MAMIFERA
Motherhood Integration & Matrescence Support
For women navigating the emotional, relational, and spiritual transformation of becoming a mother.
Guided by postpartum doula training, psychedelic integration mentorship, family systems thinking, and intergenerational healing practices.
WHATEVER YOUR PATH TO MOTHERHOOD, SOMETHING IN YOU IS BEING BORN.
A new identity emerges.
A new relationship with your body, your past, your parents, your partner.
Everything you have ever carried comes to the surface.
The light and the shadow.
The love that opens in you and the parts of yourself you are meeting for the first time.
This is matrescence. The profound transformation that occurs as a woman stands at this threshold.
You are becoming.
This threshold asks to be witnessed. You do not have to do it alone.
YOU ARE HERE BECAUSE SOMETHING IS ASKING TO BE SEEN
You are moving through one of the most profound transformations of your life and you want more than just practical support. You want to understand what is happening beneath the surface.
You want to make sense of what motherhood is bringing up in you, the light and the shadow
You are curious about what you inherited from your family and how it is showing up now
You want to understand your story as a daughter so you can consciously choose your story as a mother
You are ready to look at the mother wound, the patterns that were passed to you, and what you want to pass forward
You want to do real inner work, somatic, body based, going inward, not just talking about it
You want to meet and hold the younger parts of yourself that are being activated by becoming a mother
You want to be witnessed in your transformation by someone who understands this terrain from the inside
You are ready to break intergenerational cycles not by trying harder but by going deeper
You are preparing for motherhood and want to enter it with consciousness and intention
You are looking for someone to walk beside you as you become who you are becoming.
WHAT HAPPENS IN A SESSION
Together we explore what feels most alive in your experience right now.
A recurring trigger.
A relationship challenge.
A parenting struggle.
A feeling that keeps returning.
A question you cannot stop asking.
Using reflective dialogue, somatic awareness, parts work–informed inquiry, and integration practices, we explore the deeper layers beneath the surface experience.
Rather than focusing only on what is happening, we become curious about why it is happening and what it may be connected to.
Throughout the process we approach whatever emerges with compassion rather than judgment.
It is about understanding yourself more deeply so you can move through motherhood with greater awareness, choice, and self-trust.
WOMEN WHO DO THIS WORK OFTEN FIND:
A deeper understanding of themselves and the threshold they are crossing
Compassion for themselves and the generations that shaped them
The ability to recognize what is theirs and what was inherited
A new relationship with the younger parts of themselves that motherhood has activated
Greater presence with their children because they are no longer carrying what was never theirs
A conscious understanding of what they want to pass forward and what ends with them
The experience of being witnessed in their transformation rather than navigating it alone
MY APPROACH
My work sits at the intersection of motherhood support, intergenerational healing, family systems thinking, parts work, conscious parenting, and psychedelic integration.
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My approach is informed by:
Postpartum doula training with Innate Traditions
Certified psychedelic and plant medicine integration mentorship with ONAYA
Queering Psychedelics training with the Chacruna Institute
Family systems and intergenerational healing frameworks
Parts work and Internal Family Systems informed approaches
Conscious parenting philosophies
Somatic awareness practices
Ongoing study of matrescence and maternal development
Mamifera is a reflective and supportive space for understanding the emotional, relational, and spiritual dimensions of becoming a mother.
INTRODUCTORY OFFERING
One session per week, 60 minutes each, held virtually
$85 Per Session
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Before your first session
A brief intake form so we can arrive prepared and make the most of our time together.
During each session
A grounding practice to help you settle into the present moment
Reflective dialogue and somatic exploration
Parts work informed inquiry
Exploration of family history and intergenerational patterns
A guided space to explore what is asking to be seen, understood, and integrated
Between sessions
Personalized reflection prompts to support integration in daily life
Structured exercises and practices drawn from intergenerational healing frameworks
Opportunities to continue exploring your family story and inherited patterns between sessions
Throughout our work together
A compassionate and non-judgmental space to explore your experience
Support as you navigate the emotional, relational, and identity shifts of motherhood
Continuity from session to session so the work can deepen over time
Investment
$85 per session
All work begins with a complimentary 30-minute discovery call.
This is an opportunity for us to meet, explore what is bringing you here, and determine whether this work feels like the right fit for you.
WHY I CREATED MAMIFERA
I created Mamifera because I know this terrain from the inside.
I am Giselle Manzano RamÃrez, a Colombian artist and postpartum doula based in the Hudson Valley, New York.
I came to this work as a daughter. I was born into a family marked by intergenerational trauma, abuse, and pain that no one knew how to stop. I grew up carrying what was never mine to carry, and for a long time I had no language for any of it.
