Mothershift: Reclaiming Motherhood as a Rite of Passage

Nautilus Book Awards Gold Winner

Explore this supportive, grounding guide for new mothers navigating the cascade of identity change and transformation that is motherhood.

Our modern, Western societal understanding of what happens to a woman when she becomes a mother—beyond emotional rollercoasters and healing her pelvic floor—remains largely uncharted territory. The transition to motherhood actually takes two to three years, not six weeks or three months as we’ve been led to believe. Mothers...