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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, interviews, and personal essays.

Human/Mother is based in Asheville, North Carolina

But, before we dig into the nitty-gritty, here’s a heads-up on the topics to be covered this year:

February: Parental Estrangement (CLOSED CALL)

March: Birth Trauma (CLOSED CALL)

April: Postpartum Depression and Anxiety (CLOSED CALL)

May: Suicide Grief (OPEN CALL)

June: Bipolar Disorder (OPEN CALL)

July: Substance Abuse (OPEN CALL)

August: Generational Poverty and Trauma (OPEN CALL)

September: Narcissistic Personality Disorder (OPEN CALL)

October: Eldest Daughter Syndrome (OPEN CALL)

November: Parent or Grandparent Grief (OPEN CALL)

December: Cycle-Breaking and New Tradition-Making (OPEN CALL)

If you’d like to be considered for future 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.

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Personal Essays

Mothering/Motherhood/Inner-Child Healing:

✍️ Are You My Mother?

✍️ BIG

✍️ At the MoMA

✍️ That Time My Dad Delivered a Sermon From a Bucket Truck

✍️ Secret Valentine

Childhood/Generational Trauma:

✍️ Could a Sibling Brawl Be a Sign of Generational Trauma?

✍️ Snake Night

✍️ The Road Trip

✍️ The Letter

Grief:

✍️ My Parental Estrangement Story

✍️ My Brother’s Birthday

✍️ A Loss Is a Loss Is a Loss

✍️ Where I Seek Refuge

✍️ 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

✍️ Please, Don’t Forget Us

✍️ My Family and I Left Our Home in Asheville. We Didn’t Want To.

Substack:

✍️ Human/Mother is ONE!

✍️ My 2025 Word of the Year: “Prune”

✍️ Why I Started Human/Mother

Human/Parents Interview Series

🎤 Julia Garza (Parental Estrangement)

🎤 Denise Mills (Parental Estrangement)

Therapist Spotlight Series

🔦 Blake Roberts (Parental Estrangement)

Mind-Body-Soul Series

🧘‍♀️ #4: Digital Overload & Detox (+ Flu), "Healing Soup," and the "Serenity Prayer"

🧘‍♀️ #3: Kate Bowler, Ina Garten's “Perfect Roast Chicken,” and the City that Never Sleeps

🧘‍♀️ #2: Sickness, “Dumpling Soup,” and Fall Weather Vibes

🧘‍♀️ #1: Whitney Cummings, “Post-Vacation Lamb Meatballs,” and Last Days of Summer