The Fitting Parenting into Life Project

What is it?

Fitting Parenthood into Life is a visual document expressing people’s stories of learning to fit parenthood into their lives. It is based on a Narrative Therapy tool by David Newman

 

How does it work?

Stories of new parents are sent by you, people living the experience, to Rooted Support. Your words are incorporated into a slide and added to the growing  document.

Why?

Because all of our voices matter and words have power. Speaking your truth means that your words are given the power to make other people feel impacted, changed, motivated, inspired, moved or connected.

How?

Simply email any part of your story to info@rootedsupport.caAdd the subject heading “Fitting Parenthood into Life Consent.” If you do so, then Cathy and Kristin will witness your story, transform it into a slide and add it to the ‘living document’: Fitting Parenthood into Life. We will consider the email subject line as confirmation that we have your consent to transform your words to visual format and publish them on this site without any demographic or identifying information made available or kept. We will delete your email address and not use it for any other purpose.

View the project now by clicking on the link to the right. 

Fitting Parenthood into Life by kristin.romanoski

If you need some ideas to get your story juices flowing consider the following questions:

  • Tap into your truest voice and share the beginning, middle and end of the part of the story that matters the most to you.
  • What deepest struggles can you share to connect with others – what knowledge do you have to support their struggle?
  • What have you learned about what matters to you?
  • What did you learn about yourself that you did not know?
  • Who do you look to for inspiration when you struggle?
  • What is it like to be known by another person? How do you know you are known? What is it like to feel unknown?
  • What ideas do you find yourself recruited into believing that you don’t agree with?
  • What in life is different because of your journey?
  • How would someone REALLY KNOW what it was like to live your story?

From what I've seen, it isn't so much the act of asking that paralyzes us--it's what lies beneath: the fear of being vulnerable, the fear of rejection, the fear of looking needy or weak. The fear of being seen as a burdensome member of the community instead of a productive one.

 It points, fundamentally, to our separation from one another.

Amanda PalmerThe Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help