The turning point came when I began sitting with plant medicine. For the first time I was held in a space where I could face my family story, witness it, and begin to transform it. That was the beginning of my recovery, the slow work of gathering back the parts of myself I had lost. What I offer now is not theory. It is the path I have walked myself, and come through.
I have mothered since I was a child. As the eldest sister in a single-mother household, I helped raise my younger siblings and carry a weight no child should hold alone. I was parentified early, and I learned something just as early: it is impossible to raise children by ourselves. There is a need for community, for other hands holding the load, for the collective work of raising ourselves and one another together. I have known this for as long as I have had memory.
That knowing became my work. As a nanny and caregiver I have supported families across every stage, from newborns to toddlers to children, while holding mothers through the most vulnerable passage of all: becoming a mother, learning as they go, witnessed and supported rather than left to carry it by themselves. This work, alongside my own healing as a daughter, is what called me to train formally, as a postpartum doula and as a psychedelic and plant medicine integration mentor, so that what I offer is held by both lived experience and dedicated study.
Alongside my artistic practice, I felt called to understand motherhood from the inside of the work itself. Not only the daughter's experience, which I know intimately, but the mother's. Years of walking beside women in this passage have shown me both sides of the threshold, and that is the perspective I bring to you.
Women need women. We were never meant to do this alone. Because I have walked this path, I can walk it beside you.
If you are feeling the pull to be supported, to be witnessed, to do this transformational work rather than carry it alone, I am here for you. You don't have to know exactly what it means yet. You don't have to be ready. You only have to be curious enough to begin.
I would be honored to hold space for you.
CREDENTIALS
Frequently asked questions
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No. These sessions are not therapy and are not a substitute for mental health treatment. Motherhood Integration is a witnessed space for bringing unconscious patterns into consciousness, understanding your family biography, and doing the intergenerational work that surfaces at the threshold of parenthood. If you are not already working with a therapist I encourage you to find one. This work goes deepest alongside therapeutic support. If you need help finding a referral I am happy to support that.
I also recommend having a support system around you while doing this work. A partner, a friend, a family member, someone who can hold you between sessions as things come up and integrate.
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No. This work is for anyone at any threshold of parenthood. Whether you gave birth recently or years ago, are pregnant, planning, navigating loss through miscarriage or abortion, adopting, co-parenting, or choosing not to become a parent. If something around parenthood and your own origins is asking to be looked at, you belong here.
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This work draws from three frameworks. Mark Wolynn's core language approach, which traces inherited trauma through the words, fears, and patterns that repeat in your life. Bethany Webster's work on the mother wound and the inner mother. And Laura Gutman's understanding of how the child mirrors the mother's shadow and the importance of understanding your complete family biography. Together these create a container for deep Motherhood Integration.
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We begin with a grounding practice to arrive in the body. From there we follow your intention, whatever is present for you. We go inward together, underneath the story, into the parts of you that are still carrying what was never yours to carry. We trace the thread back through your family line. We bring what has been unconscious into the light. Sessions are one hour, held virtually. After each session I send you a reflection prompt to support your integration. You fill out a short intake form before we meet so we can arrive ready.
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A short form you complete before your first session. It helps me understand what you want to work on, where you are in your journey, and what your family story looks like so we can make the most of our time together.
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Yes. Everything shared in our sessions stays between us. This is a safe and confidential space for deep work.
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Mamifera is a queer affirming space. I am queer, I am Colombian, and I built this practice to be inclusive from the ground up. If you identify as a woman you are welcome here, no matter how you came into the world, who you love, or what your family looks like.
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SÃ. Soy colombiana y el español es mi lengua materna. Las sesiones están disponibles en español e inglés. Las comunidades latinx son profundamente bienvenidas en este espacio.
Yes. I am Colombian and Spanish is my mother tongue. Sessions are available in Spanish and English. Latinx communities are deeply welcome in this space.
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Yes. You do not need any prior experience with somatic work, depth healing, or intergenerational work. If you are curious and ready to look inward, that is enough. We go at your pace.
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We begin with a free 30-minute discovery call. A chance to meet, talk about what you want to work on, and see if we are a good fit. No commitment required. You can book yours using the link on this page.
Not through perfection.
Not through sacrifice.
Not through trying harder.
Through awareness.
Through compassion.
Through the courage to look honestly at what you carry.
The cycle can change.
It begins when someone chooses to see it.
Maybe that someone is you.
THE MOTHER YOU NEEDED IS THE ONE YOU ARE LEARNING TO BECOME