The Whole Truth: Motherhood and the Writing Life with Nadia Mahjouri
Nadia Mahjouri
Are you a writer trying to squeeze creativity into the spare moments between packing lunches, wiping bums and taming tantrums? Or perhaps you are driving teenag...
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In this episode of The Whole Truth: Motherhood and the Writing Life, Nadia Mahjouri chats with Casey Nott, a contemporary fiction author and mother of three. Her debut novel, Forgotten, is out now and tells the story of Ava, a forty year old woman who wakes up after an accident with amnesia - she has forgotten the last 10 years, in which she remarried, had a baby, gave up her career as a lawyer, and enthusiastically embraced yoga pants as an everyday outfit!
In this conversation, we discuss how Casey's novel wrestles with the question so many of us have asked ourselves - how did I get here? We discuss how Casey budgets time as if its money, because its more important.
You can find out more about Casey Nott Here or follow her on Insta @caseywritesstories
Nadia Mahjouri is the author of Half Truth - her debut novel that will be released Feb 4 2025. Pre-orders available NOW!!!
Nadia Mahjouri is a therapist at The Holding Space Counselling. If you would like to reach out for support, you can book an appointment online. Nadia works face to face in nipaluna or online everywhere.
Her website is www.nadiamahjouri.com and you can find her on Instagram @nadiamahjouriauthor or sign up for her newsletter The Whole Truth: Stories of Ache and Ecstasy
Or you can email [email protected]
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Anne Freeman Feels It All And Wouldn't Have It Any Other Way
In this episode of The Whole Truth: Motherhood and the Writing Life, Nadia Mahjouri chats with the lovely and talented Anne Freeman, mother of two, publicist, copywriter and author of two novels ME THAT YOU SEE, and RETURNING TO ADELAIDE, both contemporary fiction books about women who are stuck in life and the extraordinary ways they shake themselves loose.
In this conversation we discuss how writing gave Anne something to think about during the boring bits of parenting in the early years. We discuss how being an empath that cries at everything helps Anne feel what her characters might feel and how empathy is actually a super power for a writer. And how the same skills that make a good mother, make a good writer - adaptability and empathy.
You can find out more about Anne Freeman here or follow her on Insta @annefreemanwrites
Nadia Mahjouri is a therapist at The Holding Space Counselling. If you would like to reach out for support, you can book an appointment online. Nadia works face to face in nipaluna or online everywhere.
Nadia Mahjouri is also the author of Half Truth - her debut novel that will be released in early Feb 2025. Pre-orders available soon
Her website is www.nadiamahjouri.com and you can find her on Instagram @nadiamahjouriauthor or sign up for her newsletter The Whole Truth: Stories of Ache and Ecstasy
Or you can email [email protected]
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Lucy Christopher Had A Baby and It Literally Changed Her Brain
In this episode of The Whole Truth: Motherhood and the Writing Life, Nadia Mahjouri chats with Dr Lucy Christopher, author of Release, Stolen and many other works, including Adult, YA, Middle Grade and Children's literature, both fiction and non fiction. She is a Senior lecturer in Creative Writing at University of Tasmania and is currently on maternity leave with her first baby, now six months old.
We discuss matrescence and how the brain changes in the first year after birth and how Lucy is managing to fit writing into the cracks between naps, feeds and baby cuddles. We discuss how her writing focus has changed lately and how the book Matrescence: On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy Childbirth and Motherhood by Lucy Jones has helped to make sense of the changes that come with new motherhood.
You can find out more about Lucy Christopher Here as well as links to her books Release, Stolen and others.
Nadia Mahjouri is a therapist at The Holding Space Counselling. If you would like to reach out for support, you can book an appointment online. Nadia works face to face in nipaluna or online everywhere.
Nadia Mahjouri is also the author of Half Truth - her debut novel that will be released in early Feb 2025. Pre-orders available soon
Her website is www.nadiamahjouri.com and you can find her on Instagram @nadiamahjouriauthor or sign up for her newsletter The Whole Truth: Stories of Ache and Ecstasy
Or you can email [email protected]
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Part 2: Maxine Fawcett Gets Real About the Hard Stuff
In the first ever two part episode, Maxine returns after a week's girls trip to Bali, where she (finally!) had some time to think. And she decided she had more to say. About the hard stuff, like parenting neurodiverse kids and struggling with infertility. And how writing helped. Dont miss this chat where the masks come off and the chat gets real.
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You can follow Maxine Fawcett on Instagram @maxinefawcettwriter
Nadia Mahjouri is a therapist at The Holding Space Counselling. If you would like to reach out for support, you can book an appointment online. Nadia works face to face in nipaluna or online everywhere.
Nadia Mahjouri is also the author of Half Truth - her debut novel that will be released in early Feb 2025. Pre-orders available soon
Her website is www.nadiamahjouri.com and you can find her on Instagram @nadiamahjouri or sign up for her newsletter The Whole Truth: Stories of Ache and Ecstasy
Or you can email [email protected]
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Part 1: Maxine Fawcett on the Illusion of Perfection and the Onset of Mum-oncholy
In this episode of The Whole Truth: Motherhood and the Writing Life, Nadia Mahjouri chats with Maxine Fawcett about her book Everything is Perfect, and how the character of Cassie Prince is all of us trying to keep our head above water whilst simultaneously looking insta-worthy and actually getting stuff done.
In this conversation, we discuss how Maxine's morning pages turned into a novel and how the stages of parenting change - particularly as you move into the stage that Maxine refers to as 'mum-oncholy' that sense of aching sadness that comes as you realise you don't remember the last time you read a bedtime story or picked up your child....
Buy Everything is Perfect Here
You can follow Maxine Fawcett on Instagram @maxinefawcettwriter
Nadia Mahjouri is a therapist at The Holding Space Counselling. If you would like to reach out for support, you can book an appointment online. Nadia works face to face in nipaluna or online everywhere.
Nadia Mahjouri is also the author of Half Truth - her debut novel that will be released in early Feb 2025. Pre-orders available soon
Her website is www.nadiamahjouri.com and you can find her on Instagram @nadiamahjouri or sign up for her newsletter The Whole Truth: Stories of Ache and Ecstasy
Or you can email [email protected]
About The Whole Truth: Motherhood and the Writing Life with Nadia Mahjouri
Are you a writer trying to squeeze creativity into the spare moments between packing lunches, wiping bums and taming tantrums? Or perhaps you are driving teenagers around, navigating screentime, and writing in carparks on your notes app? Whatever stage you are in, motherhood and the writing life can be tricky bedfellows!
In this podcast, Nadia Mahjouri, mother of five, author of Half Truth and a counsellor specialising in maternal mental health interviews Australian authors, writers and creatives about how they manage to keep creating in amongst the messy middle of motherhood.
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