Welcome to the Reclamation Era!
I’m Stephanie, and I’m so glad you’re here. I write about motherhood at midlife, ADHD, feminism, women’s health, relationships, divorce, therapy, and yes, I am an unapologetic Swiftie. I am a semi-apologetic navel-gazing nostalgia junkie currently working on my first memoir. My work has been published in O Magazine, The Washington Post, Cosmopolitan.com, Brain, Child Magazine, Motherwell, The Huffington Post, Mutha Magazine, The Belladonna Comedy, the Chicken Soup for the Soul series, and other places. I am the Executive Producer of Listen To Your Mother Boulder, co-host of the Mother Plus Podcast, and co-editor of Midstory Magazine and the HerStories Project, a writing community for midlife women.
You may have noticed that my Substack column appears to have undergone its own midlife rebranding and gotten a facelift of sorts. When I began my blog, Mommy, for Real, in 2012, I had an infant and a kindergartener. While it may or may not be true that my teenage daughters still call me “Mommy” or “Momma,” the purpose of my writing is no longer to swap stories about fishing craisin-speckled feces out of the bathtub while quietly sobbing about our collective life choices. Now it’s to swap stories about picking up Ritalin and driving to therapy while quietly sobbing about our life choices. I kid. But you get the idea: my kids are growing up, and I am, too.
I am in my Reclamation Era: the intersection of midlife, single motherhood, and neurodivergence. Maybe you’re in yours, too, whatever that looks like for you, and I want to be clear that my initial mission of writing about parenting and motherhood has evolved into a new incarnation. We are always allowed to reinvent ourselves, and I’d love it if you stuck around—we can cheer each other on as we reclaim whatever it is that has been lost.
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Be part of a community of people who share your interests: you know, sarcasm, swearing, midlife crises, relationships, parenting, divorce, crying until you laugh, laughing until you cry, and maybe some navel-gazing for good measure.
My Substack column will also bring you content from The Mother Plus Podcast, a show for moms who feel like they are too much and not enough at the same time. We are the podcast for women who feel like they are failing motherhood—as two mothers recently diagnosed with ADHD, we explore motherhood through the lens of neurodivergence.
