“A monastery is not so much a place set apart for monks and nuns as it is a place set apart, period. It is also a place to learn the value of powerlessness and a place to learn that time is not ours.”
Mission
Monastic Motherhood exists to support moms on their journey by helping them grow in their discipleship to Jesus, discover the Father in their everyday, ordinary life, and be led by the Holy Spirit in their roles at home and in the community.
Imagine
Moms are always going to be tired and their schedules full; it’s part of the gig. But mom’s don’t have to be anxious, distracted, lonely, and overwhelmed.
Monastic Motherhood exists to help moms reimagine the soul of motherhood— inviting the ordinary to be sacred and the mundane to be purposeful.
Imagine communities of moms moving toward simplicity, prayer, and community, and pressing against culture’s war drum of more, bigger, better, busier.
Imagine moms empowered to disciple their children and equipped to create homes that were peaceful places of belonging, instead of busy chaos and fragmented connection.
Through retreats, workshops, cohorts, spiritual direction, and resources, we helps moms…
discover counter-cultural lives of simplicity
establish rhythms of honest prayer
engage local community
Hi, I’m Chelsey
I’m glad you are here.
I’m a wife to Ranger Steve (Iowa’s best) and mom, mama, mother to 3 delightful girls. Life has been a ride as we recently moved from the Netherlands back to the USofA. While living in Europe I learned the beauty of a slower life, the gift of a simple cappuccino, and how to ride a bakfiets (see picture above).
In the Netherlands I helped develop and lead a diverse, Jesus-centered community and also became a trained Spiritual Director. We are now back on the prairies of Iowa— rediscovering the gift of nature and wide open spaces, while trying to retain the sweet pace and rhythms our family developed while living abroad.
I’m a life-long learner and love to write and share my process and discoveries. Monastic Motherhood is my own journey. I don’t write as an aged sage, but as a co-traveler.
I love coffee, baking, cooking, hiking with my family (ok, the first and last 5 minutes ;), Sabbath, French food, writing, and dreaming up the future.