the liberated motherhood membership
As of December, 2021 The Liberated Motherhood Membership is now closed
If you are a Mother and would like to learn from Sophie, listen to her podcast The Good Enough Mother, and check out her self-study courses.
How we experience being a Mother is shaped by lots of factors - including the society and culture we live within.
There are social ‘rules’ and expectations for what it means to be a ‘good Mother’, creating ‘shoulds’, expectations, and requirements that are placed on us, and that we place on ourselves.
My work unveils the myth of perfect Motherhood, supporting you to challenge how you’ve internalised these ideals, and guides you in how to cultivate your power to push back and reclaim a Motherhood of your own.
Often unknowingly, we can become ‘caged’.
Our love for our children is so deep that we can lose ourselves within Motherhood when we equate mother-love with a self-sacrificing ‘perfect Mum’.
This ideal doesn’t exist, and even if it did, this would not be what is ‘best’ for us OR our children. Decades of research has shown this.
Our children need connection - not perfection - and to offer this connection we need to be in our authenticity.
When you seek to free yourself from the shackles of perfect motherhood, you model for your children and others how to live an authentic and enriched life.
Understanding Motherhood as an integration of both our personal stories and collective cultural scripts is where we can unleash our power.
Mothers need collective change around us. Our structures need to change. We need economic support and recognition. We need social policy change. We need cultural shifts.
But it can start with us.
“The norms were created by somebody, and each of us is somebody. We can make our own normal.
We can throw out all the rules and write our own.
We can build our lives from the inside out. We can stop asking what the world wants from us and instead ask ourselves what we want for our world. We can stop looking at what’s in front of us long enough to discover what’s inside us. We can remember and unleash the life-changing, relationship-changing, world-changing power of our own imagination.”
Glennon Doyle, Untamed.