The Groundwork
Meet your guides
This dynamic duo has you covered, Mama. Combining our masterful skill sets, professional backgrounds, knowledge and wisdom, we create a unique web of support for mothers that covers the mundane to the mystical and the practical to the abstract. We share a love for building community + heart-centered conversation around individual experiences in motherhood and collective healing and progression.
What is The Groundwork?
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Motherhood Unearthed: the Groundwork, is a curated online two hour workshop designed for the modern mother seeking a transformative inner experience of self-discovery, authenticity, and reclamation. This embodied experience provides a guided pathway to reconnect and reclaim the truest version of yourself, deconstruct and release societal expectations + the overculture, embrace and honor the invisible experiences of motherhood.
Through dynamic discussions and embodiment practices during our live group session, combined with PDF downloads imbued with deeper exploration + tools, you will decide for yourself what is worth carrying forward, how to let go of what isn’t, and cultivate the courage to trust your own inner voice and guidance along each twist and turn.
you will walk forward with
RECLAMATION
of your inner child, authentic voice, inner authority, personal integrity, values, presence, wisdom, and TRUE, unshakable POWER.
INSIGHT
on the cultural, personal, psychological, emotional, spiritual, and collective influences at play that impact how you navigate motherhood (Matresence). A better understanding of where you are on the map, new ways to see + perceive yourself + your role as Mother while traversing each new frontier, liminal space, and transition.
INNER AUTHORITY
to strengthen, rely on, and trust in your intuition, instincts, and knowingness and take action from this place when it comes to mothering yourself, your children, and guiding your home.
INDISPENSABLE TOOLS
accessible, practical, and ever present tools to add to your inner resources + support system so you may mother yourself and honor yourself amidst the ebb and flow of day to day life and through the major shifts and metamorphosis that motherhood brings.
through the inner experience of
Body based Somatic Practices
Many moms experience a paradox in motherhood: while their bodies become a vessel deeply attuned to the needs of their child, they often feel overstimulated and disconnected from their own sense of embodiment—almost "bodyless"— like their body no longer belongs to them amidst the constant demands of caregiving. Body-based somatic practices help mothers regulate their nervous systems and reconnect with their body’s innate wisdom. By learning to listen to and honor their body’s signals with kindness and compassion, mothers can better meet their own needs and, in turn, show up more fully for themselves and their families.
Seasons of Matrescence
Motherhood is a constantly evolving journey, and the Seasons of Matrescence model created by Nikki McChanon, serves as a cyclical framework to guide and ground you through the continual shifts of becoming and being a mother. Just as nature moves through seasons of growth, rest, renewal, and transformation, so too does your experience of motherhood. This model reflects these natural rhythms, helping you see where you are in your unique journey.
The mantra “this is temporary” applies not only to your child’s growth but to your own development as well. You are changing with your little one, responding to each new stage, which can sometimes feel disorienting. The Seasons of Matrescence gives context and meaning to these changes, helping you see your experience within the themes of each season.
Conscious Storytelling
Storytelling is perhaps one of the most ancient methods for us to process, integrate, make meaning, and gain wisdom from our experience. And while we believe whole heartedly in the power of story, we also are aware of how unconscious storytelling, or perpetuating harmful, limiting, and illusory stories does not support true reclamation and inner authority. In this space, we aim to share our stories with honesty + authenticity while also consciously choosing which stories we want to take with us, leave behind, or create anew.
Meditation + Breath
As mothers, we crave more presence. Often times, mothers feel as though this deep desire is overtaken by endless demands, “have to’s” and needs. Connecting with your breath + meditation are the most potent antidotes to reclaiming your attention, focus, power of observation, inner vision, and energy. Befriending your breath, learning how to observe your own thoughts and patterns, and using inner vision to unearth your truth and remain connected to the present moment.
Your breath and moments of meditation are two of the most powerful tools to anchor you into yourself + present moment, and are sure to be an invaluable companion on your motherhood journey.
What will you receive on this guided journey within?
➡️ 120 minute LIVE remote group sessions
➡️ A guided journey of intentional self-discovery + empowerment
➡️ PDF Workbook downloads with additional tools and resources to foster deeper exploration, inspiration, support, and strengthening
➡️ An understanding of matrescence as a rite of passage from maiden to mother and how to call upon this framework to support you in each season of motherhood
➡️ A safe space to share your inner most experience, thoughts, and feelings and to freely and authentically explore what is true for you
➡️ A community of like-hearted and conscious mothers
➡️ Learn the Art of Letting Go
➡️ Learn the Art of Conscious storytelling
➡️ Soul-tending energetic practices and tools to add to your toolbox that you can call upon throughout your journey
➡️ Meditation + breathing practices to cultivate presence with yourself and your little(s)
➡️ Learn body based somatic practices to regulate your nervous system, reconnect within, and embody your authentic self
➡️ 10% off of one on one services from Louise or Nicole for even deeper support
Why take this workshop?
