Hello

Hi! My name is Alissa and I’m a passionate mum and self-proclaimed defender of infancy, childhood and mother-dom. My husband Matt and I have two children who we home-school on my home soil, the Hibiscus Coast of Auckland.

After my own arrival into motherhood, an inkling inside me began to grow – telling me that my experience around motherhood would go deeper than just my own journey. At the same time, I was seeing all around me that things had really become unhinged in the way that women today traverse the divide from maiden to mother. The majority of modern mothers are struggling just to survive the early years of motherhood – to suggest that this should be a time of women THRIVING might seem quite ridiculous. I began to feel like I wanted to help mothers who were making this journey, to do so with confidence, love, joy and peace amidst the very real challenges (and very un-real social expectations) of new-born life.

Fast forward a few years and I came across what has been dubbed the “Postpartum Renaissance” – a movement of women who believe deeply in the return of a society that truly supports new mothers and who are helping to fill the gaps that are left in a woman’s care after her baby is born. It was very clear to me that this was where I was supposed to be.

A women’s postpartum experience is always going to be life-changing, but how that experience is shaped, and how it impacts her for the rest of her life is up to us all. Just like a new-born baby, a new mother needs love, nurturing, support, joy and nourishment in order to move through the early days, weeks and years of motherhood safely. This essential support will allow her to thrive in her new role and make space for all the self-sacrifice motherhood inevitably requires – without winding up depleted and lost.

I am passionately fueled by a desire to help change the collective’s mindset around motherhood – to change the way people care for new mothers, and to contribute in some small way to the re-education of society, so that we are ALL invested in ensuring mothers and their infants thrive, not just survive. I hope to offer women the support that is only fitting for those carrying out the most important job in the world, which led to me completing my Newborn Mothers Postpartum Professionals course in 2020, and to complete further training in 2022 with Innate Traditions Postpartum Care.

My approach in life and in parenting is deeply holistic, with strong alignment to attachment, connection, and responsive based parenting – founded on the knowledge of mothers’, infants’ and childrens’ core physiologic needs. Therefore my intention is to work with families for whom this feels good and true.

I would love the opportunity to help you or someone you know experience a postpartum that is truly supported. If you are looking to enter this new phase with a deeper sense of connection, healing and support, please reach out or see Offerings for more details.

“Motherhood brings as much joy as ever, but it still brings boredom, exhaustion, and sorrow too. Nothing else will ever make you as happy or as sad as proud or as tired, for nothing is quite as hard as helping a person develop his own individuality, especially while you struggle to keep your own.”

~ Marguerite Kelly and Elia Parsons (The Mother’s Almanac)