Your grief and your beauty
are your doorways
Individual & Family/Group Therapy & Ceremony
Childless Stepmoms | Grief & Loss | Parental Alienation | Midlife Transitions
Standing on the hilltop of midlife…
looking down at the winding pilgrim’s path that has carried you here, you may notice that your life seems to have been shaped both by inevitable tragedies and wonders you never could have dreamed of, and also by the deeply discerning, even harrowing, choices you have had to make.
“In seeking after what the soul desires we become pilgrims with no home but the path the soul would have us follow.”
In a sense you might say, we have all at some point been given a hand of cards: some cards of fate—all that we carry and endure that painfully limits our lives— and some cards of destiny—all the miraculous ways we are each uniquely endowed to bless and expand the soul of the world.
Ultimately, and especially at or after midlife, it is the work for each of us, individually and relationally, to figure out how to make peace with all the ways that our fate has devastated the landscape of our lives, so that we can wholeheartedly commit ourselves to the singular destiny that longs to be lived through us.
As a therapist, ceremonialist, artist and fellow pilgrim, it is my soul’s deepest desire to join you at this threshold on your pilgrimage of living into your truest wildest Self.
Childless Stepmoms
There is so much that families, cultures, other mothers, and even one’s own mind and body tell a woman, as she ages, especially if her life has not included birthing children.
Usually these messages are aimed at shaming, “othering” and silencing her. These messages can also keep a childless stepmom from recognizing how uniquely vital her soul mothering role is to her families, community, and world.
As a childless stepmom, a woman may also find herself deeply inhabited by grief, loss, and regret. Perhaps she dreamed of birthing her own children, perhaps not. Either way, the loss of dreams she had for her life or the loss of dreams she never even knew she had can be everpresent.
If you’re a childless stepmom, I would love to join you as you navigate the fields of loss, grief and shame, all expressions of your deep, deep love. I am here to listen with you as find your own medicinal answer to being a soul mother— a mother who unconditionally loves and blesses yourself and your bonus/step kids’ truest, deepest selves in ways that only you can.
Grief & Loss
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