About Elly

Elly Taylor is an Australian parenthood and relationship expert. She is the creator of the ground-breaking Becoming Us ‘whole family’ approach to wellbeing in early parenthood and author of the award winning book.

With a background in relationship counselling, Elly has been a Columnist for Practical Parenting Magazine, Resident Counsellor for Daily Life and is a regular contributor for print, radio and television. Elly is proud to have been an advisor for numerous research projects, including Monash University’s Emotional Experiences of Early Parenthood, Newcastle University’s SMS4dads , The Australian Catholic University’s Supporting Your Partner When You Have a Baby and most recently for the About Birth and Corona Project for Columbia University in New York. Elly has spoken at national and international conferences and provides online parenthood preparation and relationship education for birth, health, mental health and helping professionals worldwide.

Elly lives in Sydney with her firefighter husband, their three children and a menagerie of pets.

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Elly Taylor, author of Becoming US, paused on her US tour to talk with Lisa Reagan, Kindred's editor, on the campus of University of Virginia. Her groundbreaking book covers an often overlooked truth - the rite of passage into parenthood means leaving old identities behind and embracing new ones, a process dependent upon the emotional intelligence skills Elly presents in her book.
 
P20 Talks is the world's only professional conference for Life Skills Educators. Organized by the international consciousness movement Parenting 2.0, and constructed around the concept of Life Skills Report Cards, P20 Talks illuminates the centrality of Life Skills in every avenue of human interaction and the value of embracing a more proactive educational process.
 
Elly Taylor, author of Becoming US, paused on her US tour to talk with Lisa Reagan, Kindred's editor, on the campus of University of Virginia. Her groundbreaking book covers an often overlooked truth - the rite of passage into parenthood means leaving old identities behind and embracing new ones, a process dependent upon the emotional intelligence skills Elly presents in her book.
 
“Becoming Us is a landmark.”
— Dr. Jordan Paul, Author
“The world needs this!”
— Kent Hoffman, co-founder, Circle of Security
“Wonderful, worthy and needed.”
— Marcy Axness, Author