Welcome Mama.
I’m Jacqueline.
I’m a proud mom of two, a writer, a holistic nutritionist, and a pregnancy & postpartum movement coach who’s made her life’s purpose about personal growth through the doors of Matrescence. I’m here to guide you from disheartened and struggling toward confidence, comfort, and leadership as you realize your version of true embodiment in motherhood.
First off, congratulations on becoming a mom. You deserve all the rewards motherhood can bring, and more. If you’re finding the gig a lot more shape-shifting, life-altering, and breathtaking than you could have ever imagined, and you’re in a constant struggle to find your footing and emotional balance within the role (even though life couldn’t be more perfect in many other ways), then this is the place for you.
The shift into motherhood is invisible. At the same time it’s like opening a wound in the most raw sense possible. Because of this, the shift isn’t always welcome. I know you feel it, both the negatives and the positives. It’s why you’re here in the first place.
So, I also know there’s a part of you that says, “I can’t live like this forever. There has to be an easier way. But, how am I supposed to parent them properly when I can’t even take care of myself? I need to find a way…now.”
Even if the smallest part of you resonates with those thoughts, follow me as I walk my own path to self-discovery. Because if you don’t go into that wound now, your children will - very cutely and kindly, of course - rip it open for you again and again. They’re there to show you what they need you to heal in order for you all to get the most out of this lifetime.
I won’t tell you what to do every step of the way, but I will guide you toward finding what helps you transform while shifting your perspective in big ways, allowing you to take leaps and bounds into the footing you’re being called to follow. And if you haven’t seen it already, I’m here to show you the real beauty in the position of Mother.
That the risk is worth the reward, in droves!
That you will get get it wrong many times, and that that is the magic.
That if you don’t want to feel like you’re playing catch up, barely staying afloat, and running around like a chicken with your head cut off for 18 years before your children leave home, all while your physical, mental, and emotional states - and relationships - erode, then this is the perfect time to embrace all the yucky parts of yourself, thank them for their time, and say farewell in sight of a new, magnificent, metamorphic experience for you and your family.
Embodying Mama is…
All about how you and I fit together in this beautiful season of life we call motherhood. Chances are you didn’t know you would need help with this stage of your life until you got here, right? Me too.
I’ve walked your walk and put my heart and soul into learning and implementing what I needed to in order to feel better and be better, to push through the roadblocks I subconsciously created for myself throughout my lifetime, and to become the best human I could possibly be while up-levelling how I embody motherhood.
I had a Cesarean birth with my first. After which, I craved understanding what happened to my body during labour and surgery. For as much as I knew about nutrition and the body before childbirth, becoming a mother opened up a whole new chapter of learning for me, as I’m sure it has for you, too. One which led me to discover all I was capable of when I set my sights on a home birth with my second child…and I got it.
Once the floodgates opened after I crossed into Matrescence, I knew this was where I was meant to spend my time. With other mothers in need of the same things I was, and still am - someone to listen to my birthing story who could really understand and relate to me, who would give me tools that would actually fit my changing lifestyle as a new mom, and who knew that the recovery and rebirth process went well beyond the physical.
Everything in life is connected and you are most intimately aware of that in postpartum when everything shifts and your focus moves to you and your family. Somehow, you know you have to embody the person you’ve now become as you crossed the threshold into parenthood.
I want to help you honour her in the most rewarding way possible.
If you want to ensure a light, loving, and confident season of life from which you are proud to leave a legacy, then follow me as I walk my own path to self-discovery. We’ll do this together. Because we, too, need each other. And the more we grow together, the more synergistic the effects will be.
More About Jacqueline
Jacqueline is a Certified Nutritional Practitioner (a.k.a. a Holistic Nutritionist) and Certified Level 3 Essentrics® Instructor working with prenatal and postpartum women with a focus in Cesarean recovery. She has been certified since 2016 and 2018 respectively, and has integrated both practices into her life since 2014.