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02/12/2025

When I first started working with high-achieving mothers, I thought most of what they were struggling with lived in their bloods. Low iron, thyroid changes, blood sugar shifts, postpartum depletion… and while all of that is very real, it’s only half the story. Because the more time I spent with these women, the clearer it became that their physiology wasn’t the problem. Their nervous system was carrying a load their bloods could only hint at.

I recognised it because I’ve been there too. On the outside I was functioning, eating well, training, doing everything “right,” but inside my body felt like it was slowly shutting down. And the more I pushed, the worse it felt. I kept assuming it was a lack of discipline or consistency, when in reality my system had been in survival mode for so long that my biology simply adapted to match it.

That’s the same pattern I saw in the woman from this carousel. She wasn’t struggling because she was doing something wrong.

She was struggling because her body had been enduring for years…. the pregnancy, the blood loss, the mental load, the perfectionism, the pressure to keep going, and there had never been a moment where she was allowed to come down from it. Her metabolism didn’t slow because she let herself go. It slowed because her nervous system never felt safe enough to shift.

High-achieving mothers can understand the science, read the articles, and self-analyse with incredible accuracy, but feeling the shift in their body is something else entirely. And that’s the piece most women never get taught.

This is why I created The High Achieving Mother Reset. Not as the answer to everything, but as the catalyst… the moment your body experiences something different instead of you trying to think your way out of burnout. It’s the doorway back into safety, energy, and internal spaciousness.

We go live Thursday 4th December at 6:30pm AEST, and the recording is yours afterwards. It’s AUD$33 and designed for the mother who knows she can’t keep living like this but doesn’t yet know how to step out of survival mode.

If this speaks to you, comment RESET and I’ll send the link.

01/12/2025

This woman, the one in this case study — is the woman I see in clinic every week.

The high-achieving mother who eats well, moves her body, holds everyone together, and still feels like her energy, mood, and metabolism have completely changed. And the heartbreaking part is that she assumes it’s because there is something wrong with her… her motivation, her discipline, her mindset, her ability to cope.

But when you sit with her story… the 1.5L blood loss she never truly recovered from, the two young children, the mental load she carries, the perfectionism she was conditioned into, the years of broken sleep, the constant bracing in her nervous system, and the bloods that are “normal” but nowhere near optimal, it becomes clear that her body isn’t failing. It’s protecting her.

A slowing metabolism isn’t a character flaw. It’s a physiological response to depletion, stress, and survival mode. And so many high-achieving mothers internalise this as a moral issue, when in reality their system is simply exhausted and doing everything it can to keep them going.

This is exactly why I created The High Achieving Mother RESET — a workshop designed to interrupt the patterns that keep you pushing long after your body has asked you to slow down. It’s not about trying harder. It’s about helping your system soften, recalibrate, and come back into a state where energy and clarity can return.

We go live Thursday 4th December at 6:30pm AEST, and yes, recordings are available.

If you read this and felt seen in a way you haven’t for a long time,
comment RESET, and I’ll send you the link.

Reminder: This post is for education only. Not medical advice. Results shared with permission.

29/11/2025

This is archetype number four of seven that I’ve created based on what I see every single day in clinical practice… the patterns mothers carry into adulthood from the environments they grew up in, and how those patterns quietly shape their physiology, their energy, and the way they mother.

If you recognised yourself in this one, please know this isn’t a personal flaw or a lack of resilience. There are very real psychological, developmental and physiological reasons why some mothers learned to shrink their needs and stay quiet, even as they show up so fully for everyone else.

This archetype isn’t a diagnosis or a label — it’s a way of giving language to something that so many women lived long before motherhood. The roots sit in attachment theory, childhood conditioning, trauma research, polyvagal theory and what we see clinically when a nervous system has spent years in “quiet survival.”
When needs weren’t reliably met in childhood, many girls adapted by being undemanding and self-sufficient. As adults, those same adaptations often show up as low energy, shutdown, nutrient depletion, difficulty asking for help, and a deep sense of invisibility — even in a house full of people they love.

Sharing this pattern is simply about creating understanding. Recognition. Relief.
About letting mothers see that their tiredness, their flatness, their withdrawal, their sense of “fading into the background” all have origins — and none of them mean they’re failing.

Please remember: this content is for information and education only. It is not medical advice, not a diagnosis, and not a replacement for personalised therapeutic or nutritional care.

If this spoke to you, sit with it gently. Saving it or sharing it may help another mother feel a little less alone 🫶🏼

28/11/2025

When I talk about the “high-achieving mother,” I’m not speaking in theory. I’m speaking from years inside clinic rooms with women who hold more than anyone realises, and from my own lived experience of being the woman who kept pushing long after her body was asking her to slow down.

