Motherhood Myth & Memior
Explore the Shadows, Unearth the Wisdom, and Tell your Sacred Tale
*Saturdays beginning May 16th 2026*
Introduction
Before we entered the dark, dreaming waters of the womb, we began in the psyche of our mother. Not only in her—the one who first whispered our name, who rocked and suckled us into life—but in the vast lineage of mothers braided through generations. Their bodies and breath, their songs and silences, their prayers and sacrifices are woven into the great dreaming womb of this Earth.
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We carry their threads within us—wounds to be woven into gifts—shaping the way we live, the way we love, and the way we mother. And when we take up the pen to tell our stories, we do more than record memory—we re-member. We stitch together what was torn, we reclaim the voices once silenced, and we root ourselves again in the mythic architecture of the Great Mother.
This course is your invitation to listen deeply, to step into the mythic, and to craft your own memoir as a sacred act of healing, belonging, reclamation and rebellion.
What You’ll Experience
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Explore Archetypes & Myths – Study the archetypal Mother in her many forms—nurturer, creatrix, wild mother, crone—through myths, fairytales, and ancestral stories.
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Unearth Ancestral Wisdom – Reflect on the ways your lineage of mothers, their songs and silences, have shaped your life and story.
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Embrace Shadow & Light – Engage with the unspoken aspects of motherhood—loss, anger, sacrifice, and resilience—and discover the wisdom they hold.
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Discover Yourself through the Mother Archetype – Explore how life’s thresholds are invitations into the wild frontier of your own soul.
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Craft Your Memoir – Through guided writing prompts and reflections, begin weaving your experiences into a sacred personal memoir.
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Belong to a Community – Share in a circle of women walking this path together, each honoring the mythic journey of motherhood.
Course Structure
Module 1 – The Mythic Architecture of Motherhood
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Orient to the mythic lens: The Mother within and without
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Explore the ways myths, fairytales, and ancestral narratives have shaped our understanding of the Mother.
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Explore the Great Mother, our Earthly Mother, and the archetype in our collective unconscious
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Writing prompt: What does Mother mean? What feelings and associations do you have around mothering?
Module 2 – Mapping the Internalized Mother
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Who is our internalized mother? What is her voice?
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Discover the Mother figures depicted throughout human history from the old myths to the contemporary icons
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Reflect on the landscape and components of the Mother, what can we add to this overtime?
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Guided Journey: Let's meet your internalized mother by going on a guided journey within
Module 3 – The Architecture of the Mother Archetype
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We will discover the cycle and phases of the feminine and how it relates to the cycles of nature and our bodies
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Explore the way these relate to story and the structure of the memoir
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Discover the missing phases and faces of the triple goddess
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Writing prompts: How have the phases of my life been influenced by the mother/goddess archetype. How do I want to weave or reweave them into my future?
Module 4 – The Womb & The Birth of Story
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We will discover the womb as a physical and metaphysical portal gifting the mother with the magic of creation
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Explore places like Ginnungagap, the magical void in Norse Myth, and other mythical womb realms.
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What is the process and alchemy of creation? What is exchanged, sacrificed, transformed?
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Writing prompt: How does our internalized mother effect the way we create, how does she show up in the process?
Module 5 – The Shadow Mother
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We define shadow, reclaiming the term
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We explore the shadow side of the archetype-the dark mother: ambivalence, rage, grief, envy, depletion, loss of identity, enmeshment, control
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Explore myths & fairy tales depicting the devouring mother to reveal hidden wisdom.
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Writing prompt: How does the shadow mother show up in our stories, in our capacity for creation, creativity, nurturing and soverignty?
Module 6 – Gifts in the Wound
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How has maternal shadow gifted us our medicine and path?
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Introduce the Crone and the intersectionality of wounding
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Explore the paradox Lisa Marchiano describes in her novel Motherhood: how the most difficult experiences of motherhood often become the deepest sources of wisdom.
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Connect with Toko-pa Turner's idea of exile as initiation into wholeness.
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Writing prompt: Trace one wound in your mother story and imagine what gift or calling it is asking to become.
Module 7 – The Crone’s Calling
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Recognize the crone as initiator in mythology and folklore throughout time
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Explore the Crone's ledgands and lessons
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Writing prompts: How has loss, letting go, or release become a doorway into a new identity? When has the Crone shown up to strip you of everything to initiate you forward?
Module 8 – The Ancestral Tapestry
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Connect to the mothers who came before you—their stories, songs, silences, longings, and sacrifices.
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Explore the threads present in your matriarchal lineage, and how you are holding them now.
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Writing Prompt: What pattern did you inherit in this lifetime? How has this story been woven through time? What is it asking for you to do?
Module 9 – The Mother of All: Belonging to the Earth
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Reclamation of the Mother archetype within the body of the Earth.
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Explore ecological parallels, conscious mothering and how our individual and collective stories of the mother might change to create balance and soul alignment
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Guided Journey: we will journey to meet the mother of all
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Writing prompt: Who is this mother really? Who is she to you? What are her messages for you? What does she wish to help you birth into the world?
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Closing ritual
Why this Matters Now
For centuries, the Mother has been silenced, controlled, extracted from. The great mother goddesses of creation were nearly erased from our history, replaced with the language of dominion and compliance to a lord. These wounds ripple forward into our mothers, into us, and into the very body of the Earth—now bearing the scars of a culture severed from its source.
A culture that could stare in the face of a mother holding her lifeless baby taken from her in genocide and either feel powerless to support her or look away in blame.
We live in a time of unraveling: mass extinctions, ecological collapse, and the resurgence of authoritarianism threaten not only the Earth but the very fabric of human belonging.
The diminishment of the Mother—her voice, her body, her wisdom—is mirrored in the diminishment of our planet and our societies, our bodies.
When the Mother is silenced, life itself becomes disposable.To remember the Mother is to remember ourselves. To write our stories through her archetype is to reclaim what has been stolen, to tend the wounds of lineage, and to restore the sacred balance that has been forgotten.
In sharing our stories with one another, we weave a new collective myth—one rooted in reciprocity, reverence, and repair. At this threshold in history, our voices matter. By telling our stories, we come together not only to heal ourselves, but to imagine and usher in a future where the Mother is honored again—within us, between us, and in the living Earth we belong to.
Your Sacred Story Awaits
By the end of this course, you will hold the beginnings of your memoir—a woven story of shadows and wisdom, of wounds and blessings. But more than that, you will be participating in a greater act of remembering. In tracing your life through the mythic architecture of motherhood, you reclaim what has been stolen, tend the wounds of lineage, and restore to yourself the voice and worth that history has too often denied.
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At this time of collective unraveling—your story is not just personal, it is part of your community's and your family's medicine. Each word you write becomes a thread in a new myth, one rooted in reciprocity, reverence, and repair. Together, in the telling, we are not only healing ourselves but imagining and ushering in a future where the Mother is honored again—within us, between us, and in the living Earth to which we belong.
Enrollment Options
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Interactive, Live Cohort
Includes live seminars, group cohorts and workshops, shared discussions, and guided feedback on your writing.
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Self-Paced, Recorded Experience
Access all course materials, writing prompts, and resources at your own rhythm.
(Only Available Winter 2027)
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Premium Mentorship
Interactive Live Cohort, plus 1:1 dreamwork sessions, personal feedback on your memoir draft and support in the writing process, shamanic journeys, and tailored support.
*Prices Vary* *9-12 Month Payment Plans* Early bird discount offered through March 2026*
We do not want to turn people away due to financial stress or restriction, so please reach out if you need financial aid.
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