My Story

Kia ora, I'm Joy

Mother to 3 beautiful boys who are my absolute world, early childhood teacher of over 14 years (mainly working with 0-2 year olds) and birth educator who is deeply passionate about guiding expectant parents through the beautiful journey that is birth!

After working hard to achieve my dream birth with my first son and then raving about it, I had so many mums asking me how I did it! I fell in love with birth before having my first son but even more so after I gave birth and I knew straight away that I wanted to, 1. know more about birth and 2. help others experience a beautiful and empowering birth like I did.

I went on to take a hypnobirthing practitioners course but decided against teaching this method as It didn’t 100% align with me. But, my favourite part of that course was the hypnosis/hypnotherapy involved (aka the hypno part of hypnobirthing). So I went on to study hypnotherapy to get a better understanding of it.

I have been working on this course/studying to learn more since 2020 and I am so excited to finally be able to share it with the world in 2025! I have put all of this course work in to practice 2 more times and both of these births were absolutely perfect (including my semi surprise breech home/water birth)!! I get so much joy talking about birth and I hope you feel some sort of joy from learning about it!

But you wanna know a secret? before I got pregnant in 2018 I didn't know a whole lot about birth. And growing up (like most) I was petrified of the idea of birth! But with the right knowledge and tools I was able to accomplish a beautiful physiological birth, as nature intended and I would love to guide you towards your own empowering birth!
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