Hi, I’m Johanna, a French perinatal and parenting specialist, and the founder of Motherhood in France.
I’m also the mother of two young daughters, living in Brittany with my South African husband, who speaks English and Afrikaans.

I’m someone people often describe as warm, sunny, and deeply caring. I love meaningful conversations, laughter, and creating spaces where women feel safe to slow down, reflect, and reconnect with themselves. Creativity has always been part of my life, through painting, home renovation, interior design, and all the small details that bring beauty and intention into everyday life.

But the heart of my work lies elsewhere: in women, in motherhood, and in the profound transformations that come with becoming a parent.

Motherhood changed everything.

Before becoming a perinatal professional, I spent over ten years working in communication and digital marketing, after studying art and earning a degree in web strategy. It was a creative and stimulating career, but over time, I felt a growing disconnect. I wanted my work to feel meaningful, aligned, and deeply human.

My own pregnancies, my experience of birth, postpartum, and early parenting completely reshaped my identity, my priorities, and my relationship to my body, my emotions, and my femininity. I became deeply fascinated by the menstrual cycle, pregnancy, the postpartum period, and the invisible emotional shifts women go through during these phases.

Supporting women through these transitions stopped being an interest, it became a calling.