Transformative Experience: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformative_Experience

Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4616994/

This is the final episode of the Motherworldly Podcast, in which I mostly suggest alternative names for Mia's books, which is probably pretty annoying. She talks about her subject matter - postnatal wellbeing and birth trauma, her writing process, and her career.

Series 3 of the Motherworldly podcast is about books: reading them, writing them, not writing them.

Anyone with any connection at all to academia will find this fascinating. Petra writes about being well in academia (actually that's the title of the book!) and we talk about this with specific reference to students and staff returning to school and uni after lockdown.

Series 3 of the Motherworldly Podcast is about reading, writing, and loving books.

I absolutely defy you to listen to this and not immediately want to read all of Lucinda's books, she is such an engaging speaker, and as a veteran author speaks with authority of her experience of writing and getting published. Find more of her at lucindahawksley.com

This series of the Motherworldly Podcast is about books.

Sherry Bevan is a life coach, breastfeeding counsellor, mother, and president of the NCT. She tells me about her life and her writing process. This one's right down the feminist end of the conversational spectrum.

Lisa and I manage to fit 42 books into 31 minutes - enjoy!

Hens Dancing - Rafaella Barker

Moon Tiger - Penelope Lively

The Luminaries - Eleanor Catton

Hideous Kinky - Esther Freud

The Secret History - Donna Tartt

The Book of Human Skin - Michelle Lovric

The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt

The Little Friend - Donna Tartt

The Ripliad - Patricia Highsmith

Talking to My Daughter: A Brief History of Capitalism - Yanis Varoufakis

Thursday Next - Jasper Fforde

The Book Thief - Markus Zuzak

Wolf Hall, Bringing Up The Bodies, The Mirror & The Light - Hilary Mantel

Beyond Black - Hilary Mantel

Giving up the Ghost (A Memoir) - Hilary Mantel

Oscar and Lucinda - Peter Carey

A History of the World in 10.5 Chapters- Julian Barnes

New York Trilogy - Paul Auster

I Am I Am I Am - Maggie O'Farrell

Bruce Dickinson's Autobiography

Little Dorrit, Great Expectations, A Christmas Carol, A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens

To The Lighthouse, Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf

War & Peace, Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

Hamnet - Maggie O'Farrell

Flowers in the Attic - V.C. Andrews

The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - John Boyne

The Tattooist of Auschwitz - Heather Morris

Now We Are Six - A.A. Milne

Ant & Bee - Angela Banner

Le Petit Lapin Dans L'Avion (Miffy Goes Flying) - Dick Bruna

The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R.Tolkein

When God Was A Rabbit - Sarah Winman

Why We Sleep? - Matthew Walker

Series 3 of the Motherworldly Podcast is about books.

I spoke to Zainab on what might have been the hottest day of the year, but we managed to focus our minds and had a really interesting discussion of breastfeeding aversion as well as - of course - breastfeeding in its wider context. I used the term "skin hunger" and thanks to my friend Meg have tracked down the correct attribution - it's in Kerstin Uvnas Moberg's book The Oxytocin Factor.

Series 3 of the Motherworldly Podcast is all about books.

Amy Jones is all over the social medias as @jimsyjampots, where she shares her family life in all its glory; she's a writer and podcaster, and the auther of The To Do List and Other Debacles, a memoir of mental health. In our conversation, we explored the process of writing, the importance of to-do lists, and the impact that motherhood has had on her.