Balancing the demands of parenthood while caring for your own mental wellbeing can feel overwhelming, especially when navigating challenges like anxiety, grief or infertility. Green Lotus Wellbeing offers compassionate, tailored support for individuals and families during some of life’s most vulnerable moments. Founded by Alex Keegan, she combines lived experience, professional expertise and deep empathy to help her clients build emotional resilience and feel less alone in their journey. Here she talks to The Natural Parent Magazine about the inspiration behind her work, the challenges she has overcome along the way, and her hopes and dreams for the future.
The passion: What inspired you to set up your business?
After struggling with my own lived experience with anxiety, grief and infertility, I decided that after I completed my Social Work degree, I would expand my career into private practice to offer support to clients who are struggling with their mental health in these areas. I love working with people to develop emotional regulation skills, so this helped me jump into private practice to provide clients with quality care.
The launch: How did you start out in the beginning?
I started out part-time working one or two hours a night each week. I needed to juggle my business around my twins and my husband. Thankfully, my husband supports my dream and allows me the time I need to focus on my clients.
The innovation: What was the biggest breakthrough for you with your business?
A major milestone was working with my first client who was experiencing infertility. I offer mental health support in other areas such as anxiety and grief and loss, and while I love working with all my clients, it was a real win for me to have someone ask me to support them through such a personal journey.
Yin and Yang: How do you balance work and family?
Some days it feels like I’m doing handstands on a skateboard, haha! At least that’s what it feels like sometimes. I have a very supportive family and friend network. I have 2.5-year-old twins and a wonderful husband and best friend. With their help, I am always able to do the work that I need to do on my business and support my clients.
