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Can Creativity and Motherhood CoExist?

Can Creativity and Motherhood CoExist?

Update: 2025-09-11
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The world loves to tell parents—especially moms—that kids and creativity can’t co-exist. Writer M.M. De Voe thinks that’s B.S. and so do I.


M. founded Pen Parentis to help writers keep creating after they have kids. In this conversation, we get into what really happens to creativity when you add a baby to the mix: the productivity spurts, the guilt, the comparisons, the shame. And why community might be the single thing that saves your art.




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Can Creativity and Motherhood CoExist?

Can Creativity and Motherhood CoExist?

Jo Piazza