Hey Mama, hey friends 

I'm Kelly, an advocate of women, children, mamas, teachers, carers, and anyone committed to improving their well-being, firstly for themselves and then for others.

 

I am specifically passionate about women and women's health. I want to see women heal and be their powerful authentic selves. It is often women who hold space for others and give of themselves to see others thrive. It requires great strength, knowledge, patience, healing and self awareness to create safe environments and relationships that heal and act as healthy launching pads for big and little peoples futures.

 

I am equally passionate about reducing childhood trauma and would be honoured to play a role in loving the big people raising our next generation of little people. It's enormous the amount of love and energy it takes to give the best of ourselves to others so they can fly. Giving from an empty tank is just hard for everyone so I am devoted to learning how we can maintain our beautiful generosity while protecting ourselves.

 

I have 9 years of experience as an early childhood educator where I threw my heart into all the children I ever taught and their families. I threw my mind into the research on:

• The developing brain

• Developing secure attachments

• Reducing childhood trauma

• Emotional regulation

• Developing emotionally well humans.

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 While I've spent the last decade researching teaching pedagogy, wellness and parenting strategies so that I could be the best early childhood teacher, step mother and now mother I can be, what I’ve learnt is while these strategies and pedagogies can get us so far, this knowledge can’t always carry us through those really hard moments when we are so over tired, so drained and triggered by our own childhood trauma. We need to heal. We need deep healing so we can be the light and joy we want to be. First for ourselves, then for others and especially for our smallest humans who deserve the greatest love and respect as their brains and identity form.

 

I’ve learnt that when we hold our children in the highest regard and hold ourselves to the standard that this regard deserves something powerful happens. Not burnout and standards that are too high to be met but a partnership develops and a relationship grounded in respect that fills both the child and the carer with a great love and energy. The relationship becomes reciprocal and rewarding as we listen deeply and learn alongside our smallest citizens.  

 

Children are unbelievable and deserve to be raised by adults who strive to learn and grow for their own and their children’s well-being. When our children are young, our emotional well-being and regulation is their emotional well-being.