It’s hard to understand something you can’t name. Harder to explain why everything feels different. Harder to give yourself grace, when you can't put your finger on exactly what it is that you need grace for. Because things that are not named are often invisible to the people outside of the direct experience.

Language isn’t just descriptive—it’s directive. It tells us what matters, what’s normal, and what deserves attention.

We have words for adolescence. For burnout. For midlife crisis.
But the transition into motherhood? Still largely unnamed outside of buzzwords like 'postpartum depression', or the expectation to 'bounce back'.

We’ve named countless human experiences into legitimacy. Becoming a mother isn’t fully one of them.

That’s what matrescence is trying to change. Matrescence explains so much of what women experience when they become mothers: the identity shift, the emotional intensity, the reordering of everything that once felt stable.

In this episode, we’re revisiting one of our most important conversations on matrescence—why it matters, why it’s been overlooked, and why having language for this season changes how we move through it.

There’s also a growing campaign to get “matrescence” officially added to the dictionary and WE ARE IN!

If you’ve ever felt like motherhood changed you in ways you couldn’t quite explain, this episode will likely put words to it.

And if you believe this experience deserves to be named, recognized, and understood.....add your name to the petition.

👉 Sign the petition: It's Time to GAF About Mothers

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Host & Show Info

Hosted by: Cally & Emily O’Leary

About the Hosts: We’re real moms and real sisters. We may look and sound alike, but our motherhood journeys are uniquely ours. We all do Motherhood differently, and thank goodness for that. Let’s learn and grow together.

Podcast Website: https://therealmomhub.com/

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