Motherhood changes us
our bodies
our nervous systems
our identities
and our sense of self…
Mama Melk Stories offers a gentle, listening-based healing space for mothers to speak their birth stories, breastfeeding stories, and full motherhood journeys.
This can be a conversation only, or it can include intimate, in-home photography (with or without your children) to witness the season of life that you’re in.
Mama Melk Stories was born from listening
Listening to mothers speak about births that didn’t go as planned.
Listening to bodies that are simultaneously holding shock, grief, pride, tenderness, rage, and love.
Listening to stories that rarely get full space in a culture that expects mothers to “move on” quickly.
This work is not about doing motherhood right.
It’s about being met where you are.
I hold space for you to tell your story…
from pregnancy and birth, through feeding, weaning, identity shifts, relationship changes, and the quiet moments no one asks about.
The Offering
Each Mama Melk Stories session is a slow, guided conversation rooted in:
Deep listening
Parts-based healing (inner parts / inner child awareness)
Consent, pacing, and emotional safety
We begin by exploring:
Your birth story (or stories)
Your breastfeeding or feeding journey (past or present)
How motherhood has lived in your body
The parts of you that had to grow up fast, disappear, harden, or hold it all together
The parts of you that still need witnessing, softness, or rest
This is not therapy and there is no pressure to reach insight or closure. The healing often happens simply by being heard.
The Photography
Photography can be woven into the session (or not).
If included, images are taken slowly and intuitively in your home or chosen space.
There is no posing, no performance, and no expectation to look a certain way.
Photos may include:
You alone
You feeding your baby or toddler
You with your child(ren)
Small, quiet moments of connection
The photographs act as a witness, a way to say: this mattered, and I was here.
If photography doesn’t feel right, the session can remain purely conversational.
I became a mother almost five years ago, and nothing about it unfolded the way I expected.
My pregnancy was complicated. My birth didn’t go as planned. And the version of myself I thought I would be after becoming a mother simply didn’t exist. What did emerge instead was someone new. Someone more tender, more raw, more awake to the parts of myself I had learned to push aside.
Motherhood didn’t just change my life. It changed me.
It brought old stories to the surface. It asked me to sit with my body in ways I never had before. It showed me where I had learned to be quiet, strong, capable, and self-sacrificing—and where those patterns no longer served me. Like so many mothers, I found myself reparenting parts of myself while learning how to parent my child.
At the same time, I began listening more deeply to other women.
Over the past few years, I’ve sat with mothers in their homes and in their stories—listening to birth experiences, feeding journeys, grief, joy, rage, tenderness, and the quiet moments they rarely feel allowed to speak out loud. I’ve witnessed how much lives in our bodies long after birth, and how rarely mothers are offered a truly safe place to slow down and be heard without being fixed, corrected, or judged.
Alongside this, I’ve been on my own healing path—training in somatic and parts-based approaches, learning how the nervous system holds experience, and practicing how to stay present with what arises rather than rushing it away. This work has taught me that healing doesn’t come from answers. It comes from being met.
Today, the work I offer is shaped by all of this.
I create gentle, grounded spaces for mothers and women to tell the truth of their experience, to speak their stories, to feel what hasn’t yet had room to move, and to reconnect with themselves in ways that feel safe and human. Sometimes that includes photography. Sometimes it’s simply conversation and presence. Always, it’s led with care.
