested in joining this project.  

People in this episode

Hosts: Aníbal Henriques, Tisha Shull, Alexia Rothman

Guests: Ana Morante, Ann-Katrin Bockmann, Mary Petro

Topics covered

• self-led motherhood
• supporting mothers
• IFS principles
• parenting challenges
• global motherhood

Keywords

• self-led motherhood
• support mothers
• IFS techniques
• parenting under poverty
• war-torn regions

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: IFS

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