Everything I Needed to Know I Learned From My Six-Month-Old: Awakening To Unconditional Self-Love in Motherhood

By Kuwana Haulsey

There is a tribe in Africa where, the first time a woman leaves home following the confinement period after giving birth, everyone she meets along the road greets her with a sacred song otherwise reserved for warriors returning from battle. She’s honored as having lived through a rite of passage that will forever mark her womanhood as abundant and powerful and blessed. She’s respected as a fully franchised member of the most ubiquitous and yet most extraordinary group of beings in our collective experience: mothers. Everything I Needed to Know, I Learned from a Six-Month-Old: Awakening to Unconditional Self Love in Motherhood is an Eat Pray Love for moms. It fuses memoir, spirituality and self-development into the unique perspective that babies are actually extraordinary spiritual teachers who are capable of showing their caregivers the way toward inspired living. Kuwana Haulsey imparts this deeper understanding of a universal truth of love , in which motherhood is explored as a means of waking up to her innate potential for personal transformation.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Release date: Oct 15, 2013
• ISBN: 9781936740628

Reviews for Everything I Needed to Know I Learned From My Six-Month-Old

[hrabbit_1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

This is a very sweet book. I absolutely loved the beginning and found myself nodding and laughing along with it. I'm a new grandmother and I enjoyed it greatly. I imagine that any new mother could find something to relate to in this book. She does have a bit of a new age-religious tone to her writing, but the humor and thoughtful content wins out over any content that a reader might be skeptical about. Also, she has such an interesting life that even if you aren't into babies, you could enjoy reading this book. It could be a good present for a new mother that wanted to read something beyond the usual baby books.

[justmerosalie · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Received from LibraryThing Early ReviewersThis is a delightful read. I love it. The author chronicles her journey of spiritual growth and appreciation for life's lessons after she becomes the mother of a baby boy. It is presented with warmth and simplicity and countless rays of sunshine and wisdom. There is such a feeling of love and sisterhood that is shared as Ms. Haulsey shares her own lovely story of growing into motherhood. Myself, I am a grandmother, and I could 'remember' all her stories of living with a new baby that were so much the same as my own. You will adore this baby and love the author. She writes among the very best, with warmth and simplicity. It is THE book to give mothers you know on Mother's Day. My copy is going to my own daughter. I want her to know how wonderful she is too.

[amekole · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

It took me awhile to actually read this book. I have had it in my to to read pile for over a month, the title put me off from it. Once I did pick it up and read it I found it very insightful and I appreciated the authors personal story and journey. The balance between spiritual insight and personal anecdote was perfectly crafted. I found this book very engaging and would recommend it to anyone, but particularly those pregnant or with young children. It provides a way of viewing parenting and perception of being that is helpful and enlightening.