Mothers Circle -Birth Doula

Mothers Circle -Birth Doula Mother. Birth Doula (20yrs). Childbirth Educator. Writer. Circle-Keeper. Walking beside women through pregnancy, birth, and all thresholds of becoming.

I create spaces for truth, grief, rest and expression. Based in Aotearoa, working worldwide.

16/06/2026

Buy my friends Poppy+Sage candles for your grandmother- the joy they bring is worth every cent!

A gift that brings so much delight. 🕯️
Check out her beautiful creations at www.poppyandsage.co.nz

Four months into Waimaries pregnancy, her Mother passed away. Viscerally connected to Mother, while simultaneously loosi...
11/06/2026

Four months into Waimaries pregnancy, her Mother passed away. Viscerally connected to Mother, while simultaneously loosing her own.

“Losing mum while pregnant felt excruciating. Denial, disbelief, internal rage and deep sadness all at the same time. I stood outside in mums garden, listening to the bamboo wind chimes, the birds. Feeling the warm temperature of my tears. I noticed every single blade of grass sparkling in the morning light, and how vibrant the colours of nature were. It was like someone had turned the saturation up. Grief has a special way of slowing time down, and deeply anchoring you in the moment”.

Pictures of Waimaries mama were laid upon the birth altar and a candle was lit in her honour.

“The morning before my labor started, I sat in meditation, connecting with mum. I asked her to bring baby down, that I was ready. I think she heard me. I felt her presence as I navigated the birth portal, as I slipped between realms. She was present for Taikas arrival.”

08/06/2026

Can’t control others in the room, but keeping myself slow and present is my doula flex. It gives the labouring mama something to anchor into.
The Labour of Love Doula Training is opening next month-
3 days in person in the Bay of Plenty, then a four month container online, registrations are open.

Waimarie remained patient as her pregnancy went beyond 42 weeks. Her story is to come...In the meantime, take in this mo...
07/06/2026

Waimarie remained patient as her pregnancy went beyond 42 weeks. 
Her story is to come...
In the meantime, take in this moment of Delight, Bliss, Power, Ecstasy, Relief & Joy.

I’m ever humbled by the power it takes to bring life in.

When I asked you to vote for the next pop-up Writing Circle  theme, anxiety was the overwhelming winner. Anxiety, it see...
02/06/2026

When I asked you to vote for the next pop-up Writing Circle theme, anxiety was the overwhelming winner.
Anxiety, it seems to be a rampant symptom of this chaotic world.

I’ve named the circle “Candyfloss”.

Even the word “anxiety”… well… it makes me feel anxious.
Does your body respond in a crunching way that might just envelope itself?
Candyfloss is a softer word… and I’m wondering what happens when we approach our internal experiences with curiosity instead of resistance?

Candyfloss dissolves when put on the tongue, and in many ways anxiety can dissolve too when given the space to breathe, be heard and cared for with attention and community.

If you’d like to develop a kinder relationship with your internal experiences, I’d love you join us.

Details: We begin Sunday 21st June 7.30pm online for 4 consecutive weeks. The cost is $250. Payment arrangements welcome. Only 10 spaces available.

12 Women2 daysA pigsty A mud pot A washing river A prayer…“Eat Pray Write” quenched every part of me that has been parch...
25/05/2026

12 Women
2 days
A pigsty
A mud pot
A washing river
A prayer…
“Eat Pray Write” quenched every part of me that has been parched…
It was so nourishing, I’m doing it again.
Send me a message if you would like the details to my up and coming Eat Pray Write Winter Retreat.

Special thanks to my incredible support- best cook in town and kitchen Angel Iyla đź’Ž

My Womanhood.Cloaked in lavish velvet, I wear her.Brimming change in passage.The budding, the blooming, the blossoming, ...
14/05/2026

My Womanhood.
Cloaked in lavish velvet, I wear her.
Brimming change in passage.
The budding, the blooming, the blossoming, the drying and the dying-
The grace of change, she wears me.

I know the soil in the forest, I taste the decay,
The seeking seed, the prayer for light.
I hear the peeping stars that call us forth and
The pleasure that binds all together cannot be forgotten.

The cycling, the searing, the ring of fire, the surrender, the blood, the blessing, the milk they drank from my breast.
The crying. Them and me. 
Love woven at my fingertips, the delicate threads dancing, dancing, falling, dying.

The plunge of women.
Deeper and deeper.
To the dark, to the nothing, to arousal, to the quiet, to everything, to the beat, to the beat....
To the throb, to holding love in arms for an unknown amount of time. 
My Womanhood.


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Last night, I dreamt she was seven again.She was playing and jumping out windows with wild brown horses.When I woke, she...
11/05/2026

Last night, I dreamt she was seven again.
She was playing and jumping out windows with wild brown horses.

When I woke, she was suddenly nineteen and premenstrual, irritated by how I chew my toast...

By this afternoon, she began to lose her mind... Leo Sayer and Aretha Franklin blast into the kitchen, and she doesn’t mind if I dance like my mother.
We drum our fists on the table and shout out lyrics mixed with sounds we’ve made up. We shake our heads so our hair flies around.
We spin and twirl around the coffee table...
And seven remains...
In us both.

09/05/2026

We didn’t nail it but we also kind of did… much like Motherhood… Happy Mothers Day to you all out there!
Thank you to the Mothers that birthed us here…. And their Mother and their Mother…

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