Challenging the Cultural Narratives of Motherhood and Addiction with Janelle Hanchett

The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Srinivas Rao

Society & Culture

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2018

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Janelle Hanchett wasn’t sure if she was crazy or the rest of the world was when she became a mother. She saw all the ideals and characters of “motherhood” and realized she didn’t fit hardy any of them. So she began her blog, Renegade Mothering, to see if others felt that same way. She attempts to break down the cultural narratives of what being a mother truly is, and she discusses her addictive past as well.

Janelle Hanchett created the blog Renegade Mothering in 2011 to determine if the rest of the mothering world was crazy or she was. She invited readers to join her in “the fight against helpful parenting advice” and wrote candidly about the darker sides of motherhood, including her own recovery from alcoholism. She’s the author of I’m Just Happy to Be Here as well.

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0:00.0	I don't see it as this sort of you know ultimate definition of ourselves which is part of the
0:08.0	narrative that I think really messes with with mothers particularly I mean I think there's
0:11.6	this idea that you know your life isn't
0:14.8	realized until you've had children and then secondly once you have children you're
0:19.7	going to become this pristine sanitized version of yourself and that if you buy enough of the right
0:26.2	products and read enough of the right books, you're going to be able to categorize and
0:31.8	manage parenthood in this really organized contained way and that just wasn't my experience.
0:39.0	My experience was I'm the same asshole now that I'm the same you know I've got the same
0:47.7	flaws I'm the same I've got the same interests I wasn't erased when I became a
0:51.8	mother I don't find it infinitely fulfilling and I
0:58.0	wasn't brushed into this pristine version of myself to do this incredibly this supposedly this because I just it wasn't my experience and I started wondering if you know the rest of the
1:14.6	parenting world was crazy or I was you know I was like one of us is definitely lying
1:18.4	right one of us is full of shit and if it's me that's okay, but I want to know.
1:25.0	So I started writing to disrupt and but really just to discover if there were other parents who felt like I did, who felt this sense of, you know, deep devotion,
1:36.6	obviously, and gratitude for your family, but also feeling like, you know, is this really all there is?
1:42.3	And why do I suck at this so badly if I care this much you know type thing?
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