The Woman Behind The Divine Matriarch

This past weekend, I had the honor and privilege of celebrating my mother's 65th birthday. My sister and I took her to dinner with two of her sisters, we yapped and giggled while getting pedicures, and on Sunday evening, I got to take her as my VIP guest to the LACatrina fashion show in celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month.

My heart was so full being able to shower her with love and experiences she wouldn't typically invest in for herself. And as I reflected on the weekend, I found myself thinking about how much of the work I've devoted myself to over the last five years has been inspired by her.

You see, when I started my business just over five years ago, I had two under two, was navigating the complexities of motherhood inside the COVID bubble, had recently transitioned into a new job, and was trying to figure out how to stay present with my babies without losing the ambition that had always been such a big part of who I was.

I started posting on social media about my motherhood journey, sharing snippets of my marriage and what it looked like to navigate ambition and motherhood as a new mom. It became a creative outlet during a season when so much of my life revolved around caring for other people. But more than anything, it was a way for me to show other mothers that they weren't alone in their experiences.

I wanted them to know they mattered. That they were worthy of rest, peace, joy, and all the things we so freely give to our families, communities, and the greater world but rarely extend to ourselves.

I remember my mom asking me one day why I shared so openly online. I told her, "Sometimes I wonder what your life would have looked like if you had someone who said the hard things out loud. Someone who told you it was okay to prioritize yourself."

I still get teary-eyed thinking about that conversation because my mother isn't the only woman I know who has spent much of her life giving endlessly of herself. She's the woman who would rather say, "I'll do it," than risk disappointing someone, even when she's exhausted or unwell. She's the woman who will find a way to make things happen for everyone else, even if it means putting her own needs aside.

I've always admired my mother's strength, generosity, and unwavering commitment to the people she loves. And as I've gotten older, I've also come to recognize the ways that same commitment has sometimes come at her own expense.

What has been even more confronting is recognizing how many of those same tendencies I've carried into my own life. The overgiving, the overextending, the belief that being a good mother, wife, daughter, or leader meant being the person everyone could count on, no matter what it cost me.

For a long time, I didn't think much of these patterns because they were so familiar. They were simply how I'd learned to show love, demonstrate responsibility, and prove that I was capable. It wasn't until I began doing my own inner work that I started questioning whether the way I'd learned to care for others was actually sustainable, or whether I'd simply inherited a version of love and leadership that required me to continually put myself last.

And that's really where this work began.

I started with mothers because I wanted to heal patterns within my own lineage and help other women create a different experience for themselves and their families. But as my work evolved, I began to see that these patterns weren't exclusive to motherhood. They were showing up in how women led their teams, navigated their marriages, built their businesses, made decisions, and related to their own success.

I was meeting accomplished, ambitious, deeply capable women who had created meaningful lives and careers, yet still struggled to honor their own needs without guilt. Women who knew how to lead everyone else but had spent so much of their lives responding to external expectations that they'd lost touch with what it meant to trust and lead themselves.

And I realized that what I was really interested in wasn't simply helping women feel less overwhelmed. I wanted to help them fundamentally change their relationship with themselves so they could lead, love, and live without making self-sacrifice the price of belonging, success, or impact.

That realization has become the foundation of The Divine Matriarch.

The Divine Matriarch is a movement rooted in the belief that leadership begins within. It's a return to self-trust, embodied leadership, joy, and the kind of legacy we create through the way we live, not simply through what we accomplish. It's about women reclaiming their inner authority, honoring the wisdom of their experiences, and creating lives where ambition, presence, meaningful impact, and personal fulfillment can coexist.

It's also about recognizing that healing isn't the final destination. Healing creates the capacity for us to make different choices, build healthier relationships, lead with greater intention, and create new possibilities for the generations who come after us.

Because when I think about the legacy I want to leave, I don't simply think about what I want my children to accomplish or the opportunities I hope they'll have. I think about what I want them to believe is possible in their relationships with themselves and others. I think about the patterns I want to interrupt and the ones I want to model. And I think about the women who came before me, whose strength and sacrifices made my life possible, even as I recognize that some of what they carried doesn't have to continue with me.

If you've been here since The Mindfulness Co. or Jeri the Mindful Mama, you've witnessed pieces of this work taking shape over the years. And if you're newer here, I'm so glad you've found your way into this community.

Over the coming days, I want to share more about the experiences and realizations that have shaped this next chapter, along with the work I've been quietly building behind the scenes.

Because The Divine Matriarch isn't simply a new name or a new direction for my business. It's a deeper expression of the work I've felt called to do all along.

And in many ways, it began with a woman who taught me what it meant to love deeply, give generously, and show up for the people who matter.

My mother.

Now, part of my life's work is exploring what becomes possible when women like her, and women like us, learn that we deserve to receive that same love, generosity, and care.

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