Hi, I am Tanami.
I’m an Occupational Therapist, and the woman behind Her Potential.
For the past seven years, I’ve had the privilege of supporting people through many different seasons of their lives. Every person I met brought their own story, their own circumstances and their own way of moving through the world.
But over time, I began to notice something.
So many women were already at capacity.
They wanted to feel better and care for themselves. They wanted more energy for the people, experiences and parts of life that mattered to them. Yet their lives were often already so full that even the things intended to support them would become another thing to carry and add.
My own experience
My own experience has been shaped by living with an invisible chronic illness.
Over the years, I’ve worked with incredible practitioners and been given strategies that genuinely supported my health. I understood their value and could see how they could help.
But I also came to understand something that became increasingly important to me, both personally and professionally.
A strategy doesn’t exist in isolation.
It has to become part of a person’s everyday life.
My life, like anyone else’s, continued to change. There were seasons where I had more capacity and seasons where life asked more of me. What I could comfortably hold shifted alongside it.
I began to recognise that the question wasn’t always whether a strategy was helpful.
It was whether there was capacity for that strategy within the life I was living at the time.
That distinction became an important part of how I began to think about my own wellbeing — and formed the Her Potential that I am so excited to share with along our journey.
What I began to notice
Over time, I began to understand that knowing what supports us is only one part of the picture.
Because life is still happening around us.
There are things that need our attention, things we care deeply about, things we want to say yes to, and seasons that ask more of us than others. And somewhere amongst all of that, we are also trying to care for ourselves.
I think that is where so many of us can find ourselves.
Ttrying to make everything fit within the capacity we have.
That was the part I became most curious about.
Instead of only asking, What could I add that might help? I started looking more closely at what my life was already asking of me.
Because sometimes the strategy is exactly right. But before we can ask ourselves to hold something new, we may need to understand what we are already holding.
And with that I came to question:
What if there was another way to support women?
One that doesn’t begin with adding more.
One that begins with understanding the woman herself, the life she is living, and what she wants to create room for within it.
That was the beginning of Her Potential.
A little about me
Outside of being an Occupational Therapist, there are so many little things that make me, me.
You can almost certainly find me somewhere near the ocean, with my dog, River, by my side. I’m learning to surf, although I am just as content sitting on my board and feeling the waves move beneath me. For me, it provides a sense of connection and stillness within my life.
I am a big ‘yes’ woman when it comes to anything involving nature, a new experience or an adventure. I love travelling and exploring new spots.
I also love finding little ways to be creative. At the moment, that looks like making jewellery and candles, and I hold a great passion for cooking
I have always held great curiosity towards life. I love learning, creating and experiencing what this beautiful life has to offer.
But just as much, I love the ordinary moments — being outside, moving my body, ,spending time with the people close to me.
And now, I’d love to know about you.
Her Potential was developed through my work as an Occupational Therapist, along side my own experiences, but now this space has been developed for you to discover - Your life. What matters to you. What you want more room for. And what might become possible when you have the capacity to hold it.
Arrive exactly as you are.