Allison Carr Mutha Magazine ((full)) Jun 2026

Based in Santa Barbara, Allison Carr describes herself as a "witch, writer, healer, and queer". She holds a master's degree in Chinese Medicine, which informs her perspective on healing and self-acceptance. Beyond her contributions to , she teaches workshops on spirituality and magic, maintaining a personal blog at AllisonCarr.net . Key Themes in Her Writing

My daughter is two years old, which means she has recently discovered the power of the emphatic “No.” But more importantly, she has discovered my camera roll. The other day, while waiting for her oatmeal to cool, she grabbed my phone. I braced for the inevitable butt-dial to my editor or a rogue FaceTime to my ex-husband. Instead, she went quiet. She was scrolling through photos of herself. allison carr mutha magazine

But she was right, and she wasn’t. She wasn’t sad in that photo. She was furious. And I was exhausted. And the two feelings had occupied the same square inch of our kitchen floor. Mutha readers know this space. It’s the space where the pristine fantasy of motherhood—the one sold to us in the glossy magazines at the pediatrician’s office—goes to die. It is replaced by something rawer, funnier, and infinitely more true. Based in Santa Barbara, Allison Carr describes herself

We are obsessed, in this culture, with the "balance." We draw charts. We schedule self-care like it is a dentist appointment. We pretend that we can hold the world on our shoulders and still have pristine posture. Key Themes in Her Writing My daughter is

By Allison Carr

There is a specific grief in that realization. Not a tragedy, but a low-grade mourning for the woman you used to be—the one who could read a novel for three hours on a Sunday, the one whose body belonged only to her, the one who didn’t know the precise texture of vomit at 2:00 AM versus 4:00 AM. We don’t talk about that grief enough. We talk about postpartum depression and anxiety (thank god, finally), but we don’t talk about the mundane melancholy of missing your old self while simultaneously holding the new self you would die for.