When your child is in crisis, your heart needs tending too.

Mental illness, addiction, incarceration. I have walked each of these beside my own children. Motherhearted is a soft place to land: faith, ritual and honest company on the road from self-sacrifice back to self-restoration.

Hi, I'm Lucinda Rae.

I've walked this road too. I spent years pouring myself out for my children through seasons I never imagined: hospital rooms, relapse, a courtroom, a prison visiting hall. Somewhere along the way there was very little of me left. Motherhearted grew from that empty place, a way back to grace, to my own body, and to the God who never stopped holding me.

Now I write, podcast, pray, and blend anointing oils for mothers walking the same road. Some of what I share is tender and hard. All of it is honest.

From my heart to yours.

I write and podcast with my heart on my sleeve, healing the heart of my own motherhood in real time. If you are loving a child, young or grown, through mental illness, addiction or incarceration, you are not alone here. Pull up a chair.

Motherhearted, the podcast.

Light a candle, pour something warm, and stay a while. Honest conversations on faith, grief, healing and the holy work of mothering yourself.

Wear your faith. Let it hold you.

Oversized, heavyweight tees carrying the words we need to remember: you are covered, you are held, you are enough. For hard mornings, long drives and visiting days, a reminder worn close to your heart.