Mother Juniper: On Matrescence in Ecological Crisis

Author: Allison Claire Davis | Foreword by: Ibu Robin Lim | Afterword by: Aurélie Athan

Format: Softcover | Trim Size: 5.5" x 8.5" | Pages: 180 | Publication Date: November 6, 2026

Cover reveal coming June 2026

What happens when a woman becomes a mother during the slow emergency of our ecological crisis?

Allison Davis was nursing her daughter when she read the IPCC report. Twelve years to limit catastrophic warming, less than the length of her childhood. Her body made milk while she realized her daughter's future had a deadline. Behind her house stood a juniper, twisted, scarred, magnificent. Over years of returning to her, Davis learned how the juniper's growth in hostile terrain made ground for what came after. Mother Juniper names maternal ecodistress and traces a developmental path through it, arguing that the wound severing mothers from Earth is the wound at the root of our ecological crisis.

Allison Claire Davis, MS, LPC, PhD (she/her) is a perinatal mental health counselor, researcher, and educator. She teaches at Pacifica Graduate Institute, directs the Maternal Ecopsychology Certification program for clinicians and birth workers, and serves as associate editor of the Journal for Mental Health and Climate Change. She runs Southwest Perinatal Counseling and lives in Galisteo, New Mexico, with her two daughters, among the junipers.

Features
• Addresses increasing rates of maternal PTSD
• Suggests evidence-based approaches to climate distress
• Clear and comforting frameworks

Benefits
• Compassionate care for caregivers
• Current research coupled with practical strategies
• A trauma-informed approach to eco-anxiety

Ideal Readers
• Mothers navigating grief, anxiety, and rage about ecological crisis
• Perinatal clinicians seeing ecological distress in their clients
• Ecopsychologists, therapists, and birth workers seeking a maternal framework

Pre-Order Bonus

1. Every pre-order of Mother Juniper includes an exclusive digital copy of Pioneer Species Carework: A Mother Juniper Workbook, available for download on publication day, November 4, 2026.

Pioneer Species Carework is an expressive ecotherapy workbook for mothers, guided chapter by chapter through the seven pioneer species functions of Mother Juniper. With embodied reflection practices, expressive writing prompts, and nature-based exercises for each function, it extends the book's developmental path into lived practice. Designed to be used alongside Mother Juniper, it is also a standalone resource for clinicians supporting mothers through ecological crisis.