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Honey and Ash: Mothers’ Alchemy of Burn and Bloom
Poetic Spirals of Birth and Becoming
Moving through six sacred rites, from Awakening to Holy Union, Maria Kefalogianni braids ancestral memory, clinical insight and mystical experience into an embodied map for modern mothers and all who love them. Here the ordinary becomes a portal. Galaxies and laundry spin in the same bowl. Read to remember the Great Mother within, and to turn pain into hymn, ash into bloom.
Profits support student nurse Jael through the charity One Woman at a Time.
Author's Note
This book rose from honey and ash. I am a mother, a seer, a neurodivergent maker of sanctuaries. I have known burnout, rupture, migration. I have also known the soft thunder of unity that silences the myth of a separate self.
These poems arrived in kitchen light and midnight tears. They arrived while bearing witness to Gaza’s grief, while tending children, while being tended by the Ancients who stitch my Minoan line to this breathing moment. Presence Centred Psychotherapy and the Ancient Mother Spiral are not inventions. They are remembrances my body trusted before my mind could.
Motherhood made me a vessel and a cauldron. It asked me to compost rage, fear and inherited silence into a nectar that could feed a village. I do not bypass darkness. I name it, bless it, and work with it until it yields honey.
If you are a mother, a father, a healer, a wanderer, a soul who thinks in spirals, come close. Read as if you are listening with your bones. Let the Great Mother within you taste every line. May these pages help you remember you are both wave and ocean, both ash and bloom, and that love is the ground of all.
With reverence,
Maria
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