For the woman in the in-between
Liminal is an app for the psychological transformation of becoming a mother — the part nobody talks about, and nobody prepared you for.
There's a word for this
When a baby is born, a mother is born too. That transformation — the psychological, emotional, and identity shift of becoming a mother — has a name. It's called matrescence, and it's as profound as adolescence.
These aren't signs something is wrong with you. They're signs you're going through something real, something named, something that deserves to be witnessed — not fixed.
Liminal is built around this truth. It's not a wellness app. It's not a baby tracker with a section for moms. It's the first tool built specifically for your transformation.
Of or relating to a transitional or initial stage of a process. Occupying a position at, or on both sides of, a boundary or threshold.
The psychological state between who you were and who you are becoming. The in-between space where transformation happens.
What you might be feeling
Missing who you were before. Grieving your former sense of self — and then feeling guilty for grieving it. This is one of the most common and least talked-about parts of becoming a mother.
Looking in the mirror and seeing someone unfamiliar. Your priorities, your relationships, your sense of what matters — all shifting at the same time, faster than you can track.
The pressure to only express joy. The silence around ambivalence — loving your child completely and still feeling lost, frustrated, or erased. Liminal is built for the thing you can't say anywhere else.
The motherhood you inherited from your own mother, your grandmother, your community — and the mother you're choosing to be. Navigating what you carry and what you're leaving behind.
Postpartum rage. Unexpected grief. Joy that feels too big. Emotions that don't match what you were told to expect — and no language or framework to make sense of them.
Alongside everything hard: a clearer sense of what matters, what you won't tolerate, who you want to become. Matrescence isn't only loss. It's also the beginning of something.
What Liminal offers
"Who am I becoming?"
Not journaling for the sake of journaling — but structured reflection tools designed around the specific terrain of matrescence. You track your identity shifts over time. You make meaning of what's happening to you.
"You are not alone in this."
Not a forum. Not a comment section. A curated circle of women matched to you by life stage, background, and lived experience — where story-sharing is structured, intentional, and safe.
"I need something right now."
Practical, evidence-based tools organized by what you're actually feeling — not by the baby's age. Filtered by stressor and where you are in matrescence, so what you see is relevant to right now.
"There's a name for what you're feeling."
Psychoeducation that actually meets you where you are. Short, readable content that gives you language for your experience — grounded in real research, written in plain language.
The science behind Liminal
Everything in Liminal — every prompt, every tool, every community feature — is organized around a real psychological framework. The PERI Model of Radical Healing reframes perinatal mental health not as the absence of symptoms, but as a process of reclaiming identity, dignity, and collective care.
Your ancestral knowledge, cultural rituals, and community practices are not separate from your healing — they are central to it. Practice honors what was passed down to you, and creates space to decide what you want to pass forward.
Liberation from the narratives that locate your distress solely within you — the selfless mother myth, the bounce-back expectation, the silence around ambivalence. Emancipation means reclaiming wholeness and self-determination on your own terms.
You are not meant to heal alone. Resistance is the collective power of solidarity — peer support, shared stories, and community spaces where you can speak freely about your experience without being reduced to a symptom or a statistic.
The care you give yourself in this threshold moment echoes forward. Intergenerational hope is the belief — grounded in ancestral wisdom and cultural continuity — that healing, safety, and flourishing are possible for you, your children, and the generations that follow.
Who built this
Dr. Christin Mujica is a Latina clinical psychologist, a postdoctoral fellow at the Medical University of South Carolina — and a mother to a three-year-old. She didn't come to this work from the outside. She is inside it, navigating her own matrescence while building the tools she wished had existed when it began.
That dual vantage point is what makes Liminal different. The research is real. The lived experience is real. And neither one is more important than the other. Dr. Mujica has spent her career working with Latinx communities and populations underserved by mainstream mental health systems — and she is one of the women this app was built for.
She is the co-creator of the PERI Model of Radical Healing, has published research across the American Journal of Psychiatry, American Psychologist, and Harvard Review of Psychiatry, and is fluent in both English and Spanish. Every part of Liminal carries the weight of her work — and the honesty of her own becoming.
Your experience
We're building this carefully, with the women it's for. Join the waitlist to get early access, share your experience, and help shape what Liminal becomes.
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