Welcome, Lovely

I’m Nikki McCahon

I’m a matrescence educator, women’s life cycle guide and host of the Dear Mama podcast.

Becoming a mother leaves no woman as it found her. It unravels and rebuilds her. It cracks her open, takes her to her edges. It’s both beautiful and brutal, often at the same time. This transformation has a name; matrescence. 

If you’re new to the concept of matrescence, you’re not alone. It’s an emerging discipline that captures the physical, psychological, social and emotional changes women go through during the monumental transformation that motherhood evokes. 

My journey with matrescence and initiation into this work was painful, joyful, challenging and disorientating. Whilst it didn’t feel like it at the time, it was the making of me. Over the past five years I have supported over 70,000 womens motherhood journeys. I created my work as a soft landing place for you to explore your own transformation.

My work includes my top iTunes podcast, a series of considered online courses, group coaching, teacher training and an event program of intimate women’s circles and workshops.

HOW CAN I SUPPORT YOU THROUGH THIS EXPANSIVE SOUL-SHIFTING JOURNEY?

5 Day Journaling
Challenge

Learn how to journal for self awareness and connection

Reconnect to yourself and who you are becoming, so you can feel a deeper sense of acceptance, clarity and a huge dose of compassion for yourself in your mother season.

Becoming

Seasons of Matrescence™
Certification

Learn how to support, guide and educate mothers through the transformative experience of matrescence in my one of a kind teacher training

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Discover Matrescence

Do you feel like you have changed since becoming a mother? You’re not alone. Learn about the cutting edge new research that finally acknowledges the transformative experience of becoming a mother.

Nikki is a leading expert on supporting women through matrescence

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Healing the Mother Wound with Bethany Webster

MY CURRENT FAV: S1 E29

Bethany is a writer, transformational coach and international speaker. Her work has filled a crucial gap in our understanding of women’s lives by blending cutting-edge research on intergenerational trauma, feminist theory, and psychology to comprehensively define the Mother Wound.

In this episode I chat with Relationship expert Trish Purnell-Webb about all things relationships

S2 E1: RELATIONSHIP AFTER BABY

S2 E2: MATRESCENCE - IT’S OK TO CHANGE

This is a mini episode where I chat about matrescence and how we must acknowledge this incredible rite of passage. In the episode I mention my new program ‘Becoming’ - click here to sign up for the waitlist here.

In this episode I share my favourite tips for managing tough days, because as mamas, they are going to happen and it helps to have some tools in our tough day toolbox.

S1 E12: TIPS FOR SURVIVING HARD DAYS

  • “I had been struggling really badly with anxiety due to a number of reasons but particularly with my return to work happening and two little ones at home.Thankyou for being so warm and welcoming throughout this journey. I have really enjoyed the journaling day by day, sitting still, reflecting and being at one with myself. I have learned ALOT in five days about myself and I am truly grateful for your compassion and guidance”

    HALEY, JOURNALING CHALLENGE

  • “I am feeling validated, heard and seen and feeling like you are all “my people”! While I have seen counsellors/ psychologists on and off for the last 10 years of so I am finding that the content and exercises are making me reach into places I haven't previously and learn things about myself that explain so much about why I react in certain ways and struggle with certain things”

    BEC, ALIGNMENT

  • “I am feeling incredibly grateful to have found you Nikki and to be doing this course. My perspective is starting to shift - for the better. I started the course feeling angry, resentful, sad and lost. I can feel those emotions melting away. I am beginning to realise my strengths. I am looking forward rather than grieving the past”

    LAUREN, ALIGNMENT

Rituals For Mums

Morning or evening rituals can be transformational. Embedding practices of reflection and self-tending into the rhythm or your day can provide a sense of stability and consistency during times of change and transition.

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