Get to know me
Coach, Mother, inner child expert, average cook, Target lover
Who is Javeria?
I have spent my adult life learning how our minds work, serving people, and sitting with them in their pain. My choices and decisions have been guided by my unmet emotional needs as a child, which have led me to serving you.
In the past 10 years, I got two degrees in Psychology including a Master in Counselling Psychology.
I worked as a Registered Psychotherapist with youth, adults, and parents struggling with addiction, relationship issues, anxiety, depression, and feeling unfulfilled.
If you want to learn more about education and work experience, you can check out my LinkedIn profile here.
I felt a great calling from my inner child after becoming a mom. Rather, my child’s existence forced me to confront my inner child. Perhaps you already did that before or had it perfectly put away somewhere with a ‘do not open until….’ label.
In being present with my daughter, in joining her in her world, without having an agenda, timeline, or outcome in mind, I find I need to access my inner child too. Those moments are carefree, where I feel the most connected to her, and pure joy.
I am fascinated by inner child work, and doing the work myself has resulted in tremendous healing and awareness that helps me in the moment to moment process of life.
If you experienced any kind of trauma or complex circumstances during your childhood, this whole experience is messy to say the least. Doing this work is not easy, rather essential to our wellbeing.
Being a mom is a draining job.
I’ve spent the past two and a half years mothering my daughter full-time. If you can believe it or not, this has been harder than any other thing I’ve done. Harder than going to Grad school and getting a Master in Counselling Psychology, harder than working with clients experiencing complex trauma and addictions.
The challenges are not in caring for your child, but the unavoidable changes that you have to face.
The major shifts in priorities, changes in all of your relationships, changes in your mood and body, time and energy.
I am sure you can relate to this because your world also changed when you became a mother.
Your new self and old self don’t feel the same, and you’re struggling to figure out who you are now.
After my daughter was born I started endlessly searching for ways to make meaning of all these changes. I listened to podcasts, read books, articles, journaled, spoke to others, and started sharing my journey on Instagram.
I felt confused about why more people weren’t talking about this transformation. Was it only me? Was it because I’m a highly sensitive person and others don’t experience this? I wished there was someone I could go to that would help me understand all these mental shifts. Luckily I quickly realized I was not alone in these feelings, but it was an area our culture didn’t create a lot of space for.
I realized how you become transformed by birth, never being the same again. A parent was also born the day your baby was, and while you are there to mother your baby, you are left alone to mother your new self.
I’m here to be that person for you that I didn’t have. To create this sacred space where we mother the mother.
Things I Love
I love a good Chai, coffee, herbal tea, basically hot beverage of any kind.
I’ve had purple hair, and now I’m experimenting with the Curly Girl Method and going natural.
I love travelling and diy flower crowns.
In my spare time I love reading and journaling.
I’m continuously working on body positivity and loving myself as I am in the present.
I still send handwritten notes in the mail, because I’m old fashioned like that.
Messy art and activities with my daughter bring me joy.