Courses
Are you willing to face your past pain to heal for a better future?
Mothering with Mother Hunger: coming soon!
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Pregnancy, Birth, Postpartum, and Mothering are times when a mother needs mothering. But what happens when your mother isn’t able to adequately meet your needs? Or she’s too toxic to have around your children? Or maybe she just isn’t alive to support you through this life changing time. New motherhood is a profoundly vulnerable time. It takes you from maiden to mother, possibly the most transformative time of a woman’s life. During this sensitive time, our ancestors were surrounded by support. A mother was held by not only her mother, but several other wise women who had been there, done that, and were able to offer wisdom and guidance. Sadly, for those with mother hunger, you are left feeling like you’re “mothering without a map.”
Many of us are determined to do things differently for the next generation. We so desperately hope that our children will never feel what we felt. We want to break cycles, but we’re not sure how to start new ones, healthy ones.
This gap is where I want to support you. I remember the terrifying feeling of entering motherhood and wanting something different for my first child, but I didn’t even know where to start. I felt directionless, anxious, and excited to welcome my first born.
When you’re a new mom, you’re getting unsolicited advice from anyone with an opinion. Sadly, many mainstream approaches to parenting neglect attachment research, ancestral wisdom, and tend towards what’s most convenient for parents, but not what’s actually in the best interest of the mother-baby dyad.
Whether you are in the phase of considering children, pregnant, postpartum, or anywhere in the motherhood phase, parenting 0-3, this course is for you if you’re looking to create new generational patterns. Mother Hunger profoundly impacts women in early motherhood. The lack of nurturance, protection, and guidance is awakened in new and challenging ways. I’m here to help you navigate new motherhood and create new patterns for you and your young children.
This course will rely heavily on the work of Kelly McDaniel, who coined the term Mother Hunger. It will also pull from attachment research, ancestral wisdom, and will point you towards your innate wisdom as a mother.
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This course has 10 modules that will include the following topics:
Module 1: What is Mother Hunger and What Does It Look Like to Mother With Mother Hunger
Module 2: Lack of Nurture and How It Impacts the New Mother
Module 3: Nurturing Your Children
Module 4: Nourishment: Food, Nature, and Movement
Module 5: Lack of Protection and How It Impacts the New Mother
Module 6: Protecting Your Children
Module 7: Lack of Guidance and How It Impacts the New Mother
Module 8: Guiding Your Children
Module 9: Creating A New Family Culture
Module 10: Partner Support
Bonus: Navigating Pregnancy, Birth, and Postpartum With Mother Hunger
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Who is this course for:
-the expecting mama
-the postpartum mama
-mama of children 0-3 years
-the woman considering children
-those ready to take radical responsibility for creating new family cycles
-the mama who is ready to look in the mirror and notice what patterns she is unconsciously carrying around from her childhood
Who this course is not for:
-the mama who is looking for behaviorally based, separation based parenting tactics
-the mama who wants a cookie cutter approach to child rearing
-the mama that wants to spank or use other forms of physical punishment
-the mama who is not ready to look in the mirror and create lasting change for her family
-the mama who feels victimized by motherhood/her children
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Self-Paced Course $497
The self-paced course is self-guided. You will receive 10 modules of content on Mothering with Mother Hunger to go through at your own pace.
Community Support $997
The community support option will include the self-paced course, plus a Facebook community where you can ask questions and interact with others who understand what it’s like to Mother with Mother Hunger. The community support option includes a quarterly book club, monthly webinars, and discounted 1:1s or couples coaching sessions
Blissful Birth: Coming soon!
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Birth is a profoundly transformational time in a women’s life. It takes a woman from maiden to mother. If you let it, it can also be a blissful and even spiritual experience. However, due to our culture’s conditioning around birth, many of us grow up fearing birth.
For many of us, we are taught that birth is an incredibly painful experience. It’s something to be endured. For those of us from Christian backgrounds, we grow up believing the pains of child birth are a punishment we can’t escape.
Perhaps you’re considering an epidural or other pain management techniques. Or maybe you’ve heard of people having births, free of pain and unmedicated.
What if I told you it’s possible to have a blissful birth, one free of pain?
I navigated this journey myself. I came into adulthood believing birth was so profoundly painful that it could kill me. I was the woman who joked, “Just cut me open and take the baby out.”
What I didn’t realize at the time is that I was getting triggered to my own experience of birth trauma from when I was born.
I also didn’t yet know the power of words or how to harness the power of my own mind.
While I can’t say I had a blissful first birth with my son, I did learn a lot through the experience. What I can confidently say is that I had a blissful home birth with my daughter, completely free of pain and discomfort (except 2 contractions I wasn’t properly prepared for).
As a woman, your body is powerful, but your mind is even more powerful. It is 100% capable of birthing without drugs. If you can harness the power of your mind, you can have the birth of your dreams.
*disclosure: this course is not a guarantee that you will have a pain free birth. It is designed to help you have a peaceful birth experience and to train your mind to think positively about birth. You are responsible for your outcomes. I cannot account for medical complications or unaddressed mental health issues that may impact your outcome.
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This course includes:
Module 1: What informs your beliefs about birth?
Module 2: Outcomes
Module 3: Fear-Tension-Pain Cycle
Module 4: The Power of Words
Module 5: Perception of Sensation
Module 6: Hypnosis for the Win
Module 7: Birth Trauma Clearing
Module 8: Visualize Your Blissful Birth
Module 9: Preparing Your Body
Module 10: Affirmations
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This course is $147.
Redemptive Birth: coming soon!
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Often times birth doesn’t turn out how we hoped. We wish, pray, and dream for a blissful birth experience, but often things don’t go as planned. Maybe you had a traumatic birth in the hospital, the loss of a pregnancy, or were transferred to the hospital after a planned home birth. The theme throughout these experiences is disappointment, loss, and trauma.
Unfortunately our medical system is not set up to facilitate a peaceful birth experience. We don’t have adequate support for miscarriage. Additionally, our own unresolved birth and preverbal trauma can unconsciously impact how we experience birth.
Having a redemptive birth is possible, but it takes proper preparation.
I know this because I’ve lived it myself. I prepared myself to have a pain free birth with hypnobabies. I practiced religiously over and over again for hours a day. I asked around for a trauma-informed OB. What I didn’t do was take radical responsibility for my birth. I outsourced my power to my provider. I went against my instincts and intuition and let my provider scare me into a high intervention birth.
With my second pregnancy, I had a miscarriage. I fully faced the loss and grief that came with it. I let the experience transform me.
With my 3rd, I chose home birth, holistic care, and took radical responsibility for my birth. I dealt with the trauma I experienced with my first and second pregnancy. I went into my 3rd pregnancy and birth feeling prepared, empowered, and responsible for myself. I wasn’t relying on anyone, but myself, my baby, and God (my husband did also provide tremendous support). I ended up having a beautiful, blissful, pain-free birth. It felt peaceful and easy.
If you’re looking to have a redemptive birth, I can’t wait to share how I experienced a redemptive birth and how you can too!
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This course covers:
Module 1: My Birth Stories and What I Learned
Module 2: Trauma Clearing
Module 3: What’s Your Outcome
Module 4: Choosing Your Birth Team
Module 5: Shifting Your Mindset
Module 6: Visualizing the Birth You Want
Module 7: Creating Safety
Module 8: Trusting Your Body, Trusting Your Baby
Module 9: Pregnancy Affirmations
Module 10: Planning for the Ideal Postpartum
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This course is $147
