Motherhood Myth & Memior

Explore the Shadows, Unearth the Wisdom, and Tell your Sacred Tale

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.

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.

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What You’ll Experience

Explore Archetypes & Myths – Study the archetypal Mother in her many forms—nurturer, creatrix, wild mother, crone—through myths, fairytales, and ancestral stories.

Unearth Ancestral Wisdom – Reflect on the ways your lineage of mothers, their songs and silences, have shaped your life and story.

Embrace Shadow & Light – Engage with the unspoken aspects of motherhood—loss, anger, sacrifice, and resilience—and discover the wisdom they hold.

Discover Yourself through the Mother Archetype – Explore how life’s thresholds—pregnancy, the calamities of childhood, even the empty-nest years—are invitations into the wild frontier of your own soul.

Craft Your Memoir – Through guided writing prompts and reflections, begin weaving your experiences into a sacred personal memoir.

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

Orient to the mythic lens: motherhood as initiation, archetype, and collective story.
Explore the ways myths, fairytales, and ancestral narratives have shaped our understanding of the Mother.
Writing prompt: What story about motherhood shaped you before you ever became (or chose not to become) a mother?

Module 2 – Exile and the Longing to Belong

Explore how motherhood brings both a sense of belonging (to lineage, family, the body, the earth) and a profound sense of exile (from community, from freedom, from parts of self).
Reflect on where motherhood (either through your own mother or your children) has created moments of abandonment as well as retrieval.
Writing prompt: Tell the story of a time motherhood brought you home—and a time it set you apart.

Module 3 – The Descent: Thresholds and Transformations

From pregnancy to the “calamities of childhood” to the empty-nest, each stage is a descent into unknown terrain.
Connect with myths of descent (Inanna, Persephone) as maps for these transitions.
Writing prompt: Describe one threshold that transformed you—what died, and what was born?

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Module 4 – The Shadow Mother

Honor the shadow side-the dark mother: ambivalence, rage, grief, depletion, loss of identity.
Explore myths of destructive or devouring mothers (Medea, Baba Yaga) to reveal hidden wisdom.
Writing prompt: Write the story of your shadow-self in motherhood or your experience this archetype in your life.

Module 5 – Gifts in the Wound

Explore the paradox Lisa Marchiano describes in her novel Motherhood: how the most difficult experiences of motherhood often become the deepest sources of wisdom.
Connect with Toko-pa Turner's idea of exile as initiation into wholeness.
Writing prompt: Trace one wound in your motherhood story and imagine what gift it is asking to become.

Module 6 – The Ancestral Tapestry

Listen to the voices of the mothers who came before you—their songs, silences, longings, and sacrifices.
Explore how matriarchal erasure has shaped your lineage, and how remembering heals.
Ritual: Write a letter to a mother in your ancestry, known or unknown.
Writing Prompt: What was the role of matriarchy in your life? What did you witness in these roles in your home and in the collective depiction of motherhood that shaped who you became?
Tell a story about a mother in your ancestry, what was her voice? What did she long for or sacrifice? How did she pave the way for you?

Module 7 – The Empty-Nest and the Crone’s Call

Recognize the later thresholds of motherhood: letting go, identity shifts, and stepping into elderhood.
Explore myths of the Crone and wisdom-keepers.
Writing prompt: How has loss, letting go, or release become a doorway into a new identity? Was your own mother able to let go? If you haven't yet reached this stage, reflect on how your mother or a mother in your lineage responded to this portal. How did it change you? If your mother has passed, what impact did that have on your sense of self and how you navigate life?

Module 8 – The Mother of All: Belonging to the Earth

Connect the archetype of the Mother with the body of the Earth.
Explore ecological parallels: how our treatment of the Mother archetype is reflected in the climate crisis, and the crisis of our world today.
Writing prompt: How does our collective mothering and the condition of our mother earth shape your life and story and your particular calling?

Module 9 – Birthing the Story, Birthing the Self

In this final module, you will reflect on the act of birth—not only the birthing of children, but the birthing of yourself as a mother, a woman, and a soul in transformation.
Explore how writing your memoir is itself a birthing process: laboring through memory, contraction and release, surrender and emergence.
Draw on myths of birth and creation stories to frame your own narrative as a creative act of becoming.
Writing prompt: What are you birthing through this story? Who are you becoming in the telling?
Closing ritual: offer your memoir (in part or whole) as a birth-gift to the circle, honoring the labor that has brought it into being.

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.

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

Interactive, Live Cohort – $1,800

Includes live seminars, group cohorts and workshops, shared discussions, and guided feedback on your writing.

Self-Paced, Recorded Experience – $450

Access all course materials, writing prompts, and resources at your own rhythm.

(Only Available Summer 2026)

Premium Mentorship – $3,150

Interactive Live Cohort, plus 1:1 coaching, personalized feedback on your memoir draft, and tailored support.

*Early bird discount and payment plans available.*

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