What we’re about
Maggie Gordon-Walker founded Mothers Uncovered in 2008. A peer-led space for mothers to share experiences through facilitated discussion and the arts to create lasting memories and friendships. Since then, several past participants have become facilitators. We’ve helped thousands of women with our groups focused on the mother. Women realise they are not the only ones struggling and they feel less isolated and lonely.
‘Mothers Uncovered saved me. There’s no other way of putting it.’
Background to Matrescence
Background to Matrescence
“Dana Raphael, as well as introducing the word ‘doula’, coined the word matrescence in 1973 in an essay published in the book she edited. ‘Childbirth brings about a series of very dramatic changes in the new mother’s physical being, in her emotional life, in her status within the group, even in her own female identity. I distinguish this period of transition from others by terming it matrescence to emphasize the mother and to focus on her new lifestyle.’ The Tender Gift of Breastfeeding. Being Female: Reproduction, Power and Change.”
– Dana Raphael, Anthropologist
“The women who popularised Raphael’s work and brought it into the open. Athan, a faculty member at Columbia University, discovered Raphael’s teachings in 2008 and began applying them to maternal mental health. Sacks wrote a NY Times piece, then delivered a TedX talk in 2018, spreading the word further.”
– Aurelie Athan & Alexandra Sacks, Psychologist & Psychiatrist
