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THE GROUNDED MOTHER
 

Motherhood can be hard without the hard parts taking over.

A six-week, psychologically grounded programme to help you understand more clearly what's making things difficult, change how you relate to what gets in the way, and make more room for the life and relationships that matter to you.

 

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THE GROUNDED MOTHER

Motherhood can be hard without the hard parts taking over.

A six-week, psychologically grounded programme to help you understand what's happening beneath the difficult moments, loosen the hold they have on you, and make more room for the life and relationships that matter to you.

Show me how

Maybe some of this is familiar.

Maybe it’s having less patience than you’d like.

A sharper response than you meant — then replaying it afterwards and wishing you’d handled it differently.

Maybe it’s the second-guessing.

A parenting decision that keeps circling. Wondering if you’re getting this right, or whether something you did, felt or wanted says more about you as a mother than it actually does.

Or perhaps it’s the quieter tension.

Caring deeply about your children, while still wanting things that are yours too — time, work, interests, rest, space of your own — and feeling guilty for wanting them at all.

Sometimes the hard part is simply the amount you’re carrying.

And sometimes you notice the effect elsewhere too — less warmth with your children, less space for your partner, less room to actually enjoy a family life you care about deeply.

It's rarely just one thing.

Sometimes what's making this hard is how much you're carrying — the caregiving, the work, the sheer number of things you're holding at once, often with too little support. That's not something you can simply think your way out of.

But what happens under that load matters too. Under pressure, patience and perspective can become harder to find. Expectations about how things should be can add another layer. A difficult moment or decision can begin to carry more weight than the situation itself — becoming something you replay, question, or quietly measure yourself against.

Often, these things overlap. Which is why more advice, more effort or simply trying to stay calm isn't always the answer. Understanding what's actually happening gives you somewhere more useful to begin.

 What becomes possible

The difference can show up in ordinary moments.

A decision you make once, without spending the rest of the afternoon wondering if you got it wrong. An hour or an evening that's actually yours, without the usual back-and-forth in your head about whether you should be taking it. Noticing something good — Noticing the ordinary moments of connection — a laugh with your child, something that's simply enjoyable — instead of being mentally three other places at once.

This is what The Grounded Mother is built around: a six-week, psychologically grounded programme, working with real moments like these rather than the promise of permanent calm.

The difficult parts don't disappear, and hard days still happen. But they can begin to occupy less of your life — leaving more room for patience, for connection, and for your own needs, interests and plans, alongside everything else that already matters to you.

Here's how it works ↓

 What becomes possible

The difference can show up in ordinary moments.

A decision you make once, without spending the rest of the afternoon wondering if you got it wrong. An hour or an evening that's actually yours, without the usual back-and-forth in your head about whether you should be taking it. Noticing something good — Noticing the ordinary moments of connection — a laugh with your child, something that's simply enjoyable — instead of being mentally three other places at once.

This is what The Grounded Mother is built around: a six-week, psychologically grounded programme, working with real moments like these rather than the promise of permanent calm.

The difficult parts don't disappear, and hard days still happen. But they can begin to occupy less of your life — leaving more room for patience, for connection, and for your own needs, interests and plans, alongside everything else that already matters to you.

Here's how it works ↓

Introducing

The Grounded Mother

The Grounded Mother is a six-module online programme, with video lessons, guided practices, and a full workbook with exercises and resources to work through alongside the teaching.

Each element does a different job — the videos introduce the ideas, the workbook helps you explore how they show up in your own life, and the guided practices give you a way to put some of what you're learning into practice. You can revisit any part of the programme as you go — a lesson, a practice or a page of the workbook — whenever it's useful to come back to it.

 €497 · Payment plan available

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Introducing

The Grounded Mother

The Grounded Mother is a six-module online programme, with video lessons, guided practices, and a full workbook with exercises and resources to work through alongside the teaching.

