Matriarchives™ is a trauma-informed initiative that helps women remember and transform the stories held in their bodies and lineages.
Rooted in somatic practice and guided storytelling, we support women in reconnecting to the wisdom stored beneath words — in sensation, breath, and memory.

Our work honors both the pain and the resilience that travel through generations, offering a way to listen, release, and rewrite inherited patterns.
By bringing awareness to the body’s intelligence, Matriarchives™ turns personal healing into collective remembrance — a living record of how women survive, create, and begin again.

Vision

Matriarchives™ envisions a world in which women can safely remember, express, and share their lived experiences—so that personal healing becomes collective wisdom.

By integrating somatic awareness with narrative work, we help participants translate inherited experiences into resilience and self-knowledge.
Each story contributes to a wider tapestry of intergenerational healing.

Philosophy

The body keeps the true record of our lives.
Before there were written histories, there were gestures, lullabies, prayers, and quiet acts of care.
Matriarchives™ helps people return to that embodied knowledge—to feel, name, and release what has been held for generations.

We teach that healing lineage means listening to what the body remembers and allowing new stories to take root.

About Our Founder — Dr. Julie Von

Dr. Julie Von, is a holistic doctor, writer, and educator whose work bridges medicine, story, and the inheritance of trauma and resilience.
Raised by a decorated Vietnam War combat veteran living with PTSD, she grew up within the complex silences of faith, service, and survival. Those early experiences shaped her lifelong inquiry into how pain and strength are passed through families — not just through history, but through the body itself.

As the author of Spiritual Fertility (Hay House, 2019), Dr. Von has spent over two decades helping women reconnect with their bodies and recover the creative and spiritual intelligence that trauma often buries. Her work is rooted in the belief that healing begins when we listen — to the body, to our ancestors, and to the stories that have never been told.

The vision for Matriarchives™ came to her in a dream: women gathered across generations, speaking freely— their voices, laughter, and truths forming a collective heartbeat.
That dream became a calling to create a space where lineage stories could be spoken and recorded openly, transforming silence into remembrance.

First shared in teaching circles at the Esalen Institute and in New York City, Matriarchives™ is now evolving into a dedicated trauma-informed storytelling project — a living archive of women’s embodied memory and resilience, carried forward one voice at a time.