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2005 Season
 After earning her doctorate in Neurosciences from Stanford University, Amy Tiemann combined her love of science with her love of teaching when she took a position at an independent high school in San Francisco. After three rewarding years of teaching, in 1999 she took on a new role as, what Tiemann calls an "applied developmental neuropsychologist"-in other words, Mom to a newborn daughter. This transition surprised her by becoming a full-blown identity crisis. While she loved her baby deeply, she found that she had no idea who she was now that she was a Mom. Since her daughter's birth, she has written a screenplay and published a middle-grade novel, High Water . She also found a great deal of purpose and meaning by becoming an active supporter of the global war-relief organization Women for Women International (founder Zainab Salbi is interviewed in Mojo Mom ). All of her life experiences helped her create her latest book, Mojo Mom . Through her book, seminars, and the MojoMom.com website, her goal remains to empower all mothers to reconnect with their essential selves, and to teach families to respect women's needs as important.
High Water (2004)
Mojo Mom: Nurturing Your Self While Raising a Family (2005)
from Mojo Mom: Nurturing Your Self While Raising a Family
by Amy Tiemann, Ph. D.
www.MojoMom.com
Spark Press, $22.95, ISBN 0-9764980-0-6
© Spark Productions, LLC, 2005
ntroduction: What is Mommy Mojo?
Mommy Mojo is the feeling you get when you are at the top of your game, juggling the many facets of your life and keeping your own needs in balance with family needs. It is the joyous feeling of becoming yourself and liking that person. It is the ability to speak, be heard, and make a difference in the world. It is power; it is being a force to be reckoned with. It is knowing that even if the rest of the world doesn't always realize how amazing you are, you can move through it like a secret agent, armed with the confidence that your plans will succeed on your own terms.
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