Surrendering To Motherhood

The story of a woman's search for spiritual fulfillment and personal identity takes her from a career as a feature writer for UPI to finding her true self in motherhood Surrendering To Motherhood. Losing your Mind, Finding your Soul. Iris Krasnow. The story of a woman's search for spiritual fulfillment and personal identity takes us along on her climb higher and higher on the career ladder, which only leaves her emptier and emptier. As her provocative and passionate memoir unfolds, Iris Krasnow is a women who seems to have it all, including a glamorous job as a feature writer for UPI, which takes her around the country and the world. Yet no matter what she achieved in her journalistic ascent, a relentless angst gnawed at her heart; she felt a spiritual voice. Ultimately – and ironically – it took the chaotic joy of motherhood for Krasnow to find peace. By age thirty-nine, she and her husband were the parents of four young sons. Her children had captured her, forcing her to live in the now, and she was surrendering. Surrendering to Motherhood is about letting go of the burning need to achieve, and finding your true self in the love and calamity of motherhood. A powerful and intimate story, the books sends a message to the author’s own baby-boom generation programmed to ‘have it all’. Iris Krasnow tells them – and all of us – to stop and savor the moment, rather than constantly trying to reach somewhere higher and better. In this personal sojourn, there is a bounty of universal wisdom.