Matrescence - the developmental experience and spiritual awakening of motherhood with Aurelie Athan PH.D

In today’s episode I’m interviewing Aurelie Athan, a psychologist and faculty member at Teachers College, Columbia University in New York. Aurelie is a leader in the study of the term “Matrescence” - Matrescence like adolescence, is a stage of human physical, psychological, social, and spiritual development.

The word “Matrescence” - was originally coined by Dr Dana Raphael, an anthropologist, who was also responsible for the development of the word “doula”. Aurelie found the term “Matrescence” when she was looking for explanatory models to explain the psychological transition into motherhood and has since championed the resurgence of the word and has devoted her career to studying the transition women experience through motherhood.

I am a big, big fan of Aurelie’s work and have a lot of admiration for her, you will probably pick up on the interview that I was very excited and a little nervous to speak to her. During the interview we chatted about her discovery of the word and her development of programs within the university to study it, before deep diving into Matrescence and exploring the spiritual opening and transformation motherhood brings.

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Resources mentioned in the episode:

Aurelie website: https://www.matrescence.com

Lisa Miller Ted Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7c5t6FkvUG0

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