Feeling lost in motherhood, overwhelmed, or disconnected from yourself?
Support for mothers navigating postpartum, identity shifts, and the emotional transition into becoming a mother.
You are not doing it wrong. The intensity, the overwhelm, the disconnection—they all have a reason. There’s a rite of passage we all pass through as we become a Mother.
It’s called Matrescence.
You’re not meant to navigate these big feelings alone
Motherhood can feel like a threshold you weren’t fully prepared for. You love your baby deeply and still feel overwhelmed, disconnected, or like you’ve lost parts of yourself along the way. This is more common than most women are told.
Motherhood reshapes your body, identity, brain, nervous system and so much more.
Personal and collective trauma can feel louder in these years.
The way our society runs isn’t built to support mothers fully.
Feeling disconnected, overwhelmed, or unseen is a natural signal- a signal that you’re not being supported, witnessed or heard enough in this massive life transition.
The only way to meet yourself on the other side of this… is to go through it. With support, witnessing, connection, community & celebration.
There is a name for this transition into Motherhood
This experience is known as Matrescence — the emotional, physical, and identity shifts that happen as a woman becomes a mother. It is not a failure or something to fix. It is a transformation that deserves are requires support.
Ways I support mothers through this transition to move from overwhelmed and disconnected… to anchored and seen.
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1:1 Coaching & Support
Personalised support for mothers navigating identity shifts, overwhelm, and the transition into motherhood. For when you want to be met deeply and guided back to yourself.
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Online Community for Mothers
A supportive space for ongoing connection, shared experience, and being witnessed through the realities of motherhood. You don’t have to do this alone.
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Workbooks & Resources
resources to help you understand what you are experiencing in motherhood, from identity shifts to emotional overwhelm and the transition into becoming a mother.
This is for you if…
You feel overwhelmed by the mental load of motherhood
You feel disconnected from yourself after having a baby
You miss who you were before motherhood
You feel touched out, overstimulated, or exhausted
You feel like motherhood is harder than you expected
You are searching for something you can’t yet name
Hey Mama, I’m Rach, this is why I do this work
Before I became a mother, I was a perinatal yoga teacher. I witnessed amazing women seemingly disappear from social circles once they became mothers. Not only in the first few months which was to be expected, but longer into the depths of their mothering experience. Like they entered a different realm where they were unreachable.
When I became a mother myself, I felt why it was that mothers seemed to disappear. Becoming a mother cracked me open, broke down everything I thought I knew about myself. Left me feeling every extreme in emotions, and like no one else could possibly understand how insane I felt.
I’ve always felt things deeply, but the level of empathy, anxiety, fear, and hyper vigilance I felt when I became a mother was something else. As I navigated Postpartum Depression, Perinatal Anxiety and later during my second pregnancy, a late in life diagnosis of ADHD and ASD (Autism), I felt a deep sense of injustice.
Our society isn’t supportive for mothers or children, yet they are the crux of everything. I felt as though I’d been tricked, and that being a mother was nothing like I’d been sold it. I wanted to scream from the rooftops “I grew and birthed a whole human!” I was so in awe of the human experience of becoming a mother. At the very same time I felt blindsided that other mothers hadn’t taken me aside and warned me about my own becoming, my own rebirth that I was experiencing alongside birthing my daughters.
I knew there was no way I could be alone in my intense feelings, I couldn’t be the only mother feeling completely disconnected from myself. When I started being honest and raw with how I was feeling, I soon realised most mothers I spoke to were also feeling isolated, alone and unseen.
I became a Postpartum doula so that I could offer support to other mothers that I was deeply craving for myself. To somehow try and fill the huge gap I could see in the lack of support for mothers.
I continue to learn and experience motherhood from both my own experiences and those around me. I love blending my passion for walking with women through their experience of becoming a mother, with my yoga knowledge, and my passion for community building and connecting to ourselves as part of nature.
I believe no woman should feel alone in her journey. My work is about more than just guidance- it’s about giving you the tools, care and community to thrive- no matter what your experience is.
From postpartum healing to rituals, practices and community support that guide you back to yourself within motherhood.
in Tasmania and online
What Women are saying about The Nesting Space & Rach
Here are just a few of the stories they’ve shared:
“It was so great and I highly recommend this service to ALL mothers, no matter when they birthed.”
“I feel calmer, more grounded, with space for joy and an openness to new experiences.”
“You're amazing at what you do and you are making a real difference!!”