The Matrescence Journal Series

The Matrescence Journal Series was created by Dr. Eva Benmeleh, licensed psychologist and maternal mental health specialist, because most women move through the transformation of motherhood completely alone.

Matrescence is the psychological, emotional, and spiritual evolution that happens when a woman becomes a mother. It is one of the most significant identity shifts of a woman’s life and one of the least supported. Dr. Eva has spent years helping mothers navigate it: in her clinical practice, in her research, professional trainings, and now in these four guided journals.

Every journal in the series is built on the PIE Method — Perceive, Integrate, Embody — a framework Dr. Eva developed to help women understand what they’re feeling, where it comes from, and how to live differently. Included are 28 daily mantras, embodiment practices, guided reflections, and access to an exclusive guided meditation.

Each journal is a complete, standalone 28-day experience. You start where you are.

→ Feeling lost or disconnected from yourself? Begin with Rediscovering Me.

→ Struggling with your body or self-worth? Begin with Reclaiming Me.

→ Overwhelmed, resentful, or stretched too thin? Begin with Balancing Me.

→ Emotionally overloaded or holding everything in? Begin with Embracing Me.

Some women move through one. Some move through all four. Either way, you won’t come out the same — and that’s exactly the point.

You were someone before you became a mother. She’s still here.

This is about evolving forward.

In the midst of caring, giving, tending, and managing, many mothers wonder:

“Will I always be last on my own list?”

“What happened to my dreams, passions, and ambitions… and is it wrong that I miss them?”

“How do I balance who I am as a mother with the rest of who I am?”

These aren’t signs that something is wrong with you. You’re in the middle of one of the most profound transformations a woman can move through. And for this, you need more than just surviving it.

Rediscovering Me is a 28-day guided journal that helps you reconnect with yourself, reclaim your sense of purpose, and step into the fullest expression of who you are becoming.

Inside the journal: Using the PIE Method (Perceive · Integrate · Embody): A three-step framework developed to help you understand what you feel, where it comes from, and how to live embodied in your truth. Each week guides you through a different layer of identity:

Week 1: Remembering Who You Are — honoring your past self and reconnecting with your essence

Week 2: Embracing Who You Are Now — meeting yourself in this season without judgment

Week 3: Reawakening Your Passions & Desires — the parts of you that still want to be expressed

Week 4: Designing a Life That Honors All of You — not the mother. Not the woman before. The one becoming.

You’ll also receive 28 daily mantras, embodiment practices, guided reflections, and access to an exclusive guided meditation.

By the end of 28 days, you will:

– Have a clearer, more grounded sense of who you are beyond your role as a mother

– Feel reconnected to the passions, desires, and parts of yourself that felt buried or distant

– Have a vision for a life that honors both the mother you are and the woman you’re becoming

– Move through your days with more intention and less of the quiet ache of losing yourself

$25, Paperback

Your body is not something to fix. It is something to honor.

What if acceptance wasn’t the finish line, but the starting point?

The desire to feel like yourself again often rises in the background of motherhood. Out of longing for ease, confidence, and the sense of wholeness you once knew.

You track the changes. You feel the cultural pressure to “bounce back.” You catch your reflection, and something feels off. Almost immediately, you judge yourself for even caring.

“Why am I thinking about my body when I should just be grateful?”

“Why does this feel so hard when motherhood is supposed to feel amazing?”

“Am I vain for wanting to take care of my body instead of being with my family all of the time?”

For mothers who’ve navigated fertility treatments, pregnancy loss, or pre-existing struggles with body image and self-worth, this tension runs even deeper. The body that feels unfamiliar is the same body that carried you through one of the most sacred transformations of your life.

Reclaiming Me is a 28-day guided journal that helps you release self-judgment, quiet the inner critic, and build a relationship with your body rooted in compassion. You’ve tried through criticism, and it didn’t take you very far.

