MATER
June 2026
Radiant Motherhood
Restoring the Mother-Child Foundation through Hildegard’s Wisdom & Functional Health
The mother is the first environment.
The first rhythm.
The first table.
The first nervous system.
The first microbiome.
The first experience of safety.
The first earthly reflection of God’s nourishing love.
MATER resolves the gap between something is off
and
I know what it is and what to do about it.
More specifically it resolves:
The guessing - Gut testing replaces suspicion with an actual picture of what's there, what it is doing and what it points to.
The overwhelm - One practitioner who will know you and your child, one framework, one program that holds both mother and child together instead of treating them as separate ‘problems’.
The fragmentation - MATER gives you connections between body and soul and between you and your child.
The shame - C-section, formula, antibiotics, a hard birth. You have been quietly wondering if you have failed, or already missed the window for full healing for your child or yourself. MATER shows you it is never too late, the window is still open and it says what exactly to do when.
The loneliness - not many people in your life understands your anxiety or just care about your child's future. MATER is a support in your journey to regain confidence withe clear answers, hope for the future and predictable outcomes.
Modern motherhood is overwhelmed with information. One article says your child needs probiotics. Another says probiotics are dangerous. One expert blames gluten. Another blames dairy. Social media swings between fear, perfectionism, and endless optimization. Meanwhile, many mothers are exhausted. Children struggle with eczema, constipation, recurrent antibiotics, food sensitivities, sleep difficulties, chronic congestion, mood dysregulation, bloating, or digestive discomfort,. Meanwhile, many mothers quietly carry the fear that somehow they failed.
MATER was created to offer something different. Not panic, shame or another hyper-clinical protocol. MATER is a gentle, grounded, clinically-informed program rooted in both modern microbiome science and ancient Christian wisdom from Hildegard von Bingen. At Viriditas Life, we believe the body is not merely a machine to fix, but a living ecology created with order, rhythm, and meaning. The goal is not perfection but harmony and resilience.
MATER is designed for mothers who want a deeper understanding of how their microbiome (organisms in their gut) shapes:
digestion
immune development
inflammation
eczema and skin patterns
antibiotic recovery
food reactions
stool patterns
sleep and nervous system regulation
resilience and terrain development
This is not a medical treatment program. It is an educational and formation-based experience designed to help mothers better understand:
their and their children microbiome
rhythm and nervous system regulation
early-life foundations
environmental influences
nourishment and terrain
maternal-child connection
while creating a calmer and more grounded approach to health.
I use a combination of:
Tiny Health microbiome testing with additional markers for moms available only through me as a practitioner
functional interpretation
targeted foundational protocols
practical nourishment and lifestyle guidance
Hildegard’s lifestyle golden rules
Luke 1:45
And blessed is she who believed that there would be a fulfilment of what was spoken to her from the Lord.
All of my children who are now adults were born via C-section due to birth surrounding complications. I had a long recovery, lasting months, after the first two. My oldest daughter was on antibiotics in the first week of her life due to immediate ear infection. I could not produce enough breastmilk and she was, as the next ones, fed by formula starting at month 4+. She developed allergies early on, was constipated and afraid of pooping. At around one year old she was diagnosed with asthma and had nights where she would cough up phlegm and bang her head on the wall. We had to go to the doctor’s office for inhalation and only few months later there showed up nebulizers with steroids available for the public. I was constantly on the edge and in constant alertness. Her asthma would be triggered by colds, infections and cold air. Providing 3×15 min inhalations a day after which a child can not talk or eat or drink for the next 15-20 min became the norm.
All of my children were colicky, but my son’s gut issues kept us awake for months. I was sleep deprived for eight months, and my extreme diet when I ate literally four things during this time, led to exhaustion. I literally do not remember almost two years of my life from that time. He was also suffering from very frequent ear infections and also developed asthma around age one. The allergologist decided to give him sleeping meds at eight months old bc he was so sleep deprived, and she offered me some also. The first night he slept on them 6h straight, I would wake up every hour or so to see if he was still breathing, that’s how unusual that night was. Soon after, he was still waking up more often but once he started walking he started to sleep better.
Their asthma subsided when we lived in the Middle East for 2+ years. Nothing grew there and the climate was hot and dry, which calmed down their immune system enough. For the next few years, with God’s help, prayer, healthy foods, routines and homeschooling environment, their were relieved from their asthmatic episodes completely.
The third child, daughter, had ‘normal’ colic and only for about 4 months, and I thought that was heaven sent and that this was so easy to just hear crying for few hours a day on and off and only for several weeks.
I used all my knowledge and skills as a nurse and home and herbal remedies available then but I believe that if I would have an opportunity to do microbiome testing, that would for sure help me to resolve their health issues much earlier.
That’s why I would like to offer a relief for moms and children who are experiencing already some symptoms relating to microbiota dysfunction or as prevention.
LIVE SESSIONS: Tue June 16 and 30, 4pm PST/6pm CT/7pm EST
Schedule free short call to ask main questions about MATER
Program fees are paid here at enrollment. Testing is ordered separately through me at practitioner-only rates and you will receive your Tiny Health link for payment within two business days of enrollment. Test kits with instructions will be shipped to your home. Individual sessions can be schedules in June and July.
