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Nau mai, haere mai ki te, Te Whare Pora Mauritau Term 2 GroupsWe’re excited to open enrolments for our Term 2 wānanga, ...
12/05/2026

Nau mai, haere mai ki te, Te Whare Pora Mauritau

Term 2 Groups
We’re excited to open enrolments for our Term 2 wānanga, a space to reconnect, restore, and create through raranga (flax weaving) alongside Mauritau practices.
These sessions are fully funded by ACC for those with a sensitive claim.
18 plus years, open to all māori and non-māori

This term we are offering:
✨ Wāhine-focused space
Sunday 28th June, 8:30am – 2:30pm West Auckland

The group is run through the nelson clinic, emails can be sent to groups@nelsonclinic.nz
If you’re interested in attending, your therapist can apply through ACC on your behalf.

11/05/2026

As a dedicated fully fledge yappa... I can't stress this enough. Some days we jsut need to talk it out, over and over again. To help make sense of it, for it to hold less power over you, or while you decide the relationship you want to have yourself and the thing taking up the mental space.

It's ok to retreat while you make sense of something big.

Just know that your worth and your mana is innate. Don't ever let someone trample on that and if they do, just know you can dust yourself off and start again.

Becoming a mum changed everything for me. I was giving so much of myself every dayand somehow still feeling like it wasn...
11/05/2026

Becoming a mum changed everything for me. I was giving so much of myself every day
and somehow still feeling like it wasn’t enough.

Everyone else was getting the best of me and I was getting whatever was left over.

I didn’t even realise how far I’d drifted from myself until I hit a point where something had to change. It was a quiet knowing that I couldn’t keep going like that.

I started coming back to the basics.
Looking at my hauora properly, not just physically, but mentally, spiritually, and around my whānau too.

Little shifts, but they added up.

I felt more like myself again. More present, grounded and less stretched all the time.

That’s where my online Mauritau course came from. Just sharing what actually helped me find my way back in a way that felt real and doable.

If you’ve been feeling a bit like this too, you’re not the only one.

Comment "Hauora" and I will send you the link to our online course.

10/05/2026

I spent a long time feeling like I had to earn my place, as if I needed to know more, be more, prove more, before I could fully stand in who I was
especially as a Māori wāhine.

There’s this quiet pressure sometimes
to have it all together, to carry a lot without saying anything, to not get it wrong.

But no one really tells you…

You’re allowed to learn as you go.
You’re allowed to come back to yourself in your own time.
You’re allowed to take up space without explaining why.

A lot of my journey has just been unlearning that pressure and building a relationship with myself that isn’t based on proving anything.

When I created the Hīnatore and puawai sets last year, my hope was this would be a way for others to go deeper into who they were. To have kōrero from our Tūpuna, with a modern twist, to lean into. Finding the mana to stand in who you are.

If you want to check out card sets comment "LIGHT" and I'll send you the link

Wāhine Māori are tapu.But when you look at how wāhine are actually treated, it doesn’t always reflect that.You see it in...
10/05/2026

Wāhine Māori are tapu.

But when you look at how wāhine are actually treated, it doesn’t always reflect that.

You see it in small ways. In who carries the load, who is expected to hold things together or who gets questioned, corrected, or talked over. It gets normalised.

Being a Māori Wāhine is political, policed and even more so once they have tamariki. The narratives and frames of being "to much" attempt to drown out mana. The thing is this did not start from within Te Ao Māori. Many of us have stories, experiences and see the power of what Māori wāhine can do. Shifting movements, kaupapa and even whenua

So today, especially on Mother’s Day, it’s not just about appreciation. It’s about recognising what’s been placed on wāhine, and what doesn’t need to keep being carried.

Because being tapu was never meant to look like this.

Celebrating the ones who raised us, shaped us, and stood beside us.Hari Rā Māmā
10/05/2026

Celebrating the ones who raised us, shaped us, and stood beside us.
Hari Rā Māmā

09/05/2026

I am yet to ever be funny in reo Māori. I love a good joke, sneaky comment or some banter. It's always in the moment remarks to.

The issue is, by the time my reo has caught up to say the joke, the moment has passed.

I can't wait for the day I can make people laugh in reo Māori.

08/05/2026

Hīnatore came to me last year just before Matariki. Once the idea was in my head I couldn't stop thinking and creating.

This pack draws on the inspiration of Māori atua wahine, their purakau, strengths and what we might be able to learn from them.

I am so proud of this set, each with an affirmation and so much more kōrero.

Reflection prompts, deeper meanings and rituals and hauora practices to care for yourself.

Making this pack only 64 cards was hard..

We have very few of these sets left currently. Comment light if you want me to send you a link to explore them

08/05/2026

Nice isn't a word that people around me would use, however kind is often one I get told.

I don't like nice, as it's often pleasantries for the expense of peace and making others comfortable.

I admire those who are nice and kind though. This can be a rare find.

For me, I will be kind, my matapono are strong and they guide me. This means I will be pono in what I say, it's done with aroha of course. What I've realised is not everyone really wants pono. Even if they say they do.

Sometimes people want to be pacified, validated for where they are, whether others agree with it or not. I don't do that.

It definitely ruffles people on occasion. The thing is for me, there is no mana in being nice. Especially when you fence sit. Some things you can't be neutral in.

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