
Confidence in birth and motherhood is a choice. Make it yours.

Hi, I'm Mandy.
I help resilient women gain confidence in birth and find healing in motherhood.
Find confidence in my 1-on-1 coaching program.
The Alchemy Of Birth & Motherhood
Where you'll powerfully prepare to grow through the unpredictability of birth and challenges of motherhood.
Most expectant Mothers tell me what they want for birth is the safe arrival of their babies.
I say, that's the bare minimum you should strive for.
Birth is a rite of passage.
It's a potent process that is more than the birth of the baby. It brings you to life as a Mother.
It's a catalytic event with the potential to heal. It ignites wisdom from deep within your bones. It shapes who you're becoming and changes you at your core.
It can give you confidence that will shape generations to come.
This program invites you to be an active participant in this transformational process.
You'll trust in your abilities to birth and navigate the challenges of motherhood.
You'll shift your existing fears and anxieties to learn how to effectively manage pain - not just the pains of labour, but also the pains of personal growth.
You'll consciously embody your new role and identity.
You'll turn your limiting beliefs into guiding principles for years to come.
This program will build the foundation for you to become the mother you've always wanted.
Allow me to hold your hand and guide you towards your confidence.
What you'll gain from these 8 sessions:
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Trust in your power for birth and motherhood.
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Clarity on who you want to be as a Mother.
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A holistic understanding of childbirth and maternal physiology.
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Birth and postpartum plans that prioritise your wellbeing and your baby's.
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Somatic tools to integrate feelings of physical, mental and emotional safety.
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Personalised resources that cut through the noise and align with your unique values.
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Practice using your inner voice and activate your Mother's instinct.
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Dedicated 1-on-1 coaching to support you during this time of transformation.
This is not your conventional birth education course
You'll be asked to dive in deep to gain what truly matters - confidence to meet the inevitable challenges of motherhood.
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Complimentary Coaching Session: Orienting Your Inner Compass
Let’s bring clarity to who you’re becoming as a Mother. This session helps anchor your authentic values to start making confident choices for birth and motherhood.
*Call is approximately 2-hours long and requires you to fill in a detailed questionnaire. This allows me to better understand how to guide you powerfully right from the start.
Session 1: Illuminating Opportunities In Fears & Anxieties
Identify limiting beliefs around birth and motherhood to consciously create opportunities for developing confidence. You'll discover how you can practice using this awareness to make empowering decisions ahead.
Session 2: Your Nervous System, Trauma & Birth
Discover how your nervous system facilitates the labour process. Learn how past experiences of trauma can play an important role. But most importantly, you'll start working with your nervous system to lay the foundation for a positive birth experience.
Session 3: The Brilliance Of Physiology In Matrescence
Nature's blueprint for motherhood is extraordinarily brilliant - a far cry from the motherhood experiences you might dread. You'll discover how you can leverage physiological processes to support personal growth.
Session 4: Unlocking Personal Agency Within Power Dynamics
The options you perceive to be available for birth are both systemic and cultural. You'll learn to research, understand your options, and exercise informed choice. You’ll prepare a birth plan that also prioritises your mental and emotional wellbeing.
Session 5: Rediscovering Trust In Your Body & Voice
Overcome self-censorship and rediscover trust in the power of your body. You'll learn to ask thoughtful questions and use your voice to advocate for your needs. You'll practice listening to and trusting the wisdom of your body.
Session 6: Finding Your Confidence In Transformational Pain
Pain is the most feared aspect of labour and birth. This powerful session will help you learn to work with pain and understand labour's transformative purpose. You'll develop personal strategies for physical pain management, but also for the growing pains of becoming a mother.
Session 7: Nature's Blueprint For The Baby/Mother Dyad
You won't learn how to change a nappy here. Instead, you'll learn about nature's blueprint for the health of the baby/mother dyad. You'll understand from an evolutionary perspective your design to thrive and make a holistic postpartum plan to support.
Session 8: Climbing Your Second Mountain
Even the most seasoned mountaineers receive support to get to the peak. Birth and motherhood is no different. You'll unravel how the support you allow yourself to receive leads to the joys and miracles. In our last session, you learn how you can thrive in this new season of Motherhood.
