Resources for Self-Governance
Your inner work, personal identity, values, and self-leadership.
Before we can lead our families and communities, we must first learn to govern ourselves. These resources support your inner journey: understanding your nervous system, naming your truth, setting boundaries, finding your advocates, and mapping the values that will carry you forward.
Free Guides
Focus on the smaller steps of your journey.
Real sustainable change takes time, and these guides are designed to help you on your leadership journey to becoming a Modern Matriarch. The content of most of these guides can also be found in the book “Matriarch Makeover: A 30-Day Invitation” — the 20-minute journaling exercises have been carefully crafted in a specific order to help guide you through the 30-days. As with all the resources on this page, these guides are a gift to your future self.
Managing Stress & Building Resilience
FREE MODERN MATRIARCH GUIDE
Learning Articles
The world is constantly changing, so we must be vigilant to adapt and stay informed.
Some of these are questions I get asked, others are questions I see asked in other groups or the public sphere, and some are topics that are important to be aware of as you design your path toward becoming a Modern Matriarch.
The Hidden Impact of Patriarchy on Intimate Relationships
A Call to Awareness
Returning to Latvia: My Journey Into the Pirts Tradition
The Steam, the Whisk, and the Womb
What Resentment Is Trying to Tell You
The Body Knows the Snake: Trusting Somatic Wisdom in Uncertain Times
Choosing Courage Over Comfort
How Trust is Built
Transmuting Pain to Power
Decolonization Begins Within
How to Avoid Being a Hyprocite
How to Find Your Advocates
4 Aspects of Well-Being
Reclaiming Matriarchal Leadership: An Interview by Amie Forest
Nature-based Altar by Lili Menkal & Eva West
Latvian Pirts and Female Empowerment
Modern Matriarch: Well-Woman Podcast
How to Address Issues
Understanding Group Trauma: How to Choose Safe and Respectful Communities
Why Women Leaders Are So Important
Modern Matriarch Library: Inspiration for the 30-Day Makeover Invitation
On Menopause & Matriarchy
A Connection between Science and Traditional Knowledge
Modern Matriarchs & Matriarchs-in-the-Making
These women are speaking their truths and showing that together we are stronger.
I invite you to learn more about these leaders, their truths, and how you can support them.
Eva West & Lili Menkal
NATURE-BASED ALTAR
Carissa Moore
MOORE ALOHA
Dr. Lyla June Johnston
RE^HUMAN
Melanie DeMore
POWER OF MUSIC