Growing Your Inner Mother: A Landscape of Mothers Journey
Tending to our relationships begins with how we take care of ourselves
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The Inner Mother helps us grow beyond our childhood family dynamics and befriend our own will.
July 27-Oct 7, 2025
Tuesdays 3-4:30pm Pacific Time $275 for the 9 week session |
Do you...
- Struggle with your relationship with your parents and maybe your siblings too?
- Find that romantic relationships often end up playing out in the same way?
- Recognize that you have a really strong Inner Critic who makes you feel bad about who you are?
These difficulties are related. They are all based in the development of the Inner Mother.
She is the one who cares for, protects, and nourishes us. The Inner Mother drives our daily habits and thoughts about what we deserve, how we should be, and how much we can ask for. And when we find her amongst the Landscape Mothers they help us nourish her into one who makes good decisions on our behalf, and is willing to stand for our needs.
Our Inner Mother is initially made of the skills and capacities of our early caregivers, who teach us how to take care of ourselves, what is important and good about us, and what we can expect from others.
And so often, we end up at a place in our adult lives where we need more than this.
We need the Inner Mother to grow beyond what she learned from our caregivers, and to stand for us in other ways. We need her to care for the young ones in us who still harbor the wound of childhood and feel so sensitive to anything that looks like them. Growing the Inner Mother is about growing our capacity and skills for better relationships and a stronger sense of self.
She is the one who cares for, protects, and nourishes us. The Inner Mother drives our daily habits and thoughts about what we deserve, how we should be, and how much we can ask for. And when we find her amongst the Landscape Mothers they help us nourish her into one who makes good decisions on our behalf, and is willing to stand for our needs.
Our Inner Mother is initially made of the skills and capacities of our early caregivers, who teach us how to take care of ourselves, what is important and good about us, and what we can expect from others.
And so often, we end up at a place in our adult lives where we need more than this.
We need the Inner Mother to grow beyond what she learned from our caregivers, and to stand for us in other ways. We need her to care for the young ones in us who still harbor the wound of childhood and feel so sensitive to anything that looks like them. Growing the Inner Mother is about growing our capacity and skills for better relationships and a stronger sense of self.
How do we even start?
Personally, I've found that the Inner Mother needs a solid and comprehensive foundation.
She isn't an archetype in the sense of a personality type, she doesn't automatically have the skills and tools we need her to have.
She needs to be loved, cared for, and cherished. That's how she learns to love, care for, and cherish herself and others. She learns though experience.
Landscape of Mothers provides an orientation to Mother Nature for the Inner Mother to learn from. Through the eight archetypes in Landscape of Mothers, the Inner Mother finds the support she needs and didn't have before. This guides her growth to fill in the gaps from our family of origin.
She isn't an archetype in the sense of a personality type, she doesn't automatically have the skills and tools we need her to have.
She needs to be loved, cared for, and cherished. That's how she learns to love, care for, and cherish herself and others. She learns though experience.
Landscape of Mothers provides an orientation to Mother Nature for the Inner Mother to learn from. Through the eight archetypes in Landscape of Mothers, the Inner Mother finds the support she needs and didn't have before. This guides her growth to fill in the gaps from our family of origin.
In this journey we will:
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Identify your Inner Mother Profile.
