ReMothering with Clara Belize Wisner

I recently experienced the reopening of a wound in my heart. Nothing overly dramatic happened. No major further betrayals or abandonment. But, around and around the spiral we go, and I guess it was time for me to come around again to my broken heart. It’s been quite unexpectedly intense, this revisiting. From a bird's-eye view, I can see that this return is not random. It is arriving now, after I'...

I have a poet’s Soul. I want to go deep. I have always profoundly felt life. I have always wanted to make beautiful things because it feeds my being and for no other reason. At 17 years old I got a tattoo that says, “you make your own reality” in latin. 21 years ago I was already aware I was a creative force in my own life’s unfolding. I was a spiritual seeker from a very young age. I grew up in a...

**this is an adaption of piece I wrote in May 2024 on Mothers’ Day. It’s updated and tweaked to include new ideas, thoughts, perspectives I’ve had since then. Hope you enjoy this version on Mothers’ Day 2026 Today, on Mothers’ Day, (and honestly all my days) I have been thinking about our relationship to Mother. As I wrote the cards I sent to my mother and my mother-in-law I was struck by the cont...

I woke up at 5am this morning unable to turn my mind off and go back to sleep. Thoughts and feelings of rage, helplessness, heartbreak, and deep, deep concern for humanity swimming in my mind. I am writing this maybe a little more activated than I would normally would write something for the public because, generally, I don’t believe the world needs more activated people writing things out into th...

A popular spiritual teacher, Mami Onami, recently wrote an article about how she identified, and has subsequently stopped; “emotional eating.” She also posted on instagram about how all spiritual practices praise “fasting.” And how using food ‘as relief’ makes you fat . I have been enjoying following this woman because I love women who are not afraid to look unhinged or crazy. I love an expressed...

Last Friday I came down with quite an intense cough; tons of congestion, runny nose, sore throat, and general malaise. When I was 8 years old I started to come down with repeated respiratory infections. I would get these epic sore throats and coughs. I would cough all through the night, unable to sleep. My coughing fits sounded like a dying dog and frequently ended in me almost throwing up. My abs...

Is there such a thing as eating too much fat? I know the dietary fat conversation has gotten a little confusing. I thought fat was good? I thought we needed all the animal fats for the nutrient density? I thought we needed it for our hormones? I thought I should put enough butter on my bread I can see my teethmarks when I bite in? Yes! We absolutely do need fat. Good animal fat is soooo nutrient d...

I have been circling around, feeling into, digesting, metabolizing, holding in my prayers the events happening in Iran and Minnesota in my own way over the last few weeks. I do not consume news on a regular basis through any channels (other than reading my local newspaper weekly) because: 1. I have a very sensitive system and I know myself well. I’m not afraid of ‘dysregulation’ but I am solidly a...

“There is no coming to consciousness without pain.” - Carl Jung I’m writing this in the first few days of 2026. It has not been an easy transition. I haven’t had anything drastic externally happen to me or my family, although I have had two very tragic events happen to people adjacent to me. My personal life has been nothing but really quiet, sweet and simple. And yet, so much inside me is moving....

My Recent Experience Over the weekend, I spent 4 nights in Mexico participating in Moondance with over 300 other women. Moondance is an indigenous ceremony where women opt to not sleep, fast, and dance and sing under the full moon for 4 nights. There are a lot of other aspects and details to it, but ultimately it is a prayer circle for the healing of the Feminine principle. For me it was a way to...

I am about to embark on a great adventure. Eight nights away from my girls and husband. Traveling internationally alone. A ceremony that involves days and nights of not eating, not sleeping, and lots of sweating. As I sit here staring at my mostly packed suitcase full of camping paraphernalia and gear that I hope will bring me some semblance of comfort in the potentially blistering hot sun or free...

It is with great tenderness and genuine humility that I would like to introduce the new title and energy of this space: ReMothering. Up until now this publication has been called Matriarch, which is a powerful word and symbol. Matriarchal energy is compelling, intense, passionate, and refined. Matriarch has a true Queen current. I love it. Holding this formidable Mature Feminine energy in the worl...

