More women are entering motherhood with a strong sense of who they are: from their careers and values to what they want from life. But when the baby arrives, so many of those plans are turned upside down. Maybe it's the sleeplessness or additional mental load - the question "where did I go?" starts to rear it's ugly head.
This is why more mothers are turning to motherhood coaching than ever before. Something has changed...fundamentally, permanently...and they want support navigating it.
There's a term for it: matrescence. The developmental transition a woman goes through when she becomes a mother. It's as significant as adolescence: a complete reorganisation of identity, priorities, relationships, and sense of self. And yet it receives almost none of the same recognition or support.
In the US especially, the healthcare system checks in at six weeks and considers its job done. The cultural narrative tells you to be grateful. And the version of yourself that existed before - the ambitious, independent, clear-headed woman you spent years becoming - can start to feel very far away.
Until you can find a safe space to process the emotions that come with this new territory, it can feel overwhelming.
The women who work with motherhood coaches aren't in crisis. They're navigating the gap between who they were pre-baby and who they want to transform into. This isn't always as easy as it sounds. They do this while also keeping a small human alive, managing a career, and trying to maintain something resembling a relationship with their partner. A life coach for mothers meets you exactly in that gap.
The version of yourself you used to be feels distant. You love your child completely. And you also miss yourself. Both things can be true at the same time.
Going back after maternity leave is one of the most emotionally complex transitions a woman will make in her career. The office politics, mom guilt, change in identity, combined with the ambition that's still present alongside all of - these aren't easy challenges to tackle on your own.
Most of us know about the mental load of motherhood. It's real, well-documented, but still massively underestimated. Coaching can help you understand what you're carrying, what needs to change, and how to have the conversations that might lighten your load both at home and in the office. (Our coach, Ali, has a great session around this!)
You still want to build things. You still have goals. You're not willing to let motherhood be the end of your professional story. A coach helps you figure out how to balance the two without the endless guilt.
Becoming a parent tends to surface everything you absorbed about parenting, about women, and about what you're supposed to want in this new chapter. A coach will help you navigate this change and make intentional decisions around how you want to manage it.
Therapy is extraordinary and for many mothers it's one of the most important things they'll ever do. But therapy and coaching do different things.
Therapy helps you understand where your patterns come from. Coaching helps you change them. Many mothers find they need each at different moments in time - the deep inner work alongside the practical forward momentum.
What coaching offers that's specific to this season of life is a space that's entirely yours. Not about the baby. Not about your partner. Not about work. About you - what you want, what you're building, who you're becoming.
For a lot of mothers, that's what they're most starved of.
The women who get the most from motherhood coaching are the ones who are ready to stop waiting for things to feel normal again, and start building a version of normal that actually works for them.
At Revie, we have coaches who specialize in the motherhood transition: identity, return to work, the invisible load, and everything in between. You can browse coaches and book a Signature Session directly. No discovery call, no big packages - so you can get right to work.
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