Author pens new book about motherhood

By Hailey Zimmerman

“Mom, let’s talk about… all of it” is a new book written and published by a person with local ties and has recently hit bookshelves.

The book talks in depth about the honest struggles and hardships of early motherhood. The work acted as a therapeutic form of writing for the author, Nikki Scott. According to the book’s website, Scott is “a social worker, grief counselor, and college professor with a doctorate in social work, an advanced grief counseling certification, a certification in bereavement trauma, and training in perinatal mental health. Nikki is a proud member of the National Association of Social Workers, the American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress, and the National Center for Crisis Management.”

“I started writing this book when my baby turned eight-weeks-old. I was on the search for a book that talked honestly about early motherhood, and though I knew there were already quite a few books well suited to the topic, I couldn’t find the one for me, so I decided to write one myself,” said Scott.

Scott says that when she started the writing process, the words just flowed. The process of writing was quite healing for her.

“My husband is a basketball coach, and he worked busy hours, so I was usually at home all by myself putting my babies to sleep every night. When I put them down, I would go straight to the writing. It was really relieving to write.The writing process went really fast. One issue I would have is thinking of ideas for the book when I was busy with my kids, or doing something else, and trying really hard to keep everything in my head until I was able to get it written down on paper,” continued Scott.

The manuscript of the book was finished in February, and the next couple of months were geared to editing the book to perfection. Scott was capable of getting her book published and approved by Amazon and IngramSpark by April 24. Her original goal was to have the book out by Mother’s Day for all mothers in need of a book like hers, yet the writing and publishing process took less time together than she expected.

“The book talks about the early motherhood struggles like misconception, miscarriages, the mental health struggles and more. I really tried to structure my book to leave a broad message for mothers, rather than to give parenting advice. Most parenting books give advice to the parents on how to raise their children, and I find it can sometimes make some parents feel as if they are raising their children wrong. I just want to leave the message that validates whatever parenting methods different mothers are using, and make mothers feel like they are actually good mothers to their kids,” said Scott.

Another unique trait of Scott’s book is that she uses “guest insights” in her books, which are people who come in to write a portion of the book based on their own experiences. Scott says that this was necessary because she has not experienced everything in motherhood, and it would be better to have someone experienced on the matter talk about it rather than herself.

Scott included a few guest insights from people local to Amherstburg. Lindsay Malfara, and Debbie Scott, her mother in law are both locals who worked hard as guest insights to better Nikki Scott’s work with their experiences. Scott’s husband Cameron is from Amherstburg though the family currently lives in Michigan.

For more information, visit mamaletstalkabout.com. The book can also be bought on Amazon, and will soon be available at River bookshop for around $23 online, and My Place & Yours inside of Just Cork It.