Mother Medicine
Rewrite your story about motherhood so you can permanently and meaningfully shift your experience as a mother
Your experience of motherhood gets to feel a whole lot more satisfying and meaningful than it does for you right now
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You’re in the thick of motherhood.
You’re swept up in the overwhelming, busy-ness and non-stop pace of it all.
→ It’s the start of a new week and immediately you feel a sense of dread. There’s so much on your mind that you find you’re constantly being pulled in different directions and everything feels unfinished.
→ You move through the day thinking of what tasks you need to complete (“I need to get on top of this.” “Why can’t I seem to keep up?” “Everyone else looks like they’re handling this better”) when really you just want to enjoy the little one in front of you.
→ You’re constantly asking the question… am I doing this right? Then silently answering it in the harshest internal voice that lives in your head: No. You most certainly are NOT.
You thought motherhood would leave you feeling connected and grounded. Certain in yourself.
But instead it feels hard and unrelenting. Out of your control.
If you’re honest, it feels scary to look too closely at why it feels like motherhood is running you
So you keep moving.
You stay focused on whatever needs to happen next. (Because there’s always something that needs to happen next)
And when people ask you how you are, you keep them at a distance, just like you keep yourself at a distance — “yeah we’re going good”.
Because slowing down long enough to feel what’s really going on beneath the surface feels like more than you can handle right now.
So you stay stuck in the same loops:
→ the same guilt
→ the same pressure
→ the same self-doubt and self-criticism
→ the same internalised expectations you have of yourself as a mother, and the same shame when you can’t seem to meet them
By the end of the day, you’re holding that familiar ache — this isn’t what you want your experience of motherhood to feel like.
Here's what's really going on
The truth is, the reason you feel this way ISN’T because you’re less capable or less cut out for motherhood than everyone else seems to be.
You’re not failing at motherhood.
You’ve simply been moving through motherhood with stories you inherited from your childhood, previous generations, your culture and wider society.
These stories — about what motherhood is MEANT to be like (tough, unrelenting, guilt-ridden, a hard slog), and how you’re MEANT to act and behave (always put yourself last, be wholly responsible, selfless, fully satisfied) —
They were never yours to begin with.
They were never yours to begin with.
And they’ve been running the show, your show, unconsciously.
They’re influencing your behaviour.
They've been directly impacting your motherhood experience
These stories have been the lens you filter all of your motherhood through.
But I know, first-hand, that it doesn’t need to stay that way…
Hi, I'm Ali
It feels like yesterday, the moment I found the language of stories.
I was undertaking Dr Sophie Brock’s Motherhood Studies Practitioner course at the time.
One night I came off a course call and my body felt like a coke bottle that had just been shook… violently.
I walked into the lounge room where my husband was sitting, innocently watching something on Netflix.
Without warning, I unscrewed the lid to my fizzy insides, letting my emotions pour out.
I talked and raged and cried as I shared with him how I had found the words to describe my experiences.
I shook with grief and anger as I realised I had been unknowingly letting someone else's stories of motherhood run the show
This wasn’t just the beginning of a new layer of self-awareness and understanding, it was the moment of no return.
It was the moment I realised I couldn’t unhear, unsee what I had heard and seen.
And in that moment, my life was now firmly in my hands.
Because now I could decide to live by my own rules, to be the author of my own story.
That’s what I want for you too. And that’s why I’ve created the program to support you to do exactly that.
INTRODUCING
Mother Medicine is the 5-week program that helps you recognise and rewrite the inherited stories shaping your motherhood — so you can STOP being unconsciously run by guilt, shame and old conditioning and START experiencing motherhood in a more values-aligned, grounded, empowered way.
This isn’t another parenting course or peer-led community chat space.
It’s the intimate container where week by week you’ll unravel the stories dictating so much of your lived experience of motherhood right now, and replace those stories with intentional ones that actually SERVE you.
Whether you’re only just beginning to see the stories shaping your motherhood, or you’ve already done deep inner work and can feel this season asking for another layer, this work meets you there.
