Welcome to Connection Wellbeing Hub

I've always believed that the best things in life happen when you get out, try something new and share it with other people.

Travel taught me that. Adventure confirmed it. And building communities proved it beyond any doubt.

I spent more than 20 years working in the travel industry — and in that time I learned something that stayed with me long after I left. 

That the moment people step outside their everyday routine and into an experience — something shifts. Conversations happen. Guards come down. People who were strangers an hour ago are laughing like old friends. Connection doesn't need to be forced. It just needs the right conditions.

Then life changed shape.

I became a mum. Then a single mum. And the communities, the adventures, the sense of belonging I'd always taken for granted — suddenly they weren't so easy to find.

So I did what I've always done when something I needed didn't exist.

I went looking for it. And when I couldn't find it — I built it.

I packed up my young girls and set off on a three month road trip. Just us.

No plan. No guarantee. Just the belief that somewhere out there were people like me — women doing it on their own, making it work, looking for connection and something to actually look forward to.

That trip didn't just give me memories. It gave me clarity.

When I got home I still didn't have the community I was looking for. So I created one.

What started as a small group of solo parent families grew into something I never imagined — a community of thousands of Australian families, connecting, adventuring and reminding each other that they aren't doing this alone.

Then I needed somewhere for just me. A space where I could be a woman, not just a mum. So I built that too — Active Women Adventures, where women could get outside, move their bodies and meet others without pressure or performance.

And then travel started calling again — not just for me, but for other women and families who wanted to explore but didn't quite know how to make it happen on their own. So that community followed too.

Then came the layer that changed everything.

Raising neurodivergent children adds a dimension to parenting that is hard to explain to anyone who hasn't lived it. The appointments. The advocacy. The systems. The moments of sheer exhaustion and the love that runs underneath all of it. The desperate need to find other parents who just get it — without explanation, without judgment, without having to perform okay-ness.

I couldn't find that community either. So I built Raising Complex Kids.

Around the same time I was deep in professional support work — implementing behaviour support plans, advocating for participants and families, navigating the NDIS and all the complexity that comes with it. I was learning in the professional world what I was already living at home.

And one day I looked at all of it — the travel background, the communities, the lived experience, the professional knowledge — and I realised it had all been building toward the same thing.

Connection Wellbeing Hub is where it all comes together.

A place where people can find their people. Where experiences are designed to meet you where you're at — not push you somewhere you're not ready to go. Where adventure and nature and creativity and community aren't separate things, but different doorways into the same feeling.

The feeling that you're not carrying this alone.

That there are people out there who get it.

And that life — even the complicated version — can have things in it worth looking forward to.

That's why CWH exists. And that's why I keep building it.