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Supporting women through life’s big transitions. Gentle guidance + real conversations.
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Hello again ✨

It’s been a little while since I’ve posted here, but if you’ve been part of the Motherground community from the early days, thank you for still being here.

When I started Motherground a decade ago, my passion was creating nurturing spaces for new mums to feel supported and connected. Over time, my work and life journey have grown, and now I’m focusing on supporting women through all kinds of big life transitions.

🧡 Motherhood
🧡 Reinvention after loss or change
🧡 Identity shifts
🧡 Career changes +

I’m preparing to open online counselling sessions to help you through these times, wherever you are- no retreats needed.

For now, I’m inviting you to join my early notification list so you’ll be the first to know when bookings open.

💌 To join, just DM me the word CONNECT or click the link in my bio.

Here’s to new chapters and feeling grounded.

Jasmin x by @motherground

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Ten years ago today, I drove up the winding hill to a retreat centre in Red Hill with my 11-month-old son in the backseat, and my beautiful friend (with her own baby) by my side. My heart was pounding, my stomach knotted with nerves. I kept asking myself “Who am I to be doing this?”

I was about to welcome a group of new mums and their babies to the very first Motherground Retreat- a space I had been dreaming up for months, because I knew it was so needed. A gentle place where mums could arrive, put their bags down, feel seen, valued, be nurtured and completely cared for, while keeping their babies close.

I had everything planned down to the minute… until I didn’t.
As we gathered around the table for our first meal, I looked around at the crying babies, the mamas juggling feeding, nappy changes, sleeping schedules and I paused and realised~ ahh yes, this is exactly what motherhood can look like, an unpredictable, beautiful hot mess.
So I scrapped the schedule.
Instead, I invited us all to take off the masks we wore 🎭 let go of the concept of perfection, and simply ‘be’- messy, tired, teary, joyful, and everything in between (& there’s so much in between).

That moment set the tone for Motherground from then on. It would become a place where all parts of motherhood would be welcome. A place of connection, honesty, and care.

Since then, I had the privilege of supporting over 100 women and families through retreats across Australia, and even took Motherground all the way to England 💛

Now, ten years on, as my little boy is about to turn 11, I look back with so much appreciation. The lessons and challenges of motherhood keep changing, but the need for spaces of true connection remains.

And as for what comes next… it is ever evolving.

I now offer counselling sessions for mums navigating all stages of the motherhood journey. If you’d like to reach out you can share your expression of interest through the link in the bio.

If you’d have a memory of a Motherground retreat you were part of, drop me a note here, I’d love to hear from you.
Here’s to the next chapter ✨ by @motherground

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a year ago

Motherhood, womanhood, life~ none of it comes with a roadmap. Some days feel expansive, others feel like survival. I know this first hand.

The best part is, you don’t need to do it on your own.

Through counselling I offer a grounded space to process, reflect and find some anchoring.

If you’d like to explore this together, please drop me a line via the form (link in bio) and I’ll be in touch with you very soon.
Jas x by @motherground

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a year ago

In case you need this today 🤗
“To us all🥂” by @motherground

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3 years ago

this popped up as a memory from 9 years ago. Pre motherhood.

Fears are always there. Traditional approach- ignore them or indulge them. I’m learning that there might in fact be a middle ground. A little unchartered perhaps, but still available to explore.
How we respond to our fears can be the difference between a day or lifetime of ease or discomfort. I’m also learning how to look at what’s laying underneath the fear. It’s usually something historic and unresolved that needs to be seen.
What’s your relationship to your fears? by @motherground

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5 years ago

Is everyone doing okay?
I have been remaining pretty positive for the most part. But lockdown after lockdown, and not having much notice anymore before we have all our freedoms shut off has hit me hard.
I’m feeling like a massive fuck-off surrender is in order but it’s really hard because I don’t want to surrender and accept this is how life is for now.

I read yesterday that Victorian’s should embrace for 1 out of 4 days being the lockdown average for the remainder of the year. And that possible reality has got me feeling a bit down.