I see the same pattern over and over again: mothers who are brilliant, capable, organised, deeply caring, and quietly exhausted in a way that’s hard to explain. They move through their days anticipating needs before anyone speaks them, carrying the emotional tone of the entire household, managing details no one else even thinks about, all while feeling a kind of internal pressure that never really lets up.

And what makes this heavier is that society quietly reinforces it. We praise the mother who “handles everything,” we expect her to carry the invisible load, we rely on her emotional labour without offering the support that would actually sustain her.

Over time, she starts to believe that if she’s overwhelmed, she must be doing something wrong, instead of recognising that she’s operating in a system that depends on her over-functioning.

This isn’t a personal flaw. This is conditioning. It’s nervous-system adaptation. It’s the result of years spent being the responsible one, the reliable one, the one who keeps things running. It’s what happens when performing becomes safer than pausing.

And while some recent posts I’ve shared resonated with thousands of you, I also know that a few lines on Instagram will never be enough. This work is deeper than hacks or tips. It requires a space where your system can soften, where you can reconnect with yourself, where you can finally feel held instead of holding everything.

That’s why I created The High-Achieving Mother Reset.

It’s not as a magic fix, but as a gentle return to your centre. A moment to breathe, to unravel, to remember yourself beneath the pressure and the performance.

If you felt this in your chest, this is your sign.

Thursday 4th December, 6:30pm AEST.
Replay included.
$33.

Comment RESET and I’ll send you the link to join the many mothers who have already signed up!

27/11/2025

When my post about the high-achieving mother went viral, I wasn’t surprised… but it did make me pause. It showed me just how many of you are carrying the same invisible pressure; constantly thinking, constantly planning, constantly holding everything together while feeling like you’re moments away from tipping over the edge.

So many of you told me you’ve never felt so seen. But a viral post will never be enough to hold what you’re actually moving through. Your exhaustion isn’t something that can be solved with a few tips, and your overwhelm isn’t because you’re doing something wrong. It’s deeper than that.

This pattern lives in your nervous system, your identity, your hormones, your conditioning, and the expectations you absorbed long before you became a mother. You’ve been running on pressure for so long that your body doesn’t even remember what it feels like to soften, to stop bracing, to actually exhale.

You don’t need more information. You need an experience that allows your whole system to recalibrate. Something that goes beneath the surface — into the biology of why you feel so overstimulated, the identity patterns that keep you over-functioning, and the emotional load you’ve been carrying alone.

That’s why I created The High-Achieving Mother Reset.
A space where we can finally go deeper than a post ever could.

I created this because I see you! The uber capable, hyper-responsible mother who keeps everything running but feels like she’s slowly (or quickly 😅) burning out. You are not alone in this, and you were never meant to figure it all out by yourself.

If that viral post cracked something open in you, if you felt yourself in every word, if you realised how much you’ve been carrying… this reset was made for you.

Ninety minutes.
Science + nervous system work.
Identity clarity.
Emotional release.
Actual relief.

It’s $33.
Comment RESET for the link to enrol and I’ll see you on the inside my love 🫶🏼

25/11/2025

There are mothers who carry a kind of strength that didn’t come from personality, but from the childhood version of themselves who learned to stay alert, capable and “on” long before they were ready.

Their nervous system adapted to unpredictability, and by the time they arrive in motherhood, that pattern feels like who they are rather than something their body learned to survive.

These are the mothers who anticipate every need before it’s spoken, who scan for small shifts in their child’s behaviour, who research until they feel like the expert, and who hold the emotional tone of the home without even realising how much they’re carrying.

And while they seem steady on the outside, their physiology is doing a tremendous amount of work underneath it all.

Their blood sugar wobbles because they forget to eat, their shoulders ache from bracing, their minerals deplete quickly, and their cortisol rises not only during big moments, but in the ordinary ones where their body is still preparing for what might happen next.

This isn’t a sign of failure.

It’s a sign of adaptation. And even now, in a safer life, their system may not fully trust that it’s allowed to rest.

The work for this mother isn’t about dropping her standards or pretending she doesn’t care.

It’s about helping her body understand that she no longer has to live in that protective stance.

It’s about rebuilding inner steadiness, replenishing what stress has taken, learning to receive support without feeling threatened, and slowly letting herself soften into the parts of life her nervous system never got to experience.

If this resonated, save it for the moments you feel yourself tensing again, and share it with the mother who carries far more than she shows.

Gentle reminder:
This archetype series is for insight and reflection only. It isn’t a diagnostic tool or a replacement for therapy, nutritional guidance, or personalised clinical care. You don’t have to unpack these patterns alone 🫶🏼

23/11/2025

These are the meals I actually ate over the past seven days as a clinical nutritionist and mum juggling two young kids, clients, and a business. Nothing super complicated, and definitely nothing that required more than ten minutes in the kitchen. Most of them were thrown together in about five.

