The Devoted Mother

The Hearth Keeper

She feeds what is hungry, shelters what is small and guards what is vulnerable. Yet somewhere along the way, she was left to hold it all alone. This workbook is a place to see her fully, to lift the weight she was never meant to carry, and to resource her so she can nourish from fullness instead of survival.

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The sink

The alarm, the kettle, the lunchboxes. She moves through the morning the way she moved through yesterday, and the day before that. Her hands know the work so well that she is barely there for any of it.

Her daughter is telling her about a dream and a horse that could fly. She nods and says "mm" while counting what's left in her account. And her children are watching, learning, carefully and completely, how to survive.

She isn't failing. She is surviving, with too much on her shoulders and too little holding her. If you see yourself in her, or your own mother, this is where you sit beside her at the kitchen table.

Who it's for

For every woman who tends life, and is tired of tending it alone.

You don't need to have given birth to carry the Mother. She lives in the mother of five and the woman who longed for children who never came. In the stepmother, the aunty, the eldest daughter, the nurse who skips her breaks. In anyone who nurtures, protects and provides.

You give until there's nothing left, then feel guilty for being tired.

You hold on tightly, snap more than you'd like, or carry the mother wound in your own story.

You're estranged from your mother, grieving her, or still longing for the mother you needed.

You're ready to be resourced, supported and held while you hold others.

What's inside

From the sink to the hearth, to read once and return to whenever she calls

OPENINGWho the Mother isHer place in the Devoted series, the Mother in the natural world, mothering today, the mother without children, and why her power was made so small.

PART ONEThe shadow MotherThe Maiden within the Mother, and the self-sacrificing, codependent and angry, overprotective mothers, each met without blame.

PART TWOHer holy powerThe Resourceful One, the Gardener and the Advocate, with their animal teachers and the research behind them.

PART THREEComing home to herWhen the mother is lost to us, remembering your mother, a written guided journey to the kitchen table, letters, and a ritual for feeding the Mother.

TENDING THE HEARTHPractical stepsMap the fire, tending the fire together, the Golden Field, outer boundaries, a self-love practice, and your own one-page Hearth Plan.

PART FOURReturning to herThe hearth, the shared table, ways to keep coming back, and further reading.

Every teaching has its own reflection page, and every step ends with something you can do, not only something to think about.

The mirrored mothers

Every shadow mother is reaching for a holy power

The shadow mothers aren't bad mothers. They are women surviving without the support they were always meant to have. Look closely at each one, and you'll find the gift she was reaching for, and an animal teacher to show you the way.

Her shadowHer holy power

The self-sacrificing mother→The Resourceful OneThe elephant matriarch

The codependent mother→The GardenerThe kangaroo and her joey

The angry, overprotective mother→The AdvocateThe mother hen

From Kia

"For most of my mothering, I was more drill sergeant than nurturer, surviving rather than truly present. Now, with my fifth baby in my arms, I am meeting the mother in me for the first time. Nothing about my heart changed. My conditions did."

Inside, I share the practices that came to me in the shadow of the mother, including the Golden Field and Map the Fire, so you can begin tending your own hearth.

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Teachings, stories and reflections for every face of the Mother

Practical steps and a one-page Hearth Plan for real, everyday change

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The Maiden was my gift to you. The Mother is the first of the low-cost, high-value workbooks in the Devoted series.

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