A Memoir. A Manual. A Methodology for the Mother Becoming.

The Woman After.

Coming July 2025

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"To every woman holding the fragmented pieces of her heart, healing while mothering, breaking generational cycles and redefining what it means to rise again... this is for you, my love."

~ ELISE SMALL

(Author of 'The Woman After.)

This isn't just any old book...

It’s a heartbeat. A homecoming. A remembering.

“The Woman After.” is a raw and captivating memoir-manual-methodology for the modern-day woman navigating identity death, post-separation rebirth, motherhood, rage, rupture and reawakening her power.

It’s the truth-telling we never got taught.
The story we never saw mirrored.
The pathway home for the woman holding it all… and still daring to ask:

“But who am I, now?”

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Hi, I’m Elise.

Somatic Breathwork Facilitator. Trauma-Informed Soul Guide. Mother. Reclaimer. Voice for the woman who stayed silent too long.

Here to guide the women rewriting their lives after entering motherhood, navigating separation, burnout and identity rupture.

I didn’t come to this work from theory. I came to it from the floor.
From the edge of the bathtub, tears rolling into the drain.
From whispering affirmations I didn’t believe just to get through breakfast.
From holding my son in one hand, suitcase in the other and my unravelling sense of self somewhere in between.

I built this body of work from the inside out, through solo parenting, identity death and the quiet ache of starting over in a place where no one knew my name.

Motherhood cracked me open.
Separation stripped me bare.
Breathwork was the first thing that brought me back home to myself.

For over 14 years, I’ve supported families through education, early childhood leadership and now trauma-informed somatic therapy. I’ve worked with parents, educators, and children alike, but nothing has taught me more than my own journey through matrescence, co-dependency, solo motherhood and spiritual rebirth.

I don’t teach from the pedestal. I teach from the fire I walked through.
I know what it’s like to feel like you’ve lost yourself.
To crave tools that aren’t just “wellness” but survival meets soul.
To want a new narrative, but not know where to begin writing it.

This space is where we begin.
Where we breathe again.
Where we return, not to who we were, but to the version of ourselves waiting beneath the rubble.

I’m honoured to be your mentor, as I share the work that saved my life.
Now, it’s yours to walk too.

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