Mothershifting

Stories, research, and companionship for the shifts that change us.

By AM Alpin

Having My Mother’s Hands

On Rejecting the Dominant Culture Narrative About (Women’s) Aging

Jun 23•AM Alpin

Our Longest Conversation

Or, how I let my father back in after a decade of silence

Jun 16•AM Alpin

The Language Your Mother Never Had

On What Matrescence Means—and Why It Matters

Jun 9•AM Alpin

How I Got So Quiet and the Voices in My Head Got So Loud

Or, All the Reasons I Shouldn't Start a Substack

Jun 2•AM Alpin

On Becoming (M)other

Notes from the goo phase of matrescence.

May 26•AM Alpin

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