Mommy Heroes

In this episode, April Stearns, editor in chief and creator of Wildfire Magazine, shares: The importance of writing as therapy, process, and product. How she went from blogging to online magazine to print magazine and her enjoyment of consuming content offline Her current issue “Parenting.” How breast cancer affected her own parenting, the vulnerability and the growth How breastfeeding helped her get diagnosed How to talk to kids about cancer in age-specific ways Allowing kids to have there own experience and emotions around cancer How cancer helped her child have more compassion toward everyone How to be creative on the clock Importance of built-in break time Use of time-blocking in work: limiting the time allowed on a project that can absorb a lot of energy Why free space in the woods is a great place to allow thoughts to come Why enjoying the age and stage of kids where they are is so important Growing up with a mother with mental illness How her husband gives her room to be so much more than the primary