ABOUT ME
Hi, I'm Lauren.
I'm a mother of three beautiful children, based in the Adelaide Hills, and I am passionate about holistic, mother-centred care.
I offer practical and emotional care in the comfort of your own home, meeting you where you are and helping you feel understood, nourished and supported as your unique experience of motherhood unfolds.
Why postpartum work?
It was my first postpartum and breastfeeding experience, 13 years ago, that started me on the path to providing support for other women. What was an incredibly difficult and challenging experience at the time turned out to have a silver lining.
It showed me just how important it is for a mother to feel supported, understood and nourished during this enormous transition... and it sparked something in me that has continued to grow ever since.
I have been a qualified Breastfeeding Counsellor for over a decade, providing breastfeeding and parenting support to mothers and families.
Going on to have my second and third children deepened my desire further and inspired me to undertake additional training in Matrescence Coaching and Postpartum Education and Care.
My own experiences of motherhood have continued to shape the way I work. They have taught me that there is no one-size-fits-all approach to motherhood, and that sometimes what a mother needs most is not another answer, but someone who will listen, understand and walk alongside her.
I am committed to ongoing professional development, and my love of learning continues to shape my work.
Raising my family has also made me curious about what we put in and on our bodies, and what we are using around our home. This has expanded my love of wholefood cooking, low-tox living and cycle awareness (both our inner cycles and the outer seasons).
More recently, this has led me into a year-long foundational training in Homeopathy, which I thoroughly enjoyed. I am particularly interested in exploring how homeopathy can be used as one of the first options to support the body's natural healing processes in acute situations, and my gorgeous kiddos are giving me plenty of opportunities to put this into practice!
Qualifications
Qualified Breastfeeding Counsellor - Australian Breastfeeding Association - 10+ years supporting mothers and families
Matrescence Coaching - Mama Rising Facilitator
Postpartum Education & Care Professional - Newborn Mothers
Homeopathy - Year-long foundational training with Centre for Homeopathic Education Australia (NOT a qualified Homeopath)
Ongoing professional development - Current First Aid and Working with Children Check
I was that mother.
I was that mother, with tears streaming down her face in the kitchen, wondering why everything felt so hard.
Then, over the next decade...
I discovered I didn't have to do it alone.
I spent years learning and embodying what nourishment and support could look like.
I discovered matrescence… a word that stopped me in my tracks when I first heard it, and then gave language to the transformation I was experiencing.
I now want to offer other mothers the kind of support that changed things for me.
And I want to help them create something that lasts beyond me...
their own village.
What I love about this work
I love seeing mums start to trust themselves more.
I love seeing them begin to believe in their own strengths and their ability to be the exact mother that their child needs.
I love watching the shift that happens when a mother feels truly heard and supported. When she begins to move from “Am I doing this right?” towards “I think I know what my baby and I need.”
I don't take for granted what a privilege it is to support a woman as she finds her way through this transition.
My vision for your family... and beyond
I believe mothers have an enormous influence on their families and their communities.
When a mother is beautifully supported and nourished during this season of life, it supports her ability to thrive, not just survive, both during these early years of motherhood and well beyond.
My vision is not to create dependence on me. It is to help you build your own inner resources, trust your intuition and create a village around you that can continue to support you long after our time together has ended.
I want you to leave our work together feeling more supported, capable, connected and trusting.
I want you to know that you can ask for help.
That your precious needs matter.
That you don't have to carry everything alone.
And that there is no perfect way to be a mother, only the way that works for you.
Because when mothers are supported, families are supported.
And when families are supported, our communities become stronger.
This is the ripple I want to be part of.
What makes my approach different?
I bring together both professional knowledge and lived experience.
I've spent more than a decade supporting mothers and families as a qualified Breastfeeding Counsellor, and have continued to deepen my knowledge through professional training in Matrescence Coaching and Postpartum Education and Care.
And I am also a mother of three.
I know what it feels like to be the woman on the other side of the support.
I know that some days you need information.
Some days you need practical help.
Some days you need someone to listen.
I believe in listening deeply, meeting you where you are and helping you reconnect with your own wisdom.
My approach is holistic and mother-centred, bringing together practical care, nourishment, emotional support and an understanding of the deeper transition that is happening as you become a mother.
And perhaps most importantly, I don't see you as a problem to be fixed.
I see a woman moving through one of the biggest transitions of her life.
And I would be honoured to walk alongside you for a little while.
A little more about me
Beyond this work, I'm a mum who loves reading, harvesting homegrown produce and cooking nourishing wholefoods, learning about low-tox living, paying attention to the rhythms of our bodies and the seasons, and continuing to learn new ways of supporting physical and emotional health and wellbeing.
I'm curious by nature and a lifelong learner.
I'm also very aware that I don't have all the answers... and I don't believe anyone does.
What I do have is a deep respect for mothers, a commitment to continued learning, more than a decade of experience supporting families, and a genuine desire to make this season of motherhood feel a little less lonely.
You don't have to do this alone.
I'd love to be part of your village.
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