In today’s podcast conversation with Kat River, we explore the question of ‘how can we disrupt our ideas of what motherhood means, to redefine it for ourselves, through our creativity?’

Kat is a retreat facilitator, former couples coach, and speaker who talks about her transition from maiden to mother, drawing on tools of creativity to honour and traverse self-transformation through becoming a mother.

Kat shares her insights on how motherhood has encouraged her to deepen and change her relationship with her work, her creativity, her relationships, and her identity. This involves navigating boundaries and priorities, examining inner fears and beliefs around a loss of independence and taking 'time out’, and learning how to facilitate opportunities for our life and work focuses to evolve, change and shift.

We reflect on how the postpartum period has the potential to be an invitation for deeper self-knowledge, the importance of self-witnessing and honouring ourselves in a transitional time, and how it can be a training ground for our lives. We also look at relationships and codependency, fulfilment, and navigating the unexpected sides of motherhood with ‘leaps of faith’; relinquishing a sense of perceived control, while also recognising the structural and contextual challenges mothers also face.

This is a conversation that speaks to the possibilities of exploring a life of integration between mother, woman, and creator and allowing fluidity in how we see ourselves and the world.
Kat River lives in the Noosa hinterland with her husband Tully & two-year-old son Rafi.