Your Season is

AUTUMN

Autumn, or fall is a time of transition.

Right now you may be on the thresholds of change in your life. You may be in a phase of resisting change, or surrendering to and accepting the way things are changing within you and around you. 

Or you may be feeling pulled to slow down and turn inwards after a period of life that has been busy or full.

Keywords for Autumn

change - resistance - surrender - slowing down - turning inward

Right now, you might be feeling things like:

  • A desire to draw your energy inwards 

  • A call to slow down, rethink, review or reassess 

  • A knowing that something within you, or around you is changing or calling for change 

  • Either resistance to change or embracing change 

  • Coming into acceptance and surrender of the way things are 

  • Adjusting your expectations of what this ‘should’ be and what it actually is

  • Being open to the new possibilities change can bring

  • Deeper connection with your own inner world, needs and desires 

  • Slowing down to hear yourself more clearly 

  • Rallying your support people, community around you 

  • Freedom through surrender and acceptance

The gold
of Autumn

  • Uncertainty about the future 

  • Letting go of the old to make room for the new 

  • The shift from ‘outward’ to ‘inward’ focus 

  • Resistance to change or slowing down

The challenge
of Autumn

Autumn cycle companions

  • Waning moon

  • Caterpillar preparing for cocoon

  • Pre-menstrual

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"Matrescence is not linear, it is seasonal and cyclical.”

The Seasons of Matrescence is a model for navigating the changing seasons of becoming and being a mother.

What is Matrescence?

Matrescence is the ongoing process of growth and transformation a woman traverses in her journey to and through motherhood. Like adolescence, it’s a time of rapid change physically and emotionally. Matrescence impacts our identity, relationships, career, friendships, economics, spirituality and more.  

The word was first coined in the 1970s by Anthropologist Dr Dana Raphael, with recent research in various fields from neuroscience and psychology to economics and sociology, leading a revival of the term and increasing awareness of the importance of acknowledging and supporting this time in a woman's life. Learn more about matrescence here

“The psyches and souls of women also have their own cycles and seasons of doing and solitude, running and staying, being involved and being removed, questing and resting, creating and incubating, being of the world and returning to the soul-place.” 

- Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Meet your guide

I’m Nikki, a mother, matrescence and women's life cycle guide, podcast host and founder of the Seasons of Matrescence model.

As a matrescence guide, I help mothers navigate the often unexpected changes and challenges of becoming and being a mother, whilst simultaneously supporting you to explore the opportunities mothering can provide for your own personal growth and expansion. 

I created the Seasons of Matrescence ® to provide a map for mothers to use when navigating times of change and transition and support mothers to explore their matrescence journey within the context of their broader life cycle and rites of passage. 

I spend my time training other aspiring matrescence guides in the Seasons of Matrescence Certification, hosting honest and inspiring conversations on the Seasons of Matrescence podcast and writing about matrescence, cyclicality and rites of passage.

Want to learn more about matrescence and the Seasons of Matrescence?

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