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This Little Ark
Healing Hearts and Feeding Souls
What We Do
Our Core Services
Grief and Loss
For individuals navigating grief and loss, we seek to journey alongside. A multitude of emotions are often tied to grief. With the right tools, we can make meaning out of them and find light after loss together.
All-Natural Bakes
Our German Käsekuchens use Quark that we make ourselves. All our cakes are lovingly baked to order. This is our ode to Noah: A reminder that beautiful things can come from the most ordinary things.
Giving Back
20% of our proceeds raised from our Bakehouse will be for self-funded organisations. Currently, it is the KKH Early Birds Programme that provides support to early preemies in their foundational years.
Who We Are
Natalie Tan is the founder of This Little Ark and our chief therapeutic coach. She holds a Patisserie Diploma from Le Cordon Bleu, London and obtained an Advanced Diploma in Counselling Psychology in Singapore.
Natalie is a big proponent of mental health awareness and support, especially in the area of pregnancy and infant loss. Her experiences with a late triplet pregnancy loss in 2019, followed by an infant loss (from yet another triplet set) in 2022, as well as her struggle with infertility drove Natalie to pursue her studies in counselling psychology. Her desire is for no woman to ever feel alone in their grief.
Natalie has facilitated support groups and co-led workshops for women who have suffered prenatal loss. She has also spoken at hospitals, on local news and social media outlets in Singapore about pregnancy loss.
Natalie’s passion for baking has made her determined to keep one foot in the kitchen. She honed her skills in The Fullerton and Pan Pacific Hotel, before working in a bespoke cake shop. She also baked for cafes, created wedding dessert tables and customised birthday cakes for private clients. In addition, Natalie worked as a baking consultant and trainer to individuals on the autism spectrum at Pathlight School and Professor Brawn Cafe. Noah’s Little Bakehouse is Natalie’s way of keeping Noah’s spirit alive while giving back to meaningful organisations.
“Every time we make the decision to love someone, we open ourselves to great suffering, because those we most love cause us not only great joy but also great pain. The greatest pain comes from leaving. When the child leaves home, when the husband or wife leaves for a long period of time or for good, when the beloved friend departs to another country to dies… the pain of the leaving and tear us apart.
Still, if we want to avoid the suffering of leaving, we will never experience the joy of loving. And love is stronger than fear, life stronger than death, hope stronger than despair. We have to trust that the risk of loving is always worth taking.”