MYTHIC MOTHERHOOD
The story you are living has been lived before.
Everyone thinks about the baby?
But what of me?
I was born too.
Motherhood is an ancient initiation.
While our daily lives are often consumed by the logistics of care, there is a deeper story unfolding beneath the surface.
Becoming a mother is one of the most profound transformations a person can undergo. And yet our culture offers almost no container for it. There are celebrations of birth, baby showers, naming ceremonies, joyful visitors, but very little language for what happens to the woman herself. We too are born in that moment. We too cross a threshold with no map.
The rage, the grief, the loss of self, the impossible love, the descent into the dark. These are not modern failures. They are ancient rites.
The world’s oldest stories know this. Across cultures and centuries, myths have carried the memory of this transformation: women who fall through sky-holes into new worlds, who shed skins they cannot get back, who descend into underworlds and return changed. These are not just stories about ancient women. They are stories about us.
Mythic Motherhood uses these ancient narratives as mirrors. In a circle of intentional community, participants will encounter a myth, explore it through guided reflection and small group dialogue, and then turn inward through writing and personal story. The myth offers language. The circle offers witness. And the space between is where transformation becomes visible.