Motherhood
Support Group
Motherhood can be beautiful, meaningful, exhausting, disorienting, lonely, and overwhelming all at once.
This group is for mothers who are navigating the emotional weight of motherhood, identity shifts, burnout, grief, guilt, anger, resentment, or the pressure to hold everything together while quietly feeling disconnected from themselves.
Motherhood does not always look the way people said it would.
Sometimes it brings joy. Sometimes it brings grief. Sometimes it brings up old wounds, family patterns, relationship changes, body changes, unmet needs, and the painful feeling that you have lost parts of yourself along the way.
This group creates space for the parts of motherhood that are often hard to say out loud.
Group Details
Tentative Day and Time: Sundays from 2:30 to 4:00 pm
Session Length: 90 minutes
Format: In-person
Frequency: Bi-weekly
Length: 8 sessions
Group Type: Closed group for the first round
This group is designed to offer consistency, safety, and connection. A closed group means the same members move through the full group experience together once the group begins.
The Kind of Motherhood Experiences We Make Space For
☑️ The identity shift of becoming a mother
☑️ Feeling touched out, emotionally overloaded, or constantly needed
☑️ Grief over who you were before motherhood
☑️ Grief related to birth, postpartum experiences, fertility, loss, or unmet expectations
☑️ Resentment, guilt, shame, or anger that feels hard to talk about
☑️ Relationship changes after becoming a parent
☑️ Feeling disconnected from your body, needs, or sense of self
☑️ The pressure to be grateful while also feeling overwhelmed
☑️ Mothering without the support you expected or needed
☑️ Old family patterns or childhood wounds resurfacing through parenting
Our Approach to Motherhood Support
This group offers a supportive, judgment-free space to slow down, connect with other mothers, and begin making sense of what you have been carrying.
Each session gently moves through three parts:
Insight: Understanding patterns, emotions, expectations, and experiences
Body: Noticing how stress, grief, and overwhelm show up physically
Integration: Reflecting, grounding, and applying what you learn to real life
Together, we will explore the emotional, relational, and body-based experience of motherhood. This is not a space where you have to perform gratitude, perfection, or constant strength.
It is a space where you can be honest about the parts of motherhood that are tender, confusing, exhausting, and still deeply meaningful.
1
Becoming Aware: Who Am I as a Mother?
We begin by exploring the identity shift that can come with motherhood. This session creates space to name the gap between the mother you thought you would be and the mother you are right now. We will look at expectations versus reality, early signs of burnout, guilt, resentment, and where stress may already be living in the body.
What We’ll Explore Together
2
Parenting Style = Your Story
The way we parent is often shaped by the way we were parented. This session explores how upbringing, family roles, and past experiences can influence reactions, expectations, and default patterns such as control, avoidance, overgiving, emotional shutdown, or holding everything together. We will also practice noticing triggers in the body before reacting.
3
Inner Child: The Part of You Raising Your Child
Sometimes your child’s needs, emotions, or behaviors can activate younger parts of you. This session offers a grounded look at the inner child and how old emotional experiences may show up in parenting moments. We will explore emotional regression, grounding, and safety practices that help you respond with more awareness and compassion.
4
The Mother Wound
This session creates space to name the mother wound without blame or shame. We may explore absent, critical, emotionally unavailable, overwhelmed, or inconsistent mothering, and how those experiences can shape self-worth, attachment, caregiving, and the way you relate to your own needs. We will use gentle body-based practices around release, boundaries, and emotional safety.
5
Grief in Motherhood
Motherhood can bring many kinds of grief to the surface. This session makes room for grief for the mother you did not have, the version of yourself before motherhood, the support you thought you would receive, or the relationship that feels complicated, absent, estranged, or changed by death. We will allow grief without rushing to fix it or make it easier for others to understand.
6
Guilt, Anger, and “I Don’t Like Who I Am Sometimes”
This session focuses on the emotions mothers are often afraid to say out loud, including rage, resentment, numbness, guilt, shame, and the feeling of not recognizing yourself. We will normalize these emotions without excusing harm or dismissing their impact, then explore safe ways to discharge anger through movement, breath, and reflection.
8
Integration: Becoming the Mother You Needed
The final session focuses on integration. We will reflect on what you have learned, what you are ready to release, and how you want to define motherhood on your own terms. This session centers intentional responses, self-compassion, letting go of perfection, and reconnecting with the kind of mother you want your child to experience.
7
Reparenting Yourself in Real Time
Reparenting can happen in small, ordinary moments. This session explores meeting your own needs while caring for your child. We will look at self-trust, regulation, rest, worthiness, productivity, and the belief that care must be earned. Practices may include self-soothing, nurturing touch, self-embraces, grounding, mirror talk, and reflection around receiving versus earning care.
Body-Centered Support with Jennifer
Motherhood is not only emotional. It is physical, relational, mental, and deeply embodied.
Stress, grief, caregiving, sleep deprivation, identity shifts, and constant responsibility can live in the body. They can show up as tension, fatigue, overwhelm, disconnection, irritability, or the feeling that you have been holding your breath for far too long.
This group includes support from Jennifer Winters Runolfsson, founder of Being Calm Wellness, whose work helps overwhelmed women reconnect with themselves in a world that rarely asks them to slow down.
With a background in health science and psychology, along with advanced training in Ayurveda, aromatherapy, and energy work, Jennifer brings a gentle, grounding presence to this group.
Her approach is rooted in the belief that the body often holds what the mind has not yet had space to process.
Through supportive practices, Jennifer helps create space for mothers to pause, breathe, soften emotional overwhelm, and begin coming home to themselves at their own pace.
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