Becoming a mother can be THE catalyst for a woman’s spiritual growth and expansion.

Every mothering experience, from the smallest to the greatest, is a push into the unknown and a continual force of perpetual growth. You are challenged moment by moment to confront and listen to your inner wisdom, intuition - your higher self - the subtle voice of the Divine within. This perpetual growth arises from your Divinely bestowed responsibility for another being’s physical, emotional, and spiritual needs - this we call “care" but the word doesn’t catch all the deep nuance involved.

You will face conflicts between this inner Divine knowing and your “self” voice, the voice of all you know of your up-to-now lived experience as “you” – but now you are you + mother – transformed → metamorphosed; caterpillar to butterfly. You will be faced with societal, cultural, religious and familial norms screaming against this Divine inner voice as you try to navigate what it is to be a mother. All these “shoulds” will clash with your wants and your baby’s desires. You may even struggle to see your baby’s needs as required rather than just “wants”. But this deep, inner knowing is the voice of your ancestors connecting you to “grandmother wisdom” and listening closely will lead you towards a deeper understanding of yourself and your children. You may think you must “garner support” for what you choose to do and how you do it but mothering is not about a label you follow or even a guru who pats you on the back (nor following what family or friends say you need/need not do). Raising a child guided by your intuition may seem you’re going against society, culture, even your family, but your child’s life needn't be guided by labels and awards, or “shoulds”. Their life is guided from within and you are their rudder, their shelter or storm, their teacher, provider and support while they are in their formative years. Deep listening means coming to presence, grounded in the now, so you can create a boundary between your ego-driven human self in order to focus on decisions that will align with your soul’s guidance tempered with the voice of the Divine.

This journey of motherhood is never ending and provides a well of continuous learning opportunities and challenges. As your child continues to incarnate before your eyes, you are given an opportunity to revise and retune your own incarnation, examining all parts that make you, you, as your child provides a soul-mirror for you to gaze into every moment. Your child contains all your history, set out concretely in his/her gene expression but is still malleable by all his/her experiences, just as you are. Your egg that made him/her has every feeling, every joy and sorrow, every physical experience from the beginning of time written on it. You’ve brought into this world another iteration of the Divine incarnate, how will you mother this being so that his/her fully realized human incarnation is more joyful, more peaceful, more aligned, more prepared - better - than what you were raised with?

You know that it’s paramount to follow this inner wisdom, this time-tested ancient knowing - it will inform what will be - this is your intuition, your gut instinct, your primordial drive and connection, the proverbial soul umbilical cord that connects you to all this is and ever was - the womb of humanity. From this space and presence you will foster growth, creativity, being - from deep knowing, not solely believing.