A Motherhood Manifesto
For the mothers who refuse to disappear under the weight of the conventional narrative of who they were told they should be.
I. Refusal
I refuse to mother from martyrdom or from illusion.
I will not give up myself in the name of “love”.
I will not confuse love with self-sacrifice.
I refuse to give up my children to be devoured by the ideology of pretend.
I will not model depletion and call it devotion.
I will not carry the weight of the women who came before me.
I refuse to carry their silence.
II. Reclamation
The motherline lives in my bones,
but it ends with me where it no longer serves.
I choose presence over performance.
Truth over tradition.
Wholeness over holding it all together.
My children don’t need a perfect mother – they need a real one.
A woman who breathes.
When I evolve, they evolve too.
Because I become the power of permission
for them to be the wholeness of who they are.
Unapologetically.
I refuse to sacrifice myself at the altar of their societally proclaimed needs.
I am here to show them what it looks like to become.
Real. Embodied. Truth.
III. Creation
I choose.
To create.
To trust the intelligence of the body.
To break the intergenerational cycles of violence—
not through blame, but through embodiment.
Through listening.
Through living.
Through letting go of who I was told to be – who I thought I should be.
None of it was real, anyway.
Reality is a holographic projection of my mind – what do I choose to see?!
IV. Becoming
I am not here to repeat the past.
I am here to become the future.
I AM the perpetual now, manifesting a meaningful life.
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— Louise LeBrun
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