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The program for gentle mothers to heal, learn, and grow out of anxiety and overwhelm and into connection and confidence.

Nurturing A holistic and peaceful path for motherhood

SAGE MOTHERING

If you begin your day with a whole-hearted intention for peace but get lost in each day’s triggers, you need a map.

When I became a mother, I knew well all I didn’t want to do. Finding the path toward who I did want to be as a mother to my children was much less clear. Even with a stack of degrees in what essentially amounted to motherhood, it’s hard to be what you can’t see. It’s hard to apply the pieces you pick up along the way without the whole picture.

After decades of raising my own three children and supporting thousands of gentle parenting families around the world, I have identified five essential elements that foster the peaceful state you crave within yourself, your relationships, and your world.

Do you struggle to show up as the mother you long to be?

The Chapters

Chapter 3 is needs, where we learn how to honor true needs effectively and sustainably.

03. needs

Chapter 2 is connection, where we learn all about how to sustain a nourishing connection with ourselves, our children, among siblings, our partner, our extended family, and even our community. 

02. connection

Chapter 1 is acceptance, where we learn all about how to accept our people, our thoughts, our feelings, our states, our bodies . . . everything you need to transform your relationship with anxiety and nurture a peaceful home within yourself lives here. 

01. acceptance

Chapter 5 is boundaries, where we learn how to establish essential boundaries that create a felt sense of safety and comfort, but within a culture of freedom and agreements.

05. boundaries

Chapter 4 is collaboration, where we learn how to come alongside our children as allies, navigating challenges in respectful and creative partnership.

04. collaboration

Get the 50-page Sage Mothering Journal (Google Doc) as a companion, providing another dimension for processing, integrating, and applying your healing, learning, and growth.

The Sage Mothering Journal

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Melissa

"This course has transformed not only my parenting but also my life.

I am bursting with gratitude for all the tools Rachel offers to help me grow deeply into my authentic self, along with an invitation to shed the layers that no longer align with my values. I am inspired to live more mindfully, with my compass aligned toward connection. Her wisdom is simple, yet so profound. I highly recommend this course if you’re ready to live a joyful life in connection with your kids and loved ones."

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- Heather

. . . who wants to learn how to raise kind, capable, strong and thoughtful adults, while also living a wonderfully fulfilling life in which my needs are met too. This is not just a parenting course, this is a course on how to live in harmony with all of your people. It is the deeper work behind the gentle parenting scripts people post on social media that can give you inspiration but often leave you feeling lost in knowing how to authentically get there. Rachel gives such a beautiful balance of accepting everyone right where they are and guiding them to where they want to be, with no judgement or pressure, just loving support. I honestly believe that if everyone took this course, we could achieve world peace!"

"This course is everything my heart has been longing for as a mother . . .

- Elmien

Yes, I have access to the tools I need to do the inner work needed to show up for my people in a way that aligns with my values. Yes, I understand what it means to show up for myself with the care and love I am so deeply worthy of. Yes, I believe that I can "gentle human" in a way that affects meaningful change within the broader community I find myself in."

"After working through the course material (which had me laughing out loud at some times and crying rivers of tears at others), I feel a calm confidence that says 'YES! I can totally do this!'

Real results:

I work from an island in the Pacific Northwest, where I live wild and free in connection with my hilarious husband and three growing sailors in our fixer upper on the beach. I authentically live this healing work out loud raising my own neurodivergent family (inner child included) and draw on my decades of education and experience (I've done all the nerdy work so you don't have to) to guide a revolution of overwhelmed parents just like you to feeling at peace within yourself, consciously connected with your children, embraced by a supportive community, and enjoying a values-aligned life you love.

Gentle parenting, natural homeschooling, & simple living mentor

I'm Rachel Rainbolt

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Yes! Sage Mothering is 25% off the first week of November (just once a year).

DOES this course EVER GO ON SALE?

My professional and personal experience is that in our present culture there is a unique life experience that is specific to anyone who identifies as a mother. This course is speaking to that brutiful (brutal + beautiful) experience. 

Why sage mothering instead of parenting?

It is self-paced with lifetime access. This means that you can move through the lessons whenever works for you, at the pace that feels right you, and you can revisit the content whenever if feels helpful for you, for as long as the class is up and running.

Is there a time limit to complete the class?

The answer to this question is an enthusiastic yes. While this course is helpful for families anywhere along the spectrum of mothering experience, it is callibrated for those of us mothering at a higher degree of difficulty. 

Is this course helpful for neurodiverse families?

This course supports the entire journey of motherhood, including examples from infancy to young adulthood. The work we do that allows us to show up differently for our children is actually universal to all human connection (crazy, right?). What helps you parent a toddler better also helps your relationship with a teenager and a partner and on it goes.

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