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This program is for you if you're ready to:
- actively and consciously participate in forming and nurturing a new identity
- turn the strong convictions about the kind of mother you want to be into reality
- invest time and energy into becoming a mother you’re proud of
- start or continue engaging with practices of personal growth in motherhood
- undertake deep inner work to thrive in family life
- shift your resources to prioritise your wellbeing in this season of becoming
- start developing confidence and cultivate your mother’s instinct
- commit to becoming the best version of yourself for you and your family
- take responsibility and nurture your sense of personal agency over your future
- heal generational wounds and foster new healthy patterns of belonging, connection and nurture
- have a better birth experience than what you've experienced before
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This program is not a good fit if you're not ready to:
- learn to lean into the discomfort of personal growth
- awaken and reinforce your personal agency and power
- meet your edges and examine what's behind your limiting beliefs
- challenge existing societal structures and cultural expectations that undermine women's confidence in birth and motherhood
- work hard to foster deep nurture and connection in motherhood
- begin or continue the work of reparenting and nourishing your authentic self
- let go of the idea that birth and motherhood is supposed to be easy, convenient and comfortable
- practice having healthy boundaries and exercise true forms of self care
- shed the victim mindset and move beyond trauma to thrive
- make short-term uncomfortable decisions in service of your long-term goals

Maria Souza says:
"Doing Mandy's program and learning from her was the best thing I gave myself during my pregnancy! Looking back it was instrumental in my journey as a mother and as someone who wanted to birth consciously (meaning aware of my choices, no matter what they were). What I learned from Mandy empowered me during both my pregnancies and navigating birth systems that were very foreign to me - first in China and then in Australia. It was what I learned with her that kept me grounded, positive, courageous and at peace with my story and birth journey. I started the program with a frightened mentality, wishing to "just get the birth over with", but by the end, I was excited to go through this threshold together with my partner. Birthing consciously helped me connect with my child and myself in ways I cannot describe. I will be forever grateful to Mandy's teachings and I recommend her work to anyone who wishes a more empowered and compassionate look at birth."

Anne Loh says:
“As a first-time parent who was preparing for the transition ahead, I was struck by the quality of Mandy’s content, and her ability to relate to women from various walks of life. Not only were her sessions provocative yet thoughtful, but insightful for me as an expecting mother, in ways that I felt other prenatal classes or birthing courses didn’t quite land on. Mandy’s work is articulate without being offensive: I remember reflecting upon my own experiences and wondering about my ingrained notion of womanhood. What inspired me most was Mandy’s journey of advocating for herself during the peak of COVID-19 in China. As a new mother who was guided by Mandy’s work, and birthed my son last October in a normal yet non-conventional way, I believe that Mandy’s program will evoke a similar trajectory of self-inquiry for anyone in their birthing journey – an experience that can be deeply transformative, and not just a physiological burden to bear."
Frequently Asked Questions
How is this program different from other birth education classes?
Many traditional birth education programs are fundamentally developed from a patriarchal understanding of birth. They focus largely on the mechanics of our bodies during labour in modern medicalised settings.
This program is a weaving of what I believe should be the baseline understanding of birth: evolutionary physiology - and; wisdom gained from understanding the impact of birth, sexual, and childhood trauma on becoming a mother.
Birth is an influential, significant and catalytic event. I wholeheartedly believe in its transformative power.
Contrary to popular belief, it's not something that happens in isolation. You bring into birth your mindset, your emotions, your preconceived notions about the world, your experiences of trauma, your chosen circle of support - everything up until that point.
And through your birth experience, it alchemises who you are into someone new; someone who can be much more conscious, authentic and wholehearted than who you were before.
Many of us struggle through this rebirth because we were never told or educated about how important this threshold is as a rite of passage. Or that there are powerful ways to move through it as an aware and active participant.
This program is birth education. But it's also a transformation of your beliefs. It's a safe space for the nuance and ambiguity of your emotions. It's a healing balm for the wounds you still carry. It's me believing in you and your abilities as a mother.
But perhaps most importantly, you'll be in a dedicated and private program learning to believe in yourself. You'll develop confidence and resilience to overcome what are inevitable challenges in motherhood.
