POSTPARTUM MAPPING WORKSHOP + CIRCLE

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This isn’t a template -  it’s an individualised, guided and reflective process.

It blends education, guided reflection, and practical preparation: a deep dive into the eight core postpartum principles, journal prompts that help you integrate those lessons into your lived experience, uncover your vision, clarify potential obstacles, and identify the support structures that will truly hold you.

Plus it’s not a ‘plan’ either. 

Plans can be a beautiful way to visualise the postpartum of your dreams. But they only scratch the surface:

• They don’t invite the broader, deeper exploration needed to be confident and responsive when things change. 
• They are narrow, rigid, and unforgiving. 
• When things don’t go to plan, many parents are left feeling lost, stuck, or worse, like they’ve somehow failed.

That’s why I offer mapping instead.

Mapping:

• Doesn’t script a fixed path or box you in. 
• Is responsive and expansive. 
• Guides you through a landscape of possibilities: the turns, the detours, the “what ifs,” so you are ready to make aligned choices at any fork in the road. 

Because it’s not about controlling the journey. It’s about having the knowledge, support, and confidence to navigate it, no matter how it unfolds. 

Honestly, you can find a lot of this information online.

But what most people struggle with isn’t access to information, it’s the overwhelm of having too much of it. Getting stuck in research mode, getting lost in conflicting advice, and the guesswork and mental load of sifting through endless sources trying not just to find the right pieces but to connect them in a way that works.

What I’ve done in this workshop is filter that noise down into a clear, step-by-step approach based on real experience and devoted study of postpartum, so you don’t have spend that time and energy trying to patch something helpful together. 

Plus, its not just a webinar- it’s a deeply reflective, practical and interactive workshop where we’ll explore your vision of a truly supported postpartum, obstacles to that vision and strategies to overcome them.

Plus, its not just a workshop, it’s a circle too. A space to connect with other mums, hear real lived experiences, process what you’re learning, and feel supported as you do. 

And there's also an eBook for ongoing reflection and preparation.

Because this isn’t just a webinar you listen to and forget. It's not information without the support to practically integrate it.

Postpartum Mapping isn’t about adding adding pressure, it’s about easing it. 

This workshop is designed to be serious value for money: to be flexible and timesaving. You can join live and/or take it at your own pace as an on-demand resource.  Same goes for your partner + you can also share the eBook with them to bring them up to speed with accessible and practical summaries of the core content.

No. This is to protect the privacy of everyone sharing and to keep the space safe, open, and genuinely supportive.

That said, all of the exercises will be available for you to explore in your own time if you’re unable to join live. And I’m always available to connect via email or message if anything comes up for you or you’d like to share or ask questions.

This offering is for any family:

• wanting to have a nourishing, supportive postpartum but not sure where to start
• unsure what support they’ll actually need, or feeling like they didn’t know what they needed last time
• reflecting on a previous postpartum and wanting to approach it differently this time
• wanting to do what they can to create the positive experience they deserve

I’ve worked with families in their first postpartum and in their fourth.

Every family deserves this kind of support and the truly nourishing and supportive postpartum that follows.

Absolutely.

This workshop + circle is designed to help you integrate the postpartum principles and deepen your support, whether or not you’re utilising doula care. But if you are curious about postpartum care, this will also help you identify gaps in support and areas where a doula could benefit you. 

Your experience matters too. You deserve care that’s just as intentional as the care you’ll give your baby.

Plus, your wellbeing and your baby’s wellbeing are deeply connected. Meeting your needs is meeting theirs.

During the fourth trimester, babies have sensitive, developing nervous systems and rely on their caregivers for co-regulation ie learning how to feel safe, soothed, and secure in the world. In the same way, a caregiver’s stress and responsiveness shape a baby’s lifelong stress patterns and attachment.

This is just one example of how closely intertwined your needs are with your baby’s. 

When a mother is nourished and supported, her baby thrives, and so does the whole family for that matter.

The benefits of a supported postpartum are so expansive.

Benefits to the whole family unit, now and into their future, reaching so many layers of their individual and collective wellbeing. 

To give a few examples:

• For Mum: Supports perineal or caesarean recovery, pelvic floor healing, emotional wellbeing, and long-term vitality while reducing risks of depression, anxiety, and depletion - laying the foundation for her health for the next 40 years.
• For Dad/Partner: Improves mental health, confidence, and bonding, and strengthens communication and teamwork for family life ahead.
• For Baby: Supports secure attachment, co-regulation, breastfeeding, and healthy nervous system, brain, and immune development - shaping wellbeing for life.
• For Sibling/s: Promotes emotional security, inclusion, and stability, easing adjustment and strengthening lifelong family bonds.

And because each family member’s experience is so deeply connected, every benefit to one strengthens them all. A supported parent, for example, is better resourced to co-regulate, be present with, and emotionally available for their kids - showing how support for their emotional wellbeing flows throughout the whole family unit.

For many of us, our mothers and grandmothers didn’t have this kind of support. They survived, but they didn’t necessarily thrive. They did what they could with what they had.

But that doesn’t mean it has to be the same for us. Prioritising rest, recovery, and support isn’t self-indulgent. It’s:

• healing generational patterns of burnout and martyrdom.
• caring for your physical and mental health in a way that will support you for decades to come.
• supporting your whole family’s wellbeing. 

And it’s setting a new standard for the next generation: We don’t “bounce back”, we move forward - supported, nourished and stronger for it.