Mothering With Grace Podcast

In this episode of Mothering With Grace , host Kaitlyn Grace sits down with Chandler Gilow of The Global Birth Coach for a powerful and nuanced conversation about birth story processing and why birth doesn’t simply “end” once the baby arrives. Drawing from her personal experience of having one baby in the United States and another in Lebanon, Chandler brings a deeply layered, cross-cultural perspe...

In this episode of Mothering With Grace , host Kaitlyn Grace closes the four-week deep dive into matrescence — the ongoing, often overlooked transformation that begins before birth and continues long after. She explains why postpartum isn’t just six weeks, and why motherhood is a lifelong process of identity shifts, emotional growth, and physical and social transformation. Kaitlyn discusses how so...

In this episode of Mothering With Grace , host Kaitlyn Grace explores matrescence as the hidden postpartum transition that begins long before birth — and why it’s often overlooked in conversations about postpartum mental health. While awareness around postpartum depression, postpartum anxiety, and perinatal mood and anxiety disorders has grown, many mothers still feel lost, disconnected, or “off”...

In this episode of Mothering With Grace , host Kaitlyn Grace challenges one of the most common — and limiting — beliefs about motherhood: that postpartum only lasts six weeks. While the medical system often defines postpartum as the short window of physical recovery after birth, this episode explores the deeper reality — that postpartum is a long-term transformation affecting a mother’s body, iden...

In this episode of Mothering With Grace , host Kaitlyn Grace introduces matrescence — the profound physical, emotional, hormonal, and identity transformation that occurs when a woman becomes a mother. Often compared to adolescence, matrescence describes the developmental process of motherhood — one that reshapes a woman’s body, relationships, priorities, and sense of self. Yet despite how universa...

In this episode of Mothering With Grace , host Kaitlyn Grace explores the one thing most women forget to include in their birth plan — a postpartum plan — and why preparing for life after birth may matter even more than planning the birth itself. Many expectant mothers spend months researching labor positions, birth preferences, and hospital bags, yet enter postpartum without a roadmap for recover...

In this episode of Mothering With Grace , host Kaitlyn Grace shares a deeply personal postpartum story about moving abroad with a newborn — and the journey from isolation to community that followed. Just six weeks postpartum, Kaitlyn relocated from Europe to the United States with two young children, no village, and no sense of what life would look like on the other side. In this reflective episod...

In this first full episode of Mothering With Grace , host Kaitlyn Grace shares why she became deeply committed to postpartum care — and why every mother deserves more support after birth. Drawing from her lived experience of mothering in Germany and the United States, Kaitlyn explores how postpartum care systems shape not only recovery, but identity, mental health, and the way women experience mot...

Mothering With Grace is a motherhood and postpartum podcast exploring the lifelong transformation of becoming a mother. Hosted by Kaitlyn Grace, this show centers matrescence, postpartum, identity, embodiment, and global perspectives — because postpartum is not a phase, it’s a lifetime. In this trailer episode, Kaitlyn shares the personal story and purpose behind Mothering With Grace , what led he...