This is the program where you’ll experience:
- Relief from second guessing yourself and mothering on autopilot
- Clarity on what's actually driving your actions and reactions
- Less feeling like you're failing or not doing motherhood ‘right’
- Greater awareness of when you’re reacting from old stories instead of your present truth
- A shift in your internal narratives so they soothe rather than shame
- A deeper sense of self trust
- Freedom from other people’s projections
- The ability to break generational patterns rather than repeating them
So by the end of our time, you’ll have rewritten your story about motherhood so that you can experience it in a way that feels aligned and meaningful.
And you’ll have what you need to move through future seasons of motherhood feeling equipped and steady.
“[I] felt a sense of calm confidence in my mothering, instead of always wondering if I’m doing things right”
“This program helped me to consider emotional wounds that I have, as well as preconceived ideas about motherhood that I don’t need.
Following Mother Medicine I had more understanding of myself, the system of parenting I’m in and felt a sense of calm confidence in my mothering, instead of always wondering if I’m doing things right”
Here’s what it takes to permanently shift your experience of motherhood
There are three core steps to changing your experience of motherhood.
1. Unravel
Knowing where all the stories come from is the essential first step to this work.
It’s all too easy to walk through life, blind to the stories that are directly influencing your experience right now. This gives you the awareness so you can BEGIN to have a new lens.
2. Reconnect
This step is about connecting to you, again.
For many of us we have been in a lifelong practice of people pleasing, martyrdom and ignoring our needs. This only heightens in motherhood… unless you press pause and learn to listen (and then consciously respond) again.
3. Rewrite
Rewriting your story about what motherhood is for YOU is all about values-aligned experimenting.
This is the part of the process where you embody real changes.
When you understand yourself and the values that guide your motherhood and your life, that’s when you can write new stories that keep you aligned and steady.
Remember, you are the Medicine.
You are the space in
which the stories arose
and you are the one
who can rewrite them.
Here's the flow of our 5 weeks together inside Mother medicine
We spend 5-weeks together online
Weekly Live Group Calls:
Week 1: Opening circle To ground in, connect with others, set intentions and open the space together. Week 2, 3 and 4: Connection calls Space for guided integration, reflection, support. Week 5: Closing circle To celebrate growth, honour our shared journey and set intentions moving forward
4 Pre-recorded Modules (accessed one week at a time)
Learn the foundational knowledge to support unraveling and rewriting stories. This content has been developed with Mums in mind — all modules are in total 30 minutes or less. Each module is broken up into smaller videos of up to 7 minutes each.
Private group chat for connection + support (open for the 5 week container)
Each week we meet for a live call and you'll also get access to the bite-sized, power-packed modules that you can work through in five-minute chunks
Week 1
- Live Sacred Opening Circle
- A live circle to ground in, connect with others, set intentions and open the space together.
Module 1 - The Stories we hold
- Understand the inner stories that shape your mothering.
Week 2
- Live Group Connection Call
- A space for reflection, support and integrating the teachings into your daily life.
Module 2 - Unraveling and Reweaving
- Uncover where your stories come from and how they manifest in your daily life.
Week 3
- Live Group Connection Call
- A space for reflection, support and integrating the teachings into your daily life.
Module 3 - Rewriting with intention
- Dive into your core values and identify what anchors your motherhood.
Week 4
- Live Group Connection Call
- A space for reflection, support and integrating the teachings into your daily life.
Module 4 - The Art of Reimagining
- Embrace flexibility and creativity so you can continue to edit your stories throughout your mothering journey.
Week 5
- Live Sacred Closing Circle
- A sacred space to celebrate growth, honour our shared journey and set intentions moving forward.
“Since Mother Medicine I have started to reweave my stories around my ability to make decisions and centred them in my values”
I’m so in!
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When you join the waitlist by March 27th you’ll receive exclusive discounts and bonuses.
“I’m able to look deeper for the stories that are motivating my actions, to consider how they’re playing out day to day and to rewrite them to soothe myself”
Join mother medicine
The next round kicks off late April
We’ll meet for weekly online calls
Includes: 5-weeks together, 4 Pre-recorded Modules and Private community
waitlist price: $449
Here’s what this work is really about
When my first son was born, I felt completely clueless. I had no idea how to care for this completely vulnerable little person.