We can create a lot of stories about ourselves, our worth, our strength, our abilities, and our direction during any big transition, especially one of this magnitude. Often times these stories are born from self criticism and judgement and feeling as though we are failing or falling short. And often times these stories are created + experienced silently within - having huge impacts on our perception of ourselves, our fulfillment in motherhood, and how we experience our life + children. If left unchallenged, these stories, or takeaways, we are telling ourselves about ourselves or our children become the foundation in which we are choosing, acting, and reacting from in Motherhood. This is the harm of being alone in our inner processing + navigating rites of passage in a silo, that require guidance, wisdom, compassion, and support from outside of ourself.
This is why we believe so deeply in the power of this work + why we created this space: to be in community, to boldly challenge the stories we hear + the stories we tell, to unearth the wisdom of Mother, to understand + accept what is just a normal challenge of motherhood vs. something that requires attention to shift or heal.
This massive transition from maiden to mother has the potential to be the most powerful and expansive journey if we have a map for our inner world, are supported + resourced, are in community, bring wisdom to our experience, and learn how to mother ourselves with kindness and compassion along the way.
We believe that each mother’s wisdom tells her that to mother consciously, you must attend to your psyche, body and spirit and create time for reflection and going in to listen.
There is no more valuable and indispensable journey you can take for yourself than to feel internally resourced, understood, and supported in your emotional, psychological, physical, and spiritual transformation, have tools to come up out of the blindness of day-to-day tasks, and be with your life, yourself, and your children with honesty and compassion.
Your inner journey awaits, and we are here to give you tools and the space to cultivate the pathways within to authentically mother yourself and your children through all of the seasons to come.
Ultimately this journey is not really just for ourselves, but for our children. To take our own inner journey creates a path of love, liberation and authenticity for them. And together, one conscious mother at a time, we are creating a more loving, liberated and conscious world.
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Get to know your guides.
A little bit about who we are personally and professionally, and why we created this space for mothers.
your Matrescence Guide and new go to for British slang and snacks. After a decade of working in specialist mental health services and having 2 kids of her own, she answered the call to support women navigate the push and pull of motherhood. After learning about Matrescence, the transformative process of becoming a mother, she just knew she wanted to share the wisdom of honoring this forgotten rite of passage and became a certified Seasons of Matrescence Guide. She believes to truly create empowered mothers, we need to understand and honor all the changes that take place when your name becomes mama and provide guidance that allows you to live in alignment with what truly matters to you. Louise leads both remote and in person circles year round, offers one on one coaching to mamas, and leads ceremonies to support mamas during transition. You can learn more about Louise and her work at https://www.mappingmatrescence.com
Meet Louise,
your energetic + psycho-spiritual Guide and go to for a good laugh or good cry. After receiving her Masters of Science in Counseling Psychology (2012), Nicole worked in a traditional psych setting for a few years before setting off to study the world of energy healing, meditation, spirituality, and true transformation. She currently works with clients all over the world, offers monthly guided meditations, and holds energy healing trainings. After her daughter was born in 2022, and experiencing for herself the insane challenges, day to day reality, and potential for personal transformation of motherhood, she became wildly passionate about not only supporting mamas to survive, but to truly thrive + reclaim their inner authority and authenticity in a world that has not yet witnessed a truly empowered collective Mother. She is on a mission to bring her masterful understanding + work with the psyche, energy medicine, consciousness, and true change, to clear the path for the modern mother, and thus our children, and our world. You can learn more about Nicole and her work at https://www.boundlessbeings.com
Meet Nicole,
This collaboration was born from Nicole and Louise's shared mission to extend support beyond the first year of motherhood, recognizing the transformative power found in the tender 'messy middle' of the mother-becoming journey. Their vision is to equip all mothers with the tools + inner map to challenge and unearth the stories that hold you back from being who you truly are and are becoming. The combination of their professional work + ability to lead groups creates a masterful weaving that touches on all aspects and realms of motherhood to truly support and guide you through the complexities and seasons on your unique journey.
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