THE M WORD
Matrescence
The word that changes how you understand motherhood
Something shifted the day you became a mother, and you've been carrying it without a name ever since. That's not a small thing.
When there's no word for what's happening to you, your brain does the only thing it can ~ it sounds the alarm every single time something feels different, and every change starts to feel like proof that something is wrong with you.
You're not doing anything wrong. Changes were always part of the process, and there's a word for it.
You've been moving through a developmental transition this whole time, the same as any other stage in a human life. And the moment you have the word for it, something actually changes in your brain ~ naming what you feel calms the part that's been on high alert, and switches on the part that makes sense of it.
That's not just a nice idea, it's fact, backed by biology, neuroscience and psychology.
The guilt starts to make sense. The grief starts to make sense. You start to make sense ~ and instead of asking what's wrong with you, you finally get to understand what's actually happening to you.
I call this The M word, and inside you'll get the word itself, the psychology behind it, and the neuroscience proving it ~ all adding up to real understanding.
You don't have to wait years to make sense of what's happened since you became a mum. Not one more day of thinking it's just you.
FROM BETH
Northern mum of two girls and Founder of The Matrescence Project.
I spent years Googling at 3am with no search that got me anywhere. And I believe, with everything I have, that giving mothers the word for what's happening to them is the most important thing this world can do to support them.
This is that word. And it starts here.
Matrescence education from The Matrescence Project, so you can finally understand what happens to you when you become a mum.