MotherBALM
For postpartum & beyond
This unique mix of modalities helps with deeply processing the individuality of your experience to initiate healing.
Giving birth is a chaotic, wild experience no matter what occurs… It is immense, profound, transformative, delivering YOU into a new life.
You deserve the tools needed to adapt, to recover, to become the person you desire to be in your new family environment.
You will feel my guidance every step of the way.
These sessions are for you when you feel changed by your perinatal experiences. You may not have realised the physical changes, emotional intensity and exhaustion that is part of this time. Other people’s social stories are not necessarily what you personally experience.
“It felt like such a wonderful closure to a difficult experience. I’ve been left with an overwhelming feeling of relief and hope.”
-Anne Boudreau, MotherBALM client
MotherBALM is about becoming better, actively accepting, listening and mindfully moving. These sessions are revitalizing for your mind and body allowing you a smoother transition through Matrescence, the process of becoming a mother.
You are not alone in your journey. Together, we build up your skills to handle your shifts.
Gift yourself permission to recalibrate
You receive focused support for the relationship you have with yourself through this time.
Begin to initiate deep mental and physical healing after a difficult home or hospital birth by processing the story of your labour and birth experiences with me, a trained Birth Story Listener®. This one-of-a-kind map works even if it is many years beyond.
MotherBALM is for you when you find yourself asking, “What the Hell just happened?” in the middle of the night and not getting a clear answer or being able to sleep on it.
Even if you feel massive relief that you and your baby are here, there may be disappointment regarding anything that didn’t go as planned. You may feel let down, shattered by unmet expectations.
Even when your story appears uncomplicated from the outside you may carry pestering feelings, anger, inadequacy or shame.
These sessions help you pick up the pieces and collect yourself so you feel valuable again.
The holistic MotherBALM process uses thoughtful questions, allegories and empathy to help you, the storyteller, uncover buried beliefs to re-claim some inner peace. Continue recovering with an empowering combination of gentle mind and body techniques for moving through the gates of this rite-of-passage into a healthier expression of YOU.
MotherBALM combines evidence-based, client-driven, best practices, where personalised sessions are just what YOU may need.
YOU Benefit from:
A support system with a calm presence
Stress reduction
Shifting a deregulated nervous system after a difficult birth
Regaining posture so your back and pelvic floor recover
Relaxation for baby-feeding time
Tools for YOU to rest and sleep better
Tranquility Poses to calm a fussy baby
When I work with women, they feel better.
Join the spiral of Postpartum healing for efficient access to positive emotional states to feel more resilient.
When a mother chooses to unburden herself by compassionately exploring the story she has about her pregnancy, labour and delivery, she becomes a remedy for others to do the same, gifting permission for mothers to seek a kinder, less traumatic story for themselves, sending ripples of healing through their communities.
Kind words from clients
I understand the experience of being out of kilter postpartum, so I designed MotherBALM to support you to get your footing.
Accessing several modalities, such as the one-of-a kind Birth Story Medicine® map, I begin by deeply listening to your story to learn what state it is in, and what painful aspects you are still holding. I lead you to uproot negatives, allowing you to shed anything emotionally heavy rather than carry it in your body.
Sessions include personalised postpartum recovery yoga poses, breathing techniques and Hypopressives™ Low Pressure Fitness techniques—a full body approach for pelvic floor recovery and core health. Weight loss may occur as the body releases and shifts in physiology.
Healing is not always found pushing yourself through boot camp to fix how you look on the outside.
You first have to heal the ordeal you went through from the inside.
Compassionate listening & embodied shifting for:
Any mother who still feels emotionally hurt when they remember or talk about the birth of their child, even around Birthdays many years later.
Any charged emotions around the type of experience had with Midwifery care, Hospital care or Unassisted Birth that needs processing.
Any Birth worker who feels changed by intense perinatal experiences you witnessed.
Engage in the care of you
You can shift difficult birthing stories in a compassionate way to allow them to become golden.
Personalised 1-on-1 sessions that build upon each other until you feel more whole
Gifts for you
Insight and tools specifically for moving towards becoming more resourceful
In person (where available) or online
Cost: Sessions begin at $150 per hour. Packages available. Must be pre-paid at the time of booking.
Start with a FREE 15 minute consultation, if desired.
I support you to gently alter the relationship you have with yourself, to become more balanced for the child/ren, families and your community as a whole.
“Story is the MOTHER of us all for we become who we say we are.”
-Christina Baldwin