Wild Mama Wild Mama

Wild Mama

One Woman's Quest to Live Her Best Life, Escape Traditional Parenthood, and Travel the World

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Publisher Description

When Carrie Visintainer became a mother at the age of thirty-two, she worried it was all over, that her adventurous life was done. World travel? Adios. Solo explorations in the mountains? Ciao. Creative outlets? She wondered, are diapers my new white canvas? Immersed in a whirlwind of sleeplessness and spit-up, she was madly in love with her new baby, yet also felt her adventurous spirit and core identity crumbling.


So Carrie laced up her boots and set out on a soul-searching journey, with revelations near and far. Inside a local Walmart, she realized that new motherhood is like traveling to a foreign country, with a new vocabulary, unknowable customs, and extreme jetlag. Lying in a yurt in the Colorado forest, she came to terms with her postpartum depression. While sailing on a gulet off the coast of Turkey, she examined feelings of guilt about leaving her child in pursuit of adventure. And then, while perched in a handsome stranger’s motorcycle sidecar in the Mexican jungle, she found herself face-to-face with her central quandary: Domesticity vs. Wanderlust.


Finally, she discovered she could—and should—have both.

GENRE
Parenting
RELEASED
2015
November 3
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
280
Pages
PUBLISHER
Thought Catalog Books
SELLER
The Thought & Expression Co Inc.
SIZE
265.2
KB

Customer Reviews

TishaMc ,

Loved it!

Really enjoyed reading the adventures of another new Mother! A truly inspiring book!