MyBabyDream
TJ Woolf: Writer, Speaker, Lawyer, Feldenkrais Practitioner, Facilitator, Coach and all round Renaissance woman! Read below to learn all about TJ’s remarkable personal and professional background.
My Baby Journey
Hi, I’m TJ! I had my first child, a baby girl, in December 2021 by myself as a ‘single mother by choice’ at age 48.5 using donor eggs and donor sperm, after trying previously unsuccessfully to do IVF with my own eggs. I had my second child, a baby boy, in June 2024. My kids are full siblings. I left it so late to start my fertility journey because I am an undying romantic and I really honestly believed my life partner would show up. It was only when I got to 46 and a half that I realised time was up! Having my two children by myself is the best thing I have ever done, and they are the greatest blessing of my life. I am grateful every single moment of every single day. 💖🐬
My Personal Background
I grew up in Melbourne, Australia. I was always super close with both my parents, so the passing of my mother when I was 45 was the hardest thing I’ve ever gone through. Luckily I still have my Dad, who is very supportive. I have a wonderful younger sister, and I have an 11 year old niece who I adore. I live interstate from mu family, a 2 hour flight from them, so I am living my life as a solo mama by myself with no local family support.
That being said, I have lived all over the world (I speak a few languages) and have dear friends everywhere, and I am blessed to get lots of support and encouragement from them over the phone and online, as well as from my family interstate. Plus I have made many new Mom friends where I live locally and that has grown into a really beautiful support base here.
Even though I will share with you below all the ‘work’ I’ve been doing in the outside world, I have always believed that my real work is my inner work. I’ve been on a very deep journey of personal transformation and growth since my teenage years. That journey has been much too long, much too wide, and much too deep to capture here. But I will say that after doing DECADES of deeply healing, expansive and multidimensional inner work, I am now at a point in my life where I feel truly at peace, in a deep state of self acceptance, infinite alignment, and joy. Aho!
My Professional Background
I have done MANY different things in my career. (Being 52 I’ve had a lot of years to fill out my resumé!) My passions have always been self-expression, connecting people and facilitating personal transformation. I have been writing and public speaking my whole life, as well as always inspiring and mentoring people regardless of what I was doing in my ‘official’ career.
You may be surprised to learn that I started my career as a corporate attorney, working at one of the largest law firms in Australia. After practising for a few years, I won a full scholarship to do my Masters in Law at Oxford University, so I went to the UK to do that when I was 26.
After completing my Masters in Law at Oxford, I worked in London as a lawyer for a while, but then I left the law to follow my passion for writing. I threw my energy into writing screenplays. My career as a screenwriter was just starting to take off when the debilitating back pain that I had been suffering since my mid-20s caused me to have to give up all work at age 30 and just focus on recovery for a couple of years.
During that difficult time I discovered the remarkable Feldenkrais Method, which completely transformed my body movements and helped me get back to a functional life again. I was so fascinated by this ingenious modality that I did the 4 year training to become a Feldenkrais Practitioner.
I then spent a few years working as a Feldenkrais Practitioner, helping people eliminate their pain and movement challenges and develop profound body awareness. I regularly ran Feldenkrais classes and facilitated workshops, both in Melbourne and around the world. When working with my 1:1 clients, I found that I ended up coaching and counselling my clients as much as I was working with their bodies. I ended up working basically as a Life Coach during those years, doing a mix of hands-on bodywork and verbal coaching.
My long-held passion for speaking and facilitating personal transformations continued to grow, so I then started running global public speaking workshops for women (before Zoom existed!) and I incorporated Feldenkrais into it and a large life-coaching element, so women could learn to speak form their heart with passion, power and purpose, using their whole body. And at the same time I started my own online radio show, interviewing people about their inner journeys of transformation.
It was during that time that I got into a relationship with a brilliant man, who was also on a very deep journey of personal growth and spirituality. Together we developed a groundbreaking body of work that maps where people are at in their evolutionary spiritual journey. We worked together on that project for many years even after our romantic relationship ended, writing books, and giving talks and presentations about it. It was a huge project and I poured all my energy into it for 10 years.
After my dear little girl was born in December 2021, I shifted my energy into creating a YouTube Channel (youtube.com/@MyBabyDream) where I have been sharing my incredible solo mama story. After many women from around the world reached out to me, I then built the MyBabyDream community for women like me who are on an unusual path to motherhood. We had women from 15 different countries join the community. I loved connecting them with each other, empowering them with information, and mentoring them on their journey. After 3 glorious years, the MyBabyDream Community has closed down now, but I am still continuing to run my YouTube channel, and I am still super passionate about it!
My Life & Work Now
Motherhood is the most important thing in my life now, so this work at MyBabyDream is really aligned with my deepest heart. And I feel that everything I have ever done and learned and experienced in my life has equipped me to hold this space for you. I’m so excited to be able to share my journey on my YouTube channel, and to offer you my Solo Mama Essentials Guidebooks, where I share so many tips, strategies, resources, as well as priceless information, perspectives, mind-shifts, and emotional insights, to help you feel supported, empowered, confident and joyful as you walk your solo mama path.
Thanks For Reading!
Hopefully this has helped you get to know me a little better!
Big love and hugs! TJ 💕🐬
tj@mybabydream.club