Publications

This mixed-methods study explored how new mothers in North America experience climate-related distress during matrescence, the transition into motherhood. Thirteen mothers with children under age thre...

 This pilot study explored how new mothers experiencing eco-distress during matrescence—the developmental transition into motherhood—might transform that distress into ecological awakening. Over five ...

This study explores how climate change and extreme weather events (EWEs) affect maternal mental health, highlighting increased rates of perinatal mood and anxiety disorders (PMADs) among mothers ex...

 “Mothers are charged with more responsibility to save the earth but pushed towards solutions that only hurt the planet and the future generations that rely on healthy mothers and a habitable earth....

Maternal ecodistress may be the energetic signature of a warming-up ecoconsciousness—an affective transformation that prepares mothers for psychological growth and reattunement to an animate Earth...