This offering is for you if…

You want to feel closer and more connected to your daughter or mother.

Your communication difficult or non-existent.

You wish you had a way to express your truth to your mother.

You feel ashamed and misunderstood.

You feeling angry, sad or hopeless about your current relationship.

You feeling controlled by each other.

Having this inclusive time together will help you get to know yourself better, to enable you to show up for each other in more authentic, loving, and connected way. This process moves very quickly because you are investing all of your energy into the healing of yourself and your relationship.  I offer after retreat support and I collaborate with an exceptional clinical psychologist who could support the process before and or after.

Your old belief systems will be challenged and shifted, and therefore the changes are profound and sustainable. From my experience in most retreats I went to, there was a good feeling for about a week after, then old patterns started sneaking back in. The healing transformation in my retreat offering will continue to unfold and develop in all of your relationships.

Benefits for healing the relationship:

• Experience a deep loving relationship between mother and daughter
  and seeing the benefits ripple into all other relationships

• Accepting yourself just as you are and loving the wounded parts
  that are here to offer you wisdom and insight

• Learn new ways to communicate and how to handle your emotions
  so you can show up fully in your truth

• Connect to your inner Goddess learn to dance with joy and compassion
  by becoming your own mother

• Have healthy boundaries to honor and respect yourself
  and your mother or daughter

• Feeling seen and heard, knowing that anything is possible
  and that you are safe and supported

• Experience deep gratitude for being a woman, a daughter and a mother
  seeing the gift of unconditional love

My name is Tish, this name was a nickname my mother used to call me when I was younger.  My given name was Natashia which never really resonated since it’s Russian and I”m South African.  The word Tish in Sanskrit means JOY, and I believe that one of my most sacred gifts is to share more joy with all living beings. I thus go by Tish, invoking joy each time my name is called.

My story goes as far back as my grandmother, whom I never met in person but her DNA is living in me and I feel like I know her. My mother lost her mother at a young age, she felt abandoned and unwanted.  Her mother didn’t even choose her name the nurses in hospital did. She carried so much deep suffering from her relationship with her mom into our relationship as mother and daughter.  She did the best she could, with what she had and was a strong warrior.  She was firm, ambitious, dominant and competitive; there was little space left for the feminine to be experienced.

Me and my Dad

I grew up as daddy’s girl, my mother dedicated her life to her work and was unavailable.  My step grandmother took me in allowing me to feel what it’s like to experience the feminine in a woman. She taught me generosity, compassion, empathy and creativity. There was competition and jealousy between these two females who I looked up to as my role models. I resented them both for making me choose.  I was the rebellious, ungrateful, lying daughter who did everything she could to get attention.  I felt disconnected from life, alienated from my own mother and grandmother.  

These two relationships impacted my life; from how I viewed my body to what I thought I could create and become in the world. My relationship with both women was dysfunctional, we could barely communicate and love each other.  I was so connected to both of these women that even from afar, I could sense their deep suffering and pain, yet I felt so disconnected from them.  We longed for each other and yet didn’t’ know how love one another.  These patterns played out for many years, I was afraid to speak my truth, share my feelings and had deep resentment towards her.

Healing the wounded relationship with my mother was not about her, but about embodying my gifts without shame.  Following my bliss by moving through the fears of abandonment and unworthiness.  Making choices that is aligned with my highest purpose. Not limiting myself or afraid to speak my truth and feel my deep emotions of being a woman. Trusting my inner guidance and choosing to love myself in my light and my darkness.

Healing the mother wound is a gift of liberation and the embodiment of unconditional love.  When we heal our mother wound we REmember our innate feminine qualities allowing ourselves to thrive and be the best being of ourselves. Living in JOY.

My story may or may not have common elements to yours.  But our mothers are our first role models and we have forgotten the different archetypes and sacred qualities that lives within us waiting to be expressed.  We are all mothers even if we haven’t birthed a child into this world.

I gave myself the gift of nurturing, loving, kindness, tenderness, understanding and wisdom.  I was able to move into compassion, forgiveness and understanding for my own mother, my grandmother and her mother.  I started to love the little girl that ran away from home at 18 years old and became my own loving mother.  I’m here to hold the torch for you to remind you that all this is possible and waiting for you on the other side.

And all this inner work led me on a 3 month journey in Costa Rica with my mother where we dove deep into healing our mother daughter relation.  Whilst doing this work I had so many friends reaching out asking, longing for insight and help.  The message was clear, this is my medicine, this is my work.  I have an incredible gift of holding space for healing, I’ve been serving as a holistic healing practitioner and retreat leader for the past 5 years. My offerings are in a nurturing bio-diverse environment where it is safe to explore this inner healing work while connecting with nature, enjoying organic nurturing food and exploring adventures in the jungles of Costa Rica.

When I finally felt strong enough to focus directly on healing the mother wound and all the pain surrounding it, my life changed profoundly.  The shifts in myself and my relationships was huge.  By working through this healing process myself, I recognized for every human being, the very first wound of the heart happens at the site of our mother, the feminine.  Healing the mother wound is an opportunity and initiation to wholeness and oneness with all of life.

I believe healing the mother wound is the most vital thing a woman can focus on because of the incredible freedom and potential that lies on the other side of it and the scale of transformation and healing that is possible. No other relationship has the power to limit us or to free us as the relationship with our mother does. One could say that healing the mother wound is like birthing ourselves into our greatest potential.