We will begin the exploration by mapping our current capacity. Which Mothers do you feel represent your strengths? Which Mothers seem like they hold the strengths you wish for? Develop fluency with all eight Landscape Mothers. This allows you to meet yourself with exactly what you need. Sometimes you need Ocean Mother's deep acceptance, sometimes Desert Mother's firm boundaries, sometimes Wind Mother's playful release. Identify and Implement Practical Applications. We'll focus each week on one Mother to get to know her breadth and depth. We'll consider how she shows up in how you treat yourself and what it would look like to strengthen this aspect of your inner care. |
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This might be a good fit for you if:
- You have been working on your childhood wounds and you still need a coherent framework for locating your inner strength
- You want to befriend your own will and agency, but that feels wobbly much of the time
- You're curious about how the natural world can be a support system for inner work
- You feel like it's often easier to talk to trees or animals than to other people
- You are building a new family (or chosen family) culture based on shared humanity, compassion, and working together
- You know that you want a kinder, more fulfilling world but aren't sure how to get there
- You enjoy small group explorations of deep and complex questions
- You place a high value on creating a world that works for all people
This might not be a good fit for you if:
Archetype work generally doesn't resonate with you
You don't have time to spend outside of this course to get to know each of the Mothers in your own life
At this time you don't feel resourced enough to bring up childhood struggles and work through them
You don't have time to spend outside of this course to get to know each of the Mothers in your own life
At this time you don't feel resourced enough to bring up childhood struggles and work through them
Landscape of Mothers helps grow the Inner Mother:
Looking through the lens of nature, growth becomes easier.
We don't have to come at our struggles with the story that we're a failure from the start. The nature metaphors and archetypes give us a psychological distance so that we can come at our healing with openness.
The Landscape of Mothers map reveals the wholeness that we can't yet see.
Most self-development focuses on optimizing our strengths, but healthy relationships require us to not only be familiar with our strengths, but also our struggles. Someone might be brilliant at River Mother's organization but create relational havoc because they never learned Island Mother's self-awareness or Forest Mother's collaborative skills.
We can see how our gifts can become our blind spots.
Each of the Mothers have a strength that naturally creates its own struggle. That's why "being your best self" often doesn't get the results you want. The person who's amazing at Wind Mother's joy and letting go might wonder why they can't sustain commitments (Mountain Mother territory).
Landscape of Mothers offers a developmental map, not just personality typing.
This framework is not about telling you who you are, but instead, shows the specific capacities you can cultivate. Desert Mother isn't saying "be more like a desert person" - she's teaching the learnable skill of healthy boundaries.
We don't have to come at our struggles with the story that we're a failure from the start. The nature metaphors and archetypes give us a psychological distance so that we can come at our healing with openness.
The Landscape of Mothers map reveals the wholeness that we can't yet see.
Most self-development focuses on optimizing our strengths, but healthy relationships require us to not only be familiar with our strengths, but also our struggles. Someone might be brilliant at River Mother's organization but create relational havoc because they never learned Island Mother's self-awareness or Forest Mother's collaborative skills.
We can see how our gifts can become our blind spots.
Each of the Mothers have a strength that naturally creates its own struggle. That's why "being your best self" often doesn't get the results you want. The person who's amazing at Wind Mother's joy and letting go might wonder why they can't sustain commitments (Mountain Mother territory).
Landscape of Mothers offers a developmental map, not just personality typing.
This framework is not about telling you who you are, but instead, shows the specific capacities you can cultivate. Desert Mother isn't saying "be more like a desert person" - she's teaching the learnable skill of healthy boundaries.
Practical Matters:
We will meet on Zoom for 9 Tuesdays:
July 29 - October 7 (with 2 Tuesdays off for integration)
3-4:30pm Pacific Time/6-7:30 Eastern Time
Cost:
Option 1: Zoom course only - $275
Option 2: Zoom course + 1 hour mentorship call - $375
Class dates will be:
July 29, Aug 5, Aug 12
Break: Aug 19
Aug 26, Sept 2, Sept 9
Break: Sept 16
Sept 23, Sept 30, Oct 7
July 29 - October 7 (with 2 Tuesdays off for integration)
3-4:30pm Pacific Time/6-7:30 Eastern Time
Cost:
Option 1: Zoom course only - $275
Option 2: Zoom course + 1 hour mentorship call - $375
Class dates will be:
July 29, Aug 5, Aug 12
Break: Aug 19
Aug 26, Sept 2, Sept 9
Break: Sept 16
Sept 23, Sept 30, Oct 7