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A place for gentle healing, real conversations, and rediscovering your strength.

I offer person-centred, trauma-informed support for adults navigating anxiety, life transitions, boundaries, family dynamics, and the impact of past trauma.

22/12/2025

I’m taking a break for Christmas.

I spend a lot of time encouraging people to slow down and listen to what they need, so this is me doing the same. Practising what I usually invite others into.

This season can be a mixed bag of feelings. If it’s helpful, the Jolly, Grounded, and Still Me Christmas workbook is there to dip into. No pressure. Just something to come back to if you want. The workbook is available via the link - http://innercirclecounselling.com.au/jolly-grounded-and-still-me-2

I’ll be back on the 5th January, 2026 🤍

20/12/2025

As Christmas approaches, many of us are moving through a mix of connection, responsibility, and expectation.

Jolly, Grounded and Still Me is a Christmas workbook created to support reflection and self-care through the season, particularly as we navigate relationships and gatherings.

If this feels like something that could support you, the workbook is available via the link -

innercirclecounselling.com.au/jolly-grounded-and-still-me-2

If someone comes to mind as you read this, you’re welcome to share it with them.

Blessings
Lisa

05/12/2025

If you’re ending the year feeling flat, weary, or running on fumes, you’re not alone.
I’m right there too.

This time of year can look loud and sparkly on the outside, but underneath, a lot of us are just tired. The kind of tired that sits in your bones. The kind that makes you stare at your calendar and wonder how you’re meant to show up for anything when your social battery is blinking red.

Maybe you expected to feel excited about the holidays or finishing work.
Instead, you feel anxious, heavy, or just… blank.

If that’s you, I want you to hear this clearly: nothing is wrong with you.
You’ve carried a whole year. You’ve held pressure, people, deadlines, emotions, change, and a dozen little things no one else sees. Your body is simply asking for what it needs: slower moments, softer edges, and permission to not be “on.”

You don’t have to push through with a smile.
You don’t have to perform joy.
You don’t have to match the pace of the people around you.

It’s okay to step back.
It’s okay to protect your energy.
It’s okay to let this season be quieter than others.

Rest is not a reward at the end of a perfect year. It’s a requirement for being human.

So if you’re feeling the end-of-year wobble, take a breath. Let yourself land. Offer yourself the same gentleness you’d offer someone you love.

You’ve made it this far.
And you don’t have to finish the year at a sprint.

I see you. I’m with you. And you’re doing enough.

Innercircle Counselling

05/11/2025

Uncertainty can feel heavy, the knot of worry, the restless “what ifs,” the questions without answers.

It’s natural to want control, to try to solve everything right away. But some moments aren’t meant to be solved; they’re meant to be experienced.

Sitting with fear or uncertainty doesn’t mean giving in. It means noticing it, naming it, and allowing it to be part of your present moment.

You don’t have to have all the answers today. You don’t have to rush what you can’t yet see. Sometimes, simply being present with yourself is enough.

A gentle note: this post speaks to emotional uncertainty. The inner moments that ask for patience and presence. If you’re in a situation that feels unsafe, please don’t sit in it alone. Reach out for support.

💚

04/11/2025

We spend so much time trying to move away from what hurts by distracting, fixing, and scrolling. But sometimes, healing begins when we pause.

Discomfort can feel heavy: the tight chest, the restlessness, the lump in your throat. It doesn’t always mean something’s wrong. Often, it’s your inner self saying, I need to be noticed.

What if the goal isn’t to make it disappear, but to stay with it gently?

Breathe through it. Feel it. Let it exist without rushing to tidy it up.

You don’t have to find meaning. You don’t have to like it. You can learn to give yourself permission to be with it.

Over time, the edges soften. You realise you can survive hard feelings; they rise, crest, and fall. Sometimes, the bravest thing you can do is sit with the feeling.

A gentle note: this post speaks to emotional discomfort; the inner moments that ask for patience and presence. If you’re in a situation that feels unsafe, please don’t sit in it alone. Reach out for support. 🌿

31/10/2025

World Teachers’ Day

Today, we're celebrating the teachers who give so much of themselves, often quietly, unseen, and far beyond the hours people imagine.

You carry so much more than a curriculum.
You wear countless hats: teacher, mentor, mediator, cheerleader, social coach, and sometimes even the steady adult presence
a child longs for.

You step into the mud of real life with young people, holding space for their stories, calming their storms, and helping them find their feet again.

You advocate for their needs, notice when something isn’t right, and stay long after the day has ended, planning, marking, worrying, caring.

Your work reaches far beyond the classroom walls. You shape hearts, build confidence, and nurture hope.

From Inner Circle Counselling, I want to say thank you.

For showing up.
For staying present when it’s hard.
For the compassion you pour into the next generation.

You are the everyday superheroes who don’t wear capes. The impact you have can’t always be seen, but it’s deeply felt in the lives you touch. 💛

24/10/2025

Not every thought that crosses your mind is the truth.

Our brains can create quick, automatic thoughts, especially when we feel stressed, anxious, or uncertain. These thoughts often sound harsh or absolute, but they’re usually echoes of old fears, not present realities.

When you pause to notice them, question them gently, and replace them with kinder truths, you begin to shift from self-criticism to self-compassion.

You don’t need to silence your thoughts, just learn to listen with curiosity and care.

✨ What’s one gentle truth you can remind yourself of today?

14/10/2025

Spring reminds us that change is an integral part of life. Trees don’t hold their leaves forever. Buds don’t stay closed. The season always turns.

But for us, change can feel harder. Our nervous system holds tight to what’s familiar, even when it no longer serves us. It does this to protect us, to keep us safe in the familiar. That’s why new beginnings can stir fear, resistance, or even grief.

Yet when we soften our hold, we make space for possibility; for fresh hope, new rhythms, and beauty we couldn’t see before.

Change asks for courage, patience, and compassion. It’s rarely simple, but it’s how life grows.

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13/10/2025

Gardens need sunlight, water, and good soil to grow. We do too.

Healing and growth are often supported in connection with safe people, supportive communities, or relationships that help us hold hope when it feels heavy.

Growth is possible alone, but it’s stronger in community.

12/10/2025

Spring reminds us that light always returns. The days lengthen, the air softens, and we begin to notice how life gently reawakens.

Emotional healing works in much the same way. The heaviness doesn’t lift all at once. It softens in moments, a laugh that feels genuine, a morning that doesn’t feel quite so heavy, a spark of motivation you thought was lost.

These small shifts are signs of light returning. Trust them.

11/10/2025

We often think of growth as something that should always be moving forward, upward, onward. But real growth doesn’t rush. It unfolds gently.

Just like spring has both sunny days and showers, your healing journey will include pauses, slower stretches, and moments where you feel still. This doesn’t mean you’re failing. It means your body and mind are doing the important work of restoring and integrating.

Rest isn’t weakness. It’s part of how growth lasts.

01/10/2025

Spring reminds us that growth starts small. A bud pressing through, a first step taken.

Starting something new, like counselling, setting boundaries, or trying a different rhythm in your day, can feel uncertain. Our nervous system prefers the safety of what it already knows, even when that safety feels heavy. That’s why beginnings often feel shaky.

But shaky doesn’t mean wrong. It means brave.

You don’t need to have it all figured out to start. The courage is in beginning.

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