Hey - I’m Lauren and I’m so glad you are here

I’m a Somatic & Eco Therapist and Meditation Teacher. Most importantly, I’m a mother to openhearted young twins, living on the Sunshine Coast, and walking the raw, beautiful, and often overwhelming terrain of motherhood in all its wildness and magic.

Before becoming a mother, I spent 11 years navigating the uncertainty of infertility, eventually conceiving my children through IVF. Those years brought deep grief and longing, but also unexpected spaciousness. In that liminal time, I stepped away from my government job in law, hiked remote mountain passes, and immersed myself in meditation, embodiment practices, and somatic therapy. I didn’t realise then that I was being prepared slowly and quietly for the intense transition that motherhood of twins would bring.

Motherhood didn’t just arrive; it descended. It continues to crack me open and draw me inward. It is an embodied transition that asks me to meet myself over and over again. I mean there is nothing more body centric than motherhood.

It’s not a breakdown, but a sacred unfolding. A personal rite of passage where the unseen, unhealed parts of me surface asking not for fixing, but for presence, compassion, and care.

At the same time, the lived, daily reality of motherhood is relentless. The sleep deprivation, the sensory overload, the invisible weight of being needed impacts the nervous system in profound ways. And yet, within the unraveling, I am reminded to return again and again to what holds me: my connection to others, somatic therapy with my trusted guide, quiet moments with the earth, the anchoring practice of mindfulness, and the simple but powerful act of staying with myself just as I am.

These practices don’t make me a perfect mother. They help me meet the moment so that I can soften, reconnect and breathe. They remind me that every big and small life transition (whether it’s birth, loss, identity shifts, or the day-to-day threshold of parenting) holds the potential for healing, if we’re willing to open.

What I’ve come to know through my own journey is this: aligned parenting advice can be helpful and impactful, but without nervous system support, embodied awareness, and real compassion, it becomes another performance and thing to “get right.”

I’ve know the pressure to always be calm, connected, and conscious even while completely depleted or disconnected from myself. And what I’ve learned is parenting begins not with strategy, but with self-connection and awareness.

This is the heart of my blog, The Soft Ground, a space for mothers who want to come home to themselves, not to become flawless, but to become more present. It’s an invitation to return to your own body, inner rhythm, and truth so that your parenting flows from a place of wholeness, not performance.

Because the transition into motherhood (like many of life’s sacred thresholds) isn’t something to rush through or bypass. It’s a portal. And when we honour it as such, it can become a path of deep, embodied growth.

This space is for women like me. Those walking sacred, embodied transitions in motherhood and beyond. Women who long for a soft, grounded place to land. A place where the nervous system can exhale. Where the mess is welcomed and normalised. Where your tenderness, truth, and complexity are not only held, but honoured.