Mother Self guides women through the emotional, psychological, and spiritual transformation of early motherhood.
There are parts of motherhood rarely spoken aloud.
The isolation and loneliness. The exhaustion that touches every part of life. The quiet guilt of wondering if you’re doing enough. The questions of identity. Through honest conversation and grounded support, women begin to understand what's actually happening inside them during this time—and remember that they are not failing, not broken, and not lost to motherhood.
They are finding themselves within it.
Talia Gutin is the founder of Mother Self and author of the published poetry collection The Mother Self. For the last decade, she has spent more than 5,000 hours working with individuals, couples, and groups. Her work is rooted in the belief that motherhood doesn't just change your life—it changes you. It can crack open identities you once relied on, surface grief you never expected, shift relationships, priorities, ambition, intimacy, and your sense of self. Motherhood is an initiation into the next evolution of your womanhood. And it deserves more than survival; it deserves space, support, and reverence for all that it awakens within you.
Talia Gutin is a mother, writer, and certified therapeutic coach.
She works with women in the thick of early motherhood — overwhelmed, emotionally stretched thin, and quietly wondering why this is so much harder than they expected.
Her work exists to help mothers stay close to themselves as everything changes.
She is the author of The Mother Self.
Her work has grown into a practice that supports women through the emotional and identity shifts of motherhood — offering language for the feelings many mothers cannot name, tools for navigating the intensity of the experience, and space to stay present inside of it.
To the Mother
in the In-Between
Maybe from the outside, it looks like you're holding it all together.
You're showing up for your children. Keeping up with the endless demands. Reading the parenting books. Preparing healthy snacks and meals. Trying to savor the moment and doing your best to be the kind of mother you want to be.
And yet, somewhere underneath it all, you feel far away from yourself.
You love your children deeply, and yet find yourself wondering where you went.
There may be grief here. Loneliness. A longing for parts of yourself you've lost or left behind. There may be questions you haven't had space to ask, emotions you haven't had time to feel.
And beneath all of it, a desire to move through motherhood with more honesty, softness, and support. To slow down enough to hear yourself again. To reconnect with the woman beneath the roles, responsibilities, and endless giving.
A SPACE JUST FOR YOU
Four ways to work with Talia
Online Group Program
A powerful group program designed by a mother, for mothers. Meditations, journal prompts, audio teachings, weekly Zoom calls and practices designed to help you return to yourself inside motherhood.
Join The WaitlistIndividual Coaching
One-on-one support for mothers navigating overwhelm, identity shifts, nervous system regulation, and the emotional realities of motherhood. 3 & 6 month containers available.
Book a ConsultationRelationship & Marriage Coaching
A space for couples to honestly explore the strain, growth, and change that parenthood brings to a relationship — and to find deeper connection within it.
Book a ConsultationMother Talks
An in-person monthly gathering for mothers to come together and be with what is real. Guided somatic practices. Honest conversation. Like-minded mothers who get it.
Join the community
Mother Talks
Monthly | Boulder, CO
A monthly in-person gathering for mothers to come together and be with what is real. Guided somatic practices. Honest conversation and reflection. A community of women who understand.
In this debut collection of poetry, The Mother Self guides readers along the raw and transformative path of early motherhood.
"Talia put words to feelings I have only felt. Tender, visceral, breathtaking. Each word on every page. This book is for every mother."
—Maggie Doyne, author of Between the Mountain and the Sky: A Mother’s Story of Love, Loss, Healing, and Hope and Co-founder/CEO, BlinkNow Foundation
