Please welcome back Pink Goddess Tama Kieves, author of This Time I Dance: Creating the Work You Love. She speaks to us today about the oft-forgotten necessity of mothering ourselves -- self-care to a T, Pinkies! Enjoy, and many thanks as always to Tama!

I have had to learn how to mother myself in this lifetime. I love my mother, more so these days than ever before, but for many years I felt like I got the short end of the umbilical cord. Like many of us, I didn’t get the movie mother in this lifetime, the tireless cheerleader, the fierce cub-protector, or the one who listened deeply to all my secret places and saw colors in me, I had yet to see. That mother was on back order when I was placing my cosmic selection. Instead, I got someone who hadn’t exactly read the manual, and I know now, deserved and needed a mother herself.

But I have become a great mother to myself.