Hi! I am Lisa.

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I used to believe that I was the problem.

That I just wasn’t cut out for motherhood the way other women seemed to be. That I was too emotional, too impatient, too broken to ever feel truly happy.

So I kept pushing myself to measure up.

I tried to be the perfect mother—the selfless, ever-giving, endlessly patient version of motherhood that society idealises. The mother who never loses her temper, never needs a break, and exists only to nurture.

And when I couldn’t live up to that impossible standard, I blamed myself.

I thought, Why does this feel so suffocating?
Why do I feel so stuck?
Why can’t I just be happy?

What I didn’t realise back then was that it wasn’t me that was broken—it was the version of motherhood I was trying to live up to.

I had absorbed a patriarchal fantasy of motherhood—one that demanded complete self-sacrifice, silence, and smallness. And I believed that if I wasn’t fulfilled by that, there must be something wrong with me.

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That belief made me sick.

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For six years, I lived with postnatal depression, anxiety, and PTSD symptoms, and no one saw it.
I didn’t even see it.

I just kept going, thinking, This is just how it is. I have to deal with it.

I carried a victim mentality without realising it. I thought this was motherhood. That I had no power. That my suffering was just part of the deal.

But something inside me wasn’t willing to accept that.

So I started searching.

I read about the mind, about trauma, about healing. I explored meditation. I journaled. I tried to understand why I felt this way. But nothing quite clicked—until I finally found a psychologist who truly saw me, named my pain, and guided me toward healing.

That’s when everything accelerated.

I learned that I wasn’t broken.
I learned that I had power.
I learned that I didn’t have to live by anyone else’s rules.

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Through Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy and creative journaling, I reconnected with my true, core self.

I met all the wounded, silenced, and suffering parts of me—the parts that had been forced into the dark by all the shoulds and expectations. And instead of trying to fix or silence them, I finally listened.

I gave them space. I gave myself space.

And little by little, layer by layer, I unburied myself.

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Now, I can finally say with certainty:

I love my life and I love who I am.

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I have built a version of motherhood that feels expansive, free, and deeply true to me.

And now, I want to help you do the same.

I created Walk with Lisa  because I know what it’s like to feel trapped inside a version of motherhood that shrinks you.
And I know the power of breaking free.

This is your invitation to strip back the conditioning, to reconnect with your true self, and to create motherhood on your own terms.

 

Are you ready?