“... In one sense, motherhood was like death. Every time you touched my wounds, that part of my life would flash before my eyes like a film strip, and the feelings belonging to that piece would awaken within me. Alive. I was facing them. Then, an awareness, a new perspective would be born inside me. I was becoming free. And in another sense, motherhood was just like life itself. With every part of me that was liberated through dying, I was being born anew.”
“... Because a human being heals not when they wound from where they were wounded, but when they heal others from that very spot!”
“‘… Rather than a mother who knows all the answers, is a stranger to doubt, and for whom everything is easy and clear, I would prefer to be the child of a mother who possesses all the inner struggles of being human.’ I took a deep breath, seeking refuge in these words by Winnicott.”
In this book, through questions that grew in number and intensity alongside her experience of motherhood, Sinem Uslu converses with Berin Orhan, Gülüş Türkmen, Damla Çeliktaban, Hüma Zeybek, Nihan Kaya, Selen Çağlayık, and Şule Seda Ay. Touching upon themes of motherhood, M'ana explores nature, feminism, virtual motherhood, birth, death, and spirituality through these inquiries.
