Welcome to The Garden
Come as you are. Stay as long as you need. Leave a little more encouraged.
The Garden is a FREE invitation into a quiet space to pause, reflect, and begin again — for when you’re in the thick of motherhood, healing, or holding it all.
There is beauty all around us, if we allow ourselves the time to look.
This is a space for women in the middle of it all — navigating motherhood, grief & healing, business, or big life shifts.
Maybe you’re tired of pretending you’re fine. Or craving slow beauty in a world that never stops.
You’re not alone.
Here, I share honest stories, reflections from my journey, and glimpses of life at Rose Cottage. Not as someone with all the answers, but as someone still growing too.
Let this be your pause. Your reminder. Your quiet companion in the journey of life.
Life can feel heavy in the in-between.
Maybe the season has changed, but don’t quite know who you are in yet.
Maybe motherhood has stretched you thin, or you’re growing something — a business, a body, a sense of self — but no one really sees the work.
Maybe you just want a place where you don’t have to explain yourself.
Hi, I’m Jess
Wife, mum of two, writer, and the woman behind Rose Cottage.
I’ve lived through sickness and survival, slow healing and starting again.
I’ve sat in the silence after everything falls apart — and I’ve learned to grow in it.
Not by rushing.
But by noticing.
By honouring the little things.
By continually growing, one slow step at a time.
Where it all began…
When I was seventeen, everything I knew about the world shifted. A sudden cancer diagnosis turned my future upside down — and with it, my identity, my faith, and my sense of safety. What followed wasn’t a quick recovery, but a long, quiet transformation. Not marked by certainty, but by quiet moments that began to matter. By noticing what remained. And slowly, something new began to grow.
That experience — of sitting in sorrow, finding joy again, and learning to live gently — is what led me to create The Garden.
When I was designing our home, Rose Cottage, I wanted it to be a place of rest. A space where people could pause, stay a little while, and leave feeling refreshed — energised, even — just a little more ready to face what was waiting for them.
We’ve done that within our physical home, and continue to.
But now, it’s time to extend the invitation further.
Who this is for…
I’ve created this space for women like you — the ones in transition, the ones tending to everyone else, the ones ready to live more fully in their own story.
This is for anyone navigating change, heartache, or identity shifts. It’s for the mothers, the makers, the ones craving beauty and belonging in the middle of real life.
A little about me…
I live in Western Australia with my husband and our two little girls. Most days, you’ll find us giggling together, having picnics or playing hide & seek whilst we run around juggling our different roles.
What fuels me is time just being with my husband, planning events, tending to my garden, lifting weights, or quietly creating beauty wherever I can.
If you’re walking through something hard — or simply longing for a softer, slower way of being — I want you to know:
There’s beauty here, around you, even now.
And you don’t have to find it alone.
You don’t need to bloom for this to be your garden too.
Here, the slow, steady, quiet work of growth is honoured.
You’ll leave feeling seen, softened, and maybe even inspired to keep going — not in a pressure kind of way, but because you’ve remembered who you are.
From the Cottage
Tucked on a corner block with a tangle of roses and soft light streaming through in the mornings, Rose Cottage is our little place of home.
It’s where we raise our kids, tend to beauty in the everyday, and build a life marked by intention and grace.
Here on the blog, you’ll find simple moments from our life — slow weekends, gatherings, gardening, and lessons we’re learning along the way.
Notes from the Garden
Can you really balance motherhood and business? In this honest reflection, Jess Griffiths shares why balance might not be the goal — and what rhythm can look like instead.