Each element does a different job — the videos introduce the ideas, the workbook helps you explore how they show up in your own life, and the guided practices give you a way to put some of what you're learning into practice. You can revisit any part of the programme as you go — a lesson, a practice or a page of the workbook — whenever it's useful to come back to it.

Inside the programme

Six modules, built to work together

The programme draws on the M.I.B.A. Method, with each module building on what came before.

Understand what's actually driving your stress

Not just what stresses you, but how stress itself works — and why some of it helps you while some of it wears you down.

  • The real difference between useful pressure and pressure that depletes you
  • Your own individual triggers and stress patterns
  • What's actually happening in your body when stress activates

Notice what makes a difficult moment harder

A stressful moment is one thing. What your mind adds to it — while it's happening or long after — is often what makes it heavier.

  • The difference between an unavoidable stressor and the extra weight layered around it
  • How automatic reactions and autopilot shape what happens next
  • Building the kind of awareness that catches this as it's forming

Understand what turns pressure into overload

Why fighting a difficult experience can make it harder, and what happens when things collide with how you expected them to go.

  • How avoidance and resistance can intensify difficulty rather than ease it
  • The role expectations play in turning a hard moment into a harder one
  • What tips ordinary pressure into overload

Learn to step back from your thoughts

The difference between a thought that feels completely true and a fact — and why that distinction matters.

  • Noticing the core beliefs running underneath a difficult moment
  • Learning to relate to a convincing thought without needing to declare it right or wrong
  • Practical ways of loosening a thought's grip on you, whether or not it turns out to be true

Change your relationship with automatic reactions

Learning to notice a reaction without being carried along by it — so you have more say in what happens next.

  • Learning to tell the difference between being caught up in a thought or feeling and simply noticing it
  • Building the capacity to respond rather than simply react
  • Gaining perspective on internal experience without needing it to disappear first

Act on what actually matters to you

Bringing it together into real choices — in your relationships, your own needs, and your everyday life.

  • Getting clear on your own values, not an external idea of what they should be
  • Taking committed action even on the days that are genuinely difficult
  • Building self-compassion as part of how you follow through

Inside the programme

Six modules, built to work together

The programme draws on the M.I.B.A. Method, with each module building on what came before.

Understand what's actually driving your stress

Not just what stresses you, but how stress itself works — and why some of it helps you while some of it wears you down.

- The real difference between useful pressure and pressure that depletes you

- Your own individual triggers and stress patterns

- What's actually happening in your body when stress activates

Notice what makes a difficult moment harder

A stressful moment is one thing. What your mind adds to it — while it's happening or long after — is often what makes it heavier.

- The difference between an unavoidable stressor and the extra weight layered around it

- How automatic reactions and autopilot shape what happens next

- Building the kind of awareness that catches this as it's forming

Understand what turns pressure into overload

Why fighting a difficult experience can make it harder, and what happens when things collide with how you expected them to go.

- How avoidance and resistance can intensify difficulty rather than ease it

- The role expectations play in turning a hard moment into a harder one

- What tips ordinary pressure into overload

Learn to step back from your thoughts

The difference between a thought that feels completely true and a fact — and why that distinction matters.

- Noticing the core beliefs running underneath a difficult moment

- Learning to relate to a convincing thought without needing to declare it right or wrong

- Practical ways of loosening a thought's grip on you, whether or not it turns out to be true

Change your relationship with automatic reactions

Learning to notice a reaction without being carried along by it — so you have more say in what happens next.

- Learning to tell the difference between being caught up in a thought or feeling and simply noticing it

- Building the capacity to respond rather than simply react

- Gaining perspective on internal experience without needing it to disappear first

Act on what actually matters to you

Bringing it together into real choices — in your relationships, your own needs, and your everyday life.

- Getting clear on your own values, not an external idea of what they should be

- Taking committed action even on the days that are genuinely difficult

- Building self-compassion as part of how you follow through

What you take with you

More than understanding why it happens

Across the six modules, understanding becomes something you can use — in how you meet pressure, relate to yourself, and make choices about what matters.

