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Over the next two weeks, I’m bringing conversations on matrescence to parents and practitioners at three events (online and in person):

May 13 | Matrescence & the Identity Shift of Motherhood | For parents

Mqy 14 | Matrescence: A Missing

It’s Maternal Mental Health Week. And there is a concept that belongs as part of this conversation……

It’s called matrescence.

We talk a lot about pathology in maternal mental health — postpartum depression, perinatal

There’s a concept that’s been missing from practitioner training for fifty years. Swipe to meet it. →

Matrescence was first coined by anthropologist Dana Raphael in 1973 and resurrected by Dr. Aurelie Athan, a clinical psychologist

We’re hosting a free evening for practitioners in the maternal health field — and we’d love for you to be there.

Seen: What Mothers Want Practitioners to Know 

📅 Thursday May 7 
🕡 7.30-9pm, Doors open at 7 
📍 The

Something is shifting here.

I started this work five years ago because I believe mothers deserve to be understood — not just supported through the logistics of new parenthood but genuinely seen in the developmental transformation they’re

Two weeks ago, we welcomed Sophie Violet into the world. We’ve waited close to three years to hold you in our arms.

The journey to becoming a mama x 2 has been an epic chapter in my matrescence.

It’s been filled with:

* Pregnancy los

I am grateful to live and work on the unceded Coast Salish territory of the sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh), and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) nations.

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