My name is Yvette

Welcome to Sassy Owl HQ!

Learning and growing together.

This parenting thing is complicated.

You are your daughter’s first and lifelong teacher – no matter if you think you’ve been replaced by some form of ‘influencer’ or their school friends.

There’s no way around it.

You’ve been teaching her since she was born and will continue. Don’t most of us go looking for our parent or grandparent when they place that baby in our arms??? I know I did.

With everything you’ve said.

With everything you’ve done.

You model what it means to be a woman.

How does that make you feel?

My mum and dad were great parents, but there are things I learned to do differently. Our daughters are being raised with some unique challenges, and some very old ones.

I learn about the research and tools and share what works.

When women come into their own power, the world gets more balanced. We need that. Let's raise those women.

Oh and ... when you're happy, confident, clear, loving and powerful EVERYONE benefits. You. Your children, partner, workplace, family, and community. Let’s do that too.

About Yvette

Original art by Bec Mennen

I’m Yvette.

I’m a recovering ‘good girl’, ‘people pleaser’, ‘golden child’, educated, professional, busy woman, wife and mother. I have donated my black suits to an op shop, learned to say no when I want to and now I wear my hair down, crystals in my bra and dresses!!! (I still look a bit like a block in a frock but I owe it.)

I AM a curious, loving, self-accepting (well working on it some days), pleasure seeking, free woman who, everyday prioritises myself, embraces change and trusts that life is working out in my favour. (Say it loud each morning to remember 😊)

I have a fantastic, confident, hilarious, clever, grounded, red head (prone to Hangry in a big way) daughter. She is open to learning new ways to understand herself and deal with crap (as she says). That's not to say we haven't had our challenges.

I DO NOT have this stuff all figured out.

I don’t have it all together.

That’s why I’m here. To learn how to be a better mum, woman, human.

My qualifications are a Bachelor of Business and a Masters in Education. I've taught adults most of my life. I learn stuff and teach what works. For 5 years I worked in the area of child protection, mostly within schools and church groups. I witnessed the disconnect.

I witnessed the number of girls

on medication for anxiety/ depression/ stress relief (but had no other interventions)
being abused (physically, emotionally and sexually)
making terrible choices - dumbing down, risky sexual activity, dropping out of sport/music and other pleasures, rebelling in ways that put them in harms way
avoiding life - alcohol, drugs, cyber misuse, sex
being pulled apart by parents who forgot to be the grown up
hurting themselves
Killing themselves

It is our job, as parents, to do better. It isn't the teacher's or the minister's job. It's ours.

Here you can learn some useful loving tools, conversation starters and some science. I'm a little bit woo woo too so I share easy/unique ways to use your body to calm, focus and feel better.

We’re in this together. Together we can do better for tomorrow's women. Let's make sure our daughters value and accept themselves so that they can make powerful, free choices.

Why Sassy Owl HQ you ask???

My family was discussing animal totems (we were mucking around about Brother Bear and eye-spy games in the car). My daughter says ‘Mum you’re definitely an owl’.

Long pause.

I’m afraid of birds.

‘Why am I an owl?’ I ask (horrified).

‘Because you’re wise, thoughtful, people don’t fool you and you have eyes in the back of your head’ … Well. Ok then.

I’m still not thrilled about the idea of being a bird (rather than something cool like a wombat – I don’t know why – they’re cute and I heard they have cubed shaped poop – they don't. I checked it out at the zoo).

‘Well then, I’m a sassy owl’. I replied ... sassily.

And that’s how that happened.

My late mentor changed it to Sassy Owl HQ in order to get the URL (yep he was a bloke). HQ never sat well with me until I changed the whole focus of my business and I realised he had inadvertently set me on my path. HQ. Her Quest. Or maybe he did know 😊

A life’s journey to create my own paths and destinations - and helping girls to learn this early.

So Sassy Owl HQ (Her Quest) was born.

Sassy – Bold. Fresh. Spicy. Saucy. Wise. Forward. Self-assured. Spirited. I choose to ignore the negative connotations of loud, rude and belligerent.

Owl – wisdom, clarity, discernment, insight, intuition, change and transformation. The ability to see clearly ahead, into dark places and all around you. The owl spirit is;

curious, a learner and excited by possibility
attentive to the little things in order to recognise what others miss
connected to her inner guidance. The owl recognises when to let go of one thing for something better.

Here's what I do:

Listen. Learn. Research.

Test methods.
Find what works.

Share methods and ideas
to help our daughters feel better, think better, trust more, laugh more, and love deeply (themselves and us).

Deliver workshops.
Your place or mine.
Face-to-face fun.

Create workshops, webinars, videos, blog and courses

Bring like hearted parents together
for support, fun and tears

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