  • A clearer understanding of your own stress — what’s coming from the situation itself, what may be adding to it, and where you actually have room to respond differently.
  • More space around difficult reactions and emotions — so they can be there without automatically deciding what you do next.
  • A gentler way of relating to difficult moments — where getting something wrong doesn’t have to become evidence that you’re getting motherhood wrong.
  • Less pull from overthinking and second-guessing — with more ability to recognise a thought as a thought and make decisions without needing complete certainty.
  • More access to what’s good as well as what’s difficult — with greater capacity to be present for connection, enjoyment and the parts of life you value.
  • More room for your own needs and wants to matter too — not instead of the people you care for, but alongside them.
  • A clearer basis for the choices you make — guided more by what genuinely matters to you and less by fear, comparison or the pressure to keep everyone happy.

And a set of practices you can keep returning to long after you’ve finished the final module.

From someone who’s taken the programme

“The best course I’ve done in years!”

From someone who’s taken the programme

“The best course I’ve done in years!”

"It took me longer than 6 weeks, but that didn’t matter—the flexibility was one of the things I loved most.

The mix of informative videos, well-guided meditations, and written materials made the course engaging and inspiring. I especially appreciated being able to go back, repeat meditations, and revisit earlier lessons whenever I needed.

This course has had such a positive impact on my life that I plan to start it all over again. I know there’s still more for me to learn and experience.

Thank you, Maria, for creating such an incredible, well-prepared mindfulness course that I could follow from anywhere—whether at home, on holiday, or even on a break at work.

With this course, I’ve gained another powerful tool to live a healthier life and deepen my understanding of myself.

- Katherina Salzmann

Teacher and mom of two children

"It took me longer than 6 weeks, but that didn’t matter—the flexibility was one of the things I loved most.

The mix of informative videos, well-guided meditations, and written materials made the course engaging and inspiring. I especially appreciated being able to go back, repeat meditations, and revisit earlier lessons whenever I needed.

This course has had such a positive impact on my life that I plan to start it all over again. I know there’s still more for me to learn and experience.

Thank you, Maria, for creating such an incredible, well-prepared mindfulness course that I could follow from anywhere—whether at home, on holiday, or even on a break at work.

With this course, I’ve gained another powerful tool to live a healthier life and deepen my understanding of myself.

- Katherina Salzmann

Teacher and mom of two children

WHAT'S INCLUDED

Everything inside The Grounded Mother

The programme is designed to give you different ways to work with the material — learning, reflecting, practising, and coming back to what's useful as you go. You don't need to use every resource at once, or work through everything perfectly.

Monthly live Q&A

Bring questions from the programme to a monthly lice Q&A with Maria

Private Facebook group

Access to the private Facebook group for The Grounded Mother

Lifetime Access

The core programme content remains your - there's no deadline to finish by, and you won't lose access once the six weeks are up

Monthly live Q&A

Bring questions from the programme to a monthly lice Q&A with Maria

Private Facebook group

Access to the private Facebook group for The Grounded Mother

Lifetime Access

The core programme content remains your - there's no deadline to finish by, and you won't lose access once the six weeks are up

Included with The Grounded Mother

Four bonuses to go alongside the programme

Alongside the six-module programme, you'll also get three practical bonus collections created for the moments when you need something more specific — plus the full Meditation Deluxe course.

Total standalone value: €248 — included FREE as part of The Grounded Mother.

Mini Course

The Balanced Mom's Playbook

Standalone value €67

For putting the programme's ideas into practice inside a real, busy household — mindfulness with children in the room, making space for something that's yours alongside caregiving and work, and routines built for ordinary days rather than quiet ones.

Program

Stress SOS Pack

Standalone value €47

For the moments when pressure is already high and a full lesson isn't what's needed — shorter, practical tools you can reach for in the middle of a difficult afternoon.

Workshop

On-the-Go Mindfulness Bundle

Standalone value €37

For the days there's no quiet twenty minutes to be found — practice built to fit into chores, commutes and the in-between moments, rather than asking you to carve out more time.

