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Midwifery support from a globe travelling midwife collecting wisdom along the way.

27/10/2026

Some snippets of my last few years in Guatemaya🌋

-Sunrise post ceremony at the alters in the mountains of my teachers ancestral lands

-Sacred cacao ceremony. The trees tended to for centuries without the use of machinery or chemicals, just relationship with the land.

-Antigua. 15yrs of returning here without it once loosing its wonder and awe.

-From the airport, straight into being transported at the alter of my teachers home.

-A living lineage of weavers. Now supporting three generations of weaving midwives to sell their fajas around the world. A connection that will last a lifetime 💗

-Getting connected with the candles we use to pray for our ancestors.

-Lake, to***co, flowers, prayer, offering. Practices I return to all over the world.

-Creating the offerings we give to the fire. Portals of prayer.

-Thread by thread. Magic and mathematics, sacred technology.

-Forever seeing this view in my minds eye.

-Bound in love. Wrapped in my custom rebozo and arms of my powerhouse aunty.

-Sacred waters, held by volcanos.

-Our class room. Fire and to***co.

-Traditional skirts of mountain regions.

-Chicken buses and volcanos.

-The colours of Antigua.

-Cobbled stones and active volcanos, day in the life of Antigua.

16yrs of being called here. Visions held and paths trusted 🐊

21/10/2026

I’ve learnt so much of what I know about traditional care through time spent with women in kitchens.

Not through formal teaching, but through joining, watching, tasting, connecting and talking, not always with a shared spoken language.

Culture really is carried by women.

Through cooking, clothing, art, dancing, singing, parenting and birthing.

So much we stand to lose when this way of sharing knowledge is no longer experienced.

Knowing how to prepare a meal with an understanding of someone’s individual needs is such a valuable skill to hold, whether you’re a mother, a birth worker or simply someone who cares for others.
It transforms the basic need of eating into an opportunity to heal with food as medicine, a prayer.

And this is what I’d love to share with you.

The Art of Congee — Remembering Food as Medicine and the Wisdom of Deep Nourishment🌞

One final opportunity to learn with me in person this year.

Sunday 8th November | 10 am–1 pm
South Golden Beach, Northern NSW
Limited spaces filling now.
Link in bio 🤎

19/10/2026

The Art of Congee Workshop 🍚

Remembering Food as Medicine and the Wisdom of Deep Nourishment

It’s my birthday today, and I have a little gift to share with you.

I’ve pulled back from teaching for the remainder of the year, but couldn’t resist one more afternoon of learning, nourishment and connection. Especially when it involves food and gathering women together, two of my favourite things.

There’s something deeply valuable about holding the knowledge of how to intentionally nourish another.
To arrive at the home of a new mother during her first 40 days with a warm meal, thoughtfully prepared for her recovery.

To know how to nourish yourself when your nervous system is calling for grounding and warmth.
Or to be the wise woman in your community who knows how to tend to someone in need of a little extra care.
Across cultures, variations of congee have been passed down through generations. It is so much beyond a bowl of rice. It’s the wisdom of understanding the ingredients, the needs of the person we’re preparing it for, and how to bring them together with intention.

On Sunday 8th November, I’ll be sharing my incredibly simple process for making congee, exploring the traditional knowledge of warming and digestive spices, medicinal ingredients and how to combine them to support individual needs.

Together we’ll prepare three variations; sweet, savoury and vegetarian before sitting down to share our nourishing meal.

You’ll also have the opportunity to explore my collection of traditional midwifery tools, herbal blends and artisan weavings, with special event discounts.

You’ll leave with more than a recipe, but the knowledge to bring intentional nourishment into your own life, birth work and community.

Sunday 8th November 10 am–1 pm
South Golden Beach, Northern NSW
Just 12 places available.

Secure your place, link in B.I.O🤎

14/10/2026

Hello world
I’ve emerged 🙌🏾

After weeks of having my calendar closed, rebuilding, reassessing, rejuvenating, I’ve opened them once again.

And this is your last opportunity to book until December until I’m back from swimming with the whales 🐋

I have space available for antenatal and postnatal care, bodywork and ceremony.

So if you’re preparing for birth, or recovering from it.
If you’re wanting to prepare for the journey of conception, work with menstrual issues or trauma or honour and close your birthing season, I’m here for you.

I also have the option to add on a cacao reading, tabaco clearing or herbal foot soak or bodywork to an existing appointment.
A total spiritual and cellular refresh.

12/10/2026

A week of midwifery when you honour the interconnectedness of all.

