Sarah Kowalski - Motherhood Reimagined: When Becoming a Mother Doesnt Go As Planned: A Memoir

PRAISE FOR
Motherhood Reimagined

A beautifully written book about one womans journey to have a baby on her own. Its an insightful and moving story that will inspire other women who face similar obstacles to becoming a mother. Well worth the read.

Jacqueline Mroz, Contributor, New York Times and author of Scattered Seeds: In Search of Family and Identity in the Sperm Donor Generation

Sarah has provided a gift to all women considering becoming a single mother with a beautifully written book that is both achingly painful and humorously honest. In her description of all that she had to go through to ultimately achieve her dream of having a child, her book reads like a novel that you cant put down. In the end, you realize that the peaks and valleys that she went through were in many ways a metaphor for life, one that she had no idea at the time would prepare her for her new role as a loving and patient mother.

Toni Weschler, MPH, author of Taking Charge of Your Fertility

In Motherhood Reimagined, Sarah Kowalski speaks to a generation of women who were told that they could have it allonly to discover that career success often comes at an emotional and physical cost. This honest, often heartbreaking, but ultimately uplifting memoir chronicles Kowalskis race against the ticking clock of infertility. The discoveries she makes about her body and mind translate into a compelling and poignant read... This book is a must-read for any women who hears the ticking of her biological clock.

Marika Lindholm, CEO and founder of ESME.com (Empowering Solo Moms Everywhere

In the end, life dashed every expectation I had about how I would become a mother. And yet, Sarah Kowalski did become a mother just not in the way she had imagined. In this powerful, timely, and important memoir, Kowalski reveals how difficult it is to become a mother in your forties, and yet also how the journey has served as a beautiful and transformational process for her. Best of all, she helps anyone interested in becoming a parent who might be struggling with infertility, confused about reproductive options and technology, psychologically and emotionally distressed, and/or lost in the vast jungle of online information about IVF, adoption, sperm/egg donation, and so on to navigate their way to motherhood. This book fills a gap in the literature on modern parenthood by offering wisdom, insight, and practical advice that will help you realize your dreamsone way or another.

Mei Mei Fox, New York Times best-selling author and contributor at Forbes

Motherhood Reimagined is a courageous journey through familiar life lessons. Using her embodied spiritual practice, author Sarah Kowalski faces her demons with vulnerability, humility, humor and insight.

Elena Brower, author of Art of Attention and Practice You

This very readable story of the authors journey to single motherhood by choice is a must-read for anyone contemplating becoming an SMC. It feels like a good friend is letting you join her on the trip as she shares her ups and downs, disappointments and celebrations. Informative, emotionally moving, and hard to put down.

Jane Mattes, psychotherapist and Founder Single Mothers by Choice (SMC), author of Single Mothers by Choice

Brave pioneers come in all sizes, shapes, ages and genders. Make no mistake, Sarah Kowalski is one of them. In her courageous memoir she opens up new territory, illuminating fresh possibilities for what it is to be an authentic dignified human being in the midst of probably the most profound life-changing event, becoming a mother, (in her case while being a single woman). She warmly, confidently and firmly draws the reader into the felt experience of all she faced, physically relationally, psychologically, financially and so on. Funny, inspiring, thought-provoking all at once. Sarah holds nothing back and opens up the chance for us to do the same in whatever we are facing in our own lives. A book for anyone living in our time and place.

James Flaherty, author of Coaching, Evoking Excellence in Others and Founder of New Ventures West, Integral Coaching

Get ready for an emotional and psychological journey. Motherhood Reimagined is a fascinating and intimate look inside the world of becoming a modern-day mother. An honest look at the emotional labor and physical challenges that arise on one womans path to motherhood. Kowalski is relentless in her pursuit of becoming a mother, and grants us passage through her very own thick jungle of neuroses and tangles of self doubt while she bravely sharpens a machete of insight and truth to carve out her own path. A heroic and emotional journey that pulls you in and wont let you go until both the author and reader have found complete surrender.

Madison Young, author of Daddy: A Memoir and The Ultimate Guide to Sex Through Pregnancy and Motherhood

In the years that Ive been communicating with Choice Moms, there are two things that stand out as true: 1) We dont realize how difficult it might be to conceive, which is exhausting to discover in our late 30s and 40s; 2) We underestimate our ability as strong-minded women to get it done, whatever it takes. Sarah is admirably able to openly capture both the vulnerability and the strength of her story of becoming a mother a journey that never goes according to plan, and that teaches us more about ourselves than we can ever detail on our To Do lists.

Mikki Morrissette, founder ChoiceMoms.org, and author of Choosing Single Motherhood: The Thinking Womans Guide

In Motherhood Reimagined Sarah Kowalski has accomplished what most memoir writers can never do. She has written two memoirs seamlessly woven together. One is an amazingly informative story about infertility and what one woman did to get pregnant. You will laugh and cry at Sarahs ability to capture the ups and downs of this saga. But she has also written a narrative about her spiritual struggles that is as interesting as her journey toward motherhood. This is one of those rare books that is not only replete with important information but it might even slip you onto your own path toward enlightenment.

Roy M Carlisle, Senior Editorial Consultant, The Crossroad Publishing Company

From the moment we meet Sarah Kowalski, a successful corporate attorney ignoring her biological clock, through her passionate quest to overcome infertility, to her early days of solo motherhood, one thing is for sure: nothing will go as planned. But Kowalski proceeds with determination, dissolving every physical and emotional barrier that dares stand in her way. This book is a must-read for anyone charting an unconventional path toward parenthood.

Cheryl Dumesnil, author of Love Song for Baby X: How I Stayed (Almost) Sane on the Rocky Road to Parenthood

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