• “Lisa Marie’s gentle guidance and intuitive wisdom lit the way and helped me wrestle with my mental health struggles, stressful life, and urge to create. While I felt criticized and judged by previous coaches and therapists, after working with Lisa Marie and tackling topics of grief, liberation, and humor, I’m ready to embark on new creative paths."

    - Poetry Therapy Recipient

  • "As Brodsky beautifully demonstrates, the concept of motherhood is actually fluid; as the title of the book implies, a mother is someone who breathes life into her child—biological or not—and sustains her. While it may also become easy to grow dependent on that sustenance, a mother continues to give it until the child grows into an independent force, a mother in her own right."

    - Issa M. Lewis Author of "Infinite Collisions" Published in Mom Egg Review.

  • “Lisa Marie provides evocative writing prompts and excels at creating brave spaces to explore complex feelings and experiences.”

    - Writing Group Participant

  • "Lisa Marie’s writing group has made it possible for me to reclaim the desire to write. The group is always supportive whether four or ten people are attending."

    - Writing Group Participant

  • “The [prompts used in writing group] speak to the human experiences which bind us eternally but are commonly hush-hushed. The gift of space to just be…is one of my biggest driving factors and I love how much more commonplace it is becoming as we shift at a collective level to this intensity.”

    - Writing Group Participant

  • "What is so notable about Lisa Marie is her total willingness to be with the process and to affirm participants as she creates a deeper facilitation, adjusting to the participants’ needs and reality."

    Poetry Therapy Group Participant

  • "These poems are a true glimpse inside the author's greatest loss- that of her mother. Her heart is real and insightful of the thoughts we think and emotions felt after we lose a person so central to the makeup of who we are. This book of poems is as close to perfect as I have ever read. Lisa Marie Brodsky is a shining lamp of truth in a heart darkened by pain. She triumphs in that it never seems sad, only steps in the process of living after loss. She triumphs even harder in her courage to go forward and claim her life in love and a new family of her own."

    - Laura Attendee from Motherlung launch party & Goodreads.com

  • "Lisa Marie Brodsky's poems are like a knife cutting away subcutaneous fat to reveal the abnormal tissue that needs to be excised before the healing can begin. Motherlung, in its quiet emotive passion, chronicles the tenuous strength of the mother- daughter relationship in terms so stark and final it leaves the reader gasping for breath at the end of each poem . . . and understanding at the end of each life. These poems will stay with you, a perpetual guiding play of light and shadow over the soul."

    - James P. Roberts "Famous Wisconsin Authors"