Pause. Reset. Reclaim.
The Midlife Mothers Workbook
A workbook with regulation tools and prompts to explore how you got to this moment of your life and to clarify where you want to go from here.
Learn how your body, emotions, and thoughts intersect and which values you want leading your life.
Your purchase applies in full toward the program, should you enroll.
Instant download. Two fillable PDFs, one for your computer and one for your phone.
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Inside the workbook
Fourteen worksheets.
Nine tools you can use in the middle of an ordinary Tuesday.
Two versions included, both fillable PDFs, one for your computer and one sized for your phone.
Your partner walks in and asks, "What are we thinking for dinner?"
You snap. "We?"
This workbook is about the moment before that snap.
Pause.
Pause interrupts autopilot. It creates enough space to notice. You learn what survival mode looks like in your body, your emotions, your thoughts, and your behavior, and where tension lives in your days.
Reset.
Nine nervous system regulation tools, each with the how and the why behind it, plus three reference cards to keep close. Then you examine the stories underneath your reactions, your boundaries, your grief, the roles you did not choose, and your work and money.
Reclaim.
Space to name what you want more of, what success and legacy mean to you now, and one step toward who you want to become.
Meet Maris
I’m a licensed clinical social worker and psychotherapist with 20 years of experience supporting people through complex life transitions. My work with emotional reactivity, grief, caregiving, and midlife change is both professional and deeply personal.
As a midlife mother, I’ve lived the collision of roles, most acutely during my father’s illness and death from pancreatic cancer when my nervous system rarely felt at rest.
My approach is steady, compassionate, and practical. This work isn’t about fixing yourself. It’s about creating enough safety and steadiness to choose how you show up and to take a first step back toward yourself.
Featured in outlets including Real Simple, Scary Mommy, and Today's Ajenda with Dr. Jen Ashton. Speaker at venues including 92NY and the UBS Women's Wealth and Wellbeing Symposium. New York Times bestselling co-author of Piper Chen Sings. Trained at Columbia University, where I was also on the faculty.
When you're ready to go deeper, I'd love to tell you about the full program,