About MotherCircle

Who Founded MotherCircle

What we will explore in MotherCircle

MotherCircle was founded by Kimberly Ann Johnson and Jessica Connolly.

Kimberly is a mother and the host of the Sex, Birth, Trauma Podcast as well as the author of, “The Fourth Trimester,” “Call of the Wild; How we Heal Trauma, Awaken our Own Power, and Use it for Good,” as well as “Reckoning” a book she cowrote with Stephen Jenkinson. She is a powerhouse spiritual teacher that brings the experience of the woman’s body, nervous system, soul and work into center of all she does.

Jessica is a mother of four and “a birthworker, holistic coach, and…. a circle leader committed to the practice and sharing of wisdom.” Both women are deeply compassionate visionaries and skilled facilitators. They are the team that leads the training to become a MotherCircle facilitator.

Why MotherCircle?

What brought Anna To MotherCircle

Details About This Upcoming MotherCircle

MotherCircle, January 2026 Cohort

Tuesdays 10-11:30am

January 13th-March 3rd

Many Rivers, 1044 East End Rd

Cost: $200 by 1/6, $250 thereafter

Our patterns of relating are out of alignment with the fundamental needs that all humans have for connection and belonging.

The cultural fabric is torn and we believe that it’s our work to do something about it. We have moved away from village-mindedness, and it’s mothers who suffer the most.

But what if we could change that simply through mothers gathering and connecting about the things that really matter?

What if instead of an epidemic of disconnection we could seed a culture of wisdom?

For us, for our children, and for our children’s children.

I attended MotherCircle twice before I took the facilitator training. Here is why:

• I love being a mother and also find it very challenging.

• I took Kimberly’s Awaken Your Inner Jaguar Course. Learned empowerment and trauma renegotiation and SO much more from a female nervous system lens. Made me LOVE her work.

• Felt a personal lack of education, rites of passage or priming for menstruation, sexuality or motherhood.

• When I got pregnant, I longed for wise women to take me under their wing.

• A key story about my grandmothers being told not to breastfeed by their doctors.

• A key story about my mother finding La Leche League and nursing all of her babies. Also of my mom caretaking me so I could have a 40 day lay-in period. A real healing!

• Love of Circle Practice.

• Desire to bring people’s subjective experience into my classes.

Mothering Changes

Being the mother of a toddler is very different from being a mother of a teenager or an adult child. In fact, the mothering experience can change every few weeks. As your child changes, you change, and that doesn’t even stop when they leave the house. In MotherCircle, there will be a mixture of women at different phases of motherhood. As we share stories and listen to each other’s reflections, we start to weave a fabric of shared understanding. It’s not the information that comes on a website in bullet points, it’s the kind that is told through a first person narrative and contains the human voice, the heart, the struggle, the misgivings and finally the gems. Women go through unimaginable challenges in the walk of being mothers.