I’m a big believer that breakfast sets the tone for the whole morning. When you start the day with enough protein, colour and stability, you feel clearer, more grounded, and far less reactive to the usual chaos that motherhood brings. It’s not about perfection, it’s about fuelling yourself in a way that makes you feel capable and steady.

Hopefully this gives you a bit of inspiration for your own mornings…. simple ideas that you can actually replicate in real life, even when the kids are melting down or you’re racing out the door.

A couple of notes - macros are approximate but protein is pretty spot on for each

I don’t eat gluten as it doesn’t sit well with me, but I do eat dairy. You could tweak each of these for many different food intolerances - if you need help just let me know x

22/11/2025

This is the second of seven motherhood archetypes I’m sharing. They are a blend of childhood conditioning, nervous system science, and the clinical patterns I see in mothers every single week.

And this one… I know personally. 😅

The High-Achiever Mother is the woman who grew up being praised for excellence, effort, capability and getting things “right.” Achievement became safety. Being competent became identity. Slowing down felt uncomfortable. Rest felt pointless. Emotions were secondary to performance.

Then motherhood arrived. The one role with no grades, no KPI’s, no gold stars. So she created her own: routines, research, checklists, systems, standards. Her nervous system has only ever known how to cope by doing.

These are the mothers who are wired in the morning, crashing by 2pm, running on cortisol, clenching their jaw, pushing through headaches, getting PMS or PMDD spikes, riding blood sugar dips, and feeling “on” even when exhausted. The body mirrors the pressure.

And I say this with so much love because I’ve lived it too.
I am a recovering High-Achiever Mother.

I’ve lived the burnout, the buzzing brain, the belief that if I slowed down everything would fall apart. I know what it feels like to be praised for strength while silently collapsing. And I’m learning — slowly, consistently, kindly — how to soften. How to rest without guilt. How to let go of the invisible scorecard. How to tell my nervous system:
You are SAFE even when you’re not producing.

You can hold more than one archetype, or shift between them depending on the season you’re in. But this particular pattern? I see it over and over again… brilliant, capable, overstretched mothers trying to outrun a story that began in childhood and reinforced by society.

If this resonates, save it.
Share it with the mother who does everything and feels like it’s still not enough.
And know this: you can rewrite the patterns your nervous system learned long before motherhood began, I promise.

20/11/2025

So many mothers I work with tell me they feel exhausted, anxious, overstimulated, overly responsible, and guilty for needing anything. Underneath it all, there’s often the same root theme:

She was raised to be a “good girl.”
Agreeable, helpful and low-maintenance.
Easy to love because she didn’t take up too much space.

When a woman with this history becomes a mother, her nervous system carries those old patterns forward. The conditioning she learned in childhood becomes the lens she brings into her parenting, her partnership, her mental load, and the way stress shows up in her body.

This is why I talk about the Good Girl Mother — a pattern I see in clinic every single week.

It’s shaped by:

• attachment theory
• polyvagal theory
• self-sacrifice and approval-seeking schemas
• stress physiology
• postnatal depletion research
• thousands of hours supporting overwhelmed mothers

Good Girl Mothers love deeply.
They’re thoughtful, kind, and incredibly attuned to others.
Their nervous system sits in a heightened state, constantly scanning for:
“Am I disappointing anyone?”
“Am I doing enough?”
“Is everyone okay with me?”

The body reflects that stress load.

Clinically, very similar patterns appear again and again:
Low iron, B12, magnesium, progesterone.
Elevated cortisol and SHBG.
Neck tension. Jaw clenching. IBS flares.
Frequent 3am waking.
Fatigue that never really shifts.

These responses form when someone has spent years prioritising harmony over their own needs. Motherhood simply adds more weight to a system that has been running hard for a long time.

This is one of seven motherhood archetypes I’ll be sharing. Each one helps mothers understand how early conditioning, nervous system patterns, and physical symptoms intertwine. It’s a way of making sense of your lived experience but with compassion, clarity, and evidence behind it.

If this one landed for you, please take this with you:

You make sense.
Your patterns make sense.
And you’re allowed to grow beyond what you once had to be.

Save this if you need the reminder 🫶🏼

17/11/2025

I don’t know if it’s the warmer months arriving, or the holiday season approaching, or the fact that we’ll all soon be swimming, socialising and photographed and “seen” more, but lately so many conversations with mums have landed in a similar space:

“I thought I’d look different by now.”
“I should be further along.”
“I wish I could get ‘back’ to myself.”
“I don’t feel at home in my body.”

