About The Motherwhelm
Motherhood is never just one story.
The Motherwhelm is an independent creative and literary space dedicated to exploring motherhood beyond the familiar narratives. Founded on the belief that maternal experiences deserve to be heard, examined, and represented in all their complexity, The Motherwhelm brings together conversations, literature, creative writing and art to explore what it means to become, and to be, a mother.
Through The Motherwhelm Podcast, we share honest conversations about the experiences that shape maternal lives — from pregnancy, birth, and loss to identity, relationships, mental health, and the often unexpected ways motherhood alters us.
The Motherwhelm Journal extends these conversations onto the page, creating space for women's writing and art that questions expectations, challenges familiar representations, and explores the contradictions of maternal experience.
And through Writing Motherhood, our creative writing courses invite mothers to find their own words, develop their voices and discover the possibilities of their experiences as creative material.
At its heart, The Motherwhelm is about making room for the stories that haven't always been told, the questions that don't have simple answers, and the voices that deserve to be heard.
Because there is no single way to experience motherhood, and no single way to tell its stories.
Meet the Founder
Hi, I’m Bronwyn!
Mother of four, writer, researcher and founder of
The Motherwhelm.
I started The Motherwhelm Podcast during my third postpartum in 2023. Despite having experienced motherhood twice before, I found myself desperately wanting to hear from other mothers navigating similar feelings, questions and challenges.
I knew how powerful it could be to find solidarity during matrescence — to hear another mother articulate something I'd struggled to put into words, and to recognise my own experience in hers.
That need for connection became The Motherwhelm.
What began as a podcast has since grown into a broader creative and literary space. Through The Motherwhelm Journal and Writing Motherhood courses, I've continued exploring the stories we inherit about motherhood, the realities that challenge them, and the importance of giving mothers opportunities to tell their own stories.
As a writer and doctoral researcher, I'm particularly interested in how motherhood has been represented in literature, how those representations shape our expectations, and what happens when women begin writing their own experiences on their own terms.
At the heart of everything I create is the same belief that inspired the first podcast episode: there is immense value in hearing another mother's story, in recognising something of ourselves within it, and in knowing that our experiences deserve to be heard.