Your Season is

SPRING

Spring is a time of transition and emergence.

Right now you may be feeling new beginnings and possibilities, a fresh surge of energy and growth after a period of feeling inward and reflective. 

New growth, interests, ideas and inspiration may be emerging within you and around you. But this new growth is still vulnerable and in need of protection, to ensure it can grow to its full potential.

Keywords for Spring

New Beginning - Fresh - Energy - Growth

Right now, you might be feeling things like:

  • The growing excitement of new beginnings, visions and possibilities

  • A fresh, optimistic outlook 

  • Experiencing contraction and dilation, constriction and expansion, swinging between feeling wobbly and confident.

  • Uncertainty about where to channel your energy and which direction to take 

  • ‘The need to weed’ -  keeping only what is aligned, being intentional about what you water

  • Riding the wave of fresh new energy and enthusiasm

  • Feeling aligned and ‘on path’ 

  • Clarity about your direction and taking steps to bring it to fruition 

  • Carrying the gifts and wisdom from winter

The gold
of Spring

  • Uncertainty about which direction to take 

  • Overcommitting or indecision

  • Self critical when you experience ‘wobbles’ 

  • Sharing new visions and ideas before they have had time to ‘grow roots’  

  • Forgetting the wisdom and gold you gleaned in winter

The challenge
of Spring

Inner Spring cycle companions

  • Waxing moon

  • Butterfly pushing itself through the cocoon, it's wings strengthened by resistance

  • Pre-ovulation

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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?

Listen to the Seasons of Matrescence podcast

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