A little about me…

Hi, I’m Dr Jen – mother of 3, neuroscientist, researcher, author and creator of Tough Mothers.

I’m a mum, first and foremost. I know how hard motherhood can be, I have had my fair share of struggles – stress, severe anxiety, overwhelm, you name it. I now also know it doesn’t need to be so hard.
Let me teach you how I successfully trained my brain to go from stress and anxiety to calm and fulfilment in a very short time. It’s simple, you can do it too!

I have been researching neuroplasticity – the brain’s ability to modify, change and adapt itself in both structure and function, as a result of our experiences and actions – for over 20 years.

Initially largely on a micro level in medical research (I have a PhD in neuroscience), and in the last decade mostly on a macro level and in private practice (I also have a degree in Psychotherapy).

Specifically, I look at how matrescence – the developmental transition a woman goes through when she becomes a mother – affects mothers’ brains, and how we can use this life-changing transformation to our advantage, by intentionally and simply training our brain to create a motherhood life we thrive in.

I didn’t deliberately set out on this path. It was something that I unintentionally developed when I was strugglingly indescribably after I had my third baby. I was desperate for a solution to feel better in motherhood.

It was through my transition from struggling in motherhood to thriving that I realised: when we become mothers the brain changes are massive. Yet we are not taught this. We are not taught that these changes will affect us profoundly on a psychological level, and will therefore affect our wellbeing and our whole life.

It is imperative that we are taught about our matrescence brain and how to actively train our brain in motherhood.

But we are not, so we passively bob around hoping that things will just get better. In the meantime, we are losing ourselves as women, and we are squandering our lives.

No mother should feel like this. And if you do, please know it does not need to be like this forever. You have found the help you are looking for.

All Tough Mothers courses are evidence-based. Not just because I, and the many mothers who have done them, are evidence that they work, but because all the strategies we use are backed by real science.

It would be my absolute pleasure to teach you about your motherhood brain and provide you with exercises, specifically modified for you, to train your brain to thrive in motherhood. You are not alone!