Creativity Will Surprise You

Martha Manning, Ph.D.
5 min readApr 2, 2021

Sometimes it’s hiding in the down times

Photo by Jonathan Borba on Unsplash

Along with my fair skin, my thick hair and my big mouth, my foremothers passed on a vulnerability to the darkness. Genuinely funny and engaging women, they knew times of sorrow that shut them down and paralyzed their many gifts.

My great- grandmother: strange woman makes magic

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Martha Manning, Ph.D.

Dr. Martha Manning is a writer and clinical psychologist, author of Undercurrents and Chasing Grace. Depression sufferer. Mother. Growing older under protest.