Hearing Your Mother's Story

<p class="MsoListParagraph" style= "text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"> <!-- [if !supportLists]--><strong style= "mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style= "mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style= "mso-list: Ignore;"> </span></span></strong><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US">Nayomi Munaweera is the award-winning author of novels “Island of a Thousand Mirrors” and “What Lies Between Us”. She has been named one of “Twelve Women of Color Writers You Need to Know” by Bustle Magazine and “One of the Asian American Women Writers Who are Going to Change the World” by Electric Literature. Nayomi talks about her Sri Lankan mom Upamali who first immigrated to Nigeria and then to the USA, where she founded and successfully ran Montessori schools. We learn about how important it is to hear our mother’s (or anyone’s) story, about divorce and finding new happiness in one’s 60s,<span style= "mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> about the resilience of South Asian immigrants in the US, and about arranged marriages.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> Nayomi also talks about the civil war in Sri Lanka, about patriarchy and healing our mother-wound. She shares her enlightening experience with ayahuasca, which lead her not only to appreciate her mother but also to feel the urgency of honoring and healing Mother Earth.</span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraph" style= "text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"> <span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US">For more about Nayomi and her work, please visit her <a href= "https://www.nayomimunaweera.com/">website</a>. </span></p> <p class="p1"><span class="s1">To contact Ana, to be a guest, or suggest a guest, please send your mail to: info@thankyoumama.net</span></p> <p class="p1"><span class="s1">For more about “Thank You, Mama" and to subscribe to the newsletter, please visit: <a href= "http://www.tajder.com/"><span class= "s2">http://www.thankyoumama.net</span></a></