For most women, motherhood isn't just a desire, or the fulfillment of instinct—it's the song of our cells, and a spiritual calling from God.

From the hope and yearning we experience when we open ourselves to a child, to that heady mix of ebullient joy and trepidation upon discovering we're pregnant for the first (or 11th!) time, to the glorious metamorphosis of gestation and the heart-shattering first encounter with our baby, matrescence is a continuum of expansion, and it is just the beginning of what amounts to a monumental summoning.

Yet, we live in a culture that diminishes motherhood, denigrates it, ridicules it, and promotes the story that motherhood makes us lesser-than—that motherhood is something to be scorned and avoided, or merely endured.

Motherhood is widely seen as a trap, a burden, and an impediment to success.

This is a lie.

One of the most deceptive narratives in contemporary society is the nefarious story that motherhood is depleting. In truth, conscious, centred mothering—supported mothering—is profoundly nourishing, not just for our children, but for us.

The tragic reality, however, is that so many of us who long to mother with connection, joy, groundedness and peace:

• Are lonely, and mothering in the absence of a village: without the grandmothers, aunts and neighbours who once surrounded every new mother
• Are misunderstood, or judged, for the choices we make about our children's birth, health, schooling and upbringing
• Feel frightened and alone when our children are unwell, and long to understand what the body is doing, and how to support it
• Have few mothering role-models who can mirror healthy practices
• Are carrying unhealed mother-wounds of our own, and fear passing them on
• Find ourselves reacting instead of responding (shouting, bargaining, giving in) and then lying awake over it
• Feel like strangers in our own bodies after years of pregnancy, nursing and carrying
• Long for order, rhythm and beauty in our homes, and can't see how to get there with small children underfoot
• Want our homes to be a little church: a place of prayer, peace and hospitality, where faith is lived and not merely taught
• Crave a space to share openly without feeling judged
• Deeply desire guidance, sisterhood, and support
• Find it increasingly difficult to access truly alternative (not to mention relevant and wise) information and education online

I'm Yolande Norris-Clark: Orthodox Christian, wife, and mother of eleven children (all of whom were born at home). I've been mothering for twenty-six years and working with women for over twenty. I'm a writer, a wellness philosopher, a mothering mentor, a natural birth advocate, a self-healing guide, and the creator, guide, and anchor of The Source.

Motherhood is a continuum. We go into it and through it again with every child, and every stage has its own crescendo, apex, denouement, and seeming completion…and then we embark again on the next mission, whether toddlerhood, the teenage years, or grandbabies.

But mothering with ease, resonance, and vitality is also a practical matter—in fact, the spiritual can't ever be separated from the material and the mundane. We mothers set the rhythm and the atmosphere of our homes, and it is our demeanour that is reflected in our children's behaviour.

If we are not well in mind, body, psyche, and spirit, this will impact our children, and affect our entire family structure, along with being reflected in our homes, our finances, and our relationships.

Mothering can't be separated from the body—ours, and our children's.

How we apprehend and interpret the messages of the body shapes nearly everything about how we show up as mothers: our posture, our steadiness, the way we respond to a feverish child at two in the morning, our sense of safety in the world, and our confidence in mothering itself. A mother who is afraid of the body mothers from fear. A mother who understands it can mother from peace.

I have spent my life almost entirely outside of the industrial medical realm, growing, birthing, and raising my children, and healing my own wounds and dis-eases.

Over the past decade, I have increasingly found myself responding to the invitation to offer guidance and witnessing to women who, like myself, are on the journey of natural birth, instinctive mothering, and self-healing. It is the greatest honour to share my passion for decoding the logic of the body, and our extraordinary, God-given capacity for healing.

Through many years of study of the body's own logic of illness and repair, I have developed my own framework for nurturing and ministering to ourselves (and our children) through the cycle of repair. It's the subject of the book I'm writing now, and it runs through everything I teach.

I'm not a doctor, and I have never offered medical advice. I'm a wellness philosopher and a mother of eleven, and I teach what I live.

The conversations that can't happen anywhere else

There are conversations that can't be had on a public feed, in a comment section, or asked of an algorithm or a machine. The questions women bring to The Source—about their bodies, their children's health, their marriages, their faith, the choices that set them apart from their own families—need a real woman on the other end of them. A woman who has lived it, eleven times over. They need trust, and time, and a circle of women who have been gathering together for six years.

That is what The Source is.

It's also where you have me, directly. Three times a month I'm with you live, coaching, answering, listening. And every day I'm in our private WhatsApp group: tag me, and I'll answer, usually by voice note, in the gaps of a day with eleven children in it.

Members also receive a special discount on private one-on-one sessions with me.

God is the Source, and motherhood is the well we draw from, every day, for ourselves and for our children.

