Matrescence and Entrepreneurship
Matrescence and Entrepreneurship

As a new mother, your identity is shifting. Your values are changing. You’re letting go of everything that no longer serves you. Use this time to reevaluate your business, hanging on to what’s important and parting with the rest. You might incorporate new areas of focus into your business. You may see old problems in new ways. Embrace these changes. You’re not the same person you were before your child.

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10 Tips for a More Restful Fourth Trimester Slumber
10 Tips for a More Restful Fourth Trimester Slumber

Guest Contributor: Denise Gassner PhD, Founder of There’s a Monster in my Closet

As new mothers, we are usually, at least in theory, prepared for the initial weeks of little sleep. Bringing a tiny human into a brand-new world consumes our thoughts, emotions, and activities – day and night. And the wash of blissful hormones and adrenaline often carries us through with calm and acceptance.

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On Indigenous Motherhood: My journey becoming a mother to an Indigenous daughter
On Indigenous Motherhood: My journey becoming a mother to an Indigenous daughter

Guest Contributor, Anna McKenzie

Anna McKenzie is a member of the Opaskwayak Cree Nation and currently resides on the unceded territory of the Snuneymuxw First Nation. She is a proud mother, daughter, and granddaughter. Anna currently works as a child welfare reporter with IndigiNews.

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Charities + Foundations We Support at Thryve
Charities + Foundations We Support at Thryve

Giving back to our community is very important to us here at Thryve. Whether it means providing more awareness to the charities and foundations we are aligned with that need attention or giving back in proceeds from one of our Thryve Events. We’ve rounded up a list of charities within the motherhood community we strongly align with and will be supporting during some of our Thryve activations.

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Actionable Ways to Support BIPoC + Maternal Health
Actionable Ways to Support BIPoC + Maternal Health

Our social media feed has been flooded with incredible resources and educational tools to educate ourselves, our children and finding ways to support BIPOC. Being that our core foundation is built upon providing resources supporting women through their motherhood journey, we want to shine a light on women of all diversities as we have been learning even more, there is vast differences in the birth experiences, postpartum and beyond. We have a lot more to learn. But we need to start somewhere.

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Adapt + Nurture Through Times of Change
Adapt + Nurture Through Times of Change

My own identity as a women, mother, business owner, wife is yet again being redefined. A few new projects that were about to come into fruition have, yet again, needed to be paused and shifted. Currently, like many of you, I'm learning to fully embrace this new full time SAHM life on a completely different level.

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