Inside Mothering opens July 20th
A month-to-month membership for the whole of becoming a mother, from pregnancy through early motherhood.
When I was pregnant with my first child, I was an emotional mess.
I may have been glowing but it wasnāt serene and beautiful. It was really rough. The hormones alone were an intense rollercoaster and that highly capable version of myself Iād build for years often seemed inaccessible. I wanted my baby so much and at the same time I had no idea how I was going to do it. Every layer of my life suddenly seemed uncertain, overwhelm became a common state, and my old friend anxiety was even louder than ever.
I took the prenatal course Iād been recommended and read the books. And I really wasnāt prepared for what postpartum was really like. The challenges of breastfeeding. The long days. And feeling incredibly alone in it all.
Throughout it all, I was doing what Iād been trying to do my whole life: get it right.
In trying to figure it all out, I read and researched. And the more I looked for the right answers, the more contradictory and confusing all the advice seemed to be. As someone who had already started to study greater connection to my body, I started to realise that more reading wasnāt going to lead me to more solid ground. And so I started questioning all the advice and norms, that passed themselves off as a one size fits all.
As I started questioning, I started applying the somatic, embodied tools I had been learning. I started turning away from blindly following the external expertise and turned inward. Toward what felt true in my own body. What supported my listening and the connection between me and my child.
That turning is what Inside Mothering is.
Not a better set of rules to follow. Not more advice. A way back to your own knowing so you can hear it underneath all the noise. In pregnancy, and in those first long months after, when weāre going through one of the biggest transitions of our lives and everyone has an opinion.
This isn't about staying calm.
Anxiety, worry, anger, grief, all of it. These aren't problems to be fixed. They're part of being alive, and especially part of becoming a mother.
What we want is the capacity to feel what's here and come back to centre. Tools that work in the middle of a difficult appointment. In the middle of the night with a newborn. In the middle of a decision you don't know how to make.
This is the practice. Not getting rid of the hard feelings. Being able to feel them and come back to yourself anyway.
And underneath the tools is something even more important: a lot more kindness towards yourself. Permission to be imperfect. Permission to actually love your whole, imperfect being. Which is exactly what we most want for our children, right?
What People Are Saying
āI was referred to Twyla's program mid way through my pregnancy. I had been working on managing anxiety and trying to be less self critical of my imperfections. Ultimately I wanted to 'fix myself' in time for baby's arrival so that I reduced the likelihood of passing on bad habits to them. The space that I found in Twyla's course was one of support and acceptance. I found it incredibly validating that my worries were shared by other women.
Hearing about how other people also struggled with the same perfectionist ideals of womanhood really allowed me to better understand how the expectations of myself were socially constructed and that not meeting them was not a personal failing. I learned to hold space for my emotions and that they weren't a problem to be fixed. This also allowed me to better identify what I really needed, and be less afraid of asking for it, rather than suppressing and dismissing my feelings and needs.
This course gave me strategies to improve my comfort with the unknown by giving it some structure, and gave me new language with which to name my experience. Ultimately this course fostered self-reflection, self-compassion, and built acceptance of my imperfections and the humanness of the experience of motherhood. I left feeling calmer and with a toolkit of strategies for connecting to myself and my baby. I feel very grateful for having found Twyla's course and community during my pregnancy.ā
ā Giuliana F., prenatal course client
āThe biggest impact of this program was the feeling of not being alone. Hearing other women name fears and struggles Iād quietly been carrying during our group calls was incredibly validating and comforting. The program gave me 'permission' to stop striving to do pregnancy and motherhood āperfectly,ā which actually became even more meaningful after my baby arrived. Twyla did a great job at making a safe space for the messy emotions like grief, overwhelm, and harder, unspoken parts of pregnancy/postpartum that so often get actively avoided. It helped quiet the constant noise of conflicting Instagram advice and the pressure to always be doing and trying more and more.
