Your Season is

WINTER

Winter is a time of rest, reflection and transformation.

Right now you may be in the 'messy middle’ of change, no longer who you were, but still working out who you are becoming. 

Or you may be focusing all of your energy inward, taking time to tend to yourself and your inner world after a busy or full period.

For many, this is the hardest season to navigate, and culturally it is the least understood.

Keywords for Winter

In-between - Rest - Reflection - Renewal - Grief - Transformation

Right now, you might be feeling things like:

  • A need to slow down and reflect

  • Experiencing challenges and tests in your life

  • Being in the ‘messy middle’ of a change or transformation - the ‘cocoon’ stage of change

  • A need to be held and supported by the community

  • Uncertainty about the future

  • Feeling ‘in-between’ who you were and who you are becoming

  • We can find our ‘true north’ during fallow periods, often after a period of disorientation

  • Deeper inner growth and gleaning wisdom 

  • Deep self-exploration 

  • Emerging from winter with renewed clarity 

  • Rest and renewal 

The gold
of Winter

  • Grieving what was or our expectations of what would be 

  • Uncertainty and challenges 

  • For many, the absence of wise women and community

The challenge
of Winter

Winter cycle companions

  • Dark moon and new moon 

  • Cocoon/ chrysalis

  • Menstruation

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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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