You're doing the sacred, tender work of raising your children.
You long for a life that feels nourishing and grounded - one that honours your children and yourself.
You want to feel vibrant in your body and spirit.
You want to live slowly and with intention.
And you want to mother in a way that aligns with your deepest intuition and desires.
It feels like you’re swimming upstream - exhausted, overstimulated, and carrying an impossible burden of responsibilities, all on your own.
You’re bombarded with wellness and parenting advice that doesn’t quite sit right.
You scroll and search and second-guess yourself.
You crave slowness, softness, and space to just be the woman and mother you know you are inside.
I'm Jessica Hodgens
I support mothers just like you to feel well, live slow, and raise your children close - through nourishing home rhythms, grounded guidance, and soulful support.
When I first became a mother, I was completely unprepared for how profoundly it would change me.
I left my job as a senior researcher in a high-rise city building, and threw myself, heart and soul, into the sacred work of mothering.
It was the most beautiful, important, healing experience of my life - and the most depleting.
Because raising my children at home in the way my body and soul told me was right - without a village, without support, without rest - left me hollowed out.
Some days I thought I’d never find myself again. Some days I thought I was broken. That my light had gone out and would never rekindle.
And so I began the long, slow work of healing.
I learned how to care for my body, even without the village I knew I was designed to live in.
I learned to honour my creative heart, even when I didn’t have the personal space to take an uninterrupted shower.
I learnt to tend to myself as a whole person, while still mothering my children in the way I longed to.
And I found my way home to myself - gently, ever so slowly - in the sacred rhythms of the home.
You can connect with me through:
Hearthbeat – my signature membership and support space for mothers
Letters from Home – my newsletter where I share reflections, rhythms, and recipes for a nourished motherhood
Instagram – where I share reflections, rhythms, and real moments of messy, beautiful, sacred days at home with my babies
My podcast – where I dive into the subjects of physiologic birth, natural parenting and conscious mothering,
My work is rooted in both research and lived experience.
I hold a PhD in Aboriginal oral history, I’m a trained doula, postpartum care provider, and women’s circle keeper.
I’ve studied with Jane Hardwicke Collings, I’m an Innate Traditions Postpartum Care Provider.
I’ve supported dozens of women through their birth and mothering journeys.
But more than anything, I’m a mother - right here in the thick of it with you.
I live on the beautiful south coast of New South Wales, Australia, cradled between the Illawarra escarpment and the ocean.
Most days, you’ll find me pottering in my kitchen or my beloved garden, surrounded by my two wild-haired children and my border collie Dug.
I home-birthed both my babies, and now we homeschool - which mostly looks like lots of play, lots of creativity, and lots of barefoot walks at the beach or in the forest.
I’m a manifesting generator in human design, so I always have at least five half-finished craft projects on the go, and a teetering pile of open books on my bedside table.
I’m also a HSP - a highly sensitive person. This makes my experience of mothering both infinitely more challenging, and infinitely more exquisite.
Also? I’m goofier than you might guess from my online presence. I have lengthy conversations with my dog. And yes, I answer back… in his voice.
And if you’ve made it here… I think you might be ready to begin your own healing and slow-living journey home to yourself.
You’re right where you’re meant to be.
Jess xx