I was learning everything from scratch: breastfeeding, swaddling, settling, burping, changing nappies, putting tiny clothes on a tiny person. I felt like a novice in every single moment.
My husband and I would say “I dunno” to each other all day, every day.
Is this how you swaddle? I dunno.
Is this what you do? I dunno.
Does he like this? I dunno.
Is that right? I dunno.
The questions were endless.
And underneath all of it was the simple reality, I didn’t trust myself.
I looked outside of me for answers. I followed the well-trodden path of “shoulds.”
I tried to do things the way they were supposed to be done. I bought the sleep guides. The feeding guides. The routines. I searched for the best way to do motherhood.
I outsourced my instincts. I was on autopilot, marching to the beat of someone else’s drum.
I was completely unaware that I was carrying inherited expectations about what a mother should be, what motherhood should look like, which emotions were acceptable, which weren’t.
My fear was loud and my self-doubt was constant.
Not only did I ignore my own wisdom, I didn’t believe I had any.
I reinforced old stories without even knowing they were stories.
I let the loud inner critic and perfectionist parts of me take over my internal world. They were the voices I heard the most.
I’m not good enough,
You should be coping better than this,
No one is helping me,
This is unfair,
This is too hard
I just want to give up,
I need to be good at this
I need to be perfect at this.
I believed the stories as truth and I didn’t see them as separate from me.
And so I lived in a vicious cycle...
stories driving my behaviour...
my behaviour reinforcing the stories.
Mother Medicine is where you do the work of unlearning what you’ve been taught about makes you a ‘good mother’ and where you start becoming your version of a mother.
The mother you want to be.
It’s where you shift your stories and beliefs
- From: I need to be perfect to prove my love. To: I get to be human and still be loving.
- From: I must hold it together. To: My anger is allowed to exist too.
- From: I have no control. To: I can shift one small thing in this loop.
When you start making those shifts at an embodied level, that’s when your entire experience of motherhood begins to permanently change.
“Gosh. This idealised motherhood. All the stories. It's everywhere. It's in everything. But I think it’s so unsustainable - motherhood built on sand”
Mother Medicine is for you even if you’ve already started recognising internalised stories and how they shape your life
Maybe you already know yourself well.
Maybe you’ve done the inner work, you know your values, and you can spot the stories when they show up.
And still, after all that work — motherhood has a way of finding the places that are not yet free.
The places where you still second guess yourself.
Where old expectations still pull harder than your truth.
If that’s you, you’re absolutely still in the right place.
Mother Medicine is not only for the mother who is just beginning to see what’s been shaping her experience. It is also for the mother who already has the language, but knows that insight alone is not the same as living it.
Because knowing yourself is one thing.
Living your motherhood from that knowing — especially when a new season stretches you, confronts you, or brings fresh challenges to the surface — is another.
This work is for the mother who is ready to reconnect, to refresh what has gone stale and to meet the next layer of the stories still shaping how she mothers.
So if you’ve already done deep work, and you can still feel that motherhood is asking you deeper, this work meets you there too.
“Allowing myself to be seen and helped, and acknowledge that my struggles are real is so terrifying and so liberating”
If you’re familiar with my private mentoring program, you might be wondering…
“How is this different to Mama Mentoring? Which should I choose, Mama Mentoring or Mother Medicine?”
Mama Mentoring is a bespoke one on one experience, whilst Mother Medicine is a group program.
Inside both you have the opportunity to look at your stories, unravel them and rewrite them so you can shift your experience of motherhood.
But Mother Medicine is where you learn the formula and the tools to rewrite your stories over and over again as you move through different seasons of motherhood.
Mother medicine also offers the unique opportunity to do this inner work in community.
Nothing beats seeing other mothers break free from the scripted stories handed down from childhood, previous generations, from society and create their unique motherhood. Witnessing others catalyses those shifts in you too.
Inside Mother Medicine you get to walk alongside other mothers as their stories reveal themselves and unravel and you learn from their experience as much as your own.
I will not rescue you
for you are not powerless.
I will not fix you
for you are not broken
I will not heal you
for I see you in your wholeness.
I will walk with you
through your darkness
as you remember
your light.