Your membership includes:

• Two village mothering calls every month, live with me, and recorded
• A spotlight call every month, on one subject in depth
• Our private WhatsApp group, with me in it every day
• A special member discount on private one-on-one sessions with me
• The full library: 1,000+ hours of calls, salons and workshops, including my workshops on toilet-learning, toddlers, and infant communication
• The private forum, six years deep and searchable
• My private Substack
• Member pricing on everything else I offer

or join monthly, $77

The Source is a gathering place for women of all backgrounds, to share, learn, and grow in power, learn new skills, heal, and find freedom and peace in our sacred role.

In our live coaching calls (and within the enormous resource library) we frequently discuss topics like:

• Natural health, healing, and self-healing
• Our children's illnesses, and how we respond to them
• Infant care, and communicating with our babies
• Sleep
• Weaning
• Elimination communication and toilet-learning
• Sibling relationships
• Family guidance, discipline and obedience
• Chores, order and rhythm in the home
• Sex, marriage, and relationships
• Homeschooling
• Parenting teens
• Our bodies, our confidence and our embodiment as women
• Faith and family life
• Pregnancy and birth

…and so much more.

This season at The Source

All times Central / Eastern. Every call is recorded.

Sat 10 Oct · 11:30 AM CT / 12:30 PM ET · Village Mothering Call
An open circle for anything mothering asks of you. Bring it to the circle, and bring it to me.

Sat 17 Oct · 11 AM CT / 12 PM ET · Village Mothering Call
An open circle for anything mothering asks of you. Bring it to the circle, and bring it to me.

Fri 30 Oct · 4 PM CT / 5 PM ET · Toilet-Learning: The Live Companion
Toilet-learning before two, with no coercion, no rewards and no drama. Bring every question to me, live.

Sat 7 Nov · 10 AM CT / 11 AM ET · Village Mothering Call
An open circle for anything mothering asks of you. Bring it to the circle, and bring it to me.

Tue 17 Nov · 11 AM CT / 12 PM ET · Getting Things Done With Kids
Chores, order and rhythm at every age, from birth up, without the whining. The live companion to HARMONY, my planning system.

Sat 28 Nov · 10 AM CT / 11 AM ET · Village Mothering Call
An open circle for anything mothering asks of you. Bring it to the circle, and bring it to me.

Sat 5 Dec · 10 AM CT / 11 AM ET · Surviving the Holidays Without Compromising Your Kids
I keep a home with very few toys, and I let anyone give my children anything they like. How to be the grown-up at the holidays: gifts, sugar, boundaries, traditions, and the family who sees it differently.

Sat 19 Dec · 4 PM CT / 5 PM ET · Village Mothering Call
An open circle for anything mothering asks of you. Bring it to the circle, and bring it to me.

Sat 9 Jan · 10 AM CT / 11 AM ET · Why Is My Baby Crying? The Language of Babies
Babies are speaking all the time. Learn their language, and mother your newborn with confidence, ease and peace.

Tue 19 Jan · 3 PM CT / 4 PM ET · Village Mothering Call
An open circle for anything mothering asks of you. Bring it to the circle, and bring it to me.

Sat 23 Jan · 10 AM CT / 11 AM ET · Self-Healing Detective Call
A call where we explore the philosophy of healing from the perspective of Hamer's biological laws. It's an opportunity to investigate your own body's responses, and to receive witnessing on your healing journey.

Sat 30 Jan · 10 AM CT / 11 AM ET · Village Mothering Call
An open circle for anything mothering asks of you. Bring it to the circle, and bring it to me.

Sat 6 Feb · 10 AM CT / 11 AM ET · Village Mothering Call
An open circle for anything mothering asks of you. Bring it to the circle, and bring it to me.

Tue 16 Feb · 2 PM CT / 3 PM ET · Village Mothering Call
An open circle for anything mothering asks of you. Bring it to the circle, and bring it to me.

Sat 27 Feb · 10 AM CT / 11 AM ET · Raising Creators in the Age of AI
I use AI every day, and I homeschool my children mostly on paper. Why the oldest skills (reading, writing, reasoning, rhetoric) will decide who creates and who only consumes.

Spring · dates to come
Marriage and the Long Relationship · Children, Conflict and Obedience · Sex Education and Protecting Our Children

The Source is meant to be a homecoming, particularly if you feel like you're on the fringes—outside of the institution, banished from the family reunion, exiled from academia, and diving into the unknown.

It's also a membership for every mother who has been told she's too much, too old-fashioned, or too serious about her children, and any woman who senses that something far better is possible for her family than what the culture is offering.

In this era of distraction, alienation, and endless screens, it can feel profoundly isolating to be committed to instinct, to faith, to natural health, and to the old, organic rhythms of family life.

Come to The Source to be unabashedly yourself, untrammeled by mainstream expectations or the latest parenting fashion.