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Let’s map the maternal mental load
In a recent post, I shared how our co-parenting therapist asked us to document all the childcare/home-related tasks and hours spent on those tasks for the month. I was honestly flabbergasted and slightly rageful at the idea: how does one document the time spent on the mental load of motherhood, and the varying decision forks that come from each task?
This felt worthy of collective experimentation: can we map the collective mental load of motherhood?
Map your load: think of this as a mental-load notepad: keep it open for a few days and add to your list as tasks come up. See what you notice, and how your individual tasks add up to the collective.
Share your self-portrait: if you’re an artist (we’re all artists!) feel free to submit your self portrait, drawn with white ink on black background (procreate or adobe illustrator or by hand al work). We’ll gather a collective of mother-artist portraits as we map the mental load
Finishing it up link coming soon…
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Sara Sadek, Founder of Folkweaver, is a mother and writer, partner and friend, facilitator and community builder here to co-create a world that radically reimagines the way we are to be in relationship together.
Storytelling, coaching, circle holding and art-making are her vehicles to radically re-imagine our relationship with ourselves, each other, and our planet.
She writes weekly essays, which you can subscribe to at folkweaver.substack.com and is published at Motherly Magazine and Mutha Magazine. She primarily writes narrative non-fiction, fantasy and speculative fiction. You can learn more about Sara here.
Sara unapologetically and unequivocally stands up for and speaks out in solidarity with Black liberation, LGBTQIA+ rights, reproductive justice rights, indigenous justice, Palestinian justice, sovereignty & freedom, immigrant rights, disability justice, and more broadly, with every historically oppressed people in our collective quest for co-liberation.