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

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

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 gullet 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 strangerâ€™s motorcycle sidecar in the Mexican jungle, she found herself face-to-face with her central quandary: Domesticity vs. Wanderlust.

Finally, she discovered she couldâ€”and shouldâ€”have both.
Country USA
Brand THOUGHT CATALOG
Manufacturer Thought Catalog Books
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2015-11-03
Format Kindle eBook

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