Our Story

We are mothers caring for mothers.

Our passion is to support women at each stage of life’s journey, especially motherhood. We acknowledge each women’s experience is unique and are inclusive of all those who mother by supporting women through the seasons of motherhood.

The Golden Mother is the evolution of our former business, The Golden Month, created to support mothers specifically during their postnatal period – with focus on ‘the first forty days’.

While this remains an important part of The Golden Mother’s purpose and existence, we’ve narrowed our focus to improve our range of food, beverage and self-care products.
With updated formulas and insights into how each of our products can support women at various stages of their motherhood journey.

Acknowledging The Golden Month

The Golden Month is where we first made an impact.

We nurtured and nourished thousands of postpartum mothers during what is a precious and often vulnerable time in a woman’s life. We set out to change the shape of postpartum care in Australia for generations to follow, to get the conversation started and change the narrative around how a new mums should be cared for in our modern society, by bring traditional care to a modern western world.

The response was overwhelmingly positive. It made us really quite emotional to realise the need we were able to fulfil for many Australian mothers through our in-home care services, meal delivery and products. While the need to support postpartum women wasn’t going anywhere, we faced many external challenges beyond our control when it came to expanding our support in the form of in-home services and meal delivery to reach more Australian women. While our passion remained un-wavered, it became unsustainable for us to keep up with the demand while maintaining our high standards.

Through the heartache of having to make the difficult decision to scale back The Golden Month, we have learnt so much. Despite the pain and disappointment experienced, we have turned our challenges into an opportunity for growth and long-term sustainability to reach and support even more Australian women.

We’d often extend the recommendation of The Golden Month’s products for a whole host of reasons. From our Traditional Herbal Tea during any woman’s period to help soothe and replenish blood loss, to our Vegetable Herbal Congee when illness strikes to support a healthy immune system, and our Shen Mama Mylk for a calming night’s rest. This list goes on..

In our own personal experiences, it became apparent that it is not only postpartum mothers who are vulnerable and at risk of depletion and isolation. We also know that a lack of support can deeply impact a women’s children and/or future children, family and community at large.

Ode to The Golden Month

The Golden Month is where we first made an impact.

We nurtured and nourished thousands of postpartum mothers during what is a precious and often vulnerable time in a woman’s life. We set out to change the shape of postpartum care in Australia for generations to follow, to get the conversation started and change the narrative around how a new mums should be cared for in our modern society, by bring traditional care to a modern western world.

The response was overwhelmingly positive. It made us really quite emotional to realise the need we were able to fulfil for many Australian mothers through our in-home care services, meal delivery and products. While the need to support postpartum women wasn’t going anywhere, we faced many external challenges beyond our control when it came to expanding our support in the form of in-home services and meal delivery to reach more Australian women. While our passion remained un-wavered, it became unsustainable for us to keep up with the demand while maintaining our high standards.

Through the heartache of having to make the difficult decision to scale back The Golden Month, we have learnt so much. Despite the pain and disappointment experienced, we have turned our challenges into an opportunity for growth and long-term sustainability to reach and support even more Australian women.

We’d often extend the recommendation of The Golden Month’s products for a whole host of reasons. From our Traditional Herbal Tea during any woman’s period to help soothe and replenish blood loss, to our Vegetable Herbal Congee when illness strikes to support a healthy immune system, and our Shen Mama Mylk for a calming night’s rest. This list goes on..

In our own personal experiences, it became apparent that it is not only postpartum mothers who are vulnerable and at risk of depletion and isolation. We also know that a lack of support can deeply impact a women’s children and/or future children, family and community at large.

Carla Brion

For Carla Brion, a newfound sense of empowerment and motivation as a mother was the trigger to deepen her connection with assisting other women. As a Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) practitioner, our Co-Founder specialises in hormone, fertility, and pre/postnatal care. While finding her calling, Carla was and still is compelled to create change by looking after mothers through nourishment and TCM practices.

This mother of three did not have ideal births or newborn phases. During the fourth trimesters with her first baby, she was unable to get the physical help she needed and felt defeated. Her postpartum experience was one of survival, purely being a mother while recovering from an emergency Caesarean. Unfortunately this is all too true for many mothers.

Working in her clinic, which also encompassed roles as acupuncturist and herbalist, was no longer enough. Carla began conceptualising nourishing food through her knowledge of TCM and Ayurveda as an addition to her work, and with Nadia, created The Golden Month.

Carla’s vision is to provide food, herbs and education to mothers nationwide. Her belief that women's health, particularly postnatal care, is a fundamental human right as a woman; not a luxury but a necessity. It's this passionate voice that's forging the way forward for women. Carla’s medicinal expertise and her intense love for supporting others aims to enable more support for her sisters – the Golden Mamas of the world.

Nadia Parisi

A defining separation and postpartum difficulties saw Nadia Parisi enter her darkest period before co-creating The Golden Month, and now The Golden Mother. Depleted, fatigued, anxious and barely making it through the day, the care she needed was nascent.

The women’s health massage therapist, fertility, pre/postnatal yoga teacher and holistic pelvic core practitioner struggled through a separation during the second of her three pregnancies with little support. After that birth, she provided only for her newborn and elder son, often forgetting to provide herself with food or resorting to meals with high sugar or carbohydrates.

Nadia was admitted to hospital within a year of the birth, emotionally and physically burnt out. Diagnosed with chronic fatigue and a heart condition, she felt her support network had been lost after an eye-opening conversation with her doctor. Her tribe had moved on. But the realisation that she didn’t have to feel shame saw Nadia reconnect with loved ones, ask for support, and gain a newfound strength and desire to assist others having trouble during the postpartum phase.

The gap between those being helped and those who aren’t is what drives Nadia’s love for supporting women and mothers. Wether it's on their postpartum journey at the most crucial time or guiding her now teenage daughter through menstruation – her desire is to open access for more support to those who, for cultural or financial reasons, have previously struggled.

In-home care to her is an essential part of the postpartum journey, along with expressing the belief that mothers need to be nurtured and nourished, so their children can then be also. Through The Golden Mother Nadia, together with Carla, are sharing their expertise to empower women with the tools and techniques to provide affordable self-care in the comfort of their own home.