Meet Neelam — Your Guide Through Motherhood’s Inner Shift
Neelam Prasad — Perinatal Wellness Coach, NICU Mom, Guide Through Matrescence
Becoming a mother is transformative — not just in what you do, but in who you are.
For some women, that change arrives quietly, as a sense of disconnection or identity shift. For others, it comes through overwhelming experiences — anxiety, grief, trauma, medicalized births, or time in the NICU.
Both are real. Both matter.
Matrescence is the internal reshaping that happens across this entire spectrum — whether your transition feels subtle, destabilizing, or deeply disruptive.
You don’t have to be “fine,” and you don’t have to be in crisis, to deserve support. You deserve guidance that understands both the emotional depth and the lived realities that reshape motherhood.
I’m here for that.
MY STORY
When Motherhood Was Not Gentle
My path into this work was not gentle — and it was not theoretical.
After becoming a mother to two boys who were born early and spent time in the NICU, I experienced a profound emotional and psychological rupture. What I was navigating went far beyond adjustment or overwhelm. I was living with severe postpartum depression, anxiety, and birth trauma, and my sense of self completely unraveled.
I wasn’t functioning in ways that felt familiar or sustainable. I felt disconnected from my identity, my confidence, and my ability to trust myself — as a mother, a partner, and a person trying to move through the world.
That season dismantled everything I thought I knew about motherhood, resilience, and who I was becoming.
The Gap I Couldn’t Ignore
As I moved through that period, one truth became painfully clear: there were very few spaces that could hold the severity of what I was experiencing alongside the identity shift motherhood had triggered.
Support often felt fragmented — focused either on symptom management or on surface reassurance — without room to explore how deeply motherhood had altered my inner world.
I didn’t just need to survive that season. I needed a way to make sense of it.
How This Shaped My Work
That experience is what led me to pursue specialized training in perinatal mental health, birth and reproductive trauma, and grief and loss — so I could support mothers with both compassion and competence.
It’s also why my work today is deeply trauma-informed, ethically grounded, and non-minimizing.
I understand what it feels like when motherhood doesn’t simply challenge you — it disorients you. And I know how important it is to be met with presence, steadiness, and respect when you’re finding your way back to yourself.
This work is not about fixing mothers.
It’s about helping them reconnect with who they are — after everything they’ve carried.