Deluxe Pack

Meditation Deluxe

Standalone value €97

A full standalone meditation course, included with your programme: different approaches to explore (including mindfulness, breathing-based, Zen and chakra meditation), a substantial library of guided practices — body scans, grounding, walking meditation, mindful eating, self-compassion and more — and support for building a practice that actually holds up over time, not just while you're motivated.

Included with The Grounded Mother

Four bonuses to go alongside the programme

Alongside the six-module programme, you'll also get three practical bonus collections created for the moments when you need something more specific — plus the full Meditation Deluxe course.

Total standalone value: €248 — included FREE as part of The Grounded Mother.

Mini Course

The Balanced Mom's Playbook

Standalone value €67

For putting the programme's ideas into practice inside a real, busy household — mindfulness with children in the room, making space for something that's yours alongside caregiving and work, and routines built for ordinary days rather than quiet ones.

Program

Stress SOS Pack

Standalone value €47

For the moments when pressure is already high and a full lesson isn't what's needed — shorter, practical tools you can reach for in the middle of a difficult afternoon.

Workshop

On-the-Go Mindfulness Bundle

Standalone value €37

For the days there's no quiet twenty minutes to be found — practice built to fit into chores, commutes and the in-between moments, rather than asking you to carve out more time.

Deluxe Pack

Meditation DeluxeStandalone value €97

A full standalone meditation course, included with your programme: different approaches to explore (including mindfulness, breathing-based, Zen and chakra meditation), a substantial library of guided practices — body scans, grounding, walking meditation, mindful eating, self-compassion and more — and support for building a practice that actually holds up over time, not just while you're motivated.

ABOUT MARIA

Meet Maria O'Hara

Maria is a psychologist and transformational coach, with an MSc in Mindfulness in Health & Research Contexts and advanced MBSR training at Brown University. Her work brings together years of study across psychology, mindfulness and coaching, applied to the realities and complexities of motherhood.

She's also a mother of two. Without assuming her experience is the same as yours, motherhood has brought much of what she's studied into the middle of ordinary, unplanned days.

BSc Psychology · MSc Mindfulness in Health & Research Contexts · Advanced MBSR Training, Brown University · ICF-credentialed Transformational Coach

More about Maria →

IS THE GROUNDED MOTHER RIGHT FOR YOU?

A clear way to decide

This programme may be a good fit if...

âś“ You're finding that stress, pressure, overthinking or difficult emotions are taking up more of your life than you'd like.

✓ You sometimes respond in ways that don't reflect how you'd like to be — and want to understand what's happening rather than simply trying harder next time.

✓ You find yourself second-guessing decisions, putting pressure on yourself to get motherhood "right," or judging yourself harshly when things don't go as you'd hoped.

✓ You want your own needs, interests and priorities to have a place in your life alongside caring deeply for your children.

✓ You're open to reflection and practice, rather than looking for a set of rules about how you should parent.

✓ You want psychological ideas you can apply in ordinary, everyday life — not just understand in theory.

This programme

may not be the right fit if...

X You're primarily looking for parenting strategies or advice about managing your child's behaviour.

X You're hoping for a quick fix, without wanting to look at what's underneath it.

X This kind of self-paced online programme isn't the right format for what you need — for example, if you're looking for individual psychotherapy, a diagnosis, or treatment for a mental health condition.

X You're currently in crisis, or need a level of one-to-one mental-health support beyond what an online programme can offer.

X The main difficulty you're facing calls for practical, medical, legal, relationship or other specialist support — rather than, or before, this kind of psychological work.

X You're looking for a programme that promises to eliminate stress, difficult emotions or hard days altogether.

FROM WOMEN WHO'VE TAKEN THE PROGRAMME

What participants say

It’s not about perfection, but about being present and doing my best

"Running a business and raising a child left me constantly feeling like I was failing at one or the other. The Grounded Mother has helped me shift my perspective—now I approach each day with more compassion for myself. It’s not about perfection, but about being present and doing my best in each moment. That’s been incredibly freeing."

