Compassion nurturing and pain are at the heart of everyones story of mothers and motherhood. In this book Matt Hopwood presents a selection of deep powerful stories of and by mothers which were told openly and bravely to him. Women men children teenagers and centenarians tell their experiences of childhood motherhood birth loss yearning fear contentment love and divinity. They tell of connection with Mother and the Mother instincts that reside in every human being. Together these stories from as