I’m getting cabin fever, have grown bloody bored of my 5km radius, am yearning for nature- ocean and trees. Some sort of environmental freedom at least might be a remedy for city living at the moment. This morning I dropped into a manic frenzy where I couldn’t stand anything being on the floor- so I’ve tipped all chairs upside down onto the table, as my mum used to do, in prep for a robust vacuum and deep scrubbing of floors.
I know what I need when I’m out of balance like this..but being kind, going slow and allowing all the yuk to just be isn’t always easy.

So, I’ve jumped on my bike, hit the track and now waiting for a coffee while I write this. The Waifs ‘London still’ is playing in the outdoor cafe and there’s naive and beautiful chooks cluck clucking away, unaware of this pandemic and the confused humans roaming around them.

Not much more to say other than as tokenistic and empty as it sounds, it still is kinda true- we are still all in this together, muddling our way through, messy AF but maybe there’s a few things we can all learn along the way..

Coffee ready..

What are you learning about yourself? ? by @motherground

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5 years ago

O X Y G E N
just in case you’re feeling low on the air you need to breathe through your day, here’s a reminder to pause and give yourself whatever you can in this moment, so you can fill up your lungs, and find your ground once more. by @motherground

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6 years ago

Today feels like a big exhale for melburnians. Thank you to all around the country who have held our hands from afar and held space in their hearts. It’s been a long and slow ride, sometimes enough but mostly not enough. Too much to put in this post, and everyone has their own experience. But tonight, it’s gratitude for the simple things, like being able to eat outside your home and support local businesses again that we feel so blessed to have always had, but perhaps never really seen.
I hope we will continue to savour and see so much more now.

#melbourne #mumsofmelbourne #retreats #lockdown by @motherground

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6 years ago

in these times of covid life and lockdown, I’ve been part of several (hand picked) women’s/mothers circles and groups designed to enable support one another virtually.
I’ve loved seeing this rising of women creating support spaces online for one another- so great and so needed.
And yet somehow I’ve felt deeply depleted by the thought of having to ‘do’ one more thing in order to feel calmer or more grounded. One more guided relaxation (I feel like a failure if I can’t find the all that’s required 5 short minutes) or one more offering of what feels like for me, one more thing I need to do.

@motherground I run retreats, and let me say that 2020 has not been the year for those.

So thinking beyond, and thinking how sometimes ‘self care’ can in fact be doing absolutely nothing, choosing not to commit or sign up to one more thing, because of self care tick-box fatigue.

So now I’m wondering, what do I need..and wondering what @motherground might look like in her next incarnation..?

Love to hear your thoughts and wishes and dreams and any fatigue rants welcome too x 💫 by @motherground

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6 years ago

Whilst playing Doctors this morning, Paddington Bear paid me a visit.

Poor Bear looked so very tired, carrying this big heavy bag. So full of stuff that Bear even toppled right over, face planted and then cried, felt embarrassed and guilty.

I helped Bear up. It was hard to stand up straight. The bag is weighty!
We spoke for a while (mostly I) and then I decided to ask my junior medical assistant to please fetch the small fingernail scissors. (Assistant I should add had lost interest in this game a while ago because mummy was just having a deep conversation with bear and it didn’t feel like the interactive game he wanted).
Then...
✂️
We cut off the bag. Removed it from the seams.
Bear hadn’t realised how tightly the heavy bag was sewn into the palm of it’s paw.
We thought about that for a little while.
Then we decided that the bag would stay. Because sometimes it has to. However, it would just be over there a bit .. Ready for when Bear has the strength (or inclination) to reach out and pick it up, maybe even carry it for a little bit. But Bear would decide.

Last picture: Look how light and upright Bear stands now after that release.

I can do that.
You can do that too.

Thanks Paddo for the lesson, come back to visit anytime. by @motherground

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6 years ago

no words. other than to say drawing masked dinosaurs is exceptionally cathartic and I’ll be mildly disappointed if they don’t actually turn up this year. #2020 by @motherground

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6 years ago

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