THE GOOD ENOUGH MOTHER PODCAST

Creative Community Making for Mothers

November 6, 2022

COMMUNITY BUILDING FOR MOTHERS, CREATING YOUR VILLAGE, WOMEN’S CIRCLES, MOTHERS’ CIRCLES, CREATIVITY, MOTHERHOOD, EMPOWERED MOTHERING

with doula, mentor and women’s circle facilitator Rachael Rose

Today, I speak with a doula, mentor and women’s circle facilitator Rachael Rose. 

Rachael works to build a community around motherhood and is driven by a desire for mothers to feel less alone as they journey through rites of passage such as pregnancy, birth, postpartum, launching and running a business, and navigating the complexities of mothering in the modern world. She is a strong advocate for community making and re-villaging in ways that are practical, honest and simple. She's also very frank about the need for mothers to actively pursue and maintain relationships, and that community takes effort, time and a little discomfort. 

We discuss what she's learned from being a circle facilitator and mentor, and what she feels mothers are needing most right now. She shares her own experiences with mothering and business, and what she has learned since the birth of her first child.  

— Rachael Rose in conversation with Sophie Brock, Ep #83 The Good Enough Mother Podcast

The more that we seek wisdom outside ourselves, the less powerful we feel as mothers.

I'm really trying to just create spaces where women can talk and to be seen and heard for who they are, whether that's feeling amazing about their motherhood experience, or having a shit time of it. And there's always going to be grades and in betweens as well.

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Ignite a fire in you so that you can create the spaces the world desperately needs.

Rachael has recently released Together, her online Women’s Circle Facilitator Training and over 130 women from all over the world have joined. 

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  • "Admit, if you're lonely, ask for what you want, seek out friendships and be vulnerable, be brave. "

    — Rachael Rose in conversation with Sophie Brock, Ep #83 The Good Enough Mother Podcast

  • "Loneliness is harmful for new mothers as well. And we need to, you know, maybe anticipate that family members might say the wrong thing, or they might have differences of opinions in how you feed or parent, a newborn. But mothers need to get stronger in themselves, and maybe even be able to hear that and just not take it on. Because they can distance themselves from that information, while still bringing in loving family members that might not be able to do some things, but can do other things."

    — Rachael Rose in conversation with Sophie Brock, Ep #83 The Good Enough Mother Podcast

  • "I was very quite dogmatic about attachment, parenting, gentle parenting, a lot of that has fallen, not fallen to the wayside. But raising a baby during a pandemic and having two children and being about to move into a caravan. We've just sold our house. And I find myself like looking on Instagram, like, can I talk to you about this? What parenting coach? Can I enlist in this? And then I take a pause, and I'm like, look at your life on paper, why wouldn't you be losing your temper a little bit more than usual? And is it really that you need to pathologize what is happening and go out and kind of, you know, spill my guts to someone else? When really I know what's going on for me, I don't know what's going on. And I can do my own reflective practices. I can write in my journal, I can take a moment before I respond."

    — Rachael Rose in conversation with Sophie Brock, Ep #83 The Good Enough Mother Podcast

  • "Noticing the shortcomings and the limitations of trying to support other mothers while also being deeply in the motherhood season. And you know, yearning to do more for each other, and not having the capacity or trying to give when the tank is low, and then you feel yourself burning out. And it's like, we're in a bit of a pickle here. But I'd still rather that we support each other in this way. And what a common theme comes up in mother's circle. And the last one I ran went for, it was basically six months together with the same group of women. And there would be tears and women would be crying about how much they wanted to be able to do more for each other, because they knew about the lack themselves because they needed support."

    — Rachael Rose in conversation with Sophie Brock, Ep #83 The Good Enough Mother Podcast

meet

rachael rose

Rachael Rose is a mother of two, a pregnancy and postpartum doula and a women’s circle facilitator. Rachael wants mothers to be seen and celebrated, to feel loved and less alone. She is utterly obsessed with creating spaces of connection for women, through her circle work. 

“We can have differences in opinion. And that's where we've got to just know that that village would not have been free of conflict, and it is human to have differences and to still be able to meet in respect in some way, shape or form.”

— Rachael Rose in conversation with Sophie Brock, Ep #83 The Good Enough Mother Podcast

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