Walking The Crooked Path of Motherhood

Karen Maezen Miller

Combining humor, honesty, and heartfelt advice, Momma Zen distills the doubts and frustrations of parenting into vignettes of Zen wisdom. Drawing on her experience as a first-time mother, and on her years of Zen meditation and study, Miller explores how the daily challenges of parenthood can become the most profound spiritual journey of our lives. Momma Zen follows the timeline of early motherhood from pregnancy through toddlerhood, charting a mother's growth beyond naive expectations and disorientation to finding fulfillment in ordinary tasks, developing greater self-awareness and acceptance, and to the gradual discovery of "maternal bliss," a state of abiding happiness and ease that is available to us all.  

174 pages