Episode 16: Karla & Michelle

In this episode, I’m joined by Karla and Michelle for a deeply meaningful conversation on Mother Circle facilitation, with a focus on supporting adoptive mothers.Together, we explore how Mother Circle offers something different than traditional mental health or support spaces—moving away from pathologizing and toward community, normalization, and being deeply held in shared experience.Karla and Michelle co-facilitate an adoption-specific Mother Circle, and in this conversation, they speak to the unique and often unspoken realities adoptive mothers navigate:The absence of a clear “threshold” into motherhoodThe weight of external expectations and quiet judgmentsThe layered responsibility toward both their children and birth familiesThe complexity of identity, belonging, and careWe also explore the five pillars of postpartum support—nature, wise community, nourishing food, extended rest, and loving touch—and how these pillars take on new meaning within adoptive motherhood.This conversation gently challenges the idea that mothers are meant to do this alone, and instead invites us into a more communal, interdependent way of caring for ourselves and each other.Mother Circle becomes a space where mothers don’t have to explain themselves—where they can reconnect with their own mother lines, define their unique paths, and be supported in the fullness of their experience.If you’re an adoptive mother, part of an adoption story, or simply curious about reimagining support in motherhood, this conversation offers a deeply human place to begin.Learn more about the adoption-specific Mother Circle:mothercircleadoption.com Be sure to follow me:​Patreon​: @SolefulSara​YouTube​ @SolefulSara​Substack​ @solefulSara​Instagram​ @soleful_circles.stl​Instagram Podcast​ @woven_soft.edges.deep.roots​TikTok​ @sarasole88