Programs and mentoring for pregnancy and postpartum based on ancient wisdom for a modern woman. I will hold your hand as you navigate motherhood because we're not meant to do it alone.
09/03/2026
Tickets for the next Align Club guided journalling event are now open 🎫
Gift yourself a cup-filling, soul-nourishing, positive energy-giving morning 📘💭🖌️☕️
Sunday 29 March, 9-9.45am at .sandgate, followed by an optional group coffee rendezvous at from 10am.
You can also join my yoga class at Lift HQ from 8-9am - it’s free for everyone 🧘🏽
Journal prompts will land in your inbox on Monday 23 March 📧
Grab a ticket, gather your notepad, and invite a friend for a wholesome morning.
$35 for journalling only or $45 with the coffee sesh add-on 🫶🏽 Link to purchase is in my bio.
06/03/2026
From having a space and time carved out for cup-filling time, to connecting with like-minded people, to developing their journalling practice, to finding peace and clarity, and identifying targeted aligned actions to take… Align Club is having an impact 💙🦋
05/03/2026
Do you always feel like you never have enough time? Same, sis ⏳
Time management has long been my downfall. The struggle compounded when I became a mum.
I felt shame around this, alongside stress, a lack mentality, and feeling like I had to ask permission to use time because it belonged to other responsibilities by default.
I realised that I needed to implement changes so that:
- I have dedicated time for the things that matter to me
- I have a sense of ownership of my time
- I don’t pass stress around time onto my children
My process was to journal about this, to follow specific prompts to understand my relationship with time, how I use it and whether or not that was right for me, and ways I could restructure my time.
Because time is a finite, precious resource, without which we cannot achieve our goals 📆 ✅
This was the process we followed in Align Club, a guided journalling event with monthly prompts that follow a specific process to understand ourselves, our current reality, and determine aligned actions to implement for a beautiful, meaningful life 💙🦋
Make sure you’re on my mailing list (link in my Highlights) to get the details for the next Align Club event, landing in your inbox on Sunday 📧
27/02/2026
My boys 🩵🤩 The best gift of my life.
I talk a lot about the challenges of motherhood in my work but I’m not complaining about children (I mean, I do, but having Lego ALL OVER MY FKN HOUSE is not a social issue) 🦖🚜
The nuance lies in the difference between motherhood and mothering.
Mothering is the practice of being a mother, the parenting.
Motherhood is the social context within which we carry the role of mother.*
Mothering, and children, are often challenging, but not necessarily WRONG.
😭 Children’s tantrums are frustrating, but they’re natural.
👶🏼 Babies refusing to sleep is exhausting, but it’s normal.
🥑 Your kids rejecting the gourmet meal you slaved over is maddening, but it is what it is.
And while these challenges take their toll on mothers, they’re expected and part of what we sign up for in raising children.
But there are many challenges in motherhood that I believe are WRONG and are systemic issues that need not be a ‘normal’ part of motherhood.
❤️🩹 Like navigating postpartum recovery without support from the healthcare system.
📊 Like returning to work while still healing because your meagre parental payment finished.
🧺 Like doing an ADDITIONAL TWO HOURS DAILY of unpaid domestic labour than their male counterparts.*
Mothers aren’t whinging about children when we speak about how hard motherhood is. We love our children and we want to be mothers. It’s the lack of systemic support, recognition, and equity with very real impacts on billions of people that need to change.
* Dr Sophie Brock
* ABS, 2025
25/02/2026
The pursuit of having a clean home has lived rent-free in my mind daily since becoming a mother 🧼 🧹
I believe to an extent it serves my children, our lifestyle, and my sanity. But the struggle and pressure to maintain cleanliness with small children has made my experience of motherhood less magical 🧚🏾♀️
How fixated are you on maintaining a clean and organised home? 🏠
How much do you feel it is your burden, compared to your partner? And do you feel like the state of your home is a reflection on your value as a woman or mother?
Do you ever question where the compulsion comes from, and who it’s serving?
Are we subscribing to the Perfect Mother Myth - the archetype of mother who always has a clean home - to the detriment of ourselves and our motherhood experience?
24/02/2026
Eileen Gu’s beauty secrets include journalling and laughing diabolically in the face of misogyny 💁🏽♀️
Be like Eileen and take up journalling. Align Club makes it easy for you:
- I’ll give you the time and place (Sunday 9am at .sandgate)
- I’ll give you the journalling prompts (in your inbox before the event)
- I’ll create calm, supportive vibes so you can focus on yourself
- I’lll coach you through delving deeper to find aligned actions and answers
- And we’ll reward our efforts and celebrate our clarity with a recovery session at .recovery 🧖🏼♀️
“You can control how you think and therefore you can control who you are” 🤯
Book at the link in my bio 💙🦋
20/02/2026
What support for mothers would you request?
20/02/2026
Today I met with , the Labour MP for Sandgate, to advocate for mothers.
I put forward that maternal mental health is a predictable life-stage vulnerability that requires preventative, community-based structural support — not just crisis intervention.
I painted a picture of what modern motherhood actually demands, the costs when we ignore it, proposed systemic solutions, and what an ideal postpartum would look like if mothers were supported.
There are around 60,000 births in Queensland every year.
That is 60,000 women undergoing one of the most significant biological, psychological, and social transitions.
Maternal wellbeing influences everything:
– physical recovery
– bonding and parenting
– identity and self-esteem
– relationship stability
– workforce participation
– financial security
– community contribution
– joy and self-expression
I aimed to shift the conversation around maternal mental health from individual pathology to systemic determinants.
Because many of the challenges mothers face — undervalued care work, mental load, isolation, inequitable domestic labour, sleep deprivation, chronic stress, lack of continuity of care — are social support deficits that we then medicalise once a mother is struggling - placing the burden on individuals.
The system requires her to recognise she’s struggling.
To overcome stigma.
To find time and money.
To access a GP.
To wait for a psychologist.
To medicate.
All without addressing the social root causes.
We discussed the economic impacts of improved maternal wellbeing supports:
– workforce participation
– reduced healthcare burden
– narrowing of the gender pay and super gap
– stronger long-term child outcomes
But beyond economics, mothers are human beings worthy of support in their own right.
We considered existing government infrastructure that already touches motherhood:
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