Tish Linstrom, aka “MotherBone” founder and director of Wise Woman Roots LLC brings over 30 years of experience + training as a guide, teacher, holistic practitioner, and mentor.

Tish Linstrom, M.A.

Tish’s work is for women who are hungry to come home to their deep wisdom, wild wholeness, and soul gifts.

Tish is a mother, rite of passage guide, holistic practitioner, and steward of the wild mature feminine through motherhood, early-mid adulthood, and menopause life cycles. Her offerings celebrate the deeper wisdom women carry and tend these potent, transformative cycles so women can access and anchor in their true fluency, power, and capacity to thrive.

Tish's work is holistic, soul-based, and nature-centered - both her journey and her long-term work with women that amplified how our life cycles are remarkably undernourished and lacking meaningful rite of passage support led her to deepen her work around initiations and our essential connection with inner/outer wild, sovereignty, and root-deep whole nourishment to fund thriving life and vitality.

Tish brings over 30 years of experience and is deeply devoted to tending these spaces for women and families that have been missing for too long. Her work is a dynamic weaving of her lived experience, training, and years as a guide - a unique blend of wise woman/soul midwifery + nature-based wisdom, integrative health + initiations, shadow + story work. 

She created School of Root & Bone to offer the essential (but missing) collaborative spaces for practitioners to dig deep into their soul craft, gain critical skills, and hone the body of work they know they’re meant to create or bring forward. SRB is for creatives + practitioners - coaches, holistic health practitioners, doulas, birth keepers, therapists, and facilitators - so they can bring their most regenerative, fertile work into the world.

Tish is known for her capacity to hold transformative space with great love, precision, and humor. 

Extensive experience and training in:

  • nature-based wisdom + relational fluency

  • ritual + ceremony

  • initiation + rites of passage

  • shadow + story work

  • soma + nourished, wild feminine

  • women’s integrative health + cycles of Life

  • maternal whole health + family wellness

  • holistic psychotherapy + traditional (soul) midwifery

Core pieces of my +30 years~

MA Counseling Psychology Antioch New England Graduate School 1998

BS Community Health + Outdoor Education SUNY Empire State College 1992

Women’s Holistic Practitioner + Guide (Private Practice)

Facilitator + Guide Women’s Immersives

Maternal, Child + Family Practitioner

Adjunct Faculty Burlington College Transpersonal Psychology

Nature-Based Mentor + Wilderness Guide with Women, Youth/Family

Facilitator, Presenter Women’s Retreats + Initiatory Immersives

Facilitator, Keeper Women’s Rites of Passage

Priestess Path Core Team

Teacher, Trainer Early Childhood/Maternal Wellness Conferences

Apprentice Sage Mountain Herbal Center

Gaia Sacred Plant Medicine

Early Childhood Maternal Wellness Practitioner

Innate Postpartum Care Practitioner

Infant Massage Instructor

Infant Care + Early Childhood Educator

Student Tracker School (1988-1992)

I mother, dream, and create in northwestern Vermont with my husband and two sons on the ancestral lands of the Abenaki Missisquoi Nation.

*Though our work together can be therapeutic in nature, I do not practice as a psychotherapist - I do not treat, diagnose, or replace mental health clinical work.

Words from women I’ve worked with….

“I feel eternally grateful for the gift of being seen. Truly witnessed. My Self reflected back to me with skill and compassion.

Weaving wisdom and intuition and ritual into my Becoming as a mother has connected me to my roots and supported me in showing up for myself and my family authentically.

This work is sacred.”

L.N.

Through my work with Tish I reconnected to myself and a way of feeling, of being that I thought I had lost…or that I didn’t have the right to. I urge mothers to step in….you won’t regret it for a minute. In fact, you’ll wonder why you waited so long.

”

— D.L.

“During our sessions, it felt like Tish was activating something inside of me that had already been there but that I had somehow temporarily forgotten.  I had some major shifts during our work together….

Tish has a warmth about her that made me feel I could reach out anytime I needed extra help. It was a magical experience to feel the bond of sacred sisterhood.”

— N.M.

“I kept thinking it was just me….I was struggling to accept and acknowledge how burnt out I was.

Working with Tish was a life-changing decision. I started to see where I kept chasing more when trying to nourish myself and how my attempts to push through were backfiring…..

I can say after our work together, I feel more grounded, more focused and more connected than I thought possible. ”

— A.H.

“I learned so much in my work with Tish about all the layers of conditioning I was carrying around and where I kept waiting for permission….what a difference to do this work in a container where I felt seen and supported in such a key way.”

—Z.C.

“I am grateful for our work together.....I feel so much more rooted in myself, so much more connected and it shows in all my relationships. "

— A.P.

Tish brings an energy and a full presence I have rarely experienced…I didn’t realize how healing it would be for me to be with someone who holds space as she does…what a difference it made for me to finally release old patterns and claim my gifts."

— B.L.

Tish brings so much wisdom and passion to her work…and helps you come back to your own truth, your own wisdom.

I learned just how often I was looking outside of myself for approval and answers through my work with her.

Now I feel connected to my knowing...what a gift.”

~C.C.