My Story

Looking back, I can recognise how every chapter of my life was preparing me for the next. Yet nothing could have prepared me for 2022, when my world suddenly turned upside down. After nearly six months of a wonderful pregnancy my partner and I were asked to face a reality we never anticipated. We had to say goodbye to our daughter, Poppy, marking the beginning of a profound initiation I did not see coming.

The year that followed was marked by death in more ways than one.

It was not only the physical loss, but even more so the unraveling of the identities I had built around who I believed myself to be. Friendships fell away. My priorities shifted. The way I related to my partner, my family, my body, the Divine - everything changed.

I came to understand how vital it is to create time and space to move through phases like these, to honour them. During that period, I came across the words:

"Grief does not change you, it reveals you" and they stayed with me.

Stripped to my core, at times I found myself facing what felt like a bottomless hole of duality and despair. Surprisingly, it was also there that a deeper truth emerged: as women, and as human beings, we hold an innate capacity to conceive, grow, carry, nurture, and bring forth. To create something from what at first appears to be nothing, and to turn our sorrow into gold.

Infinite unexpected blessings

In the midst of my pain, I rediscovered some of my greatest gifts and purpose.

My entry into motherhood, although perhaps the hardest experience of my life, continues to unfold as a blessing in ways I never could have imagined. It has deepened my compassion for all beings and paths, strengthened my courage and faith, and awakened a lifelong commitment to exploring what it truly means to live and serve as a woman and a mother in this time and age.

Alongside my professional training and certifications in the field, it is my lived experience that gives depth to the work I do now.