To the moms who answer late-night calls, send random “have you eaten?” texts, and love us through every breakdown, bad decision, and comeback — thank you. 💛 This Mother’s Day, don’t forget to remind her how much she matters.Not just today. Always. ✨ Happy Mother’s Day to every amazing mama out there! 🌸💐 #MothersDay #20sLife #Foundations #GrowingUp #ThankYouMom

You can reflect on what brought you here, what you’re noticing in your life, and how you’re feeling at the beginning of the journey. #Introductions #Reflections #StartHere

Mothers day coming up here in downtown sunny Wollongong. Which has me thinking... Mothering energy isn’t only about being a mum. Or having one. It’s a kind of feminine energy that lives in all of us — the part that nurtures, softens, listens, protects, comforts, feeds, soothes, and says, “You don’t have to do everything alone.” For some of us, this comes naturally. For others, it’s something we are learning slowly. Its taken me some time to feel ok about giving or receiving softness. Feels a bit pathetic to be honest. So today I'm asking myself: How do I speak to myself when I’m tired, overwhelmed or unsure? Do I push myself harder, or do I offer myself care? patence? wisdom? Do I know how to comfort myself when life feels so bloody BIG? Whatever your relationship and experiences to softness and self-care - maybe try a bit of this in the coming week: 🌿 Make yourself a proper meal, not just a snack grabbed in a rush. 🌿 Put your hand on your heart and speak to yourself kindly. 🌿 Rest before you completely run out of energy. 🌿 Tidy one small corner of your space so it feels easier to breathe. 🌿 Wrap yourself in a blanket, make tea, and let yourself land. And if connecting with your mum feels nurturing, safe, or supportive for you, touch base with her. A call. A message. A cup of tea. And if Mother’s Day is complicated, awkward, painful or not simple for you, that belongs too. You can still receive mothering energy — from yourself, from nature, from good friends, from your own body, from the quiet act of being gentle with yourself. This week, practise being on your own side. Less pressure. More tenderness. Less noise. More meaning. 🥰

Hi all, I'm Jo - course leader, coffee addict and mother of 2 ridiculously amazing children. I’m a died-in-the-wool introvert. Would rather stick pins in my eyes than go to a cocktail party. Sign me up for deep and meandering conversations around a campfire. I’ve been on the planet for 62 years now, which feels both quite short and quite long. 35 years walking alongside people as they learn how to understand themselves, grow themselves, steady themselves, and make wiser, kinder choices in their lives. Beautiful work that has kept me from going bonkers in this mad mad world. I’m a very enthusiastic but appallingly bad guitar player. I refuse to give up on things that bring me joy or things that calm me or things that fire me up. This past journey around the sun, I’ve been kept sane by a small circle of very good friends, a decent amount of humour, and the vast, immeasurable benefit of having stumbled across a somatics workshop in my twenties. That one moment changed the course of my life. It gave me a way of understanding the body, the nervous system, emotion, safety, healing, and human development that I have been learning from ever since. Foundations matters to me because I know how much difference it can make to have good support early in life. Not perfect support. Not someone telling you who to be. But grounded, wise, practical support that helps you hear yourself more clearly, trust yourself more deeply, and build a life that actually feels like you. Really looking forward to getting to know you all as the course kicks off...