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Cara H. Cadwallader

Cara H. Cadwallader

San Cristobal de las Casas, Mexico

MFA, Goddard College;
Creator & Founder, the Mama's (& Papa's) Cooperative, Encinitas, Ca;
Advisor & Volunteer, Tree of Life Birth Center, Encinitas, Ca.

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Cara H. Cadwallader is an embodiment artist and dance philosopher who dances with the pen on the page as well as her feet on the Earth.
A master of embodiment, Cara has spent over 35 years exploring, studying and performing movement and all of its metaphors. Over the past fifteen years, Cara's main investigation has been in how she can deeply connect to herself, others and our planet.

A creator of joy-filled, diverse and warm spaces, Cara co-founded a community gathering space and dance studio for organic connection in downtown San Diego. With the birth of her only child, Cara shifted her educator lens towards women’s health and well-being as well as in co-creating a village space for families to gather. Now, after having survived miscarriage, her partner’s 4th stage cancer diagnosis and subsequent death, Cara's book The Mama Caravan is a hopeful journey through the stormy waters of loss and grief as well as a maternal mental health map for how other mothers can remember how to prioritize their mental health and emotional bodies.

Driving over 12,000 miles across the USA while embodying her emotions and feelings, Cara worked to better understand how to care for herself and be more present and available to her young son. This is how she has coped with her shock and trauma in finding herself as a lone Mother in this brave new world of Covid, calamity, and chaos.
http://www.themamacaravan.com
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Practice your Emotional Fitness together and create your own mental health map.
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Choose one of five retreat dates:
October 27 - November 2, 2022
November 16 - 22, 2022
December 27 - January 2nd, 2023
January 22 - 28, 2023
and February 12-18, 2023

INVISION the life you are creating for yourself as you practice your Emotional Fitness in an intimate group setting as well as refine your health and wellness habits and create your own mental health map.

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Update #1 - Please Help Me Celebrate the Launch of the Mama Caravan Tomorrow (July 22) July 21, 2022

Hi You,

Burt and I packed up our So Cal life over 3 years ago now. So many of you were such a vibrant part of our lives back then. Cee and I miss you. We reminisce about all of the precious moments we shared together - especially in our backyard in Cardiff - often.

As sweet as our life was, back in San Diego County, cancer has a way of illuminating what's not working. As many of you know, I struggled with what I call my "Mother Wound." I was stuck in patterns that I didn't know how to change: like, prioritizing chores and other domestic duties over doing the things that light me up and fill my cup; taking too much on and not knowing how to ask for help & delegate more, and then perpetuating either a martyr or a victim complex; not paying myself for the work I was creating!; and then, blowing it all up out of anger and/or resentment. Back then, I felt overwhelmed at the sheer weight of our little world - even though Burt and I thoroughly enjoyed sharing our life with you.

In many ways - because I didn't know how to change, while living in the place where I was from, where all of these early patterns within me were reinforced - I ran away from So Cal. Yes, we were also escaping to lighten our loads so that Burt could heal from the hell of conventional cancer treatment. Life south of the border offered his body an opportunity to re-balance itself as he had suffered with the cold after losing all of his interstitial fat. Three years ago, Burt and I swam with whale sharks in warm waters where the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea meet and it was a dream come true!

My book, The Mama Caravan, highlights all of this - my vulnerably sharing how our collective, and my individual, Mother Wound has affected me my whole life as well as about mine & Burt's journey individually and as a couple. I am really excited to keep him alive in this way and for more people to know the great generosity of Spirit that was Burton J. Lo. Thus, I hope you will continue to support us as you so generously have for many years now.

All the best,
Cara