Healing the Matriarch is a blog for women to read about issues that relate to their lives. The journey from becoming a mother for the first time to ’emptying the nest’ with the last child, is unique for each woman. It is a journey of balancing self interest with the needs of a partner and family. In today’s world it is often also about balancing a professional and personal identity.

Those who venture beyond the empty nest find a new time of recreating personal identity and life goals. While most women welcome this time, others struggle to emerge beyond the mother role. The acknowledgement and appreciation we might receive at the end of our working life, is rarely celebrated at the end of active mothering. The person we were at the beginning of the journey also seems a distant memory. Perhaps that is you: finding it difficult to remember your true essence, hopes, dreams and passions in life.

Beyond motherhood is a further joy when our children become parents. This is the time as wise women, filled with life experience, we can step into our Matriarch role. Leading our expanded families with love, humility and wisdom. All that we have learnt in life. All that we have become. These things become a blueprint for our relationships with our families, friends and communities.