Lisa Ray Instagram – Here’s the thing I’m discovering about motherhood: there’s an undercurrent alternating between a primal protection impulse that bypasses all civilised conditioning and a drift towards engaged detachment that is spun from my mediation practise and experiments with expanding consciousness. There’s no need to resolve these two forces. They are not in opposition. Choosing the life of a householder (or rather life nudging me in that direction) has brought me more directly in the firing line of spiritual growth than I ever imagined. I’m still an old romantic, not very sensible and prone to conceiving wild plans. So riding on the back of owning my eccentricities and freedoms is the practise of letting my kids just be. If I don’t want to be tamed, why would I do the same to these two? I have to keep them safe, fed, clean and alive and let them do their thing ✌🏼Love, as any mama knows, is the non- negotiable. We don’t need to mention it, because it just flows. Life is messy. Toddlers make messes in ways we’ve forgotten is possible (think mud, puddles, poop, yup all the organic elements) It’s all okay. I wanted to share my attempt to pose with my girls this morning. As you can see they led me away from artifice and that’s just as well. It’s the moments between posing that matter. Thank you @maishaconcept for my blooming, block printed marvel of a dress.