A Medicine Woman's Prayer
Join Mother Medicine
Pay in Full or on a Payment Plan
The next round kicks off late April
We’ll meet for weekly online calls
Includes: 5-weeks together, 4 Pre-recorded Modules and Private community
Waitlist price: $449
6 payments of $75
Pay the first installment today and then weekly payments for 5 more payments.
8 payments of $56
Pay the first installment today and then weekly payments for 7 more payments.
If would love to join but can’t find a payment option that suits you, please let me know. Email me hello@aliheppell.com or message me over on instagram @aliheppell_mothercare
Frequently Asked Questions
Have a question in mind?
Browse through the FAQs to find your answers
Mother Medicine is a group program. We meet for five live weekly calls. You get access to an online portal with modules, resources and recordings of live calls. You also receive open access to my support and community of mothers inside a private WhatsApp group throughout the 5 weeks of the program.
No preparation is required. Come as you are. Open and curious and willing to learn and explore your inner stories.
When you sign up you will be immediately welcomed with open arms into the space. You will gain access to the online portal and community and the date for our opening circle will be announced.
Our first live call together will be the opening circle. This is where we’ll connect with each other and ourselves through somatic practice, song, meditation, sharing and intention setting.
The three connection calls that follow in weeks 2,3 and 4 are all about real time support, integration and reflection. Each week we move through a tool to unravel and rewrite your stories alongside guided journaling, meditation, sharing, body lead inquiry and breath.
Our final call is the closing circle, a space to celebrate growth, honour our shared journey and set intentions moving forward. As with the opening circle this space will include somatic practice, song, mediation, sharing and intention setting.
Mother Medicine includes 5 weekly calls, 4 modules and a Whatsapp community, all for $599.
This round will begin in the last week of April.
If you join the waitlist you will get exclusive discount pricing
Yes.
You can choose to pay $599 upfront or select a payment plan. If you’re wanting to join but would benefit from an extended payment plan not listed on the website, please get in touch via instagram dm or email me at: hello@aliheppell.com
You will not miss out on any discussion around the course content. All live calls will be recorded and uploaded to the online course portal so you can experience the same lens-shifting questions and discussion regardless of whether you make the calls live or not.
Until at least the end of 2026.
All modules are in total 30 minutes or less. Each module is broken up into smaller videos of up to 7 minutes each. This content has been developed with Mums in mind.
There’s no such thing as ‘falling behind’ in this program — if you don’t complete all or any of the prerecorded content and worksheets that's completely fine, because the value of the connection and information you gain from the weekly calls will make it all worthwhile.
If you’re unable to make the live calls, they’ll be recorded and you’ll be able to connect inside the Whatsapp community space.
Let's have a chat. Send me a DM over on IG: @aliheppell_mothercare or reach out via email: hello@aliheppell.com
Join mother medicine
The next round kicks off late April
We’ll meet for weekly online calls
Includes: 5-weeks together, 4 Pre-recorded Modules and Private community
$449 - waitlist price
Still here, all the way at the bottom of this page?
That tells me there’s a part of you who already knows this work matters.
You already know your current experience of motherhood feels harder than you want it to.
But maybe there’s also a part of wondering…
Am I allowed to want this?
Am I allowed to let this matter?
Am I allowed to spend time, money, energy, care… on something that supports me?
Do I need to keep proving how hard it is before I let myself be helped?
Of course letting your own needs matter can feel hard.
But just because it feels hard to choose, doesn’t mean it’s not for you.
In fact — if choosing support brings up all the old scripts about proving, coping, self-sacrifice, and waiting until it’s unbearable — well, that makes sense.
And it’s also exactly why this work matters.
Whether you’re only just finding language for what’s been shaping your motherhood, or you’ve already done deep inner work and can feel this season calling you into another layer — the work inside Mother Medicine meets you there.
You do not need to wait until you are completely depleted for your experience to count.
You do not need a more dramatic reason to want something different.
Wanting motherhood to feel steadier, more truthful, more aligned with your values IS enough.
And choosing support for that is not selfish, indulgent, or asking too much.
Saying ‘yes’ to this experience may be one of the first ways you begin living the new story instead of just longing for it.
If you’re ready to stop mothering from old scripts and start building something that feels like yours, I’d love to support you inside Mother Medicine.
