REVIEWS

"In our sometimes frightening, harsh, and angry society, your music is a welcome island of calm, gentleness, love and respect. What a gift for our children and ourselves!" Diana Lewis, Western Regional Division Director
La Leche League International  

"Motherlight is poetic, passionate and profound. It not only opens the heart, but inspires one to take action for the well being of mothers, children and all living beings."  Patricia Ellsberg, Social Activist, Public Speaker
Women Of Vision and Action  "Motherlight is full of inspiration and wisdom.. a peacful, powerful expression of a mother;s fierce and tender love."  Holly Near, Singer/Recording Artist  "Betsy sings out about subjects all mothers can relate to. She brings us closer to our struggle to learn how to raise our children with love, compassion and humility."  Rona Renner, Temperament Counselor
Kaiser-Permanente Hospital  "The teen mother song ["Birthmother"] struck my heart with grief and admiration for your sharing, and moved me to tears...And hurray for the song of the "Spirited Child"!  Molly Young Brown, Counselor
Teen Mother Program  "In Motherlight, Betsy Rose captures the essence of the joy and pain of motherhood. Her captivating lyrics can soothe and heal mothers and children of all ages."  Cathy McDonald
Pediatrician, Mother, Addiction Specialist  

 "Spirited Child "is very powerful...the message hits home for many of us who either have a spirited child-have taught (one)- or were/are that child! Every student who is preparing to enter the teaching profession needs to hear this song..."

 Chris Lamm, Professor, Child Development Department
Fullerton College
California Coordinator for Stand Up For Children

 "Betsy's voice touches our souls on a very deep level. Her lyrics are poetry for our time, filled with courage, inspiration, yearning and a calling to be present to the mother in each of us."

 Cathy De Forest, Ph.D.
Artist, Mother

 "Betsy Rose has returned to the recording studio with her customary wisdom, clarity, and musical elegance. That in itself is cause for rejoicing, but those who are experiencing family issues will also find here any number of healing musical artifacts."

 Bob Franke
Songwriter/Recording Artist

 "Weaves a tapestry of music for parental mind-states, ranging from the joyous power of radically claiming out world and our way to the wisdom of accepting the inevitable full-spectrum inheritance we give our children. This spiritual-political wisdom tour, joins the mundane to the transcendent..in the midst of the endless doing of parenting, Betsy Rose sings us back to the why."

 Shoshanna Alexander
Author, "In Praise of Single Parents"
(Inquiring Mind Magazine)

 
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