About Blue Moon
More then a business name
Blue Moon Independent Support was created from something deeply personal.
The name Blue Moon was inspired by my Nan and her love for roses. To me, roses represent many of the qualities I want Blue Moon to embody: Strength, resilience, beauty, individuality and the ability to continue growing through difficult seasons.
My Nan was an important part of my life, and creating Blue Moon became a way of carrying some of the values she represented with me into the work I do.
Blue Moon is a reminder that every person has their own story, their own strengths and their own way of doing things.
Support should respect that.
What Blue Moon means to me
I dont believe support should be about telling someone how they should live their life.
Its about listening.
Its about understanding what matters to someone and finding ways to support them to live as independently and meaningfully as possible.
Sometimes that means helping with something practical. Sometimes it means encouraging someone to try something for themselves. Sometimes it means sitting beside someone through a difficult day.
And sometimes it means helping someone get their dog to the vet because their best mate is sick and they dont want to face it alone.
Every kind of support matters...
Meet Tammy
The person behind Blue Moon
For as long as I can remember, people have tole me the same thing
"You should be doing this for a living"
Whenever someone in my family, my community or someone I care about needs help, somehow I'm usually the person they come to. I'm often the one trying to work out what needs to happen next, find the right service, make the phone call, navigate the system or simply find the right words when someone doesn't know what to say.
Over the years, I've learned that accessing help can be incredibly difficult. There are forms, waiting lists, complicated systems, unfamiliar terminology and countless barriers between a person and the support they actually need. I don't believe it should be this hard. And I certainly don't believe people should have to feel as though they need to sell a kidney just to get genuine, compassionate help 😅
My own life has given me a very broad understanding of the challenges people can face. I've navigated significant hardship, housing insecurities, financial difficulties, family challenges, mental health struggles, complex systems and some incredibly difficult chapters of life. I've spent years learning how to communicate with professionals, advocate for myself and others, navigate government and community services, understand complicated processes and keep going when the path forward isn't obvious.
I've also experienced the other side of life: caring for people I love through illness, loss and end-of-life, supporting family members through difficult circumstances and learning how important it is to have someone beside you when life becomes overwhelming. Those experiences have shaped the way I support people today. They taught me not to judge someones circumstances from the outside. They taught me that asking for help can take enormous courage. They taught me that sometimes people dont need someone to take over. They need someone who will sit beside them, listen, help them understand their options and say:
"Ok! lets work this out together."
