Q&A with Drea Awdish of Live The Question Coaching

FLB: Many of us know you as a longtime baby group mama and facilitator. What season of motherhood are you in now?

Drea: I just realized the other week that I'm not in the toddler years anymore. It's been coming, and the kids have gone to school, and yet somehow, it takes so much longer to catch up to what's shifted, to really process it. I have grade-school kids. And I'm not drowning like I was for years. The realization is freeing and also aches with grief.

FLB: You’ve been part of For Love & Babes since the beginning. How did that shape The Long Becoming?

Drea: My becoming as a mother has very much grown alongside my becoming as a coach/facilitator. As soon as I realized that my identity was shifting in matrescence, I knew I wanted to help others through it. These two identities have grown up together. Sitting in circles with other mamas changed me. I've watched how much transformation happens in early motherhood that never fully gets processed. We tend to move from survival to survival. The Long Becoming grew from that — a desire to create a space where mothers of toddlers can metabolize what’s shifting, release what no longer fits, and step into the next version of themselves with intention.

FLB: What is “Live Question Coaching”?

Drea: One of my all-time favorite quotes is from Rilke: "Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves..." It deeply informs my approach to coaching. I don't think about it in terms of 'in ten easy steps, you'll get the following results.' Rather, living the questions with intention, support, and self-kindness is really the work. Not productivity hacks or parenting strategies, but the deeper inquiry — Why am I overwhelmed? Why does this season feel so charged? What am I carrying that isn’t mine anymore? It’s reflective, honest, and surprisingly practical because clarity changes everything.

FLB: Who is The Long Becoming really for?

Drea: It's for the woman who survived pregnancy, birth and postpartum—when the shock and adrenaline have worn off (somewhat)—and is now living with a little person who's mobile and has strong opinions and a personality all their own. The mama who's looking around at the past year or two and thinking, "wait, what just happened to me?"

This offering creates space to sit with that question deeply. To integrate everything that happened, into a new identity, newly shifted relationships, a new sense of time and capacity and needs. It's for the woman who senses she’s changing but hasn’t had space to realize what that means. It honors both the chaos and the calling. It’s not about fixing motherhood. It’s about honoring the long arc of who we are becoming inside it.

FLB: We are so delighted to be collaborating to provide this offering to our community!