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Meet Sam
Hi, I am Sam,
I wear a few hats.... I am a Mum, a Nurse and I work alongside these wonderful ladies as a Sleep Consultant and assisting Tara with day to day admin for TGSS.
I am passionate about helping people. I truly find happiness in knowing I have made someone's journey better, transition easier, day brighter. I am a Mum to 3 beautiful children. We have teen twins, and a 3yo little boy. To say its always been easy would be a huge fib. I did those first couple of years parenting twins, almost by myself. Of course I loved being a Mum, its the greatest gift of all, but boy it was tough. Sleep was...terrible. I was in survival mode. We were all tired and in need of some help. I did reach out to what was available at the time and I was disheartened and felt more desperate than ever to seek change.
My now husband came to join in the fun and when the twins were only 3 years of age, giving us that huge hug that we all needed. After years of hoping, wishing and praying we fell pregnant with our littlest man. After 11 years I was going to be a Mum to a newborn again, but this time it was different. Just as exciting but I had a village surrounding me and the biggest change of all - KNOWLEDGE. I did research, I read, I reached out to this village and I accepted Tara's advice.. I know the juggle I had teenage twins, a Fifo husband, multiple jobs , including shift work. I soaked up the 4th trimester, was conscious of creating sustainable habits, and when the time was right implemented simple changes.
Before we knew it our family was THRIVING. Our family was complete and our already full hearts were truly enjoying the journey. I started to work alongside Tara managing her incomings and assisting her on the daily. I read the outpouring of people needing help, some at a point of desperation, and the reviews from all of the families that TGSS had helped. I was in awe and I needed to be a part of this. I wanted to help these families, so my training to be a Sleep Consultant began. Of course this is primarily about educating people, but it's more than that.
Heavily relying on a background in Health to be able to trouble shoot and refer. To know when your clients needs to wrap them in a big hug. I am here for it all. My interest lies in providing SUPPORT. I have experienced both sides. The whole no sleep gig and the toll it has on your child and family. The absolute joys of having good quality sleep and thriving as a family. I wholeheartedly believe in what we do. I see the changes in parent's voices, their confidence, their babe's settle and flourish and families move forward happily. I am so proud to work alongside the caring and loving team that is TGSS.
Meet Nicole
Hi I’m Nicola. Mother of, Registered Nurse and Certified Sleep Consultant and I am studying a Post Gradate in Developmental Psychology.
I began helping families achieve better sleep 3.5 years ago. After having 2 children close together and a FIFO husband I struggled with sleep with my second child for too many months before seeking help. I figured I am a second time mum and a smart woman, surely I can figure this all out. With underlying feeding issues and non existing sleep we were all stressed and miserable.
At my breaking point my husband encouraged me to see a psychologist. We were all feeling the massive side effects of no sleep and the changes of a new addition to the family. She listened, allowed me to cry and vent and in the end she kindly said “You need to get some sleep so we can really know what is going on here. We have no idea what is your baseline right now because you are so sleep deprived”. I left there feeling validated. Yes this was not normal and not healthy for us and it is OK to seek help for this. Seeking help with sleep was something I had considered but kept putting off in the hope things would improve.
I contacted a sleep consultant and although sleep did improve I was still stressed and so was my baby for a few months while I worked on things and did my own research. I left this experience wondering and constantly thinking there must be a better way – I way I could have felt more supported and to see improvements much faster for all of us. This lead to studying to become a Sleep Consultant. Unfortunately, this still wasn’t enough – I was again left with the feeling there was something missing. My education still didn’t feel like it gave me enough knowledge to support families how I had hoped for.
This is when I contacted Tara. I knew our philosophy around sleep and family aligned, like myself she has a strong background in health and is a mother herself. Saying I was lucky is an understatement but when Tara had the ability to begin to expand TGSS I was ecstatic to join. Tara mentored and trained me and finally it all fell into place. These were the pieces that were missing that in my gut I knew there was so much more to creating lasting and purposeful changes to families.
Since beginning with Tara at The Gentle Sleep Specialist I have worked with hundreds of families and I am constantly learning from every family I work with. Families are my why. I am so passionate about not having parents just “survive” these early years. There should not be an expectation that we must accept that we will have broken sleep year after year and accept the impact it has on our parenting, our relationships and the joy in life.
I do not accept this for myself and I would never accept it for my children. They deserve to flourish and have healthy sleep foundations set for them in the early years. I have been able to see how establishing these in my own family has allowed my children to thrive, myself to return to working, changing careers, study, manage a FIFO family and relationship and truly enjoy all of it.
Seeing families thrive is why I do what I do and I am lucky enough to be able to do it with the best in the business here at The Gentle Sleep Specialist.
Nic xx
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