Lisa Taylor

Lisa Taylor Author of The Perfect Parent Trap. Family therapist helping parents move from overwhelm and reactivity to calm and connection.

My Rewriting Heartprints™ framework helps you respond to the child in front of you, not react from the child within.

07/05/2026

Mother’s Day can stir up so much more than we often realise.

Grief. Longing. Guilt. Relief. Sadness. Love.

For some of us, this day presses on old heartprints, the emotional imprints we carry from our earliest relationships. The parts of us that still long to feel seen, chosen, understood, or connected.

I recorded this reel because I know so many women quietly carry these feelings while pretending they’re fine.

If Mother’s Day feels heavy for us this year, there is nothing wrong with that. Relationships are complicated. Loss is real. And our feelings make sense.

We don’t have to force the day to look a certain way.

And we don’t have to perform being okay when we’re not. 🤍

05/05/2026

This one felt really personal to write.

Because it’s not about getting parenting right.

It’s about what happens after we don’t.

If you’ve ever walked away from a moment with your child and thought
“I wish I handled that differently…”

This is for you.

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Being exposed feels really uncomfortable…This article in my local paper (The Geelong Advertiser, GT Magazine)over the w...
01/05/2026

Being exposed feels really uncomfortable…

This article in my local paper (The Geelong Advertiser, GT Magazine)over the weekend brought up more than I expected.

Proud.
Scared.
Vulnerable.
A little bit disappointed too.

And if I’m honest… I noticed the part of me that wanted to tidy all of that up.
To just feel proud. To look confident. To have it all together.

But that’s not real.

What’s real is feeling all of it at the same time… and still choosing to show up. Being human, feeling like hiding.

I think this is the part we don’t talk about enough.

Not just in business, but in life and parenting too,
the moments where we feel exposed, unsure, a bit wobbly…

and we do it anyway.

This felt uncomfortable.

But it also felt important.
And bigger than me.

If you’d like to read the article, I’d love to hear what resonated 🤍

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28/04/2026

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You can be doing everything “right” and still feel like you’re failing.

Showing up at work.
Caring for your kids.
Keeping everything moving.

And yet, that feeling lingers.

👉 “Am I doing enough?”
👉 “Why does this feel so hard?”

But what if it’s not you?

What if it’s the weight of expectations that were never meant to be carried by one person?

This is something I unpacked in my recent conversation with .au on the and I know so many working mums will relate to this.

You’re not failing.
You’re navigating something that was never designed to be easy.

🎧 Listen to episode 188 of the Working Mumma podcast

Check out my conversation with Emma on It's a Mindset.
22/04/2026

Check out my conversation with Emma on It's a Mindset.

This piece came out in The Canberra Times today. It’s about something I see in almost every parent -that feeling of bein...
19/04/2026

This piece came out in The Canberra Times today.
It’s about something I see in almost every parent -
that feeling of being overwhelmed and wondering…
“How do I fix this?”

But what if it’s not something to fix?

What if it’s something to understand?

I’ve shared the full article here, take a read if it resonates.
I’d love to know what it brings up for you.

19/04/2026

Most parents I work with aren’t getting it wrong.
They’re overwhelmed… and trying to hold everything together.

But underneath that overwhelm is often something deeper—
pressure, guilt, and the quiet belief: I should be doing this better.

That’s the part we don’t talk about enough.

What did this bring up for you?

👉 I’ll share a snapshot of the article on my page if you want to read it.

19/04/2026

Most parents I work with aren’t getting it wrong.
They’re overwhelmed… and trying to hold everything together.

But underneath that overwhelm is often something deeper—
pressure, guilt, and the quiet belief: I should be doing this better.

That’s the part we don’t talk about enough.

What did this bring up for you?

👇 I’ve shared the full article in the comments.

16/04/2026

There’s a moment most parents don’t talk about.

Not the chaos…
but what happens after.

The scrolling.
The comparing.
The quiet feeling that you’re not getting it right.

This Herald Sun article I shared today speaks into that space.

Because it’s not just about social media.
It’s about what it stirs in us.

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Have you ever reacted in a way that didn’t feel like you?Raised your voice… shut down… felt overwhelmed…and then later t...
09/04/2026

Have you ever reacted in a way that didn’t feel like you?

Raised your voice… shut down… felt overwhelmed…
and then later thought,
“Where did that come from?”

That’s what this article is really about.

Not how to be a better parent.
But understanding why we become the parent we didn’t mean to be in certain moments.

Because it’s not just about what’s happening with our child.

It’s about what’s happening inside us.

In the piece, I share five signs you might be caught in what I call the “perfect parent trap”:

→ You’re more reactive than you want to be
→ You feel disconnected, even though you’re trying
→ You’re your own harshest critic
→ You’re exhausted
→ You’re meeting everyone else’s needs except your own

These aren’t signs you’re failing.

They’re signs something deeper is being activated.

What I often see is this:
Your child’s behaviour meets your nervous system…
and your nervous system carries a whole history.

What I call your heartprints.

And in those moments, it’s not just your child in the room.
It’s your child’s emotion… meeting everything you’ve learned about emotion.

So the question becomes:

Am I responding to the child in front of me…
or reacting from the child within me?

That’s where change begins.

I don’t have a link for this one yet, so I’ve shared the article here.

If you’d like a clearer copy, just comment ARTICLE and I’ll send it through.

If you read it, I’d love to know…
which of the five signs did you recognise most in yourself?

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