Mother Well
Practice
Learn Love Heal
“The Learning Journey is the Human Journey.” David Flink
A Shame Free Sanctuary
A place for nervous system renewal and healing.
A safe haven for understanding and advocacy.
Neurodivergent affirming, trauma informed, and inclusive.
Our children are suffering.
In 2021, the American Academy of Pediatrics with the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry declared the child and adolescent mental health crisis a national emergency with teenage girls experiencing the highest rates of psychiatric hospitalization and suicide risk.
Their Mothers are suffering too.
“The state of motherhood for American women has actually deteriorated into an unsustainable worst-case scenario.” Jessica Grose, Screaming on the Inside: The Unsustainability of American Motherhood
Healing is possible.
Meaning-Making & Cycle Breaking
Support and Empathy
Discover the essential elements to successfully navigate both your and your child’s journey of growth and transformation.
Embodied Healing
Integrative somatic therapy for wholistic wellness.
Educational Advocacy
IEP & 504 guidance and advocacy for special education needs.
Classroom & home observations.
What is Matrescence?
“In my expanded definition, the process of becoming a mother or matrescence, the term first coined by Dana Raphael, Ph.D. (1973) and which I later built upon, is a developmental passage where a woman transitions through pre-conception, pregnancy and birth, surrogacy or adoption, to the postnatal period and beyond. The exact length of matrescence is individual, recurs with each child, and may arguably last a lifetime! The scope of the changes encompasses multiple domains --bio-psycho-social-political-spiritual-- and can be likened to the developmental push of adolescence. Increased attention to mothers has spurred new findings, from neuroscience to economics, and supports the rationale for a new field of study known as matrescence. Such an arena would allow the roundtable of specialists to come together and advance our understanding of this life passage.”
- Definition written by Aurélie Athan, Ph.D.