52 Weeks · 4 Sections per Week · For New Mothers

Everyone asked about the baby. Not about you.

A 52-week written course following your baby's neurological development and your own psychological journey, week by week, for the entire first year.

The parenting industry is enormous. Books, apps, classes, weekly emails. All focused on the baby. None focused on you: the identity shift, the grief that arrived with the love, the person you were going somewhere you could not find. This course follows both.

52Weeks
4Sections per Week
Self-Paced
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Included with your My Inner Foundation membership.

Have accurate, clear knowledge of what is happening developmentally each week: what the behaviour means, what they are building, what is normal and what is not.Understand your baby week by week
Have your psychological journey through the first year named and witnessed: the identity shift, the grief, the exhaustion, the love, rather than having it disappear into the noise of new parenthood.Be seen in your own experience
Understand what is forming between you and your baby week by week, and have the knowledge to support it rather than just hoping it is happening.Build the attachment deliberately
New mothers in the first year who feel invisible inside the visibility of new parenthoodThis may be for you
Anyone who loves their baby and is also grieving something they cannot nameThis may be for you
What this course helps you explore
New mothers in the first year who feel invisible inside the visibility of new parenthood Anyone who loves their baby and is also grieving something they cannot name Women who want to understand what is happening in their baby's development without being overwhelmed by it Any new mother who wants someone to ask about her — not just the baby Understand your baby week by week Be seen in your own experience Build the attachment deliberately Arrive at the end of the first year more whole
The Premise

The work beneath
Everyone asked about the baby. Not about you.

This course is designed to help you slow the pattern down, understand what is happening underneath it, and begin practising a steadier, kinder way forward. It does not ask you to become someone else. It helps you return to yourself with more clarity, language, and choice.

The parenting industry is enormous. Books, apps, classes, weekly emails. All focused on the baby. None focused on you: the identity shift, the grief that arrived with the love, the person you were going somewhere you could not find. This course follows both.
The Course

4 Modules. Self-paced lessons

Each module is a place to understand one layer more clearly. Move slowly. Let the language meet the part of your life that has needed more care, more honesty, and a more hopeful way forward.

01
Module 1
What is happening in their brain this week.

Each week opens with the neurological and developmental reality of your baby: what they are processing, what they are building, what the behaviour that is confusing you is actually about. Clear, accurate, not overwhelming.

02
Module 2
What is happening in you this week.

The section that does not exist anywhere else. Your nervous system, your identity, your grief and love and exhaustion, tracked week by week through the first year. Because you are also going through something, and it deserves the same attention.

03
Module 3
What is building between you.

The relationship forming in real time: the attachment, the attunement, the way two nervous systems are learning each other. This section names what is happening in the space between you and your baby, and what you are both contributing to it.

04
Module 4
One practice. Fifteen minutes.

One concrete practice per week, for your body, your mind, or your relationship with yourself. Short enough to actually do in the first year of a baby's life. Specific enough to make a difference.

Begin when you are ready

Everyone asked about the baby. Not about you.

A 52-week written course following your baby's neurological development and your own psychological journey, week by week, for the entire first year.

Start the Course — Included with Membership

Included with your My Inner Foundation membership.

Common Questions

Frequently asked

What is matrescence? +

Matrescence is the psychological and neurological transformation of becoming a mother, coined by anthropologist Dana Raphael in 1973. Like adolescence, it involves a profound restructuring of identity and sense of self. The grief of the former self, the love that arrives with the terror, the identity dissolution of the first weeks. This course addresses all of it, week by week.

What are the Wonder Weeks? +

The Wonder Weeks are major developmental leaps identified by researchers Frans and Kaz Plooij: periods of rapid neural reorganisation when babies often become fussier, clingier, and harder to settle. This course addresses each leap as it occurs: explaining what is happening in their brain, why the increased need is normal, and what it means for you.

How long is each week’s reading? +

Each week has four sections (their week, your week, between you, and a practice) designed to be read in 10 to 15 minutes total. Written for new parents who do not have more time than that. The content is substantial but the reading is achievable in the actual life of a new parent.

Is this course only for mothers? +

The course is written for the primary caregiver: the person undergoing matrescence, whose body the baby co-regulates with most consistently in the first weeks. The baby development sections are valuable for any caregiver. The psychological journey sections address the specific transformation of the primary caregiver.

What format is the course? +

Fully written, self-paced, membership access. No videos. 52 weeks of content, each with four sections. Designed to be read week by week in real time alongside your baby’s actual first year, or at any pace that works for you.

My Inner Foundation
Olivia Fox

A course by Olivia Fox, founder of My Inner Foundation. She writes about what she has lived, worked through herself, and sat with in others — translating real inner work and years of supporting people through these exact struggles into language that is precise, honest, and genuinely useful.

Written with care

A gentle note before you begin

My Inner Foundation courses are educational and reflective. They are not therapy, diagnosis, medical advice, or crisis support. If you are in immediate danger or need urgent mental-health support, please contact local emergency services or a qualified professional.

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