01/08/2026
I recently learned something that completely reframed motherhood for me — especially for women who feel like becoming a mother stirred up more than they expected.
In ancient wisdom traditions, there’s an understanding that the body doesn’t heal everything all at once. It waits until it feels safe enough. Supported enough. Resourced enough.
Motherhood often becomes that moment.
Not because it’s easy — but because your nervous system recognizes that now is the time.
When you become a mother, you don’t just care for a child. You’re brought back into the exact relational dynamics where your own wounds were formed. The dependency. The need. The fear of not being enough.
Every moment your child needs you can activate the younger parts of you that once needed more care, more safety, more attunement.
This isn’t happening to punish you.
It’s happening because motherhood creates the safest container your body has ever had to finally metabolize what was once too much to process.
In Ayurveda, we understand this as a sacred window — a season where nourishment, warmth, water, rhythm, and rest aren’t luxuries… they’re medicine.
Motherhood didn’t break you.
It cracked you open so healing could finally begin.
— Shannon Weiss
Ayurvedic Postpartum Care • Sacred Hydration • Nervous System Support