Inside the journal: Guided by the PIE Method (Perceive · Integrate · Embody), each week supports a different layer of healing:

Week 1: Noticing the thoughts, emotions, and beliefs shaping how you see yourself

Week 2: Exploring where those beliefs came from — culture, childhood, identity shifts, pregnancy, birth

Week 3: Practicing self-compassion as a skill, not just a concept

Week 4: Embodying self-respect — until caring for yourself feels like the obvious choice

You’ll also receive 28 daily mantras carefully crafted to gently rewire self-criticism into self-respect, guided meditations, reflective prompts, and holistic wellness practices.

By the end of 28 days, you will:

– Feel more connected to your body with less self-judgment

– Have deeper self-compassion and emotional steadiness

– Have built realistic, lasting self-care practices that nourish your mind, body, and spirit

– Your body holds the story of your strength, your love, and your transformation. It is something to honor.

$25, Paperback

You give everything to everyone. This journal is for you.

Not because you need to do less, but because you need to stop carrying what isn’t yours.

Motherhood teaches us to give. What it rarely teaches us is how to stop.

You say yes when you mean no. You take on more than is yours to carry. And then the resentment creeps in, followed immediately by guilt for feeling resentful at all. So you push through, give more, and call it love.

Something inside you is being stretched too far if you notice resentment, guilt, or constant exhaustion. You’re doing the best you can, but no one ever gave you a way through it.

Balancing Me is a 28-day guided journal that helps you understand where your guilt is running the show, where your limits are breaking down, and how to start making choices that actually reflect what you need — without the spiral of shame that usually follows.

Inside the journal: Using the PIE Method (Perceive · Integrate · Embody), each week guides you through a different layer of this experience:

Week 1: Understanding Mom Guilt — noticing where it shows up and releasing what doesn’t belong to you

Week 2: Saying No Without Guilt — practicing small boundaries and learning to keep them

Week 3: Releasing the Pressure to Be the Perfect Mom — reframing what “good mother” actually means

Week 4: Prioritizing Self-Care Without Guilt — finding realistic ways to care for yourself while caring for everyone else

You’ll also receive 28 daily mantras, practical exercises, calming reflections, guided prompts, and access to an exclusive guided meditation — all designed to help you bring your feelings and your actions back into alignment.

By the end of 28 days, you will:

Recognize where guilt has been driving your decisions — and have tools to change that

– Feel more confident saying no without the spiral of shame that usually follows

– Have clearer, more realistic boundaries that actually hold

– Experience more balance between giving to others and honoring what you need

– A mother who is running on empty can’t pour from it. You deserve balance — not just the idea of it.

$25, Paperback

You’ve been holding so much. Your emotions are your guide home.

What you suppress doesn’t disappear. It settles — and waits.

The pressure to be the “perfect mom” while managing your own inner world is real. And heavy.

So most mothers do what feels safest: push it down and keep going. But anxiety, overwhelm, loneliness, grief, irritation — these don’t disappear when you ignore them. They settle beneath the surface and quietly shape everything.

What if instead of managing your emotions, you moved through them?

Embracing Me is a 28-day guided journal that gives you the space to feel through what you’ve been holding back with a structured, compassionate path.

Inside the journal: Guided by the PIE Method (Perceive · Integrate · Embody) — notice what you feel, understand what it’s telling you, respond to yourself with clarity and compassion. Each week takes you through a different phase of emotional healing:

Week 1: Allowing Yourself to Feel — acknowledging and understanding suppressed emotions

Week 2: Healing Emotional Wounds — processing past pain, unmet expectations, and emotional residue

Week 3: Cultivating Inner Peace — grounding tools, regulation skills, and mindfulness practices

Week 4: Embracing Joy & Gratitude — balance, presence, emotional renewal, and softness

You’ll also receive 28 daily mantras, breathwork and visualization practices, guided meditations, and reflective prompts, designed to help you move from emotional overload to steadiness.

By the end of 28 days, you will:

– Have moved through emotions you’ve been suppressing

– Feel more emotionally regulated

– Have a personal toolkit of grounding and mindfulness practices

– Experience more moments of genuine joy, presence, and inner peace

$25, Paperback