The Weaning Circle: Reclaiming Weaning as Sacred Rite, Ceremony & Maternal Transformation
Forthcoming Book by Haley Woodside, LMFT, Doctoral Researcher, and Ceremonialist
Weaning is more than the end of breastfeeding, it is a profound rite of passage. Yet in many cultures today, this transition goes unseen, unsupported, and unnamed. The Weaning Circle is a reclamation.
Blending memoir, psychology, global traditions, and ritual practices, this book honors weaning as a sacred unfolding, for both mother and child. It offers a ceremonial framework for navigating the grief, release, and rebirth that accompany this threshold, and invites readers into a collective remembering of motherhood as spiritual initiation.
Inside you’ll find:
Forthcoming Book by Haley Woodside, LMFT, Doctoral Researcher, and Ceremonialist
Weaning is more than the end of breastfeeding, it is a profound rite of passage. Yet in many cultures today, this transition goes unseen, unsupported, and unnamed. The Weaning Circle is a reclamation.
Blending memoir, psychology, global traditions, and ritual practices, this book honors weaning as a sacred unfolding, for both mother and child. It offers a ceremonial framework for navigating the grief, release, and rebirth that accompany this threshold, and invites readers into a collective remembering of motherhood as spiritual initiation.
Inside you’ll find:
- Personal and ancestral weaning stories
- Cross-cultural weaning rituals and global practices
- Psychological, ecological, feminist, and mythological frameworks
- Reflective prompts and ceremonial templates
- A call to create community-based weaning circles