08/06/2026
A little life update (buckle up, this is a long one) ✨
Where do I even start… the last five or six months have been a lot.
As some of you may know, our beautiful girl Parker arrived a whole month early in December — and she has been everything I ever dreamed of and more. But if I’m being honest, my postpartum experience has looked nothing like I imagined. I had really hoped to ease back into work earlier this year, and for a while it just wasn’t possible.
In January I had my gallbladder removed, which then led to post-surgery complications that had me in and out of hospital through March and April. It’s been exhausting, emotional, and at times really hard to sit with — especially when work is something that genuinely lights me up. I’ve felt the brain fog, the overwhelm, and the frustration of not being able to show up the way I wanted to. But I’ve finally been able to see a specialist, get things sorted, and I’m slowly but surely starting to feel like myself again.
On top of all of that, we’ve also been in the thick of renovating our first home (which we bought late last year!) — so it’s safe to say life has been full.
But here we are. And I’m ready and rearing to go 🙏
I won’t be back at full capacity — Parker won’t be in daycare for a while yet, so I’m still very much a full-time mum first — but I do have space for a couple of clients and I’m genuinely excited to get back into it. Photography, website work, and behind the scenes I’ve been upskilling in Meta advertising, which I’m hoping to officially add to my offerings in the coming months.
If you’ve stuck around through all of this — thank you. It means more than you know. 🤍
(And while we’re being honest… I absolutely brain dumped all of this to Claude, who turned my sleep-deprived ramble into something that actually makes sense. Postpartum brain is real, people.)
