ResourceYourself

05/04/2026

📣 Calling all DDP Level 1 & 2 trained Practitioners! 📣
Our 2026 Australian DDP Supervision Groups are underway — and we’d love for you to join us.

These small, reflective groups are designed to deepen your DDP practice, build relational confidence, and keep you anchored in the core principles of DDP and the PACE attitude. It’s a space to share challenges, celebrate the wins, and stay connected to the heart of the work.

We currently have groups running on Mondays, Thursdays, and Fridays, with options available for teams seeking tailored supervision for staff who’ve completed Level 1 or 2 training.

✨ Stay nourished, supported, and seen in your practice — because we all do better when we’re held in connection.

📩 Get in touch to express interest or find the right fit for your schedule.

02/04/2026

🌱 What is P.A.C.E.?

Discover the heart of attachment-focused parenting with P.A.C.E. — Playfulness, Acceptance, Curiosity, and Empathy — a transformative approach developed by Dr. Dan Hughes to help children feel safe, seen, and supported. 💛

Check out the link to hear Dr Kim Golding and Dr Dan Hughes talk about and break down each element of P.A.C.E. and show how it:
✨ Strengthens connection
✨ Builds trust
✨ Supports children to heal from trauma and big emotions

Whether you’re a working with families, a foster parent, adoptive parent, or caregiver, this approach can bring calm, connection, and joy to everyday moments.

🎥 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWuFH44NFC8

The Traumatized & At-Risk Youth Toolbox: https://amzn.to/3FxE2lD 🌱 What is P.A.C.E.? Discover the heart of attachment-focused parenting with the P.A.C.E. mo...

31/03/2026

🎉 Happy April Fools’ Day! 🎉

We’ve got a big announcement… from today onwards, all misbehaviour will be magically fixed with just a snap of your fingers! ✨No more ruptures, no tears, no meltdowns — just perfect regulation and instant attunement!

…Okay, maybe not 😅

But in true Dyadic Developmental Practise style, what does work is something a little less magical but way more powerful:

⭐Showing up with PACE — Playfulness, Acceptance, Curiosity & Empathy

⭐Repairing ruptures instead of avoiding them

⭐Attuning to what’s really happening under the behaviour

So today, let’s celebrate the real magic: relationships that stretch, hold, and heal. No fairy dust required ✨

29/03/2026

In relationships, rupture is inevitable… but it’s the repair that creates healing 🌿

Within Dyadic Developmental Practise, rupture isn’t something to avoid or fear — it’s something to gently lean into with curiosity and care.

Moments of disconnection, misunderstanding, or heightened emotion are opportunities. Opportunities to slow down, attune to what’s really happening beneath the behaviour, and reconnect in a way that builds safety and trust over time.

Through a PACEful approach — playfulness, acceptance, curiosity, and empathy — we support children and families to experience something different:
That relationships can stretch, hold, and come back together again.

Attunement is what guides the repair — helping us respond to the need, not just the behaviour. And from this place, discipline shifts too. It becomes less about correction and more about connection, teaching, and supporting regulation within the safety of the relationship.

Repair doesn’t need to be perfect.
It just needs to be real, attuned, and safe.

Because it’s in the repair that new meaning is made… and healing begins.

25/03/2026

💥 RELATIONAL REMINDERS 💥

In the busyness of everyday life, it’s easy to forget that at the heart of parenting, caring, teaching, case managing — and being with families and children — is relationship.

So many moments are filled with doing rather than being, and over time this can quietly erode connection. When this happens, we miss the very relationships right in front of us. We lose opportunities to prime the brain for safety and regulation, and we miss the moments that fill our cups and sustain joy in the roles we hold — as parents, carers, educators, and helpers.

This visual is a gentle invitation to return to the simple, relational practices that often get lost in the doing. The practices that support both us and our children to thrive.

💗 Go slow to go fast — stay mindfully connected to the moment and what is truly needed
💗 Playfulness, Acceptance, Curiosity & Empathy (PACE) — lead with relationship
💗 Notice shame when it shows up — so we don’t unintentionally fuel it
💗 Name the experience — say what you see to deepen a shared understanding
💗 Connection before correction — co-regulation must come first, especially in hard moments
💗 Check what’s being activated in your values system — respond, don’t react
💗 Nurture and Structure — being with and doing together, with emotional co-regulation as the foundation for action

Small relational moments, practiced often, create the safety and connection that make everything else possible.

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22/03/2026

At Resource Yourself, we offer therapeutic and coaching spaces designed to support individuals and families navigating complexity, change, and life transitions. As we progress into Term 2 2026, we have a small number of spaces available.

🌿 Our areas of practice include:

Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP)
An attachment-focused, relational therapy supporting children and families impacted by developmental trauma. DDP creates a safe and supportive space for emotional connection, healing, and repair between caregivers and children.
This approach is particularly supportive for foster care, adoption, reunification, and families experiencing attachment-related challenges.

ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy), EFT (Emotionally Focused Therapy) & Narrative Therapies
We integrate ACT, EFT and Narrative approaches to support individuals, parents, couples, and families to develop psychological flexibility, strengthen emotional bonds, and reshape the stories that may be holding them stuck. These approaches support meaning-making, emotional safety, and connection while honouring lived experience and identity.

Our work recognises the profound impact early life relationships have on the brain, body, and relational patterns across the lifespan. We support clients to build safety, emotional regulation, and a felt sense of connection and trust. Through strengthening emotional attunement and relational security, we support families and couples to move toward healing, joy, and greater satisfaction in life.

Each therapeutic journey is thoughtfully tailored to meet the unique needs of those we support — whether working with a child and caregiver, parents, couples, or individuals and is always trauma and attachment informed.

📍 Sunshine Coast
📩 Enquiries welcome - hello@resourceyourself.com.au

20/03/2026

How are you inviting play into your day? 🎨⚽🎵

Playfulness is the P in PACE!

Play isn’t just for kids.
It’s a vital tool for connection, repair, and joy — whether you’re a parent, a carer, or a professional supporting others.

When we bring play into our spaces:

Children feel seen, safe, and connected.

Parents get moments of relief, creativity, and joy.

Professionals can reconnect with curiosity, energy, and purpose in their work.

Play invites us to step out of “doing mode” and into being mode — a space where connection, learning, and reward naturally grow.

Even a small playful moment — a silly dance, a shared laugh, a creative experiment — is a moment where nervous systems soften, bonds strengthen, and hearts feel lighter.

So today, ask yourself:
Where can I invite play — for me, for others, for connection?

✨ Play is not a luxury. It’s a relational superpower.
✨ Connection, joy, and reward live in these small, playful moments.

17/03/2026

In DDP parenting, the first step isn’t fixing behaviour — it’s about regulation and connection. 💛

✨ Go slow to go fast: Pause. Listen. Breathe. Children respond best when they feel safe, seen, and understood.
✨ Mind-mindedness: Tune into your child’s inner world. Comment on their feelings, name what they might be thinking, and help them feel known.
✨ Connection before correction: Once trust and attunement are in place, guidance, limits, and repair become far more effective.

Parenting this way isn’t about perfection — it’s about relationships that repair, nurture resilience, and grow trust.

17/03/2026

Today we acknowledge World Social Work Day 🌿

In 2026, this global day is celebrated on March 17, with the theme:
“Co-Building Hope and Harmony: A Harambee Call to Unite a Divided Society.”

World Social Work Day is an international observance recognising the vital contributions of social workers, and the role they play in promoting social justice, human rights, and sustainable development — aligning closely with global priorities for social progress.

At Resource Yourself, Social Work sits at the heart of everything we do. It’s grounded in relationship, guided by compassion, and committed to walking alongside children, families, and communities through both challenge and change.

We honour the work of Social Workers everywhere — holding space, building connection, and supporting healing in meaningful and lasting ways.

Thank you for the care, dedication, and heart you bring to this work every day.

15/03/2026

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13/03/2026

Gentle self-care in the face of shame might look like:

Naming it: “This is shame, not truth.”

Placing a hand on your body and slowing your breath

Speaking to yourself the way you would to a child you care deeply about

Reaching for safe connection rather than withdrawing

Allowing compassion before correction

From an attachment-informed lens, shame eases in relationship —
when we feel seen, held, and not alone.

You don’t need to earn rest.
You don’t need to be perfect to deserve care.

Meeting shame with kindness is not indulgent —
it’s reparative.

And it’s a powerful form of self-compassion and care 🌿

10/03/2026

Shame is one of the emotions we are most likely to push away or we shield against it.

As parents, professionals, carers — as humans — we often try to shut it down quickly.
We distract.
We minimise.
We blame
We tell ourselves to “do better” or “move on”.

But shame doesn’t soften when it’s silenced.
It retreats, hardens, and quietly shapes how we relate to ourselves and others.

From an attachment-informed lens, shame is not a sign of failure.
It’s a signal — often born in moments where connection felt uncertain, safety felt fragile, or needs went unmet.

When we lean toward shame with curiosity and compassion — rather than away from it — something important happens.
The nervous system begins to settle.
The urge to hide or defend softens.
And space for repair becomes possible.

This matters deeply — whether you’re parenting a child, supporting clients, or leading teams.

When we can sit with shame without judgement, we model something powerful:
👉 You are still worthy of connection.
👉 You don’t have to be perfect to belong.
👉 Difficult feelings can be held safely.

Healing doesn’t come from shutting shame down. It comes from meeting it gently, in relationship.