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Support During Your Pregnancy

Are you pregnant and feeling worried about your birth and what comes after?

Pregnancy can be such a precious and tumultuous time – but it can feel less stressful with good support.

What was it like having Anne support you at your birth?

“She was my rock. Anne was there without being obviously present. Her support was complete and gave me strength. I don’t know what I would have done without her! .. Anne, our doula … was instrumental in Lily’s birth being drug and intervention free and an amazing and positive experience. It’s lovely to continue our connection with this wonderful woman and have her in our lives. Xo”

Georgina, 2015, Birth Centre, RBWH, Brisbane

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✨Holistic Counsellor: Special interest in birth/ parenting/ sexuality/ healing trauma /spirituality ✨Art & Community Circles✨

Such a milestone to celebrate! Two years of squeez

Such a milestone to celebrate! Two years of squeezing in art school at night time after work and around parenting and life.

Grateful for all the support and encouragement from my friends and family to make it happen. And so glad I took the leap and committed to learning and being forced to make things. My younger self would be so happy and proud!

Thanks to our awesome teachers for encouraging us to be our weirdest and most wonderful artist selves.
 Excited to keep making and experimenting! #diplomavisualarts #southbanktafe

How it looks to prepare the studio for our final e

How it looks to prepare the studio for our final exhibition show with these beauties
@speckled_artz
@vickipowerart

And watching you work your magic is inspiring @summashing thank you for your mentoring and putting up with us!
🙌🏽💫⚡️

I’ll have a few limited edition prints for sale. Come along!
✨🌝✨

Art school final exhibition time! Please come alon

Art school final exhibition time! Please come along, so many amazing and talented artists! Some of my little Goddess sculptures will be there 😍@tafeqld

More of the finishing art school in 3 weeks frenzy

More of the finishing art school in 3 weeks frenzy! #artstudent #australiana #wattle

I love getting to walk alongside women and folks i

I love getting to walk alongside women and folks in their healing journeys, and getting to hang out in this peaceful little nest in the trees @ittakesavillagemidwifery Some days it just feels magical ✨♥️✨

Some of the works from our second show at art scho

Some of the works from our second show at art school. Our final show is coming up in a few weeks and then we’re finished! ✨🫶🏼✨

I wanted to study art ever since I left high schoo

I wanted to study art ever since I left high school, and here I am doing it - it just took me until I was 39!

The first night when I walked into the art studio I nearly died of happiness, the wide open space, all that possibility. Art was my favourite class in high school. Because it just feels like play and fun with some cool souvenirs if you’re lucky. It’s the process of losing yourself in the moment, entering into a liminal space and seeing what you can bring back. And doing that with some beautiful friends by your side makes it even more precious!

It has been the biggest stretch to find the time and make it work, around being a solo mama, having a day job, trying to run a business, trying to see my close loves. I’m grateful to my own mama for looking after my boy so I can venture out in the evening to do this.

I’ve said for a long while that my biggest life goal is to live in the forest, make art and support people’s healing… so here’s some moments of bringing that vision to life! ❤️‍🔥

Burning things and sharing some new vessels with t

Burning things and sharing some new vessels with the shiniest mother of pearl glaze…
When I have more I will list some for sale.. what do you think? ✨🧿✨

#Repost @babaramdass ❤️‍🔥 ・・・ To th

#Repost @babaramdass ❤️‍🔥
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To the extent that we are egos, we are somebodies. We come down and we become a somebody. As that awareness starts to identify as a soul, it immediately feels separate from our mother and everything else. Then we begin to experience another separation, now as ego.

So it’s a separation within a separation, if you will. That’s the descent into more and more dense form, and that form is what we live out as an incarnation. Somewhere along the line in that story, we awaken. We begin to realize we are not only the incarnation, that there is more to us than meets the eyes, and we begin to realize that the more that we think we are, we are. That leads us to re-look at our experiences and to open to new experiences that allow us to enter into other planes of consciousness, other perspectives, other ways of looking at it.

That awakening starts and at first, because you have been in such a thick substance, you’ve been so very entrapped in your story, in your body, in your suffering, that when you awaken there is a joy, a breath… it’s like coming above smog when you fly. But there is also a kind of fear of getting trapped again, and a tendency to push against the stuff you were trapped in. You can use that like a rocket booster to get you out there.

Ultimately though, as you get established more as a soul, more established as just awareness, which isn’t even you anymore, as those become more real, and you become more comfortable in them, you look and you see that the incarnation that you have taken wasn’t an error and it wasn’t failure, and you’re not making mistakes. It is just an unfolding process.

And it’s nothing so personal about it all. Your personality isn’t that interesting. At that point you start to, from a soul’s point of view, inhabit your incarnation, at first resignedly, and then ultimately joyfully, because it’s just God at play. It’s just form, it’s just form.

- Ram Dass

An update about counselling offerings in 2024…

An update about counselling offerings in 2024…

I work with women/folks who are seeking an integrative, holistic (body/mind/spirit) approach to therapy and who are curious about exploring trauma-informed, mindfulness, somatic (body-based) and creative methods of healing.

✨SPECIAL INTEREST AREAS INCLUDE✨

* Support during pregnancy (processing fears/ healing from previous traumatic birth or pregnancy loss/ relationship support)
* Integrating and recovering from a challenging or traumatic birth experience
* Support during postnatal period
* Relationships, sexuality and intimacy
* Anxiety / depression / sleep issues
* Gentle / attachment focused parenting
* Healing after sexual violence (childhood sexual abuse, intimate partner violence, domestic violence)
* Complex trauma (childhood abuse, neglect, attachment issues)
* Fertility issues
* Grief and loss
* Life transitions (particularly menstruation, birth, menopause)
* Spirituality, spiritual development, spiritual ‘openings/awakenings’
* Altered states of consciousness
* Preparation and integration of psychedelic experiences
* Embodiment, somatic, inner child approaches to healing
* Mindfulness, meditation, yoga and shamanic practices
* Community building, women’s circles, art-making

I offer a warm, relational approach to counselling and focus on your capacity to heal.

All counselling sessions are offered for 75 - 90 minutes, online or in Kenmore at @ittakesavillagemidwifery

Medicare rebates available with a GP referral/ Mental Health Treatment Plan. Some reduced fee sessions may be available for folks with financial barriers.

You deserve to find a therapist that is a good fit for you. Please reach out if you’d like to connect for a free 15 minute call to see if you’d like to work together.

Love & solidarity,
Anne ✨🙏🏽✨

✨Announcement✨ I’ve recently become an Accr

✨Announcement✨

I’ve recently become an Accredited Mental Health Social Worker and folks can now access Medicare rebates for counselling sessions if they have a GP referral/ Mental Health Treatment Plan (MHTP).

I know that being able to receive support and counselling is inaccessible for a lot of people and I’m so pleased that this will make it more affordable.

Being heard in our pain,
Feeling seen in our reclamation,
Being witnessed in our transformation,
Feeling supported to heal,
These are our birthrights.

Please message if you want to discuss what support and counselling could look like for you.
✨🤍✨

A little autumn equinox Goddess creation drying on

A little autumn equinox Goddess creation drying on the altar, made during a Virgo moon. I’m experimenting with some vulva bowls and trinket dishes as well.

I’m grateful when there is enough creative juice left over after survival, work, mothering and existing in this heartbreaking world to create ancient and unassuming power objects. A reminder to myself that we must breathe in the beauty and joy wherever it comes. ✨🧿✨

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