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Kari Woolf

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Kari Woolf is a writer and mother. With a M.St. in History from Oxford, a JD from the University of Texas, and many unlettered lessons from various lands in between, she is grateful to have already lived many lifetimes. She is currently settled in Bath, Somerset, with her husband and children.

Her debut memoir, No Prayer More Powerful, charts the early years of marriage and motherhood, taking us through two Christmastime births and life in the aftermath of premature twins. It is a story of challenge and victory, of creation, homecoming and initiation. It is a story of revelation and intergenerational healing. Above all, it is a prayer for the mothers, and an invocation of the gentle but infinite power they bring forth as the bearers of new l
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A Paradox of Motherhood — Knowing All and Nothing

How Motherhood Increases Your Capacity to Love, to Nurture and, Eventually, to Sit With Mystery as You Recognise both Your Power and Its Limits

Like many of life’s great callings, motherhood is a complex role full of paradox and contradiction. Mothers are beings of incredible power, strength, grace and vitality — the ability to carry a child to term and bring it into this world is a feat of creatio

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I wasn't sure this story would still connect with children, and particularly non-Americans like mine, but my children enjoyed this story very much. Re-reading it as
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