Amanda Scott

Amanda Scott

35 yrs 

From Melbourne

Living in Byron Shire, Australia

This is who I am in the world:

I am a Creative Arts Therapist, Youth worker, peace maker, listener and more recently, a mother to a little boy.

I’ve spent the past 18 years facilitating workshops, weekends away, and individual experiences for people to discover more of who they are in the world, find their unique voice and to feel empowered in expressing themselves and reaching their full potential.

The last two years I have been dedicating my time to learning everything I can about raising tiny humans in the most loving, balanced and trauma informed way, drawing from aware parenting, attachment parenting, gentle parenting and understanding my own unconscious conditioning so that I can break any generational cycles of parenting that do not resonate for me. I also am learning to turn these approaches towards myself, knowing that I am not going to be perfect and I am doing my best which is enough!

This is the story I want rewritten for women:

I feel like I learnt from a young age to be accepted as a woman, to feel safe as a woman, I had to play small, to please others, and to be a good girl. I learnt as I grew up that as a mother you must be able to do it all, the parenting, managing a household, the career, and to be seen to be excelling at more and more in order to be worthy of praise. It is a never ending ladder of achievement that leaves mothers feeling inadequate when in fact they are incredible. I want to rewrite these narratives for all women. I want them to know that you don’t need to do all of this to be accepted, or to belong, or to be a valuable and contributing member of society. I want women to know that their feeling matter, they are allowed to be wild and sassy and quiet and angry and all of it, to express safely all the emotions that make us human. I wish that mother’s felt more supported, more acknowledged, and more respected. I wish for all, the ability to meet their own big feelings so that they can meet one another’s without fear or shaming. Especially for our children. I wish that we find acceptance in one another’s differences, connecting in our humanness. I want women especially to know that there is not one way to be a woman. We can define yourselves, and in doing so we give permission for others to do the same. 

I am inspired by the living examples of women holding each other up, supporting one another and celebrating one another. 

This is the story that I next want to write for myself:

I want to continue learning about motherhood and being present with my tiny human (and maybe another tiny human sometime in the future!)

I want to carve a life full of creativity, community and wholesome experiences for my children. I have recently bought into a piece of land with 6 other families in northern NSW where we will each build our ow. home in a community. My dream here is to grow food, create together, have our children grow up together, learn from one another and to have our own space to call home. This is not something I believed could actually happen, and it is very exciting! I want to know that as a mother, I don’t have to do it all by myself. It takes a village to raise a child, and here we are, creating a village. Not without difficult moments, I’m sure! I have faith that there will me much growth in the process.

My son will be 2 in December and I am planning to slowly step back into my psychotherapy practice: Amanda Scott Art Therapy, working with mainly women, online and in person, using creative art therapy processes to bring curiosity and insight into ways of being, supporting a safe space where they can choose to rewrite their own narratives.