It can change your body, your relationships, your work, your days and how you see yourself.
Lioria is here for the woman becoming a mother - before birth and through the first year. To help you make sense of what's changing, find useful information and support, and feel a little less alone in figuring it all out.
A few minutes for you. Our free weekly letter brings thoughtful reading, useful information and honest perspectives to your inbox.
What you're going through
You can spend months preparing for a baby and still wonder how you prepare for becoming a mother.
You can love what's happening - and still have questions about what it might change.
Everyone asks about the baby. Sometimes you want someone to ask about you.
There can be joy in ridiculous places. A tiny stretch. A gummy smile. Finally drinking a cup of tea while it's still hot.
And there can be days when your body, your relationships, your priorities or even your sense of yourself feel different.
You might recognise all of this, some of it, or none of it yet.
Motherhood can change more than we are taught to expect. Understanding that change is a place to start.
How Lioria helps you
Matrescence is the transition into motherhood - a period of physical, emotional, social and identity change that can begin during pregnancy and continue after your baby arrives.
For some women, having a word for the transition helps make sense of experiences that otherwise feel disconnected: changes in your body, relationships, confidence, emotions, work or simply how you see yourself.
But matrescence isn't an explanation for everything, and you don't need to use the word for your experience to matter.
Lioria looks at the whole transition. We do the reading, find useful information and bring different perspectives together, so there is less for you to piece together yourself.
The areas we focus on
Motherhood touches more than one part of life. These are eight areas we explore - with useful information, thoughtful perspectives and relevant support where we find it.
Making sense of what feels different - and what still feels entirely yours.
Understanding the emotional shifts that can come with becoming a mother, with room for your experience to be your own.
Clear, trustworthy information about maternal mental health and where to find appropriate professional support when you need it.
Making the often-invisible work of family life easier to see, understand and talk about.
Understanding changes in your body, recovery and wellbeing, and finding reliable information and support.
Exploring what can change between partners, family, friends - and you.
Finding useful support and exploring what helps women feel understood and connected.
Making sense of another transition - if and when returning to work becomes part of yours.
How Lioria shows up
Four roles shape the Lioria experience.
Warm, honest company. We notice the parts of becoming a mother that don't always get talked about, without telling you how you should feel.
We do the reading, find useful information and look carefully at the evidence - distinguishing what we know, what people have experienced and what we're still learning.
We make room for mothers' different perspectives and experiences, and explore ways to help women find connection without creating another obligation.
Where expertise is useful, we bring trusted voices and relevant information closer - clearly attributed, and within Lioria's non-clinical boundaries.
About the founder
I spent my adult life being capable and prepared - used to being in control of my time, my work, my outcomes. So I did what I knew: I prepared for pregnancy, birth and caring for a baby.
What I wasn't prepared for was how much motherhood would change me - and that it would be the first thing I couldn't plan my way through.
I was living through one of the most joyful times of my life and grieving the woman I'd been, both at once. I loved my son deeply, and I missed parts of who I used to be. At the time, I didn't have language for any of it.
Looking back, just knowing there was a name for what I was going through - and that it was a real change, not a failing - would have changed everything.
I built Lioria because I wanted women to have somewhere that paid attention to what was happening to them, not only to their baby.
- Paz, founder
Our mission
To support new mothers through the transition into motherhood.
Meeting them where they are, steadying the days they're just surviving and lifting toward more of the days they're winning, through validation, connection and trusted clarity - so that, in their own time, they can grow, become and thrive.
Lioria is for women preparing to give birth and mothers through their baby's first year. We consider the whole woman - without making motherhood another thing to perform, optimise or get right.
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