What is
Wild
Mother?
Wild Mother is a community hive mind of women supporting each other and their families through this modern life of womanhood, maidenhood, motherhood, parenthood, and beyond.
I started Wild Mother in 2022 as this pensive new mother who was fighting modernity and the prescribed isolation of modern motherhood. I slowly started to reimagine this concept of “the village” that I felt I was missing. I needed a community of local moms, but not another mom’s group. I wanted to build a network of women who were doing motherhood a little differently than the mainstream. The homebirthers, the homeschoolers, the homesteaders, and all the other crunchy adjectives you can think of. Not as an echo chamber of similar interests, but a place where a dissenting opinion and roads less traveled were not just tolerated but welcomed and celebrated. It wasn’t about being the best alt-mom; it was about challenging the status quo on what we have been fed as modern motherhood.
I was recognizing the vital elements of my current situation, next was collecting and exploring multiple perspectives, and then taking the necessary actions to effect change. Creating a container to talk with other adult humans about some of the huge world-view-altering concepts that I was sitting with alone at 3 am while nursing my son felt like my mission from God. I wanted to connect with women who wanted to talk about expansive topics, challenge themselves, and build a community together. The monthly gatherings started in March 2022. Aided by a newsletter, social media posts, local flyers, and word of mouth, attendance skyrocketed. This was clearly something that other women were looking for, too.
The next step was to connect this diverse tapestry of voices into something easy, searchable, and accessible that would help us all level up. We started the Wild Mother group chat in February 2024, and that community has become a beacon of light for so many women to share stories, ask questions, request support, get advice, or just read along and feel less alone in motherhood. There is always something fascinating being discussed in there.
For so many reasons, I decided to pull away from social media in the summer of 2025. The group chat and monthly newsletter continue on, but Wild Mother will no longer participate in the creation of content for social media platforms. Short-form-video is not good for us, ya’ll. The research is in.
So, through thoughtful use of technology as a tool to support and prioritize in-person gatherings, aid in information sharing, and facilitate casual correspondence, we have found a way to bring together a community. It’s not a village. It’s not a mom’s group. This is a group of brilliant women sharing their knowledge, experiences, and supporting each other through the varied landscape of our individual womanhood. If this spoke to you, I hope you come check it out and join the conversation.
-Amber
Monthly Gatherings
Our flagship monthly gatherings take place on the first Wednesday of every month and rotate locations across Calaveras, Tuolumne, and Amador Counties in California. It’s a potluck, a clothing swap, a barter market, a playdate, and a focused (somewhat) intentional conversation facilitated by Amber, a rotating host, or a guest speaker. Some past topics include:
Community: how we want to be supported and how we show up and support our communities
Smartphones and Technology in Our Motherhood
Legacy planning, year-end Review and Renew of Individual and Family Values
Nervous System Regulation and Mom Rage
Accessing Pleasure and Deep-rest in Motherhood
If you would like to join us for one of these gatherings, please sign up for our monthly newsletter to receive information on where to go, what to bring, and the topic of conversation for that month. These gatherings are donation-based and sliding scale. No one will ever be turned away for lack of funds.
