Tish Linstrom, aka “MotherBone” brings over 35 years of experience + training as a guide, 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, mentor, cultural midwife, and steward of the wild mature feminine through women's life stages and sacred passages. Her work celebrates the deeper wisdom women carry and tends these potent, transformative thresholds so women can access and anchor in their true fluency, power, and vital role in the Great Web.
Tish's work is holistic, Earth-based, and soul-centered - both her journey and her long-term work with women that amplified how our wild nature/life cycles are remarkably undernourished and lacking vital support led her to deepen her work around initiations, mentorships and our essential connection with inner/outer wild, soul gifts, and Village ways to nurture thriving Life.
For the long Way.
Tish brings over 35 years of experience and is devoted to tending these spaces that have been missing for far too long. Her work is a weaving of her lived experience, training, and years as a guide - a unique blend of nature-based wisdom + wise woman/soul midwifery, rites of passage + initiations, shadow + depth work.
She created School of Way & Bone to offer the essential (but missing) mentorship and collaborative spaces for practitioners to be deeply nourished and supported as they apprentice their medicine, gain critical skills, and hone the body of work they are being called to create or bring forward.
SWB is for creatives, collaborative visionaries, practitioners, and edge tenders to root deep, build community and be well-resourced so that together, we can bring our most regenerative, fertile wisdom/work into the world.
Tish is known for her capacity and unique skill to hold transformative space and mentor with great love, precision, edge tending, and humor.
Extensive experience and training in:
nature-based wisdom + relational fluency
ritual + ceremony
initiation + rites of passage
shadow + depth work
wild soma + nourished feminine
traditional (soul) midwifery + holistic psychotherapy
women’s integrative health + cycles of Life
maternal whole health + family wellness
Core pieces of my +35 years~
MA Counseling Psychology Antioch New England Graduate School 1998
BS Community Health + Outdoor Education Ohio University/SUNY Empire State College 1990
Women’s Holistic Practitioner + Guide (Private Practice)
Facilitator + Guide Women’s Immersives
Maternal, Child + Family Wise Woman 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
Ritual + Ceremony Tender
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 (1988-1993)
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.
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— D.L.
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.
MotherBone 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.
“I learned so much in my work with MotherBone 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.
“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.