“The self is not ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.”

- John Dewey

About Alice

Alice is a qualified Holistic Counsellor with lived experience of the profound—and often disorienting—transition into motherhood.

Before the birth of her son, Alice spent years intentionally exploring who she was. She had a strong desire to understand herself fully: to bring awareness to every layer of her identity, and to feel grounded in both the light and more hidden parts of herself. Through years of inner work, she came to know and accept many aspects of who she was, and believed she had reached a place of readiness for motherhood.

What followed her son’s birth, however, was far from what she had anticipated. Despite years of personal development, she found herself facing an experience that felt far more complex and destabilising than expected. It became clear that she was not only stepping into motherhood, but also into the dissolution of the identity she had carefully built—and the emergence of something entirely new.

As her midwife once said, “All masks come off during labour.” In the years that followed, Alice came to understand this not only as a moment in birth, but as an unfolding process throughout matrescence itself. The identities, protections, and ways of being she had constructed began to fall away, often painfully, but also with a sense of truth and clarity she had not known before.

The process of surrendering to this transformation was not immediate. It took time to move through resistance, grief, and disorientation. Over time, this experience became the foundation of her understanding of matrescence—the psychological, emotional, and identity shift that occurs as a woman becomes a mother.

Today, Alice is deeply passionate about supporting other women through this transition. She holds space for the unravelling, the uncertainty, and the rebuilding that can come with motherhood, and encourages women to see this process not as something to fix or fear, but as a meaningful and transformative part of becoming.


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