I'm Josephine and most people call me Jo. I'm the Founder of Grace x Strength, a yoga therapist, mother of two boys, Migraine Warrior, and postgraduate psychology student at UNSW, with a focus on trauma, psychology, and migraine.

My journey into yoga began during my second pregnancy. After a traumatic first birth, I was desperate for a better approach to manage my second pregnancy and labour. Here, I found yoga. I gave birth naturally with no external analgesics and was convinced I had found the answer to pain management. But God had more to teach me. My migraine condition quietly worsened, shifting from episodic to debilitating chronic levels, even as I continued by practice. That nudged me back to yoga's roots: self-inquiry. The deeper I looked inward, the more curious I became about the neuroscience behind it all.

That curiosity led me to psychology. Today I'm passionate about understanding how early life stress and trauma shape the brain and body, and how that connects to conditions like migraine. I'm dedicated to bringing what I learn back to this community through practical, embodied, and faith-filled approaches to healing.

I spent over 12 years in global media and tech before founding Grace x Strength - an online yoga space woven with Christian-faith messages of peace and love. I've completed over 1,000 hours of training, hold certifications in Yoga Therapy, Chair Yoga, and Kids Yoga, and am an RYT-500 with Yoga Alliance, trained by my guru Briohny Smyth. I'm also an Ambassador for Migraine Australia and honoured to be the first registered Christian Yoga Teacher on Yoga Australia.

I stand as living proof that science, faith, and yoga can coexist. When I'm not studying or teaching, you'll find me at the ballet studio, cheering my family on at sports, or laughing with friends over coffee.