Episode 11: Loving Boundaries in Pregnancy. Protecting Your Energy When Others Project Their Fear

Pregnancy can feel like an open invitation for opinions, advice, and unfiltered fear. From hands on bellies without consent, to well-meaning loved ones projecting their own trauma, worry, or beliefs, many pregnant mummas find themselves carrying far more than their own experience.

In this episode, I speak into the importance of creating loving, conscious boundaries during pregnancy. We explore how to recognise projection, how to protect your nervous system, and how to practise assertiveness without hardening your heart.

Drawing on my own journey into motherhood and decades of walking alongside women through pregnancy and birth, I share practical ways to respond to unsolicited advice, fear based commentary, and the pressure that often intensifies as the due time approaches. We also talk about the impact of constant checking in, timeline anxiety, and how this disrupts the oxytocin flow needed for labour to unfold naturally.

This episode is an invitation to come back into your body, trust your inner knowing, and remember that pregnancy and birth are sacred transitions, not public events. You are allowed to choose what you share, who you engage with, and what energy you carry.

If you are feeling the weight of other people’s opinions, fear, or urgency, this conversation is here to remind you that your peace matters.

Your timing matters.

And your knowing matters!

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Episode 10. Birth and Birthing; Now vs Then ~ Homebirth Australia Conference Presentation

In this episode I’m bringing you the full presentation I shared at the Homebirth Australia Conference in Adelaide on Nov 9 2025. It's a deep dive into what I have witnessed in more than three decades of working with bodies, movement and birth.

We explore why birth itself has not changed, yet our bodies absolutely have. I walk you through the way our ancestors lived and moved, how our modern lifestyle shapes the pregnant body, and why these shifts affect labour, positioning, and the entire physiology of birth.

You will hear the stories, the insights, the frustrations and the fierce clarity that have shaped my work as an Aligned and supportive birthworker and bodyworker. You will learn how tension patterns form, why alignment matters, how fascia responds to life, and how breathwork and movement can shift everything for the women and families you support.

This episode is part history lesson, part anatomy lesson, part embodiment practice, always truth telling and fully devoted to bringing birth back into the hands and wisdom of women.

Settle in, breathe with me, and let your own awareness awaken as you listen.

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Episode 9.

Em’s Birth Story: Kai’s Chosen Timing- A Sovereign & free Homebirth

Today I sit down with the beautiful Em, a Mumma from my community who birthed her first baby, Kai, at home in March 2025.

Call it a homebirth, sovereign birth, freebirth, or unassisted birth, whatever words feel right, but for Em and her husband Craig, it was about creating a birth that was deeply intentional, aligned, and fully theirs.

I had the privilege of supporting Em and Craig through their pregnancy, birth & postpartum journey, and it was incredible to witness how committed they were to preparing themselves mentally, emotionally, and physically to bring Kai earthside in their power.

Being their first birth, Em and Craig explored many different care providers within the hospital system before coming to the realisation that the only path that felt right for them was to birth at home.

Kai chose to come a week early and it was magic. That timing meant no-one knew Em and Craig were in labour. The birth was completely undisturbed, energetically protected, and held in the most sacred way, just the way Kai had chosen it to be.

It’s the first time Em and I have had the chance to sit together and go through her birth story in full, and it was such a joy to reflect, laugh, and honour the journey. She’s articulate, passionate, and deeply clear on why this path mattered so much for her family.

I know you’re going to love this episode. If you have any questions or reflections that come up after listening, please reach out, I’d love to hear from you.

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