I have been contemplating the real meaning of humility. I see such a lack of genuine humility in the wellness/personal development spaces. As a provider in this space, especially on social media, there is an omnipresent drive to position yourself as the one who ‘knows.’ You need to have a hook— a way to grab peoples’ attention in the first few seconds as someone scrolls on by. A society of people...

I have been taking a social media break over the summer. It’s been about 2 months I’ve intentionally not engaged with social media. I go on to check my messages and respond to things once in awhile, but other than that I am not on it. For someone who spent the last 10 years (with one 6 month break around when my second daughter was born) building a social media account and showing up there pretty...

I have been stalled in my formal writing. I write furiously in my journal. Producing pages of nonsensical dialogues with my many selves and internal voices. I write out my dreams in painstaking detail. Pouring over them, trying to unravel and unwind the messages my unconscious Soul is communicating with me. I write out conversations I wish I’d had or feel like I need to have, but also know to say...

For over a decade I have been sharing my life and my work on instagram . I have slowly been coming to terms with the truth instagram it is no longer a place I want to spend a lot of attention and energy. There are so many reasons for this, and most of them you’ve probably heard a million times, so I won’t go into all the harrowing statistics about social media and how it negatively affects our hea...

One thing I learned early on in motherhood is that I needed more structure in my life if I was going to hold the responsibility of motherhood in a way that didn’t fully drain me. I think of this similarly to if you wanted to lift (or “hold”) more weight than you have previously at the gym, you would need more physical muscle fibers, or else you would get trapped under the weight and not be able to...

I wrote a Substack post about what nourishment really takes and then I made a little video over on instagram showing what I do to nourish myself in a day. I received a lot of really good questions and comments about what came up for people seeing the practical ways I center nourishment in my life. I also got a lot of comments to the tune of “this seems so hard!” or “I could never do that!” or “Tha...

I am not ‘the best’ at anything. To say that isn’t a very smart ‘marketing strategy’ on my end. We are supposed to claim our expertise. To exude authority. To share things with the certainty of a herd of elephants. To lay out a program with the exact 5 step approach to save your life. There are so many voices out there, so many smart, convicted, and confident voices. And they all have valuable thi...

I don’t know what to call the journey I am on. I’ve been writing about it for years at this point. Is it a spiritual awakening journey? Is it a personal development journey? Is it the journey into motherhood? Is it a body or healing journey? Is it my online journal? At this moment I’m inclined to say it is simply: my life journey . It is the journey of living a life with more and more conscious aw...

Modern life tends to make people soft in the places we should be tough and tough in the places we should be soft. We have endless OTC drugs to make simple illnesses like the flu more bearable. And trust me, after being fully incapacitated for 3 days with the flu, it is not pleasant in anyway shape or form. I didn’t enjoy it. I didn’t love it. I’m still pretty physically miserable, to be honest. Ta...

The end of 2024 for me has brought with it many endings and therefore new beginnings. A big overarching theme is a deep reckoning with how available I have been. I wrote more about this here. On a macro level I can see how I have associated my deservingness of love and my availability. The more available I am, the more I give of myself; the more love I can get, right? Or, maybe more accurately; no...

As I’ve been watching and experiencing the fall out and division surrounding the results of the United States election I have had this resounding truth about myself settle in: I trust humanity. In a world where the places we are different are constantly being highlighted, we have to remember to come back to the places where we are actually the same. In a world where the fear mongering is so consta...

This piece has been percolating for a long while. This is an invitation into a new or deeper experience of what I am calling; Divine Union, or the aligned relationship between the Feminine and Masculine energies within us and outside of us. As I repeat again and again, I am in service to The Mother, the mature feminine frequency that lives within our physiology. I have also called this energy ‘the...

There is a punishing harshness I want to unpack in the health and wellness world.  I see so many female influencers in this space peddling punishment as virtue and unnecessary harshness as ‘facts.’ I see ‘get-your-s**t-together-you-lazy-f**k’ energy being sold as radical responsibility.  Just to be abundantly clear: This is not what we need to heal.  We do not need more punishment, more harshness,...