The Wild Orange Tree

The Wild Orange Tree Embodied pelvic care & integrated mental health support for women and mothers

The Wild Orange Tree offers holistic health and wellness support that empowers women to navigate each stage of their motherhood journey. I am an occupational therapist, post-natal doula and practitioner of the Arvigo Techniques of Maya Abdominal Therapy®. By merging ancient wisdom and professional training I aim to be a source of information and support for women as they prepare, transition and grow into motherhood. Through this passion for women's health I want to see women thrive, embrace their feminine, and achieve their birthing and mothering potential.

Getting back into the routines of the new year, and realising it’s time to pause and tend to yourself? Appointments are ...
29/01/2026

Getting back into the routines of the new year, and realising it’s time to pause and tend to yourself?

Appointments are always available online or from my Sunshine Coast location.

And my first trip to Wollongong for 2026 is arriving very soon.

🧡 Wanting to conceive this year or curious about a menstrual cycle that is talking loudly to you?

I’d love to work with you to explore restrictions in the abdominal and pelvic space, tend to your nervous system, and support ease, circulation and flow through the body.

🧡 Pregnant and wanting to build confidence in your body to birth, or needing space to unpack a previous birth?

I support you to listen to how patterns in your body hold experiences, gently unwind what is lingering, and optimise movement so your pelvis can open, adapt and make space for baby - physically and emotionally.

🧡 Had a baby and feel like you haven’t quite landed back in your body, or have physical symptoms that aren’t resolving?

I support the closing and integration of the open birth pattern in the body, helping you reconnect to yourself so your pelvic floor, core and nervous system can come back online with more ease and trust.

🧡 Living with pelvic pain that’s impacting your daily life and occupations?

I bring an integrated and embodied approach - working with physical structures, breath, the nervous and sensory systems, and somatic approaches - to build connection, coordination, and a deeper sense of belonging thin your body.

🍊 If your body is saying ‘yes’ as you read this, bookings are available online through my website or link in bio. I’d love to be a part of your team.

29/01/2026

Shifting pressure to possibility.

I’m sharing an idea for how to work with all the “shoulds” that might be showing up in your mothering experience.

Let me know if you give it a try 🧡🍊

This year I’m intentionally opening space to support more mothers. Mothers who are holding a lot. Mothers who are naviga...
28/01/2026

This year I’m intentionally opening space to support more mothers.

Mothers who are holding a lot.

Mothers who are navigating identity shifts, emotional overwhelm, birth trauma, pelvic pain, or a body that no longer feels like home.

Mothers who sense something isn’t quite right - even if they can’t put words to it yet.

My work is slow, responsive and deeply respectful of the speed of the body.

If you’ve been quietly wondering if support could help, this might be your sign.

Medicare rebates available with GP referral.

Book your first appointment or a free connection call through my website or link in bio 🧡🍊

We know that mothers carry a huge amount of mental load. And this can create enormous negative impacts for metal health....
27/01/2026

We know that mothers carry a huge amount of mental load. And this can create enormous negative impacts for metal health.

And while there are conversations that need to be had around how much women carry; I’m also seeing that the biggest issues arise when people feel like they can’t ever step away from that load.

The nervous system is always switched on in hyper awareness.

There is no space to pause and rest.

The body never gets messages that it is safe.

And I believe that one of the most powerful ways that we can create these much needed spaces to pause is through occupation.

Occupation - the everyday doing of meaningful and purposeful things.

Occupation can connect us to an identity that is outside of our mother and family roles.

Occupation can bring us to a flow state and get us out of our head for a period of time.

Occupation can be a pathway to joy, lightness and restoration.

Occupation can provide a rhythm for being on and managing all the things, and allowing our body to step into calm.

Puzzles are an activity that I love to use to pause and step away. My brain is focusing on finding the next piece and not on what is next on my to do list. I can take five minutes, or 20 minutes or whatever the day allows.

I wonder what your thing - your occupation - might be. The activity that tells your brain it’s ok to stop and pause. To step aside from the load you carry.

