We're back with Amy Robbins-Wilson, the creator of LullabyLink.com and TransformationalMothering.com. Today, Amy will provide some insight into what inspired her to create these sites, her book, and cds.
1) What inspired you to write Transformational Mothering?
My son, Clayton, was ten months old when I began writing (not coincidentally this was also when he began sleeping through the night). Writing has always been an outlet for me. I began writing to help figure out why I was feeling so lost as a new mother. I felt overwhelmed with decisions to be made and I wondered who am I now?
It was obvious that I was changing but it was a friend who made it clear to me. She said, "Amy, you have gone from being an independent, energetic, adventurous and self-sufficient person to being at home with your baby. You are not depressed; you are transforming. You are on a new path now." Everyone had told me that my life would change when I became a mother, what no one had told me was that I would change. I carried a notebook around with me for a year, writing notes, affirmations and prayers. I delivered a sermon at our church about new motherhood and I showed the prayers to a few friends who encouraged me to add stories about my experience. When Clayton was two I had the first rough draft which I showed to more friends and by the time he was three and a half I had the final copy and design.
Motherhood is a slippery thing to talk about because it is both blissful and exhausting. Once I could see that I was in a transformational process I understood my life in a new way and wanted to share that perspective with others.
By: Karen Cioffi,
on 11/27/2009
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Recently, I received an email from the creator of Lullaby Link, Amy Robbins-Wilson. She found my book, Day's End Lullaby, through a Google search she has for the word lullaby. Amy generously offered to review my book and create a video of it. Well, I jumped at the chance.
Visiting Lullaby Link I found a creative and wonderful site for parents and grandparents (and others involved with babies and young children) to find lullabies from around the world. Fascinated by the whole concept I asked Amy to fill us in on what she and her sites, Lullaby Link and Transformational Mothering, are all about.
LullabyLink.com
Lullabylink.com is dedicated to serving parents who would like to incorporate music into their lives with their children. At Lullabylink.com we believe in the power of music to link generations. We further believe that lullabies and baby music are crucial in the development of the arts in our culture. If our children learn that music comes only from “professionals” or from the tv or radio box then they will learn to be consumers. If they learn that it comes from all people, they will learn to be creators.
Lullabylink.com provides parents with lyrics and melodies to over 40 lullabies and ideas as to how to use music with their infant, their toddler and even with babies in the neonatal intensive care unit. Studies report that there is a decrease in the number of parents singing to their children. We hope to be a part of reversing that trend by encouraging parents and giving them the tools they need to interact with their children musically.
We invite you to http://www.lullabylink.com. Come get your free lullaby lyrics songbook and mp3’s! If youhave any comments or suggestions for our site we would love to hear from you.
TransformationalMothering.com
TransformationalMothering.com is designed to help mothers who have questions about post partum issues. There are videos, articles, and information for new mothers as well as Amy’s blog, and links to her lullaby site LullabyLink.com. You will also find more information about the book she wrote about her journey through the post partum period entitled Transformational Mothering-A Prayerful Companion for New Mothers, and to her CD of prayers and original lullabies for mothers and babies entitled The Divine Hours of Motherhood.
Amy, would you please tell us a bit about the book and cd?
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Motherhood is such a transition! And it is a transformation. I think so many of us start off with careers and then find our hearts pulled in two directions once we have babies. I'll be adding this book to my list--even though my sons have managed to survive this far. :]
Hi, Tara,
Hey, hang on to the book...one day your sons will have kids! :) They'll appreciate this book.
Thanks for stopping by.
Karen