I’m Alena, an award-winning Australian educator, mentor, and presenter.

My membership re-empowers mothers feeling burnt-out as they emerge through motherhood by providing access to holistic and energising practices and, most importantly, with each other.

I’m on a mission to bring women together to co-create a lighter, happier and kinder way of life so that mothers don’t have to raise the next generation of humans in a haze of rushing, unrealistic ideals of perfection with a sprinkling of shame for falling short of those ideals.

In support of this mission, I appear as an advocate for the care of mothers in the media including SBS Television, The Natural Parent Magazine, Kidspot and as an Expert Panelist for the Australian Clean+Conscious Awards.

You can see a full list of qualifications and achievements here.

I live near Freshwater Beach, in Sydney, though if you’ve been around a while you’ll know that my husband, our three kids, and I spent a couple of years living in Bath, England.

This pioneering site was founded in 2009 and arose from a calling to support mums and families to feel connected, make conscious choices, and parent soulfully. This is a place for learning how to help the planet and nurture our kids into resilient and healthy future changers.

In the early days, there weren’t many people writing about ‘sustainable’ living or soulful parenting. Back then I was working, studying, lone-parenting and just beginning to understand how to create a more meaningful life for myself and my young son.

He had been born with low birth-weight as a result of high stress-levels during pregnancy.

With this gorgeous little boy in my arms, sitting in newborn intensive care, I was determined to breastfeed and raise him in the best way possible despite feeling deeply alone and woefully unprepared. It was a steep learning curve.

When he was just three months old I ended a difficult relationship and, although heartbroken, began to face up to the wreckage that 12 years of addiction had made of my life.

At that time, I was yearning deeply for true connection within myself, with my son, and with family and friends, as I experienced matrescence (the developmental process of becoming a mother) but instead, I felt dangerously isolated. In the years that have passed since then, we have come a long way as a society in knowing how to support each other in our most vulnerable moments, but still, I believe we can always improve.

Not least of all, we can start with being kinder to ourselves, more positive in our narrative on the future, eating well, building healthier mindsets and becoming better custodians of our planet.

• Expert Panelist, since 2020 Australian Clean and Conscious Awards
• Interviewed by global influencer Cara Parrish
• Founder Mums in Bath (UK) and Freshie Families (AUS)
• Meeting Dave Grohl and Taylor Hawkins (aka Foo Fighters)
• Hapkido Women’s Instructor 
• Guest Appearance What’s Up Freshie
• “Mainstream Mums: Over 40 with Two Kids” The Australian Newspaper
• Guest Appearance Martial Arts Woman Podcast
• Guest Appearance “Local Legends, Soul Mamma and Me”
• Featured member, Verve Super
• and many more….