And I want to say this gently, honestly, and with so much respect for the complexity of what you’re carrying:

It’s not just you.
And it’s not just your body.

We’re living in a culture that praises mothers for looking untouched by the work they do. A culture that rewards mothers for staying small while the rest of their lives are expanding in every direction.

And at the same time,
there is a point where compassion meets choice.
Where awareness meets responsibility.
Where truth meets leadership.

Because yes, motherhood changes your hormones, metabolism, cortisol patterns, sleep, identity, mental load, and your actual brain.
Yes, your life has expanded in ways most people can’t see.
Yes, the expectation placed on mothers is unrealistic and relentless.

But you still get to choose how you lead yourself within that reality.

You don’t have to chase your old body.
But you CAN support your current one.

You don’t have to punish yourself into old habits.
But you CAN nourish yourself like someone who matters.

You don’t have to “get back” to anything.
But you CAN move forward with intention, ownership and self leadership instead of self judgement.

This is the radical responsibility piece —
not blaming yourself, and not blaming the world,
but choosing a different way of leading the woman you are now.

Because she deserves care, consistency, nourishment, rest, boundaries and a life that honours the enormous work she’s doing every damn day.

Your body isn’t the problem. But it IS asking you to lead it differently.

❤️❤️❤️

16/11/2025

I stepped back from Instagram for a little while because the online world began to feel loud and strangely disconnected from what I see every day in my work with mothers.

I’m a deep thinker by nature.
I’m always observing how women absorb what they see online and how quickly a curated moment becomes a story about their own worth or capacity.
And so often, what motherhood looks like on Instagram is nothing like the motherhood I sit with in real life.

Because in my real world, mothers tell me the truth.
In coaching, in clinic, in mothers groups and women’s circles, I hear what’s happening behind the brave face and the “I’m fine.”

I hear the exhaustion that doesn’t get photographed, the overwhelm that isn’t spoken, the identity shifts that feel confusing, and the quiet strength that rarely gets acknowledged.

The gap between what is real and what is presented online became impossible for me to ignore.

I didn’t want to return to this space unless it honoured the mothers I work with every single day.
I didn’t want to add to the pressure or the noise.
I needed space to ask myself what I want this corner of the internet to stand for.

That time away gave me clarity, and I realised I want this space to feel grounding rather than overwhelming.
I want it to reflect my lived experience, my clinical background and the honest conversations I am trusted with.

I want mothers to feel supported here, not compared or judged.
I want it to feel like a soft landing rather than another place they feel they’re not doing enough.

This next season of my work feels different.
It feels more aligned, more thoughtful and more honest.
It feels quieter on the outside and richer on the inside.
It feels like I have returned to myself, and from that place I can return to you with more truth and depth.

Everything I share from here is shaped by real bodies, real nervous systems and real motherhood.
My hope is that being here feels like an exhale.

There is so much goodness coming.
It feels like the beginning of a chapter that is aligned for all of us. 🫶🏼

05/11/2025

Lately I’ve been thinking about how mothers end the year.
The lists, the concerts, the social calendars… we somehow hold it all together while trying to make it magical for everyone else.

We kinda write off the last two months health-wise. Everything goes out the window in favour of just getting through.

And it’s beautiful, isn’t it? To create magic for our babies, to celebrate a big year, to let our hair down.
But it’s also exhausting.

Because somewhere along the way, we learned that love looks like self-abandonment.
Putting our real needs aside to ensure everyone else has an amazing time. That to be a “good” mother, we have to keep giving, even when we’re running on empty.

But what if we stopped writing off the end of the year as something to survive, and used it instead to come home to ourselves a little?

And that’s what we do at Maia Mothers. It’s one of the biggest reasons I started this business.

We hold the mothers who hold everyone else — through massage that releases what your body’s been gripping, acupuncture that grounds your nervous system, herbal and nutritional care that rebuild your energy, mood, and vitality.
Spaces that remind you it’s safe to receive.

Because every time a mother chooses to end the year lighter instead of depleted, she quietly rewrites what’s possible for all of us.

So maybe this year, the invitation isn’t to do more — it’s simply to notice.
To wake up.
To see the pattern for what it is — a cultural trance of depletion — and gently choose something different.

I’m choosing it, too.
To nourish my physical and mental health despite the chaos.
To lock in acupuncture, show up to my psychologist, take my herbs (for my poor adrenals and liver 😂), and carve out the white space my nervous system craves - even if that means saying no to something. In

I’m realising more than ever… no one else can do this for us.
No one’s coming to save us.
But we don’t have to do it alone either.
The support is here, and I’m just so grateful to be surrounded by a community of women who are learning to choose themselves, too. 🫶🏼

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