Matresence

Motherhood changes everything.
Including how you experience yourself.

Matresence is an independent editorial platform exploring motherhood through identity, design, and intuition.

We tell slow stories about becoming.

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Embrace your ever evolving self

Matresence is an independent editorial space for mothers, where we exist as people first.

We explore pregnancy, postpartum, and perimenopause not as problems to solve, but as profound shifts in form - of body, identity, time, and desire.

This is a place for lived experience, and slow reflection.
A place to think clearly in a culture that rushes mothers through transformation.

There is nothing here to fix you.
Only space to understand.

Welcome to Matresence

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Form

Form follows function

Motherhood reshapes form.

Bodies change.
Attention shifts.
Time behaves differently.

Rather than organising mothers by roles or outcomes, Matresence is structured around Form — a design principle that recognises how function shapes structure over time.

Pregnancy.
Postpartum.
Perimenopause.

Each is a distinct form with its own needs, pressures, and possibilities.

Explore Form

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motherhood is an evolution and we are here to support you

By now, you know yourself best

Letters

Occasional letters for mothers who think, feel, and remember themselves.

Matrescence: the transition to becoming a mother, a developmental passage or stage ranging from preconception to postpartum and beyond.

Dana Raphael - Anthropologist

Matresence

Embrace your ever evolving self

Welcome to Matresence

Form follows function

By now, you know yourself best

Letters

Matrescence: the transition to becoming a mother, a developmental passage or stage ranging from preconception to postpartum and beyond.

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