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🗓️ 2 April 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Kerri Andrews is the author of Pathfinding - On Walking, Motherhood and Freedom. She describes her own traumatic experience with pregnancy, birth and motherhood and draws on examples of other female writers and their experiences over the centuries. She also discusses the history of women and walking and her desire for a more communal child rearing experience in the UK.
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0:48.3 | Becoming a mother is life-changing, |
0:51.6 | mentally, spiritually and physically. |
0:56.1 | This momentous change is something that has affected and intrigued writer, teacher and walker Kerry Andrews. In her latest book, Pathfinding, on Walking |
1:02.8 | Motherhood and Freedom, Kerry weaves her own often traumatic and difficult experience of |
1:08.3 | motherhood with that of accounts of women who also write about walking |
1:12.5 | and motherhood. Postpartum walking can be rife with difficulties, from the physical changes incurred |
1:19.0 | by birth to a lack of opportunity, not to mention an unspoken set of societal expectations around |
1:26.7 | risk and responsibility. |
1:29.3 | I met up with Kerry at the former home of Sir Walter Scott, Abbotsford, in the Scottish borders. |
1:35.3 | As we wound our way along the pathways close to the River Tweed, Kerry gave me a very honest account of her experience with walking. |
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