What stayed with me most was the way the program helped me come back to myself. Some of the practices stirred up emotions and insights I didnāt even realize Iād been holding, and over time I felt more connected to my body and intuition. I started noticing patterns of pushing too hard ā in small moments, like obsessing over exercises to improve Lucianās latch ā and practicing ways to soften instead of forcing. This felt like such a multi-faceted program: not just preparation for birth, but an invitation to build self-trust and embodied awareness through pregnancy and parenting postpartum. Even in the chaos of early motherhood, I now have small ways of returning to myself, and that is priceless!ā
ā Laura H., prenatal course client
āIām so glad I found Twyla and her course! I really wanted to do pregnancy and parenting ārightā, I just had to fix all the annoying things about myself first! I started the course looking for my perfect self, only to find that my regular self was pretty great AND better suited to the journey ahead. I began to release my people-pleasing habits and instead started listening to myself (whaaaaat)! Doing the modules and going through the exercises was so helpful and grounding, and I loved chatting with all the girls on the weekly calls. When my pregnancy and the birth of my son took a scary turn, I was able to rely on my newfound sense of calm and my natural instincts (that I normally would have ignored). Twyla checked in with me every step of the way, offering support and a kindness Iād never experienced before. Iām so grateful to her for helping me create a firm foundation for myself and my family. ā
Angela VS, prenatal course client
What's inside
The Inside Mothering membership has been designed to support you into the journey of motherhood with support so often lacking in prenatal and early motherhood care. To support you in cultivating the deeper tools and capacity to navigate this massive transition in your life. Itās built around deep learning, community and live connection. All virtual and accessible on your phone.
The course. Twelve modules that cover the deeper, foundational pieces in the journey of motherhood: your own knowing, identity, self-care, the nervous system, emotions, relationship, community, and trust in yourself. It includes video lessons, reflection exercises, and guided audio practices, offered in a supportive, self-paced space. This isn't information to get through. It's the substance of the work, and it holds years of my study, my training, and my own mothering. You move through it in your own time, and you return to it. The practices are meant to come off the screen and into your real days: the difficult appointment, the long afternoon, the three a.m. feed.
The live calls. These are small, intimate, group calls with me. Theyāre not recorded. Theyāre where we practice what weāre learning, where you get personal guidance and support. Where you connect with others and realise that others are navigating difficulties that you thought was only yours. Itās where we remind each other to be so much kinder to ourselves.
The community. Because we werenāt meant to do this alone. And even with friends and family, being pregnant and being at home with a newborn can be so incredibly isolating. So many of us discover challenges we had no idea about. And itās by connecting to others and sharing, we are creating a greater sense of a village to carry us through and feeling far less alone in all weāre experiencing for the first time. Itās private and closed, not public social media.
One hour a week on a call isn't enough on its own. Neither is a course you work through alone. Itās the depth of the course woven into your daily life, the connection to community, and the calls that keep you in relationship to it, so you actually do the work, and don't do it by yourself.
I'd gently suggest giving yourself at least three months here. Not a requirement, just what I've seen. This is work that deepens by being lived, not finished.
Everything lives in one place on an app so the practices and the community are a tap away rather than buried in folders or behind a laptop login. The live calls happen on Zoom.
Who this is for
This is for you if you're willing to look inside. To get curious about your own experience, to ask the questions rather than reach for the quickest answer. To make even a little space for yourself in a full life.
It's for you if some part of you senses there might be a different way through this than the one you've been handed. If you'd rather build trust in yourself than gather more rules to follow.
You don't need any background in this work. You need to be open.
Who it's not for
This isn't a quick fix and it isn't a set of protocols. If what you want is a checklist, a birth script, or someone to tell you the one right way to do it, I'm not the person, and this isn't the place. This is the place that helps guide you to the right way for you.
And it isn't for someone who already has it all figured out. This asks you to stay curious, including about the things you're most sure of. We go deep and that will feel challenging fr someone who isn't willing to look at themselves.