Conscious Motherhood is a personal account of how having a child changes one woman's life. It is the story of one woman's experience of herself during these changes. This semi-autobiography traces the journey toward increasing psychological and emotional wholeness and the role of motherhood in this process. The birth of the child initiates a dichotomy between home life and work life and how the new mother deals with the conflict between continuing her career or full time motherhood. Immediately after the birth, she experiences her body as an instrument in the titanic force of life. In the...

Family Mythology Summary This is the intimate, close-up life of an at-home mother and wife in the mid-1970s. It details her relationship with her husband and children as well as her relationship with herself. It presents the problems they face as a family and includes whether they should move to Boston, the woman's hometown, or stay in Maryland. Another issue they face is how to solve the financial problems of the husband's dental practice. The woman feels she is turning a corner and entering a new phase in her life as she decides to resume her career, return to work, and enter Jungian...

Family Mythology Summary This is the intimate, close-up life of an at-home mother and wife in the mid-1970s. It details her relationship with her husband and children as well as her relationship with herself. It presents the problems they face as a family and includes whether they should move to Boston, the woman's hometown, or stay in Maryland. Another issue they face is how to solve the financial problems of the husband's dental practice. The woman feels she is turning a corner and entering a new phase in her life as she decides to resume her career, return to work, and enter Jungian...