When you’re holding it all — and it feels like too much.

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For mothers and caregivers navigating the messy, tender, in-between places of life.

I’m Lynne Newman — a parent, caregiver, and occupational therapist

who has lived through illness, loss, and the daily overwhelm that comes with trying to hold everything together.

For ten years, I cared for my husband through stage-4 cancer while raising my girls and rebuilding myself through postpartum, burnout, and the quiet undoing of old stories.

That decade taught me how to hold both — heartbreak and beauty, chaos and calm, survival and growth.

Now, I support parents and caregivers who are in their own season of “too much.” Together, we find steadiness, new perspective, and ways to move forward that actually fit your real life.

Our work might include reflection, story, and nervous-system grounding — but also honest conversation, problem-solving, and practical tools you can use right away. Sometimes that means reframing how you see your child; sometimes it’s remembering how to take care of you.

This isn’t about fixing. It’s about being met where you are, and finding the next right step from there.

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What this space is for

  • The mothers who love their kids fiercely but feel lost in the noise.

  • The caregivers who are tired of being strong.
    The ones holding both grief and gratitude at the same time.

Here, we talk about what’s real — and we make sense of it together.

  • You were right there with me, more than anyone else. You were steady, real, and brought a spiritual side — the universe, energy, meaning.”

    Parent navigating separation and depression

  • You feel like home. There is something really calming and kind about your presence and I always feel wonderful about myself regardless of any insecurity. It's not that you make it better, you just make me feel safe.

    Mother and entrepreneur

  • You inspire reflection, examination and knowing oneself, in the context of family life and life’s peaks and valleys, in a kind, open hearted way, allowing others to be who they are, where they are, how they are... just as they come.

    Mother navigating mental health

  • I shed my shame and I started - sometimes quietly, sometimes louder - to own my story.

    Parent and caregiver to spouse with mental health

  • I feel strong in my weakness, ok most of all for being me and human, and special too.

    Parent healing from childhood trauma

  • You are sometimes the voice in my head when I am sitting on the bathroom floor sobbing. You soften me and remind me to go gently with myself.

    Mother supporting child with cancer

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words from others

“Thank you, as always, for holding space for me,

while I navigated an upcoming change for our family. There were many layers to unpack and it helped to talk through various perspectives, outcomes and “what-ifs”. I hadn’t yet taken the time to really feel the emotions behind it all.

You have a way of creating a safe gentle space to be truly vulnerable and you respond with empathy, understanding, relatability and give the validation that I needed to hear and feel. So thank you. I really appreciate it..

- Mother of two, Toronto