PART 3

Discover how early motherhood reshapes identity through psychic restructuring and maternal self-esteem. Drawing on psychoanalysis, neuroscience, and Vedic wisdom, this post explores how mothers evolve emotionally and spiritually.

PART 2

This means the mother must temporarily relinquish her usual adult defenses and multitasking mind in order to enter a more fluid, intuitive, emotionally attuned state — one that feels “regressed” but is actually in service of her growth and the baby’s needs.

PART 1

When a woman becomes a mother, something profound happens — not just physically, but psychologically and spiritually. The late psychoanalyst D.W. Winnicott coined the term Primary Maternal Preoccupation (PMP) to describe a deeply altered state of consciousness many mothers enter in the final weeks of pregnancy and early postpartum.