Meet Carolina Bolivar, Sacred Motherhood Guide
November 23, 2025
DCG: Your journey encompasses being a holistic health coach, postpartum doula, cacao ceremonialist, entheogenic guide, and a mother guided by ancestral traditions. Is that correct? Can you share a moment or shift in your life when you realized this path was your true calling and how it all began?
CB: My journey began long before I named it. I grew up in Colombia surrounded by the wisdom of plants and the teachings of my lineage, even if I didn’t yet understand their purpose. When I moved to New York, I drifted away from my essence and felt the weight of that disconnection.
About twelve years ago, I began returning to myself. Through the plants, reconnecting with my land, and my own heart, I remembered that the wisdom I was searching for had always lived within me. That remembrance is when I understood I was here to serve, guiding mothers back to their essence, just as I had found my way back to mine.
We’ve known Carolina Bolivar for 13 years, and in that time she has been a quiet but powerful source of inspiration. Her devotion to healing, motherhood, and ancestral wisdom has guided us back to deeper connection with ourselves. Carolina’s knowledge is gentle, grounding, and transformative. We’re honored to share a glimpse of her journey and the work that touches so many lives.
DCG: Coming from a lineage of curanderas and herbalists, how do you integrate ancestral healing traditions with contemporary motherhood? What practices or rituals do you return to when you want to feel grounded and connected to that lineage?
CB: I integrate ancestral wisdom with modern motherhood by bringing simple, intentional practices into my daily life. My rituals are gentle anchors that reconnect me with my essence. I start my mornings with a plant ally like cacao or a sacred tea, grounding my energy before the day begins. I use breathwork, tapping and QiGong to return to presence. I offer little prayers or flowers to the land as a way of honoring my lineage. In the evenings, I light a candle to release what’s heavy and call myself back home.
These small rituals help me stay rooted, connected, and aligned in motherhood.
DCG: You create healing circles, cacao ceremonies, postpartum support designed to hold space for women to reconnect with their feminine essence and creative power. What do you aim for women to experience or reclaim through these sacred gatherings?
CB: I guide women in my cacao circles, plant circles, and postpartum support by creating a space where they can remember who they are beneath the roles and expectations. My intention is to help them reconnect with their softness, their power, and their dreams.
What I want women to receive is the knowing that they don’t have to choose between being devoted mothers and being connected to their own essence. In my circles, we explore the wisdom of the plants, the voice of the heart, and the truth that a woman can nurture a harmonious family while also living in purpose, creating, and thriving.
I hold the space so each woman can return to that remembrance: she is a mother, and she is a woman with a sacred path.
DCG: You’ve spoken about the belief that by healing individually, we contribute to the collective wellness of the world. How do the dynamics of community shape individual transformation? Can you share a story or moment when community healing revealed something profound to you?
CB: I believe that when a woman begins her healing journey, she is not only tending to herself — she is also healing her ancestors and opening new pathways for future generations. In our circles, this becomes very clear. Our ancestors gathered in community to heal, to remember, and to share their medicine. We continue that tradition.
When women sit together, share their stories, and speak their truth, something sacred happens. The isolation softens. The idea that healing is only individual begins to dissolve. We remember that we are one. When one woman rises, something in all of us rises with her.
This is the magic we witness again and again in our circles, deep transformation born from community, remembrance, and the courage to heal together.
DCG: How has your own experience as a mother of two shaped your understanding of embodiment, creativity, rest, and feminine power within your work and daily rituals?
CB: As a mother of two, I’ve learned that self-care is essential. Motherhood is a powerful portal, and in that portal I lost myself many times. What brought me back was returning to my own rituals, the small things that nourish my creativity, my joy, and rest.
These daily practices help me stay centered and remind me to fill my own cup first, so I can nourish my children and my family from a place of presence and wholeness.
DCG: As an entheogenic guide and cacao ceremonialist, you engage with plant wisdom as part of transformation. How did you come to work with plant medicine, and how do you hold healing and ritual in support of mothers navigating modern life and ancestral reconnection?
CB: As a plant medicine guide, I found my way back to the power of the plants I grew up with. In my family, we always healed with plants, and returning to that wisdom felt like a deep homecoming. These sacred allies have walked with me through postpartum anxiety, helping me remember my strength and reconnect with my essence.
That remembrance has supported my own healing, and it’s what allows me to hold space for others on their journeys.
DCG: Creating these supportive and sacred spaces likely comes with emotional labor and unseen challenges. Can you speak to a moment when you faced exhaustion, doubt, or resistance and how you honored your own healing while holding space for others?
CB: This is a beautiful and meaningful question. As a woman in service, I also experience moments of overwhelm and exhaustion specifically when I’m serving my children. What supports me most is returning to nature. Stepping away from the constant to-do lists, asking for help when I need it, and remembering that I don’t have to carry everything alone brings me back to harmony
I give myself space at least once a month to disconnect, breathe, and reconnect with the earth. Those moments refill me. They remind me that to serve others well, I must first serve myself.
DCG: What transformation do you most want to activate in mothers, in families, in communities through your work? What seeds of change are you planting, and what would you love to see bloom five years from now?
CB: I believe we can transform the world through one generation of conscious parents. Mothers who choose themselves, their self-care, and their self-love. This is how we model a new way of living for our children. The seeds I am planting are seeds of consciousness for families, because family is my medicine. When we heal our families and our lineage, we open the door for collective change.
In the next five years, I envision us living in community, sharing our gifts, and gathering in Colombia. I’m creating a space Casa Andes there where families can come to rest, reconnect, and honor both their inner child and the children in their lives. This is the future I am dreaming into.
DCG: What wisdom would you give to other women who feel drawn to bring ancestral, embodied, or ritual-based healing into their lives or careers but may feel intimidated or unseen in modern spaces?
CB: When we remember our roots, our power returns. We all carry the medicine of our ancestors, ancient technologies that have always lived within us. Each of us carries a lineage behind us, no matter the land where we were
There is no need to shrink. Our souls are simply remembering. Living life as a ritual is how we honor where we come from and reclaim our own medicine.
DCG: At the close of this Q&A, what invitation would you share with someone reading this something they can carry as a practice, question, or soft ritual to gently awaken connection, creative insight, or inner harmony today?
CB: Most mornings, I begin by giving thanks for the new day. With my eyes closed, I ask my body what it needs, mentally, physically, or emotionally and I listen.
Some days it asks for movement or breath. Other days it needs stillness,rest, meditation, or nourishment through a simple, wholesome meal.
This practice reminds me that my body is a compass, always guiding me toward what I need
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