Soulful Conversations
For much of my life, I knew exactly who I needed to be for everyone else.
I knew how to be the mother, the daughter, the sister, the partner, the nurse. The dependable one. The strong one. The woman who cared, organised, supported and kept going.
For a long time, I believed that was simply who I was — and perhaps even what I was here to do.
What I hadn’t yet discovered was the woman beneath all of those roles.
Not a woman I had somehow lost along the way, but a woman I’d never really given myself the opportunity to know.
I began to wonder what I wanted my own life to look like.
By early 2022, I'm working in nursing leadership, carrying considerable responsibility and giving an enormous amount of myself to my work and the people in my care. From the outside, I'm capable and functioning. Internally, I'm exhausted and increasingly aware that I have very little left for myself.
My work matters deeply to me, as do the people I care for. But so much of my energy is directed towards being responsible for, and available to, others that I have barely considered what I might need for myself.
A conversation with a colleague brings that into sharper focus. I begin questioning not whether I still care about nursing, but whether the way I am living and working is sustainable — and, perhaps for the first time, what I actually want my own life to look like.
In February 2022, I resign from my leadership role without another job to go to.
For someone who has spent much of her life being responsible, dependable and making sure everyone else is taken care of, I expect it to feel terrifying.
Instead, I feel relief.
There is a quiet knowing in me that I am going to be okay.
Two weeks later, an opportunity takes me back to Cairns, a place I'd once called home while raising my children. But this time, I arrive there on my own — and it feels completely different.
For the first time in a very long time, there is space. The rainforest. The ocean. Time in nature. Time to simply be present with myself and my surroundings.
Cairns becomes my exhale.
I slow down enough to hear myself more clearly. And what begins isn't a grand reinvention. It's curiosity.
I become curious about my health, my body and my inner world. What makes me feel peaceful and alive, and what I might want my life to contain.
I study spiritual life coaching, discover breathwork and explore different practices and ways of understanding myself. I experiment. I become more present. I begin paying attention to parts of myself I had rarely had the space to consider.
And somewhere within all of that curiosity, another knowing begins to grow:
Other women need to experience this kind of space too.
Not necessarily by leaving their jobs or changing their whole lives, but by having somewhere they can hear their own voice more clearly, explore what they need and desire, and create space for the woman beneath the noise.
That is where the beginnings of Soulful Conversations live.
It has always been about the person sitting in front of me.
For more than 20 years, nursing has given me the privilege of sitting alongside people during some of the most vulnerable and uncertain moments of their lives.
While my career has taken me through nursing, leadership and education, it has always been the human part that matters most to me. I want to understand someone's story. I want them to feel heard, and to create the kind of space where they can be honest about what they're experiencing and say the things that aren't always easy to say.
That part of me hasn't changed.
What has changed is my understanding of the many different ways we can support another person.
As I became more curious about my own life, I began exploring coaching, spirituality, energy, embodiment and breathwork. Each added something to my own life first, and then to the way I could support others.
But the modalities themselves have never been the heart of my work.
The woman is.
I care deeply about creating spaces where women don't have to perform, have the answers or hold everything together. Where, perhaps for a little while, she gets to be the person being listened to.
Where her needs matter.
Her questions matter.
Her desires matter.
Her life matters.
Soulful Conversations grew from my own experience, but also from something I have witnessed over decades of caring for people: what can become possible when someone feels genuinely seen, deeply heard and safe enough to be honest.
Today, it is an absolute privilege to create that space for women.
A little more about me
I’m Tania — founder of Soulful Conversations, Registered Nurse, coach, Reiki Master and a woman who remains endlessly curious about what helps us live with greater presence, connection and intention.
I’m based on the beautiful Sunshine Coast in Queensland, where some of my favourite moments are often the simplest ones — time in nature, movement, good food, travel and being with the people I love.
I’m naturally curious and love learning, particularly when it comes to health and wellbeing, longevity, spirituality and the many ways we can better understand ourselves.
I love deep conversations — the kind that leave you thinking about something differently. But I also believe there is plenty of room for laughter, lightness and not taking ourselves too seriously.
My professional experience and training inform the way I work, but I will always meet you first as one human being sitting with another.
Professional background & training
Registered Nurse — Bachelor of Nursing
Certified Soul Purpose & Spiritual Life Coach
Reiki Master — Usui Shiki Ryoho
Health & Wellness Coaching — Levels 1 & 2
Orygen Breathwork Facilitator Training — currently in training
If something in my story has resonated with yours, you're warmly invited to explore what might feel right for you.
There is no expectation to know exactly what you need or where to begin. Sometimes, a conversation is enough to start.