About

A warm hello,

I’m Dr Shani Macaulay, a mother of three & medical doctor, living in Western Australia on Menang country.

My passion is helping women & families find their way through the great transitions & transformations that life brings.

I have been a doctor for 13 years, having worked in general practice for 5 years and as a GP Obstetrician for the last 4 years. I could not find credible health information on the nature of women’s rites of passage that was woman centered and woman led within my GP or Obstetric training. Our voices are missing.

I am continuously in awe of the many mothers who I have treated in clinical practice and who I know in my personal life, that move heaven and earth for their children. As women we face unreasonable cultural expectations that often rupture relationships unnecessarily. Women endure incredible hardships. They must mother through unresolved intergenerational patterns and mental health issues.

The common theme that runs through us all is the deep well of love we have for our babies and children. It is potent & transformative. I decided to create what I couldn’t find. Thus the LOVE APEIRON was born.

This is a dynamic and evolving page and I am mothering alongside the creation of this as a resource -parent coaching info to follow- watch this space.

My qualifications:

  • MOTHER - of three daughters

  • MBBS- Bachelor of Medicine & Bachelor of Surgery

  • FRACGP - Fellow of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners

  • DRANZCOG - Diploma with the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

  • NDC Accredited (Possums) - Neuroprotective Developmental Care provider

  • JAI Parenting Coach accredited

  • Circle of Security accredited

  • Australasian Menopause Society member

My sincere thank you for visiting!

Dr Shani Macaulay With her Baby
  • LOVE APEIRON is ancient love. Apeiron is a Greek work for boundlessness and the source from which life arises and returns

    Love apeiron is the kind of infinite love that is your birth right

    It simmers in the background and ignites furiously with first breaths

    The start of life in the womb. New life pulled from a human lineage thousands of years old. The red thread of love & connection that imprints intergenerationally.

    My hope is that you were bathed in & grown in, this kind of love

    This love runs beneath everything we do with our children, partners, families

    The love apeiron is the groundwater that filters our actions. It pierces through our mistakes and judgements of bad, good, ugly, beautiful. It just is. It’s a constant. bigger than us. Love apeiron is the lighthouse when everything is confused and turned upside down

    It is the love that offers an invitation for new beginnings. An incredible well within you

    A quiet or loud invitation to heal in the gentle holding of a hand, or the wild emotions and behaviour of our toddler or teen- our dear children who act as mirrors, asking us to heal, claim & grow into this love

    This love is alchemy, it calls to us in so many ways, to return to our authentic self & initiate into the next phase of development, pushing us into our full human potential

    This page is especially devoted for those of you that are seeking this love to give & receive, where something feels like it’s missing, or where parenting doesn’t feel intuitive, you know what you want but you just can’t get there

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