Who are Mindful Mammas?
Mindful mammas are mothers who deeply desire to embody a conscious and nurturing relationship with their babies and themselves. They recognize the power of the parenting process and wish to foster a deeply healthy, awake, and secure attachment between themselves as parent and the new baby in their lives. Mindful mammas may understand how profound the journey can be, how evocative their babies’ developmental needs are and can be, and how important it is not to undertake this journey unsupported, unheard or isolated. Mindful mammas are not perfect and make mistakes and get lost in the process sometimes, and recognize this as an inevitable part of the path of becoming a mother, which is not an overnight event, just like life itself. Rather it is a path of becoming and it is evolving over time into the mother that most matters to her, one that has deep heart, soul, spirit, integrity, and consciousness. A child raised by a this kind of mother receives a profound transmission of awakeness, breadth and depth of good will, understanding, and love.
The Deep Heart of the Mamma
Every mother everywhere wants the best for her children . No matter what her capacities or upbringing are, the moment the baby is born most often a profound surge of love and altruism emerges forward that moves her to try to be the best mother she can be. This is not to say she is able to embody all that because the reality is that sometimes she falls short, struggles and makes mistakes small or large, as all humans do. The mindful mamma herself really cares to awaken through all the human struggles new mothers go through. She cares and gives deeply and wants to nurture deeply, no matter what her abilities. She often gives tremendously to her partner and other children if she has them, and sometimes lacks the necessary support to truly nurture herself or the child with her that also needs nurturance to grow, like the careful watering she gives her child or the plants in her home or garden as they sprout too.
Program Focus
The Mindful Mammas group supports mothers through all the transition of becoming a mother and beyond. The lens and intention of the group processes all experience through the desire to learn, open, understand and utilize all experiences shared in the group as a vehicle for growth, developing presence, centering, compassion, awareness, strength, and understanding Mothers are welcome either while pregnant or after birth and babies are welcome until they are standing and crawling. Group topics include but are not limited to:
- Processing the birthing and pregnancy experience and what it brought up for each woman
- Addressing post partum issues such as mood, physiological changes and changes in sexual desire
- Shifting identity from a focus of wife or girlfriend to the identity of the mother
- Finding your center amidst the whirlwind
- Creating space to nurture yourself including your needs for friendship and support
- Opening to and unraveling the various developmental shifts in your child and what they may evoke for you and help you understand about yourself if there are challenges.
- Understanding the different kinds of attachment styles between parents and children and landing at the one that makes you and your child feel secure.
- Finding your unique path to peace and balance and ways to honor that.
Mindful Mammas Meeting Information
The Mindful Mammas Group will meet on Fridays from 10 am to 11:00 am and begins on January 14thth, 2011. Cost is $45 per group and receipts are available for insurance reimbursement purposes. Group commitment is for 10 weeks. Location is at 155A Kentucky Street, Suite No. 6 in Petaluma, CA. A pre-interview at no cost is required.
Please call (707) 781-9231 or (415) 923-0481 today to join and enroll.