Midlife Mothers: Pause. Reset. Reclaim.
You are not too sensitive.
You are not falling apart.
You are carrying more than anyone has named for you yet.
This guide names it.
Inside the guide
Why hormones amplify what you are already carrying rather than create it
The layers no one names: identity shedding, unacknowledged grief, relationship recalibration, and the questions that come with them
Why your nervous system is on alert, and why that is not a personal failure
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.