This is a program you won't find anywhere else.
When is an ideal time to start this program?
Birth is a critical part of our lives and should be considered basic body literacy - so I say, as soon as possible.
I've had women who are not yet pregnant, but are consciously moving towards motherhood, have inspiring outcomes as a result of my work.
How long are the sessions and what is the duration of the program?
The sessions are typically 90 minutes each and held on a bi-weekly basis to ensure that there's time to process and integrate the powerful transformations.
It will take around 4 months to complete the program.
For those that are closer to the due date, we can look at doing the sessions weekly but it will depend on the outcomes of your discovery call.
What can I expect from a typical session?
The sessions are structured in a personalised guided self-study and live coaching call format.
Upon defining your core coaching goals, I will prepare materials for you to study, assign research based tasks (usually related to birthing and postpartum options in your region) and self-reflection exercises. During the session, we will review the materials or assigned tasks related to each session's topics.
The most powerful part of the session is that you'll be coached through any challenges that may arise and be supported to arrive at your own inner wisdom and insights. You have a judgement-free and safe space to practice being your authentic self as you learn to become the mother you desire to be.
You'll also explore and practice somatic and mindfulness based exercises that assist with stress management and nervous system regulation.
When and where are the sessions held?
All sessions are held online via Zoom.
I am based in Shanghai with my available times potentially suitable for Asia, Australia/New Zealand, early morning Europe, afternoon/evenings on the West Coast or evenings on the East Coast for USA/Canada.
How much support will I receive between each session and will I receive support after the program?
I believe that our paths have crossed because we were meant to meet each other and become kindred spirits in this life.
I'm available via email between each session and I'll do my best to offer you my guidance and support within a reasonable timeframe - typically within 1-3 business days.
After your coaching program, I will continue to be your cheerleader and you may continue to email me with any quick questions or share your journey with me.
Should you need deeper support after the birth, I may also be available for additional coaching for early motherhood.
My Story Of Becoming
In the years leading up to my pregnancy, I wasn't sure if I wanted to become a mother. I was worried about repeating the same patterns of trauma and pain I experienced as a child. I was afraid of passing along genetic predispositions of depression and addiction.
But life had it's own plans and I found myself married to the best man I'd ever known. Starting a family with him felt natural.
We welcomed our daughter, Ella, in February 2020 through a hospital water birth. This experience both healed me and broke me wide open. It was through this birth that I became mesmerised in our physiology as mothers. I became in awe of the transformative power of birth as a rite of passage.
Our son, Ralph, was born in August 2022, also through a hospital water birth. It was in the trauma I experienced through this birth that I was humbled to deeply understand how our history of trauma can impact childbirth. And how birth trauma impacts all other aspects of motherhood.
This experience also opened my eyes to the shortcomings of modern maternity care. Along with it, the systemic limitations that prevents us from having an incredible experience.
Becoming a mother has been the most challenging, painful, overwhelming and intense period of my life. It has also been the the most profound, illuminating, wholehearted, joyful and transformational.
At the centre of all of this mess and magic has been the healing of my history of childhood, sexual and birth trauma. Through bringing awareness to my thoughts, mending my heart, practicing having healthy boundaries, rewiring my patterns, reconnecting with my body and breathing life back into my spirit - I now experience the kind of life I didn't know was possible:
I'm now the mother I've always wanted, needed and dreamed of.
I live a wholehearted life in which I no longer feel the need to escape or numb from. Instead, I find beauty in moments of presence, courage to be my authentic self and confidence about who I am as a mother.
Motherhood is hard. If you have a history of trauma or are unsupported, motherhood presents itself as more complex and challenging.
The past few years have lead me to meeting incredible women from around the world that have continued to show me resilience and courage despite all the things they've overcome. I look forward to further serving our inspiring community of everyday heroines.
It's my hope that through sharing the wisdom I've gained along this journey of healing in motherhood, my passion for harnessing the intelligence of our physiology and professional knowledge as a Certified Birth Educator - I can guide you in your preparation for birth and motherhood that leads you to feel empowered, safe and confident.
It would be my privilege to get to know you and learn how I can support you in this season of becoming.
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