CHILD - Gut health restoration
Program fee: $497 paid in full
Testing: $199 will be paid separately to Tiny Health Lab at practitioner rate after enrollment
If you need 2 months payment plan Contact me
The program, test results and communication plus assessments will be kept on the Biocanic HIPAA compliant platform.
MOM + CHILD - Restored together
Program fee: $747 paid in full
Testing: $578 paid separately to Tiny Health Lab at practitioner rates after enrollment
(Child gut test $199 + Mom PRO gut test $379 - includes exclusive markers not available on standard public orders)
This package with an extended test for mom is not available in NJ, NY or RD states. Contact me for alternative offering.
If you need 3 months payment plan Contact me
Pre-Recorded Modules - What you will learn and receive every week in June on Monday evenings (June 8, 15, 22, 29)
I - The First Thousand Days and First Years
Why the first 1,000 days determine lifelong gut health. The science of the infant microbiome - what it is, how it forms, and why disruptions in a baby’s gut looks completely different than in an adult. Hildegard’s concepts on the beginning of life, embryology
II - How Your Body Seeded Your Child
The microbiome transfer at birth - vaginal vs. C-section, antibiotic exposure, breastfeeding as ongoing seeding. The mother's gut as the origin of the child's gut.
III - Feeding the Gut - Hildegard & Functional Nutrition
Foods that build gut diversity in the early years. Hildegard's preparations in the context of infant and toddler feeding. What the functional research says about dietary microbiome shaping.
IV - The Mother's Gut After Birth
Postpartum gut disruption - HPA axis, nutrient depletion, microbiome shifts after birth. How the mother's gut health affects breast milk quality and the baby's ongoing colonization. Hildegard's framework for postpartum restoration: the depleted mother as a woman whose vitality has been poured out in the act of bearing life, and who requires intentional return to herself.
FREE Bonuses available immediately after signing up
Value: $100+
ADD-ON: Vaginal test for CHILD path or MOM-CHILD path:
This test is offered only in combination with two MATER pathways or with HARMONY.
The vaginal microbiome is the first gift a mother gives her child at birth. It deserves attention.
For babies born vaginally, the vaginal microbiome is the original seeding event and the first microbial colonization of their gut, skin, and airways. For babies born by C-section, that seeding was interrupted. Either way, the current state of your vaginal microbiome matters: for your own immune and hormonal health, and as context for understanding your child's gut patterns.
The vaginal test gives us a detailed picture of your vaginal ecosystem: bacterial dominance or absence, dysbiosis patterns, protective versus disruptive species, and markers associated with chronic inflammation, recurrent infections, and immune vulnerability.
Program fees is paid here at enrollment. Testing is ordered separately through me at practitioner-only rates and you will receive your Tiny Health link for payment within two business days of enrollment. Test kits with instructions will be shipped to your home. Individual session can be scheduled in June and July.
Vaginal Microbiome Test Add-On
Program Fee: $197 with additional 30 min session
Testing: $168 paid separately to Tiny Health Lab
What this test actually measures
Tiny Health uses deep-shotgun metagenomics, the gold standard in microbiome research, to sequence every piece of DNA in your child's and your’s stool sample, identifying over 120,000 genomes of bacteria, fungi, viruses, archaea, and parasites. Unlike standard doctor-ordered tests, it sees the entire ecosystem and how it is functioning, not just who is there, but what they are doing. Age-Specific Data: Provides benchmarks tailored specifically for babies, children, and adults.
Immune Strength
Whether baby carries the protective bacteria defending the gut lining. Absence linked to colic, fussiness, gas, and disrupted sleep.
Gut Diversity Score
More species equals stronger immune system and metabolic resilience. Low diversity is a developmental risk, not a cosmetic concern.
Bifidobacterium Levels
Critical species for digesting HMOs (Human Milk Oligosaccharides) from breast milk. Low levels mean the nutritional benefit of breastfeeding is being missed.
Leaky Gut Indicators
High mucus-degrading species or opportunistic pathogens signal gut barrier compromise, the root of many downstream conditions..
Eczema & Allergy Markers
Microbial patterns associated with atopic conditions, detectable before symptoms appear. Early intervention window.
Maternal Transfer
What microbes mom passed at birth and what may be absent for C-section babies who missed the vaginal seeding.
The program takes its name from a precise phrase in Hildegard of Bingen's antiphon O Splendidissima Gemma, the first piece of the heavenly symphony in the final vision of Scivias, addressed to Mary, Mother of Jesus.
O jewel resplendent and bright and joyous beauty of the sun
that’s flooded into you - the fountain leaping from the Father’s heart.
This is his single Word by which he did create the world’s primordial matter, a motherhood into confusion cast by Eve.
This Word the Father made for you into a man -
and this is why you are that bright and shining matter,
through which that Word has breathed forth every virtue, just as he brought forth all creatures in a primal motherhood.
The Latin word materia carries two meanings simultaneously meanings Hildegard exploits with full theological intention:
Matter - the stuff everything is made of
Something broke in the physical world - creation fell out of its original order. Mary's body is the restoration: clear, undamaged, the kind of vessel that can hold divine presence without distortion.
Motherhood - from the same root word "mater," mother)
Something also broke in how life and goodness get passed from one generation to the next: the mother-child bond became clouded, burdened. Mary restores what motherhood was always meant to be: the place where God enters human life.