Happy Mama Movement With Amy Taylor-kabbaz

Welcome back to The Happy Mama Movement Podcast.In this Take the Mic episode, I’m honoured to share the voice of Kirsten Calloran — a Mama Rising coach and lactation consultant from County Wicklow, Ireland — whose story reaches straight into the heart of motherhood’s deepest transformations. Kirsten invites us into her journey through post-diagnosis motherhood — the moment her son’s autism diagnosis opened a second matrescence, a new becoming that reshaped everything she thought she knew about identity, strength, and love.This is a story of grief and grace, of survival and softening. Of finding language for what once felt unspeakable. It’s an offering to every mother who’s ever wondered where she went — and to those slowly remembering themselves, one tender breath at a time.She talks about:How a child’s diagnosis can awaken a second transformation in motherhood.The invisible weight and isolation many caregiving mothers carry.Grief, rage, love, and identity — all existing side by side.The need for spaces that