10/10 ceremony
Admiring nature
Birthworker circles
Weaving for placenta art
Sun and a margarita
Drying home grown plants for healing medicines
Seeing the divine beauty that exists at all times
Mentoring to keep the knowledge alive
Food as medicine for myself and the women I walk with

Interwoven with births, appointments, driving, admin, bodywork, ceremony and education sessions 💗

This work truely can be whatever you design it to be.
Many years of intentional decisions, long term visions, micro steps and giant leaps to get here🪷

12/09/2026

How are we here already. May babies have been conceived and birth workers need to plan ahead✨

Make sure you’ve signed up for your interest to receive all the information when it becomes available.

For now, Save the Date for the most transformative experience of a lifetime.
Learning, dissolving, reorganising and expanding with the guidance of our team of Maya and traditional midwives. Held by the sacred lake and volcanos of Lake Atitlan, Guatemala.

23/07/2026

There comes a point where inspiration isn’t enough.

Where appreciating the work...

Watching from the sidelines...

Or wishing things were different...

It’s time to take real action.

As birth intervention continues to rise and more women and babies live with the effects, it’s easy to feel powerless against systems that seem too big to change.
But real change has never started with systems.
It has always started with people.

With birth workers who choose to keep learning.
Who expand what they know.
Who expand the way they care.

Because every woman you tend, every family you support, every birth you walk alongside becomes part of that ripple.

That’s how change begins.

If you’ve been waiting for the right time to deepen your skills, reconnect with traditional ways of tending, and learn how to thoughtfully integrate them into modern birth work...

This is your invitation.

Today is the final day to join The Art of Tending.

Come and create change with me.

12/07/2026

The way we care for women changes when the way we see women changes.

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been sharing some of the perspectives that have shaped my work over the last thirteen years.
Not because they’re new ideas, but because they’ve profoundly changed the way I practise and, in turn, what I’m able to offer the women in my care.

I’ve come to see that the future of birth work lies in consciously weaving traditional wisdom into the realities of caring for women today.

With discernment.

With intention.

And always in response to the woman in front of us.
That’s the vision behind The Art of Tending.

Over two live masterclasses, we’ll explore the principles that have been the foundation of care for women across generations and cultures, and how they can be thoughtfully integrated into the realities of supporting women today.

My intention is that you’ll leave with a broader repertoire of ways to support women, recognising new opportunities for preparation, birth and postpartum recovery, and knowing how to thoughtfully integrate traditional wisdom into modern care.

Expanding what you’re able to offer the women you support.

If these conversations have resonated with you, I’d love to welcome you.

🤍 The Art of Tending is now open. Link in bio.

11/07/2026

The skills we hold shape the options available to women.
Every day, we influence the environment in which women experience pregnancy, birth and postpartum.

The questions we ask.

The way we observe.

The knowledge we hold.

The opportunities we recognise.

The support we know how to offer.

All of it shapes what becomes possible for the women in our care.

That’s why I believe our work extends far beyond responding to birth as it unfolds.

It’s about intentionally creating the conditions that best support women before birth, and continuing to tend to them long afterwards.

As birth workers, we have the opportunity to continually expand what we’re able to offer women.

Not by collecting knowledge for knowledge’s sake, but by seeking the understanding that allows us to thoughtfully integrate it into the realities of caring for women today.

That’s the vision behind The Art of Tending💗

A place to begin exploring the principles that have been the foundation of care for women across generations and cultures, and how they can be thoughtfully integrated into the realities of supporting women today.

If this vision for birth work resonates with you, I’d love to welcome you.

🤍 Registrations are now open via the link in my bio.

08/07/2026

Forget the basic hospital bag lists; phone charger, earplugs, toiletries, adult nappy 🫠

Ever wondered what a holistic midwife would recommend to pack to start supporting your comfort and healing straight after birth…

Save this before you pack your hospital birth bag.

As a midwife bridging clinical and traditional practice, this is what I recommend every woman brings to support her recovery from the very first hours after birth.

You don’t have to birth at home to heal holistically.

If anything, traditional healing supports are even more important when intervention has been part of your birth.

Whether you planned a home birth or a hospital birth, the first hours and days matter deeply for your recovery.

These are simple, easy to find items that mean you can begin supporting your postpartum healing, nervous system, milk supply and womb recovery straight after birth — wherever you birth.

The early days are not just survival.
They are the foundation of long term health.

What is one thing you wish you had packed for your postpartum hospital stay?

🪷Drop it below — let’s build a resource list together.

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