My Year(s) In The Woods: Notes on Healing, Worth and Finding Home Again
Praise for My Year(s) in the Woods
"Marianna Pease's My Year In The Woods is captivating and sharp. At times funny, always raw. A gorgeous collection of essays about starting over in the very place you once lost yourself. And what it looks like to take your power back, one chicken at a time."
—Cara Alwill
"My Year In The Woods is the stunningly raw manifesto for a generation of women who long to come home to themselves. Marianna's stripped-down prose draws sophisticated parallels to the new life she's created for herself: one that has nothing to prove, is free of the bullshit we think we need (but are better off without) and is beautiful in its authenticity and simplicity. A memoir of insightful and empowering essays that manage to feel as intimate as a personal diary, Marianna shows all of us that it is indeed possible to build a life that belongs to us, even if we don't know where to begin.”
—Zara Barrie
About the Book
My Year(s) in the Woods is a collection of intimate, sharply observed essays from a newly single mother who leaves the city behind and heads deep into the country to rebuild her life from the soil up.
In the quiet of the woods—surrounded by coyotes in the yard, heirloom chickens in the basement brooder, and a forest that always tells the truth—she learns what it means to take her power back after divorce, raise her daughter on her own terms, confront old wounds, and remember her worth.
This is a story about resilience, belonging, and the wild, messy, sacred process of creating a home inside yourself. If you’ve ever lost everything you thought you needed and found something better in its place, these pages will feel like coming home.
Pandemic Mom: Meditations on New Motherhood During the Pandemic & During Divorce
When the Covid Pandemic first hit the United States, Marianna Pease was about six months pregnant with her first child. She gave birth to her daughter during the first wave of the Pandemic in June 2020 when the rules of the virus where still new and fear was in the air. She asked her midwife if she would have to give birth wearing a face mask and was warned by a nurse one night in a 9pm phone call she may need to give birth alone.
Later, she took care of her infant alone in quarantine lockdowns during early Covid after a traumatic separation and almost three year long divorce.
May you have the courage to awaken to your personal power again, in time.
"Pandemic Mom" is one part memoir, one part healing balm for the divorcing woman or new mama or any woman who finds herself in a dark night of the soul without a light. Part One covers Marianna's story in short writings, Part Two is everything she learned from going through a traumatic divorce while navigating new motherhood during Covid lockdown. It is not a tell all but a story of emotional healing and written from the heart to give back to divorcing woman so they might not suffer as she did. Marianna's most heartfelt wish is to pay it forward and offer some glimmer of hope.
"Marianna Pease has written a masterpiece. Pandemic Mom, a series of short poems and prose, leads us through the darkest time of Pease's life - a new baby, a divorce, a pandemic - with grace, humor and a heaping dose of healing. Pease writes from the heart about motherhood, marriage, heartbreak and resolution in a book that will not only help her heal, but will also help other women coping with divorce. It is rare to find a book so beautifully written that is poignant, relatable and full of resources. As a therapist who works with women navigating divorce, I can't wait to recommend this book to my clients." - Oona Metz, LICSW, www.oonametz.com
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