About the Author
Aya — Founder of Moon & Milk Dolls
This all began as a search for comfort — and a doll that felt real in my arms.
Like many who find their way here, I’ve always been drawn to quiet comforts. The weight of a warm blanket. The feel of something resting easily in your arms. As a child, dolls were a huge part of my world — a way to play, care, imagine. Then life got louder. I became a mother. I became tired. I forgot, for a while, what it meant to hold something just because it brought peace.
Coming back to dolls as an adult wasn’t planned, but when I finally did, it felt like remembering something I didn’t know I’d lost.
Before Moon & Milk Dolls, I worked as a Content Strategist for a global mental health platform, writing therapeutic resources and helping design tools that reached over 25 million people. My work centred emotional safety, clarity, and gentle support — and it still does.
After that, I spent years in personal healing — learning what emotional safety actually feels like in the body. That ongoing journey of recovery and nervous system awareness still shapes how I live, and how I create.
I’m autistic and neurodivergent, which means I tend to do things more slowly, more deeply, and with a lot of care.
Since 2024, I’ve created more than 30 reborn dolls by hand, learning along the way. I work from lived experience: nervous system awareness, sensory needs, trauma recovery, and the instinct to nurture.
Every doll I make — and every article I write — is designed to offer that same care back to you.
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