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Human/Mother is a publication designed for humans who are also parents and dealing with some pretty heavy life stuff. Please peruse, choose, and take what you need. Scroll this post to learn more about H/M’s rotating monthly topics as well as links to insightful guest posts (from therapists), interviews (with other Substack creatives), and personal essays (by me,
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Parental Estrangement
✍️ My Parental Estrangement Story
🎤 Human/Parents Interview: Denise Mills (from Tiny Simple Pleasures)
🎤 Human/Parents Interview: Julia Garza (from The Workbooks)
🔦 Therapist Spotlight: Blake Roberts (from More to the Story)
Birth Trauma
✍️ Grief Made Me Question Whether To Start A Family
🎤 Human/Parents Interview: Amber Adrian (from One Tired Mother)
🎤 Human/Parents Interview: Ariane Elizabeth Scholl (from —esque)
🎤 Human/Parents Interview: Emma Del Rey (from Being in Motherhood)
🔦 Therapist Spotlight: Lauren Auer (from Your Trauma Therapist)
Postpartum Depression and Anxiety
✍️ The Only Way Out is Through
🎤 Human/Parents Interview: Charlotte (from Baby Brain)
🎤 Human/Parents Interview: Joy V. (from The Shrieking Cactus)
🎤 Human/Parents Interview: Alexa T. Dodd (from The Distracted Writer)
🎤 Human/Parents Interview: Violet Carol (from Mother Love Letters)
🔦 Therapist Spotlight: Stacy McCann (from Supermom Dropout Club)
Suicide Grief
🎤 Human/Parents Interview: Isabelle (from breathe yourself home)
🎤 Human/Parents Interview: kd (from Shutter Release)
🎤 Human/Parents Interview: Mills Baker (from Rats from Rocks)
🔦 Therapist Spotlight: Skye Sclera (from Painting with Lightning)
Substance Abuse (OPEN CALL)
Bipolar Disorder (OPEN CALL)
Generational Poverty and Trauma (OPEN CALL)
Narcissistic Personality Disorder (OPEN CALL)
Eldest Daughter Syndrome (OPEN CALL)
Emotionally Immature Parents (OPEN CALL)
Parent Grief (OPEN CALL)
Grandparent Grief (OPEN CALL)
Cycle-Breaking and New Tradition-Making (OPEN CALL)
If you’d like to be considered for the Therapist Spotlight Series or the Human/Parents Interview Series, please reach out via direct message on the Substack app or email me at katrinadonhamwrites@gmail.com.
Personal Essays
Motherhood/Mothering/Inner-Child Healing:
✍️ Periodical Cicadas and Transcendental Daddies (& Mommies)
✍️ Grief Made Me Question Whether To Start A Family
✍️ BIG
✍️ At the MoMA
✍️ That Time My Dad Delivered a Sermon From a Bucket Truck
Childhood/Generational Trauma:
✍️ Could a Sibling Brawl Be a Sign of Generational Trauma?
✍️ Snake Night
✍️ The Letter
Grief:
✍️ Grief Made Me Question Whether To Start A Family
✍️ My Parental Estrangement Story
✍️ On Fairness
Anxiety and Depression:
✍️ The Only Way Out is Through
✍️ How To Eradicate the Loneliness Epidemic
✍️ Barbacoa
Hurricane Helene:
✍️ To Be a Mother Is to Be A Home
✍️ My Family and I Left Our Home in Asheville. We Didn’t Want To.
Substack:
✍️ Housekeeping
✍️ My 2025 Word of the Year: “Prune”
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