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 episode, I speak with Sara Rian, a poet, licensed therapist, sex therapist, and mother, about the deeply personal ways grief and loss have shaped her life, her relationship with motherhood, and her creative journey. Sara shares how losing her mother to suicide in 2018 transformed her poetry and became a way to process trauma, honor her grief, and maintain a connection with someone she loved. She also reflects on the profound impact of losing her oldest son and how these experiences have shaped her understanding of love, loss, and what it means to keep moving through life while carrying grief.
Sara opens up about the vulnerability of writing through grief, why she eventually chose to remove her first two books from publication, and how poetry has become a way to honor the people she has lost. We explore how grief can remain part of our lives rather than simply diminish with time, why there is no single right way to experience loss, and how allowing ourselves to feel deeply can create space for healing and self-discovery. Sara also shares how her experiences have challenged cultural expectations around grief and the pressure to move on or return to normal.
We delve into how loss intersects with motherhood, including Sara’s reflections on becoming a mother after losing her own mother, the generational patterns she wanted to understand before having children, and the ways grief can resurface through major life transitions. Sara shares how she continues her relationship with her mother through poetry, family rituals, and conversations with her daughters about the grandmother they never met. Our conversation explores the complexity of loving and grieving, the importance of mothering ourselves, and how we can honor those we have lost while creating new experiences and relationships for ourselves and the generations that follow.
You’ll also hear about:
- (02:08) Sara’s journey as a therapist, mother, and poet, and how writing became part of her life
- (03:12) How losing her mother to suicide transformed her poetry and became a way to process trauma and grief
- (05:34) Why Sara chose to remove her first two poetry books and protect the vulnerability of her earliest grief
- (08:12) The courage it takes to share deeply personal experiences and allow others to witness our pain
- (10:43) How grief has become part of Sara’s identity and why she has learned to honor rather than suppress it
- (12:17) Challenging cultural expectations about the “right” way to grieve and move through loss
- (13:08) Why pain can become a portal for growth, transformation, and deeper self-awareness
- (15:33) How Sara’s mother’s childhood experiences shaped their conversations about motherhood and generational patterns
- (17:10) Becoming a mother after losing her own mother and carrying forward the parts of their relationship she wanted to preserve
- (22:11) How motherhood can bring new layers of grief to the surface and change our relationship with loss
- (28:03) Preparing for motherhood through therapy, self-reflection, and understanding the experiences that shape our choices
- (30:06) How different childhood experiences influence our understanding of parenting, family, and emotional connection
- (35:13) Why poetry has remained a consistent part of Sara’s life and how her relationship with writing continues to evolve
- (37:21) Releasing perfectionism and allowing creativity to become a practice of self-expression and self-care
- (40:25) Continuing bonds and how poetry can help us maintain a relationship with loved ones who have died
- (42:05) Keeping her mother’s memory alive for her daughters through family stories, rituals, and the name “Ladybug Grandma”
- (45:14) How Sara’s experiences of loss have shaped her understanding of love, motherhood, and the importance of allowing grief to exist alongside life
Don’t miss Sara’s moving perspective on honoring grief, continuing our relationships with those we’ve lost, and rewriting the inherited beliefs that shape how we love, mother, and heal!
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