Dr. Aurelie Athan, a clinical psychologist and faculty member at Teachers College, Columbia University, revived the term matrescence in 2008 and applied it to maternal development. In doing so she created a new conceptual model of the life transition into motherhood and redefined maternal mental health.

Dr. Athan studies, teaches, and writes about mothers' development holistically, both their thriving and distress, and offers an empowering, strengths-based approach to understand the transition to motherhood. This conversation discusses her long-term interest and work in mothers’ psychospiritual growth in matrescence as well as how that is evolving into the ecological domain.

You can find out more about her work at www.matrescence.com including her Maternal Psychology (aka Matrescence) Lab where she leads research on the matrescence experience.

This is a re-release of an interview I did with her for my previous podcast. So many mothers ask me to share this again and so we are since it is foundational to our understanding of Animate Mother. I hope it serves you well! ~Allison

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