Motherhood is an initiation into your fullest potential


A revolutionary path for growth-driven women who happen to be mothers. 

What if life wasn't meant to be a never-ending series of problems to solve or emotions to fix?

What if every challenge, emotional trigger, and recurring pattern was an invitation to uncover more joy, presence, wisdom and freedom?

Motherhood unlocks tremendous power and unlimited potential yet few women are ever shown how to access it. Instead, we spend years carrying more, doing more and trying harder hoping that fulfillment will come later.

It doesn't have to.

I help mothers dismantle inherited conditioning, develop emotional mastery and self-trust and use everyday life as the pathway to becoming more grounded, integrated and fully alive.

This is the work of the Initiated Mother.

Alena Schabes | Doctor of Psychology | 20+ Years Experience

I help growth-driven mothers discover what few of us were ever taught: that motherhood is one of life's greatest opportunities for personal evolution.

Every challenge, emotional trigger, and season of change carries the potential to awaken greater wisdom, self-trust, and freedom. As you learn to work with these experiences consciously, you begin to release inherited patterns, reclaim your power, and create a more joyful, integrated way of living.

This is how personal transformation becomes generational transformation.

For many women, there comes a point in motherhood when inherited patterns can no longer be ignored.

You've invested in your growth. You've done the therapy, read the books, and worked hard to build a meaningful life. From the outside, it may even look like you have it all together. Yet you find yourself longing for something more. More fulfillment, joy and presence. A deeper sense of connection to yourself and the life you've worked so hard to create.

Beneath the responsibilities, accomplishments, and expectations is often an inherited drive to keep proving your worth, carrying more than is yours to carry, and pushing forward even when a wiser part of you is calling you toward a more grounded, intentional way of living. Motherhood has a way of bringing those patterns into the light, not to judge them, but to invite you into something greater.

You weren't meant to spend your life just holding it together.

You were meant to experience it fully.

Go from Meh to Yeah!

The life you're longing for begins with the way you choose to live today.

ANSWER THE CALL


Motherhood is an initiation into a new way of being.

A call to deepen your awareness, expand your capacity, and uncover the wisdom that emerges through life's everyday experiences.

Motherhood awakens tremendous power and unlimited potential, yet few women are ever shown how to access it. Instead, we spend years trying to hold everything together, waiting for life to slow down before we finally feel fulfilled.

The Initiated Mother Framework offers a different path.

It helps you recognize the hidden opportunities for growth within every challenge, emotion, and transition. As you learn to engage with these moments consciously, they become catalysts for greater self-trust, emotional mastery, spiritual connection, and lasting transformation.

You begin to dismantle inherited conditioning, reclaim your personal power, and create a life that feels grounded, integrated, and deeply aligned with who you are becoming.

This is your invitation to answer the call.

To embrace motherhood as a pathway to personal evolution. To lead yourself with intention. To transform life's everyday experiences into wisdom. And to create a legacy of conscious living that extends far beyond you, shaping your family and future generations.

WHAT'S AVAILABLE

"I want to understand why my life as a mother feels so complicated"

Motherhood Reimagined



"I'm ready for deep transformation and lasting change"

Motherhood Reclaimed


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Consultations, speaking, workshop events, custom setups.  Message me and we'll shape it together

Motherhood is not just a role.
It’s an initiation that changes everything.
Who you were doesn't quite fit anymore and what's next isn't fully clear yet.
That in between is where we work together.

MEET ALENA

My own journey through motherhood took me from depleted, reactive and constantly pushing through to living with greater clarity, self-trust and intention.

I know what it feels like to quietly hope that life will finally feel lighter some day. And I know that growth-driven moms ask:   Is this all there is, or is something more possible?

What I discovered is that motherhood wasn't asking me to work harder. (It shouted that loudly as I rode the hustle train until the wheels fell off).  It was inviting me to become more conscious. Every challenge, every trigger and every phase of change became an opportunity to uncover wisdom, reclaim my power and  live from a place that felt more grounded, joyful, and fully alive.

Today, I bring together more than 20 years as a Doctor of Psychology with over a decade of what I like to call advanced training courtesy of my two wonderfully strong-willed children.

Through the Initiated Mother Framework, I guide mothers in transforming everyday life into their greatest teacher, so they can quiet the overthinking, release the need to carry everything alone and cultivate the presence, confidence, and self-trust to create a life they don't have to wait to enjoy.

Experience with lasting impact

"I was truly inspired by how deeply Alena cares.  She created an environment where I felt supported and encouraged.

Her guidance helped me grow so much in my confidence and self-worth.  That experience had a lasting impact that I will carry on with me."

Alexandra D.

Best mental health investment

"I can honestly say that Motherhood Squared is one of the best investments I have ever made in my mental health.

I am blown away by how all of the things I am learning are easy to apply and so deeply supportive.  I will always be coming back to them in my daily life.

Thank you for creating this program for moms like me!"

ANDI M

Transformative experience

"My experience with Alena was amazing and transformative. Along with having so much knowledge, she also has a powerful way of tapping into my personal psyche and customizing the lessons and discussions to my specific needs. She is honest and authentic, which made my experience even more inspirational "

TRACIE o.

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