Rachel, Entrepreneur and Mother of One

I’ve learned that I can’t pour from an empty cup....

"Maria helped me navigate the overwhelming stress of being a new mom while working full-time. This course gave me tools to manage my anxiety and prioritize self-care without feeling guilty. I’ve learned that I can’t pour from an empty cup, and what I have learnt from The Grounded Mother has been key in helping me refill that cup regularly."

Jacqui Doughty - Software Engineer and New Mom

Now, I’m more present with my kids and manage work stress without bringing it home.

 "Before this course, I felt like I was running on empty, trying to do it all. The Grounded Mother taught me how to pause and breathe, even during chaos. Now, I’m more present with my kids and manage work stress without bringing it home. It’s been a game-changer for my peace of mind."

Sharon Taylor - Marketing Manager and Mother of Two

FROM WOMEN WHO'VE TAKEN THE PROGRAMME

What participants say

It’s not about perfection, but about being present and doing my best

"Running a business and raising a child left me constantly feeling like I was failing at one or the other. The Grounded Mother has helped me shift my perspective—now I approach each day with more compassion for myself. It’s not about perfection, but about being present and doing my best in each moment. That’s been incredibly freeing."

Rachel, Entrepreneur and Mother of One

I’ve learned that I can’t pour from an empty cup....

"Maria helped me navigate the overwhelming stress of being a new mom while working full-time. This course gave me tools to manage my anxiety and prioritize self-care without feeling guilty. I’ve learned that I can’t pour from an empty cup, and what I have learnt from The Grounded Mother has been key in helping me refill that cup regularly."

Jacqui Doughty - Software Engineer and New Mom

Now, I’m more present with my kids and manage work stress without bringing it home.

 "Before this course, I felt like I was running on empty, trying to do it all. The Grounded Mother taught me how to pause and breathe, even during chaos. Now, I’m more present with my kids and manage work stress without bringing it home. It’s been a game-changer for my peace of mind."

Sharon Taylor - Marketing Manager and Mother of Two

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Choose the Option That Works for You

Both options give you full access to everything in The Grounded Mother. The only difference is how you'd like to pay.

Pay in full

1 single payment: €497

One payment. Full access today — and €40 less than the payment plan.

âś“ Complete six-module programme
âś“ All programme resources + four bonuses
âś“ Lifetime access to the core programme
âś“ Ongoing monthly live Q&A

âś“ Lifetime access to the private Facebook group
âś“ Protected by the 60-day guarantee

Join The Grounded Mother

Payment plan

3 monthly payments €180

€540 total. Three monthly payments. Full access today.

âś“ Complete six-module programme
âś“ All programme resources + four bonuses
âś“ Lifetime access to the core programme
✓  Ongoing monthly live Q&A

âś“ Lifetime access to the private Facebook group
âś“ Protected by the 60-day guarantee

Choose the payment plan

60-day money-back guarantee

I want you to have enough time to explore the programme, put what you're learning into practice, and decide whether The Grounded Mother is right for you.

You'll have 60 days from purchase to try the programme in your own life. If you decide it isn't right for you, you can request a full refund within that period.

The hard parts don't have to take up all the room.

 

Motherhood can still be demanding. There will still be tired days, moments you handle differently than you'd have liked, and decisions you're not entirely sure about.

The aim isn't to make all of that disappear. It's for it to take up less space — leaving more room for patience, connection, your own judgement, and the things that are simply yours.

That's what The Grounded Mother is built for.

Join The Grounded Mother →

The hard parts don't have to take up all the room. 

Motherhood can still be demanding. There will still be tired days, moments you handle differently than you'd have liked, and decisions you're not entirely sure about.

The aim isn't to make all of that disappear. It's for it to take up less space — leaving more room for patience, connection, your own judgement, and the things that are simply yours.

That's what The Grounded Mother is built for.

Join The Grounded Mother →