Rewrite the Mother Code with Dr. Gertrude Lyons
Podcast Description:
Mothering isn’t just a role — it’s an energy, a transformative experience that transcends traditional definitions. Whether as a noun, a verb, or a profound force, mothering is accessible to everyone who embraces it. Dr. Gertrude Lyons’ groundbreaking work celebrates this essence, providing the tools and support to lead more authentic, joyful, and fulfilling lives — whether you’re seeking greater intimacy, more job satisfaction, or something else, you’re in the right place. Dive into this revolution with the Rewrite the Mother Code podcast and awaken the mothering spirit within you.
On Rewrite the Mother Code, Dr. Gertrude explores women’s development, parenting, self-love, and relationship fulfillment through storytelling, interviews with experts, and conversations with community members. Dr. Gertrude is having conversations about motherhood and mothering that no one else is having. She brings herself and her guests into alignment through the transformational opportunity in mothering.
If you’re curious about what embarking on the journey of Rewriting YOUR Mother Code could feel like, interested in joining a community of open-hearted women, and learning to celebrate what makes you you, you’ve come to the right place.
Topic Sub-Category:
Self-Improvement
Additional Insights:
The name Rewrite the Mother Code reflects its core mission: exploring, challenging, and rewriting the internal and cultural “mother codes” (beliefs, expectations, norms) that shape how we mother (ourselves, others, life).
The podcast doesn’t limit “mothering” to biological motherhood—it frames it as an energy or force that can show up in many areas: careers, relationships, self-care, creative work.
A recurring theme is self-mothering: nurturing oneself, tending to inner emotional life, dismantling generational or societal conditioning.
Emotional intelligence, naming and working with feelings like fear, hurt, anger, sadness, joy is often woven into her framework.
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Recent Episode Notes:
Healing the Mother Wound: Transformation and Trust with Tracy Ftacek (Sept 9, 2025)
Explores letting go of perfectionism, releasing hustle culture, and stepping into a life of ease and alignment.
Tracy shares her journey from Alaska to entrepreneurship, the identity shift after selling her company, and how meditation & manifestation became emotional anchors.
Includes a discussion of a water-birthing ceremony as a turning point in healing her mother wound.
Whole-Person Healing: Dr. Mary Ella Wood on Integrative Medicine and New Motherhood (Sept 1, 2025)
Dr. Wood (physician & integrative medicine director) shares her transition from surgery to holistic medicine.
She opens up about pregnancy, navigating complications, postpartum life, breastfeeding struggles, and how her motherhood journey reshaped her medical philosophy.
Building, Breaking, and Becoming: Lessons from Ireland (Aug 25, 2025)
A solo episode by Dr. Lyons giving a personal life update: the challenges of home building, retreat planning, and caring for her aging mother.
She reflects on resilience, surrender, and how mothering herself becomes more important during transitions and chaos.
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Mothering isn’t just a role—it’s an energy, a transformative experience that transcends traditional definitions. Whether as a noun, a verb, or a profound force, mothering is accessible to everyone who embraces it. Dr. Gertrude Lyons’ groundbreaking work celebrates this essence, providing the tools and support to lead more authentic, joyful, and fulfilling lives – whether you’re seeking greater intimacy, more job satisfaction, or something else, you’re in the right place. Dive into this revolution with the Rewrite the Mother Code podcast and awaken the mothering spirit within you.
On Rewrite the Mother Code, Dr. Gertrude explores women’s development, parenting, self-love, and relationship fulfillment through storytelling, interviews with experts, and conversations with community members. Dr. Gertrude is having conversations about motherhood and mothering that no one else is having. She brings herself and her guests into alignment through the transformational opportunity in mothering.
If you’re curious about what embarking on the journey of Rewriting YOUR Mother Code could feel like, interested in joining a community of open-hearted women, and learning to celebrate what makes you you, you’ve come to the right place.
In this deeply mystical and grounding episode, I welcome Canadian author and dream worker Toko-pa Turner. Toko-pa shares the journey behind her award-winning books, Belonging and The Dreaming Way, exploring how our personal search for belonging is often a reflection of a collective epidemic of alienation. We discuss how belonging isn’t just an external place to find, but a skill and set of competencies we weave from the inside out.
We delve into the profound world of dream work, moving beyond simple interpretation to viewing dreams as “nature naturing through us.” Toko-pa explains the Jungian approach to dreams, asking where a wound is taking us rather than just what caused it, and shares her own touching story of how her dreams “parented” her during a difficult youth.
Our conversation also touches on the impact of technology on our ability to dream, the importance of “idle moments” for creativity, and a vulnerable share about my own dream regarding my father’s passing. Toko-pa closes with a powerful perspective on the “Death Mother” archetype and the necessary work of “remothering” ourselves when healthy models were absent.
You’ll also hear about:
- (04:19) The origin of Belonging: How a personal search for connection revealed a collective wound of alienation.
- (13:44) The difference between Freud and Jung: Freud asks “what happened to you?” while Jung asks “where is this trying to take you?”.
- (15:53) How dreams can “parent” us: Toko-pa’s experience of finding guidance from within when she left home at a young age.
- (20:29) Reframing dreams: Viewing dreams not just as neurological processes, but as nature expressing itself through us.
- (29:27) Dr. Gertrude’s vivid dream about her father after his passing and Toko-pa’s validation of visitation dreams.
- (36:37) The “echo chambers” of social media and how technology exacerbates our sense of alienation.
- (51:17) The necessity of “idle moments”: Why pauses and boredom are essential precursors to creativity and wisdom.
- (57:13) The “Death Mother” archetype and the lifetime work of “remothering” oneself from the foundations up.
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