Mindful Matrescence

06/08/2026

As “Matrescence” continues to take up space in mainstream culture, it’s important that those who feel called to, take the leap and nurture it out of the newborn-buzzword phase and into an ever-evolving universality that calls all mothers in and lifts all mothers up. It’s critical that the collective doesn’t stop here at the point of simply accepting that matrescence exists. Matrescence is an entire world worthy of reverent exploration in all settings ranging from academia, where it has been primarily developed, to your very own postpartum nest

your child’s 2nd birthday

their first daycare dropoff.

Read more (for free!) on Substack:

The rites of passage within a rite of passage

05/21/2026

Registration for Summer Prenatal Yoga is now open!

In this course we will explore pregnancy and birth as transformation. Each week we use a tool from the practices of yoga and mindfulness to build out a specific birth skill to serve us in labor and beyond. Folks will leave this course with knowledge of what laboring positions and breathing techniques serve their specific, evolving body, ways to relieve common pregnancy-related discomforts, clarity on how they intend to feel about their birth, and how to align their choices and actions with that intention. Folks also have the opportunity to build lasting connections with other birthing parents walking the path to and through parenthood alongside them.

Here are the details:

🗓️Tuesdays, 7/7-8/18
📍 Maple Street YMCA
🕠6:00PM-7:30PM
💲$35 for Y members, $65 for community members
🤝Financial assistance is available! Email Rebecca Lillie at [email protected]
🔗link to register in bio or go to https://bit.ly/SummerPrenatalYoga2026

Questions, curiosities, or ideas? Email us [email protected]

05/18/2026

You are willing to be transformed by birth.

(Perhaps you already have been.)

You approach thresholds with a deep sense of self and a clear set of values that can anchor you at every turn of the labyrinthian journeys of labor, birth, and postpartum.

You understand the journey to and through motherhood to hold physical, emotional, and spiritual dimensions. You want someone on your team who can speak into each of these spaces with you.

You crave a wise woman to walk alongside you, not to give you answers, but to shine a light on the path you are clearing for yourself and your family.

You are not looking for someone to protect you. You are not looking for someone to save you. You are looking for someone who can hold the field of your experience with wisdom, compassion, and competence.

You aim to be embodied. You desire a connection with your physiology. You seek out tools and storytelling that can uplift your body, mind, and heart.

You want to know how and when you are being woven into a tapestry of women in our community who walk on the path of motherhood ahead of you, alongside you, following you.

You want someone who cannot only hold you but hold your partner, your family, your baby in every version of them that surfaces throughout these universal rites of passage.

You want someone on your team who believes the wounds of your past to be portals through which you can expand into motherhood.

You want a doula. The ancient kind. The soul-led kind. The kind that is beholden only to you, not an arbitrary code of ethics imposed upon them by a self-proclaimed credentialer of the field, not a medicalized system that prioritizes profit over empowerment, not a nationwide effort to constrain a role meant to be by and for one’s most local community.

You want what has always been your right.

You want a Mindful Matrescence.

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If this sounds like you, let’s schedule a time to explore if we are a good fit for one another. (I also love making referrals to other doulas in the area if I sense an alignment outside of our connection.)

DM me here or email [email protected] to learn more.

(this photo is shared with the family’s informed consent)