About Village Mama

This offering was born from my own transition into motherhood — a journey that cracked me open in ways I couldn’t have imagined. 

Despite all the preparation, nothing truly prepared me for what it meant to cross that threshold. Matrescence brought beauty, but also rupture and heartbreak. It forced me to shed, soften, and begin again.

The early days felt unfamiliar and disorientating. I couldn’t find myself in the mother I thought I’d be. The colourful world i had known had been temporarily drained. And yet, slowly — through bodywork, tantric healing practices, ritual, movement, and being in sacred space with women, I began to return. Not to who I was before, but to someone new. Someone truer.

For as long as I can remember, I’ve been called to witness people’s journeys to healing and in my own way contribute with care and compassion.  Nursing was my hearts work, my years as a trauma nurse were rooted in a deep desire to ease pain, offer presence, and walk alongside people in their most vulnerable moments. 

In 2016, I began to get curious about alternative medicine and spent 2 months in India learning about yoga philosophy and aryuveda…the time in India stirred my soul and made me realise how far the west was from holistic healthcare. My curiosity led me to India more and more, opening up new doors of perspective on healthcare, but more importantly healing. I was in love with my nursing career but the birth of my daughter in 2023 was the obstruction in the road that led me down a different path. It showed me a different kind of healing — one that wasn’t about fixing, but about feeling. Not about curing but healing. It was about embodiment and surrender.

This space — Village Mama — grew from that becoming. It is a space to honour the truth of this threshold.

To walk together, not alone.

To be witnessed, not fixed.

To remember the wisdom that lives in us, and between us.

You don’t have to do this on your own.You were never meant to.