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, soul/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 + Soul Guide (Private Practice)

Facilitator + Guide Women’s Immersives

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

Maternal, Child + Family Wise Woman Practitioner

Teacher, Trainer Early Childhood/Maternal Wellness Conferences

Apprentice Sage Mountain Herbal Center

Gaia Sacred Plant Medicine

Foundations in Prenatal and Perinatal Dynamics™

Early Childhood Maternal Wellness Practitioner

Innate Postpartum Care Practitioner

Infant Massage Instructor

Infant Care + Early Childhood Educator

Student Tracker School (1987-1993)

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~

  • The way MotherBone holds space is unlike anyone else. She is both strong and fierce — a mountain rooted in truth — and yet soft and kind, like moss cushioning stone. Her presence invites you deeper into your own marrow.

    KG

  • 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.

    BL

  • 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.”

    CC

  • I learned so much in my work with Tish about 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

    ZC

  • 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.”

    LN

  • Tish’s knowing runs deep and beyond words. I’ve been told a friend knows the song of your heart and sings it back to you when you have forgotten the words. If you are able to listen (and, if not, you’ll start there), Tish/MotherBone knows the song of your soul with a beat that stirs the bones of your psyche to cast off old skin in order to rise and dance anew. You hear your soul’s song so that you may re-member, re-root in deeper time and place, re-source yourself in order to never forget again. ....Because she is unafraid of any parts that come up, you can quickly let go of fear too in pursuit of something more true and present. MotherBone’s responsiveness in addressing whatever material arises with the right amount of heat and light is indescribable. Whether through poetry, visioning and active imagination, movement, mythology, archetypes, or one word or question with just the right resonant tone, she supports the inner journey in ways that are so rare and life-giving. To work with MotherBone is to open yourself to the soul’s most important questions and in doing so to reenchant yourself with all of life itself.

    JB