Welcome,
I'm Louise, aka Mama to Jonny and Skye.
Becoming a mother didn’t just change my day-to-day life; it reshaped how I saw myself in every role I held. Suddenly, I was balancing the weight of creating my own family while navigating seismic shifts in my family of origin and career. Patterns I hadn’t even realized I’d inherited came into sharp focus. Old dynamics felt too heavy to carry, and I began the challenging work of breaking cycles and building healthier connections—for myself and my children.
Learning about Matrescence gave me the permission I didn’t know I needed. It helped me understand that this deep transformation was not something to fix, but to honor. But I came to realize that understanding it in my mind wasn’t enough—I needed to feel it in my body.
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That’s when I discovered the power of embodiment. By tuning into my body’s wisdom, I learned to move through the shifts of motherhood with more self-compassion, awareness, and intention. This led me to become certified in Focalizing, a somatic modality that helps people reconnect with their bodies to access clarity, resilience, and healing.​
There was this person, or at least parts of, that I grieved for, and times that I didn’t even recognize who I was.
My matrescence so far…
Going through my second matrescence during the isolation of COVID shortly after moving to a new city, made me realize the importance of community in navigating this raw and vulnerable transition. Without the connection and witnessing that helped me the first time, stepping into my role as a mother of two was far more difficult. It’s this experience that inspired me to become certified as a Seasons of Matrescence Guide and hold space for other mothers—especially those feeling disoriented or lost amid so much change.
I understand the weight of trying to reimagine yourself while carrying the weight of motherhood and everything else. But I also know the freedom that comes when you choose to create something new, to break free from old patterns, and embrace the empowered, grounded version of yourself that is waiting to emerge.
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It wasn’t until I started dedicating intentional time and using embodiment to recognize where the guilt and shame was showing up and coming from, could I reconnect with my true values, and give myself the necessary compassion to commit to providing myself with the things I needed.
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I bring together these personal experiences, occupational perspective, and the latest on matrescence and embodiment, to support women to better navigate the many pushes and pulls of motherhood.
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I believe true transformation isn’t about doing more, it’s about becoming more connected to who you already are.