When Motherhood Cracks You Open
Bree Sutherland didn’t start her business with a master plan.
She started it from the middle of becoming someone new.
Ten months ago, Bree launched Soul FULL, not because she saw a gap in the market, but because she was living inside one. A space where language was missing.
Where support felt thin.
Where motherhood was expected to be joyful, natural, and selfless without acknowledging how deeply disruptive and transformative it can be.
Bree is a mother, a certified Life Coach, a Matrescence Facilitator, and a Yoga Teacher. But more than any title, she is a woman walking the profound transition of motherhood in real time.
When she became a mother to her son, her life filled with immense love and joy.
But it also shifted in ways she hadn’t been prepared for.
She felt cracked open.
Loving Your Child While Missing Yourself
In her first year postpartum, Bree felt confused, conflicted, and overwhelmed.
She loved her child fiercely and at the same time, longed for space, freedom, and a sense of connection with herself.
She tried to be the “selfless mother” she believed she was supposed to be.
She pushed her needs aside.
She felt guilty for taking time for herself.
She judged herself harshly for not loving every moment.
There was grief for parts of her identity that felt lost.
Frustration at how little support existed for women navigating such a profound life shift.
And an unspoken question many mothers carry quietly: Why does this feel so hard if I’m meant to be grateful?
Bree couldn’t find language for what she was experiencing until she discovered matrescence.
Finding the Language That Changes Everything
Bree didn’t learn about matrescence until well into that first year.
But when she did, everything clicked.
For the first time, her experience made sense.
What she was feeling wasn’t failure or weakness, it was development.
A psychological, emotional, and identity transition as significant as adolescence.
Matrescence gave Bree permission to soften.
It allowed her to unravel years of conditioning and unrealistic expectations.
To meet herself with compassion instead of criticism. To trust that nothing was wrong with her, she was becoming.
That understanding didn’t just support her personally.
It planted the seed for something more.
Creating the Space She Needed
Soul FULL grew organically from Bree’s lived experience.
She felt deeply called to create the space she had been searching for one that honours the emotional, psychological, and identity shifts of motherhood.
A space where women don’t have to “bounce back,” push through, or disappear inside their roles.
Through coaching, reflection, grounding practices, and embodied support, Bree helps overwhelmed mothers reconnect with themselves to feel grounded again, rediscover their identity, and move through motherhood with more clarity, confidence, and calm.
Her work reminds women that fulfillment and motherhood are not opposites.
They can coexist.
Building a Business While Becoming a Mother
Like many early-stage founders, Bree quickly learned that starting a business means becoming everything at once.
CEO. Social media manager. Tech support. Business development lead. Brand strategist.
The learning curve is steep.
The tools are endless.
The messaging takes time to refine.
And alongside it all, the inner work is unavoidable.
Self-doubt.
Mindset challenges.
The fear of being seen or not being seen enough.
Right now, Bree’s greatest challenge is reach.
She knows the women are out there, mothers who need this support, this language, this permission. But time, capacity, and meaningful connections remain limited resources.
Still, she keeps showing up.
Because this work isn’t about scale alone.
It’s about impact.
Honouring the Transformation
At the heart of Bree’s work is a simple but radical truth: motherhood is not something to endure or recover from.
It is a transformation.
And when women are supported through it: emotionally, psychologically, and compassionately, they can reclaim who they are becoming, feel grounded in themselves, and create lives that feel full, aligned, and true.
At Reignelle, we honour women like Bree: those who build from lived experience, speak the words others are afraid to say, and create spaces where identity is allowed to evolve.
Because when mothers are supported not silenced, everything changes.