Alicia Keys Turns to Meditation to Help Navigate Motherhood
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The No One hitmaker credits meditation for helping her become a better mother as she is launching Activating the Divine Feminine: The Path to Wholeness. May 14, 2021
The No One hitmaker - who shares sons Egypt, 10, and Genesis, six, with husband
Swizz Beatz - recalled how she felt her spirit was shot after she became a mother and so she turned to meditation to help her through it. Like so many new moms I was exhausted, but the depletion was more than physiological; my spirit was shot. I needed to do something so I could continue to be a good mother to my children, partner to my husband, and friend to myself, she explained in a piece she wrote for USA Today.
Emptying the Nest. Again.
Many young adults moved back in with their parents during the pandemic. Now the parents are facing a second exodus.
Credit.Rose Wong
May 14, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET
When Kristine Mestaz’s son, Jeremy Cunningham, now 20, moved to Arizona for college, she was sad but supportive and grew accustomed to his absence. Then the pandemic happened and her nest was refilled: He returned home to Auburn, Calif., in March 2020 for spring break, but didn’t leave, as his school, Arizona State University, went online.
“I have loved every minute of it,” Ms. Mestaz said. She taught Jeremy, who is her only child, how to cook; they went on daily walks, watched movies and discussed world events. Now, after more than a year at home, he’s heading back to Arizona at the end of May to begin an internship. Though she knows her son needs to move on with his life, Ms. Mestaz said she is already missing him. “I know I have to be an empty nester again. I know he has to be on h
Airini Beautris: Ockham s winner on Bug Week, back-stabbing, motherhood and pole dancing
14 May, 2021 08:00 PM
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Whanganui writer Airini Beautrais has won the coveted fiction prize at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards with a provocative collection of short stories. Photo / Marcel Tromp
Whanganui writer Airini Beautrais has won the coveted fiction prize at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards with a provocative collection of short stories. Photo / Marcel Tromp
By: Joanna Mathers
Airini Beautrais, this year s Jann Medlicott Acorn for Fiction winner at the 2021 Ockham awards, talks with Joanna Mathers about stepping into the limelight. They are waiting. The women are waiting. Down the lushly carpeted