And return refreshed to pick it up again 🧡

If motherhood feels harder than you expected, it doesn’t mean you are failing. It often means you are in the middle of a...
23/01/2026

If motherhood feels harder than you expected, it doesn’t mean you are failing.

It often means you are in the middle of a profound transition - one that asks everything of you while the world expects you to “cope”.

Matrescence can include grief, rage, anger, irritability, tenderness, confusion, and love all at once. None of these make you a bad mother.

Support isn’t about pathologising your condition. It’s about getting curious and meeting you with care.

You’re allowed support - even if you are “functioning”.

Especially if you are exhausted or overwhelmed.

🍊 Medicare rebates available
🍊 Enquiries via link in bio or DM

Mental health and pelvic health support doesn’t start with fixing you. It starts with listening. To your story. To your ...
21/01/2026

Mental health and pelvic health support doesn’t start with fixing you.

It starts with listening. To your story. To your body.

With slowing things down.

With understanding how your nervous system, body, context and daily life are all carrying the load together.

We might start by exploring…

🧡 Rite of passage, matrescence and the factors influencing our experience of transitions

🧡 The mental load and invisible pressures that can feel overwhelming

🧡 Sleep, restoration and rest (realistic, not idealised!)

🧡 Sensory overwhelm and our ability to read body signals

🧡 Identity shifts, role changes and the scripts we follow

🧡 Habits, routines and how they are guiding doing, being, becoming and belonging

🧡 The body as a part of the story and not separate from it

This work is practical and deeply human.

Medicare rebates are available.

Curious if this kind of support feels right for you? Comment CURIOUS or follow the links in my bio to connect 🧡🍊

It’s not until you get up and above Canberra that you can really appreciate its perfect design. The alignment. The symme...
18/01/2026

It’s not until you get up and above Canberra that you can really appreciate its perfect design.

The alignment. The symmetry. The ways things fit together and why.

And I think there is an analogy here for motherhood.

Our mothering journey can keep us locked down in the trenches. In the hard. The exhausting. Feeling like we are loosing ourselves.

And we don’t need fixing.

We need someone to come alongside and help us gain the higher up perspective.

The realities of the social and cultural constructs that guide this experience.

A reminder of the importance of the care work we are doing.

Rite of passage and matrescence as a framework for understanding this transformation that is actually bringing us through not ripping us apart.

Strategies and interventions can be helpful.

But it needs to start with this high up view.

So we can see the alignment between our child’s development and our own newborn mother growth. Notice the symmetry within cycles and nature. Gain a new perspective on how things fit together and why.

If you are interested in mother support that starts with this approach, I’d love to chat 🧡🍊

You can love your childAnd still be struggling. You can feel grateful And resentful. Connected And completely lost.Lovin...
16/01/2026

You can love your child
And still be struggling.

You can feel grateful
And resentful.

Connected
And completely lost.

Loving your new role
And wondering why new routines feel empty.

Maternal mental health isn’t only anxiety and depression.

It can look like the mental load that never switches off, rage that scares you, sensory overwhelm, a body that feels foreign, or a quiet grief for who you used to be and what you used to do.

This is the space I work in.

As a women’s and maternal heath occupational therapist, I support mothers through the emotional, physical, occupational and practical realities of matrescence - gently, respectfully and at your pace.

If this resonates, you aren’t broken.

You are making a huge transition in a context that usually isn’t very supportive or understanding.

But you don’t have to do it alone.

Medicare and private health insurance rebates are available.

DM me SUPPORT or book a free connection call via the link in my bio 🧡🍊

We sat. We waited. You could hear people asking “where are they?”And still we waited a significant time longer. You can’...
07/01/2026

We sat.

We waited.

You could hear people asking “where are they?”

And still we waited a significant time longer.

You can’t rush nature. As much as you might try.

The little penguins know exactly when the right time is to emerge from the ocean and begin their march up the beach to return to their burrows.

