Bringing Forth Episode 23: Have the Children pray for parking spots with Uzma Jafri and Zaiba Hasan

This week I talk with Maram Said, DO about their experience of co-parenting with her mother, raising 2 boys, and caretaking patients as they become parents themselves!  

This week's conversation we talk with actor and songwriter Julia Weldon about being Non-binary & figuring out what that means in the midst of parenting.  Take a listen to the song that they sing to their little ones!   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71WtNNHVHGE 

We explore mindful and queer parenting with Melissa-Ann Nievera-Lozano.  She shares all about her children, her partnership and the thoughtfulness they put into parenting.

Mother/Daughter Authors Grace Ji-Sun Kim and Elisabeth Sophia Lee  join Bringing Forth to talk about their book Mother Daughter Speak and to share about the process of writing a book together and how parenting makes us more human.   

See below for an article Grace Ji-Sun Kim wrote about vulnerability and motherhood.  It's what I needed to read amid the constancy of covid parenting!

https://www.fsrinc.org/become-vulnerable-mother/

This week Fran Rossi Szpylczyn talks about step-parenting and caregiving her (now adult) step daughter.  She shared about laughter, joy, and admiration as well as the witness of her husband's love for his daughter. 

You can follow her blog at https://breadhere.wordpress.com/

This week's guests are Uzma Jafri and Zaiba Hasan from the podcast Mommying While Muslim.  They talk about their faith lives, white supremacy, naming  their children and how parenting has changed their understanding of Allah.  

After an infertility diagnosis Elyse and her spouse were able to welcome a miraculous little one   After year into parenting we explore some of the religious and spiritual elements of being a mother and an LDS parent while also managing PPD and anxiety.  Find her on instagram @elysegeorge

Listen in as Shannon Evans, author of Embracing Weakness, explores themes of vulnerability, anger, and spiritual practice amid the ordinary (and sometimes extraordinary) realities of parenting children.

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In this episode Martine offers our ears her exploration of non-violence, mothering, daughtering, and eldering.

This is the season finale.  I take some time to asnwer YOUR questions and reflect on some of my own experiences of podcasting and parenting.