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Every word. Every drop. Drinking it all in and with such sweet relief that I’m seen. Thank you xxxx

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Thank you for reading Lauren! Drink it in ✨

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What a nourishing read. Some super healthy and heart-hugging reminders for me in there xx

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Thank you for taking the time!! 🥰🥰🥰

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I feel like I just read my own heart on the page. Thank you for this Kat. It was emotionally wrenching in a way that I desperately needed.

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Thank you for being here and stopping long enough to read! Xxxxx

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Could be the wine, but pretty sure it’s the writing. Tears because you my love, get to the heart, the crux, the epicentre of it alllllllllllll. Love your heart and mind and the way you wrap arms around the heart of the mother, with your words.

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You’re making my heart flutter! 😭

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Yes yes yes yes.

No more words are coming to my brain right now.

But yes

And thank you

Hahah

I love you

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Also love the Kat River subby summary thing you’ve done at the end with photos and descriptions of what you share here. It’s beautiful and informative 😍 xx

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Thanks George! 😁✨

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This makes me feel so seen, and less alone. Thank you, Kat!

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Thank you for reading. Xx

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✨ stunning! I want to hold more space for the grief... the loss of when they were littler and the pull of the distraction I grapple with in missing it all because my work and need to provide for my family through creativity sets me on fire and I HAVE to tend to it... ✨🙏

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The grief is real and it’s of us but also beyond us. Maybe collective in some ways.

Sometimes the grief pulls us back into our true values and says hey, actually, you’re not being present enough with the kids.

And sometimes it’s just there to move through us and keep us feeling alive

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So delicious 🤍 Just perfect for where I’m at and all my heart is moving through, thank you. Thank you for seeing us 💫 The Mother in you sees, feels & knows the Mother in me xxx

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Thank you Rach! So love you being here x

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Oh my goodness, Kat, this is beautiful. Every line, I was nodding my head in agreement. Feeling so seen. ❤️

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Thank you Hunter you wonderful human!

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A simple, nourish breath out. I am melting within these words, Kat. My mother maker heart is yearning for the balance between all. And I remember myself that I am being in this balance, every day, it just looks different, every day.

I feel such an interwoven line between all us mothers through this post. Thank you for bringing this energy.

And I adore to feel your energy blowing and flowing of the screen too! Celebrating you for your creative expression!!

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Thank you for such a beautiful comment - we are all so connected, and though the road can sometimes feel lonely, we are all walking it together! Xx

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I feel seen ❤️🙏🏼 thank you for such a gentle and on point painting of my heart.

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More than welcome mama xx

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Wow!!! I felt every word of this!! It just made me feel so much less alone.. I always have the thoughts of “how the fuck do THEY do it” the guilt the creative words coming in the shower then never the time to write it down after. Thank you for this.. the line of what not missing what is meant for you, really hit hard. I always feel as if I am too late or won’t get it down, but there is patience to all of this too (which is the hardest!) .. love it!

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Thank you for reading, reflecting and also sharing here. So many of us are in the same experience in our own different worlds and expressions *holds everyone’s hands*

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Oh I feel you!! The “how are they doing it??” Is strong for me too! X

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It’s so nice to know it’s not just you.. I really was beating myself up over this for far too long!

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Oct 4, 2023·edited Oct 4, 2023Liked by Kat River

KAT! I'm feeling so seen and loved on by this letter. It can be hard when you're in the quiet dark, when you're hibernating and in the stagnant energy, longing to be again in the flow of making and creation and inspiration, that it's all a part of being a creative. That what is now will not be forever. Thank you. <3

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I’ve actually been thinking of you while you’ve been under the soil gestating once again! I’m so glad you feel seen and loved mama, it’s all apart of it!

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Oh my goodness, I needed to read this today! Thank you.

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Thank you for taking the time to read xx

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Ah Kat this is so beautiful and real, how did you manage to see into the hearts of every single one of us and put it all into words...?! Nourishing doesn’t even begin to cover it!

I have goosebumps thinking of all of the other mothers here also writing/making at strange times, in the dark, feeling it all. Here for it all. Much love to you xx

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Ahhh I only had to look into my own heart and trust that if it was an experience of my own, then there would be others who’d know the same.

Thank you for coming to read -bits pretty loving knowing how in it we all are, together

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Every single word!!! I feel like you've taken me on the journey and articulated what I've just come out the other side of and currently sitting within the season of creation being born alongside the mothering with ease. SO much love!

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I’m so in awe of all mamas walking with their creative spirit at the forefront

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