SHEQuest I

Part One: Struggle as Enlivening Fuel for the Soul

A meandering, firey talk with the beautiful Estelle Thomson. We began with one conversation and kept going for a set of three, she in her art studio and me in my third-floor closet.

We are sisters in grief and sass though we travel far beyond that, relevant (I hope!) for all of us in this second puberty phase of life riddled with so much change and doubt and stuckness and freedom. I am so happy to share part one.

Kate Inglis, author of Notes for the Everlost: A Field Guide to Grief and host Estelle Thomson kick-off a 3-part conversation on grief, body, triggers and creativity. Almost 14 years ago Kate was pregnant with identical twin boys and gave birth 3 months early. Ben survived, Liam didn’t. A radically honest conversation on the wild west that his NICU, the bereaved motherhood recovery (physical, emotional and spiritual) journey (“the luckiest most unlucky mother”) and musings on the tragic magic of grief. —Estelle Thomson