We had an amazing night at the famous penguin parade last night.

And it reminded me once again that we can’t rush biology and the natural rhythms of things.

Mother becoming and feminine thresholds are just like the ocean and the penguins. People sit by wondering where we are. Wondering why we haven’t emerged yet. Feeling like we are taking too long.

But nature takes its time and needs its time.

In my role as a guardian of rite of passage, I am so often reminding women that they are allowed to take their time. That they need to take their time. That it’s OK to keep people waiting.

Beyond the “magical” six weeks post birth.
Beyond the fourth trimester.
Beyond nine months.
One year.
More years.

These transitions may keep us in the ocean, or toss us around in the white wash, for a while. And the work isn’t to come through faster. But to find the ways to anchor ourselves in the unknown of liminal spaces.

To honour. Integrate. Be held. Learn. And then emerge.

To be witnessed and seen.

Probably not by two thousand people in a grandstand on the beach 😜.

But in our own personal ways. In our communities. In our relationships. In our rituals. To ourselves.

I’m sitting and I’m waiting patiently. For however long you need to emerge 🧡🍊

05/01/2026

Falls.

Sometimes it’s a missing link in the sense making around someone’s pelvic health.

The body is always trying to protect us and look after us. And sometimes the tension and torsion it is holding is not helping, despite the body’s beautiful intent.

Sometimes it adds additional understanding to why a birth went the way it did, or why pelvic health symptoms are showing up in unexpected ways.

While it’s no longer an urgent emergency, I believe that falls benefit from gentle tending so we can support the body to come back to balance. Allowing us to show up more easily in the ways that we need and want to.

Just here doing my thing. Not planning new year goals.Not trying to improve myself. Trying to be present in this beautif...
03/01/2026

Just here doing my thing.

Not planning new year goals.

Not trying to improve myself.

Trying to be present in this beautiful time I have with my family.

Trying not to freeze (sorry Melbourne 🥶)

I hope this weekend can be exactly what you need too 🧡

As I finish up sessions before the real Christmas Day, and get ready to travel to Melbourne, I have been reflecting on t...
23/12/2025

As I finish up sessions before the real Christmas Day, and get ready to travel to Melbourne, I have been reflecting on the year.

I’ve seen lots of people post about the number of clients they have seen, number of sessions they have offered, training they have done or publications made.

And sometimes celebration involves looking at the numbers and things we have done.

But I want to reflect not on my doing, but on my being this year.

2025 is a year that I have felt so connected to my profession of occupational therapy. It’s a year where I have felt seen and held by the profession, acknowledging the important contributions we can make in women’s and maternal health, including pelvic health.

It’s a year where I have felt vulnerable stepping into new spaces such as Gidget Foundation Australia and developing more professional mentoring options. And it’s a year where I have grown in my thoughts, intentions and confidence.

It’s a year that has required much space holding for myself, my family and the transitions we continue to make. It’s a year to reflect on how I want the balance between work and family to look.

It’s a year where I have felt proud. Of how I have shown up for myself and others.

It’s been a year that also requires a lot of rest and nourishment as I emerge into the next.

Thank you to everyone who has been here for the ride - either working directly with me or supporting me with your comments, likes and shares.

I look forward to seeing where I will be at the end of 2026.

Merry Christmas, happy holidays, and may this season be gentle to you 🧡🍊🎄

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The Wild Orange Tree is a place to connect to your body so you can navigate mothering transitions with self-love confidence and vitality. With a focus on pelvic health, mental health and menstrual cycles, I support women from pre conception to postpartum and beyond. My name is Janelle and I am a mother, occupational therapist, Arvigo® practitioner, Holistic Pelvic Care© provider and Birth Preparation and Healing practitioner.

I am drawn to the innate wisdom for mother care and healing from within traditional cultures, and combine this with my professional knowledge and skills. Through individual and group sessions, I support women to prepare, transition and grow into the mother that they want or need to be. Because embodied women make powerful mothers.