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Podcast: Motherhood and the Awakening Path

in memory of Bonnie Greenwell

In this podcast edition of my Substack article, I discuss the perils, challenges and gifts of being on the non-dual path as a mother.

It’s about time I address this elephant in the room, which is being on a non-conventional (i.e. contemplative) spiritual path and being a mother. I am in a lot of groups; I have spiritual teachers and meditation groups, and I often find myself the only mother, if not the only parent.

You might have noticed that I dedicated this post to Bonnie Greenwell, who passed away in 2022. She was one of the seminal spiritual teachers who influenced me early on. I resonated deeply because she was a woman and a mother, and always addressed this dimension of her experience in her extensive writing about awakening and kundalini. She was once a student of Adyashanti, but became a teacher to many with her many books, videos, teaching events and satsangs.

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