Lucy Wilson

Lucy Wilson is the Founder of MAIA: The Matrescence Empowerment Programme, allowing businesses to provide education, support and community for new mothers.

Lucy’s life all changed when her first son was born with a rare condition and needed 3 operations in his first 7 months of life.

The experience left her with a lot of under dealt with trauma and impacted her mental health. Which would then come to a head when 5 months after her second son was born, we all went into the first Covid lockdown. Already sleep deprived and struggling she found it incredibly difficult to cope and some very dark months.

From this difficult time Lucy became incredibly passionate and interested in Maternal Mental Health and the lack of support for new mothers.

This interest led her to research into the subject and found out about the groundbreaking concept of Matrescence, which explains the mental, physical, social and identity changes women go through when they become mothers, changes so profound that they are on a par with the experience we all go through when we become teenagers and go through adolescence.

The only difference being that we are all highly aware of the need for support in our teenage years and we are educated on them.

Lucy was taken by just how little was known by most women about the changes they would go through and feels this is linked to the huge numbers of women who will suffer with their mental health when they become mothers.

She has now created a comprehensive programme to educate and support new mothers at an incredible, yet overwhelming time in their lives.

Lucy is also a Parent Carer to her second son Bertie, who has autism and a global developmental and speech delay, which means he cannot speak yet and has the understanding of a very young child.

She is passionate about speaking about the challenges this brings, but also the joy of living with a child who sees the world in a different way too.