Threshold

An Online Community To Honour The Transformations of Motherhood

ARE YOU LOOKING FOR A COMMUNITY TO GUIDE YOU ACROSS THE UNFAMILIAR BORDERS OF MOTHERHOOD?

JOIN Threshold - A group program for new and emerging mothers.

Guided by a registered therapist you will discover your unique relationship to the archetype of mother, identify what keeps you stuck and causes struggle, acknowledge the losses and grief that come with this new transition and start to work with challenging emotions.

Over the course of 10 weekly sessions you will be guided through educational content, take part in sharing/storytelling circles and learn to create rituals and ceremony to celebrate and honour this powerful life transition.

My hope is that through this program you will begin to create and celebrate your unique and empowering vision for motherhood.

WHO IS THRESHOLD FOR?

  • You identify as a new mother (recommended for those 6 months or more postpartum/post-arrival).

  • You became a mother some time ago but are still struggling with the change

  • You’re the mother of a non-biological or adopted child

  • You’re feeling lost, confused or are struggling to fully embrace the transition of motherhood

  • You’re holding onto your old life and feel unfulfilled as a mother

  • You’re experiencing depression, anxiety, emotional overwhelm 

  • You’re lacking support and can’t afford weekly therapy sessions

  • You’re craving a community to accompany you through the joys and struggles of motherhood

  • You want to make intentional space to honour the changes and transformation you are experiencing

WHAT TOPICS WILL WE EXPLORE?

  • The Power of Storytelling, Ceremony & Ritual - How to Honour Transition

  • Working With Your Anxiety

  • Understanding Grief & Anger

  • Limiting and Harmful Beliefs and Archetypes of Motherhood

  • Tending the Mother Wound - How Past Relationships & Trauma Affects Our Present

  • Creating Your Own Vision of Motherhood

how is the program structured?

  • Small group (max 6-8)

  • 10 weekly online ZOOM sessions (alternating between Guidance Sessions or Sharing Sessions)

  • Guidance Sessions include 30-45 mins of content on a specific topic - followed by discussion/sharing and small group exercises.

  • Sharing Sessions are facilitated, open-group sharing circles and check-ins where you will have time to witness, support and guide one-another around specific themes

  • Online Forum. In-between sessions you will have access to your group and Rebecca via an online PLATFORM where you can stay connected write/share and post relevant content

  • Each week you will receive optional exercises/journal prompts/meditations to support your work/transition

  • Our time together will culminate in a unique group ceremony

WHAT DOES IT COST?

  • $480+ GST (CAD) - 10 x 2hr sessions = $24 per hour

  • Option to pay in 2 instalments of $250+GST

WHAt DO I get?

  • 20 +hours of community connection

  • Space to explore and share the inner feelings and experiences of being a mother

  • Guidance and support from a registered therapeutic counsellor

  • Access to a supportive group of mothers in online forum and sessions

  • Experience the healing possibilities of storytelling, community, ritual and ceremony

  • Time to explore your one unique journey and blocks to motherhood

  • Your own personally meaningful vision of motherhood

  • Sense of relief from knowing your experiences are shared

  • Educational skills and resources for understanding transitions, grief and managing emotions

  • Lifelong connections

HOW DO I JOIN?

Interested in joining a Threshold group? Yeah!

Please register using the inquiry form below. 

After I have received your form you will be invited to schedule an intake call, where you can ask me any questions about the group and determine if it’s a fit for you.

I am so excited to meet soon :) 

*The next group starts in Early May, 2022. Registration closes April 24th.

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WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT MY JOURNEY INTO MOTHERHOOD?

In-between intense joy and gratitude, I was sad, angry and anxious. I felt a profound love for my child but was overwhelmed by the emotions I was experiencing. Some days everything felt so good and then suddenly I would sink into a depression. I compared myself to others. I got mad at my baby. I got mad at my husband. I got mad at myself. And then I was left with feelings of guilt and shame.

On the outside it looked like everything was ok. But inside I felt like I was letting everyone down. Professionals told me I was depressed. Diagnosis felt like another failure. Long after the fourth trimester I was still struggling.

Fast-forward seven years. A lot has changed. My family and kids are thriving and I am pleased to say that I’m finally embracing motherhood.

How did I get here? 

It was not easy. There was no quick-fix. I really had to move through both the highs and lows of this major transition. It was messy.

In many ways I still feel like it's an incomplete and evolving process. 

You could say I am continually becoming a mother. And it’s still messy. 

Many things have helped me traverse the threshold into motherhood.

My personal experience of therapy and my training to become a counsellor has been fundamental. I was able to explore how my past was affecting my present, let go of deep fears and limiting beliefs, tolerate and regulate my emotions and learn to not just ask for but accept love and support.

I was also forced to confront difficult feelings about my own childhood, transform my relationship with my own mother and adjust my expectations of myself. Motherhood has been a spiritual awakening; painful and deeply healing.

What made all of this more bearable was vulnerably connecting with others, storytelling in groups and making time to honour my motherhood transition. My belief that I was failing transformed once I understood that what I was experiencing was normal, human and part of the evolutionary growth of being human. I slowly began to see the ways that I was holding myself back and how society was failing mothers. Then I began to create my own vision for how I wanted to mother. It has been deeply freeing.

My personal experience has now put me on a path to help others. I want to create spaces, ceremonies and communities that help support and guide when we need it most.