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10/04/2025

Worried your child might have ADHD — or feeling unsure where to start? 🧠💛

Sometimes behaviours like inattention, big emotions, or restlessness have other causes underneath (like poor sleep, low iron, or sensory needs). Before jumping into a diagnosis, it’s helpful to check the full picture first. 🌿

✨ For personalised support, head to consciousconnectionstherapy.au
OR send a DM — I’m here to help you find the right path, with calm, clarity, and compassion.
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10/04/2025

Noticing attention, behaviour, or emotional challenges in your child and wondering if it could be ADHD? 🧠💬

Before jumping into a diagnosis, it’s important to rule out other common causes — like sleep issues, low iron, unmet sensory needs, or emotional stress. These can look like ADHD but might need a different kind of support 💛

✨ Want guidance from a Psychologist or Positive Behaviour Practitioner who understands children and behaviour?
Visit consciousconnectionstherapy.au for personalised support, practical tools, and calm, clear next steps.

You're not alone — and you don’t have to figure it all out by yourself 💫

https://www.consciousconnectionstherapy.au/

24/12/2024

🌱 Conscious Connections Therapy 🌱
Helping you navigate life’s challenges with clarity, compassion, and confidence.

Whether you're seeking personal growth, relationship support, parenting strategies, or tools to manage stress, I can offer you support and guidance towards deeper understanding and lasting change. ✨

24/12/2024

👩‍⚕️ Louise | Provisional Psychologist
🌱 Founder of Conscious Connections Therapy
🔹 15+ years empowering individuals, couples & families
🔹 Modern, evidence-based therapy focusing on the mind-body connection
🔹 Guiding growth, resilience & deeper connections

🐶 Gigi – Therapy Dog in Training 🐾

💻 Online & in-person sessions
📩 Reach out to find out more or book an appointment today!

24/12/2024

The way your face lights up when you see someone can heal them more than any words ever could. ✨

Think about how you greet a beloved pet or a small child – the way your voice softens, your body relaxes, and you delight in their presence. Now imagine extending that same warmth and joy to the people around you – and imagine receiving it in return. 💛

Over time, simple acts like this can shift the emotional climate of any relationship – with partners, friends, or between parent and child – allowing for more positivity, trust, and connection.

Starting now – consider this your invitation to make showing joy at others' presence your focus. Not only does it uplift those around you, but it also deepens your own sense of connection, warmth, and fulfillment.

Joy is contagious – let it start with you.

24/12/2024

Harmony>Disconnection>Repair.
Rinse and repeat.

This is the natural rhythm of all relationships – with friends, colleagues, partners, parents, children, and siblings. It happens daily, weekly, monthly, and yes… sometimes the disconnection part sucks.

But here’s the truth – this cycle is inevitable and unavoidable. It doesn’t mean something is broken. It’s just part of being human together. ❤️

Let’s start normalising it. Let’s be open about it. Because relationships aren’t about avoiding disconnection – they’re about finding our way back to each other.

👏 Your Strategy 👏:
Call It Out.

Next time you feel disconnection creeping in, try this:

1. Name it – “Hey, I feel like we’re a bit out of sync right now.”

2. Normalise it – “This happens sometimes, and it’s okay.”

3. Invite repair – “Let’s figure this out. I want to reconnect.”

Simply acknowledging the cycle takes the pressure off. It shifts the focus from blame to understanding. 💛

Disconnection isn’t the enemy – silence is. Start the conversation.

24/12/2024

✨ Bridging the Divide – Simple Ways to Repair Disconnection

Disconnection happens – but repair is where both relationships and self grow. 🌱

Here are simple (but not always easy) ways to reconnect:

🔹 Verbal:
“I hear you.”
“I’m sorry for how that came across.”
“Can we start over?”
“I care about this, and I care about you.”
“I’m feeling distant – can we talk?”

🔹 Non-Verbal:
A soft smile or gentle eye contact
A reassuring touch (if welcome)
Sitting closer or leaning in
Offering a small gesture – coffee, snack, or shared activity
Relaxed, open body language

🫶Your Challenge🫶:
Try just one of these strategies – regardless of how the other person responds.
Focus on your growth in practicing connection, not controlling the outcome.

Every small repair strengthens the bridge. 💛

11/07/2023

Mirroring refers to the act of imitating or copying another person's behaviour or speech. During times of conflict, mirroring behaviours' can occur subconsciously - someone ignores us, so we ignore them back; someone yells at us, so we yell back.

Mirroring is often used as an attempt to control the situation however it often ends up escalating and prolonging conflict.

To prevent mirroring from devolving into a power struggle it is more helpful to replace it with strategies that promote understanding, empathy, and open dialogue.

Some alternative approaches are:
- Give yourself and others time and space to process what has occurred.
- Regulate your emotions by moving your body and journaling.
- Express your feelings and needs using "I" statements.
- Practice active listening by reflecting and validating the other person's perspective, even if you don't agree.
- Reflect on your own actions and consider what ways would promote positive dialogue.
- Continue to show up for yourself and do what is most effective. Even if the other person won't.

25/02/2022

A lower emotional investment means that a person is able to detach from their partner easily.

Detaching can look like: avoiding, ignoring, leaving, engaging in lengthy distractions such as gaming and social media, and/or engaging or fantasising (intimately) about other people.

Detachment usually occurs when the partner feels powerless in the relationship, and this is most likely during times of relational distress. Powerlessness stems from a person feeling out of control of the emotions they are feeling within themselves. To control the intensity of their emotions, they regulate themselves by controlling the closeness and connection (pulling in and pushing away their partner).

This creates a subconscious pattern of 'conditional connection': I will be close and connected to you IF you do not overwhelm or upset me.
The condition rule exists because the detacher struggles to stay connected and present in the relationship during times of stress. The stress is so high that the only way they can cope, is to retreat through detachment. This leaves their partner feeling rejected and abandoned, and like they are responsible for creating and maintaining the connection in the relationship, and responsible for repairing conflict.

Conditional connection creates a large amount of anxiety within relationships, and they can be very hard to leave or repair. If left unaddressed, these types of relationships lead to insecurity, cycles of breaking up and reuniting, and threats. Ultimately, it will hinder the growth of each person and the relationship.

This pattern can be changed. It begins with each partner reflecting on how they engage/react to each other before, during, and after stressful events.

If you think this is your current pattern, reach out to .connections.therapy to make an appointment.

01/02/2022

You are 100% responsible for who you are in your relationship.

Relationships can be understood as being made up of various types of patterns of interactions: what you do and what they do in any given situation.

At all times, you are 100% responsible for you, and they are 100% responsible for them.

You have control over your thoughts, feelings, and actions which means you decide how you will show up in your relationship.

Conflict is a type of pattern of interaction which can be difficult to show up for. It is common and normal for a couple to find themselves stuck in ‘toxic’ or ‘negative’ patterns of conflict.

This type of repetitive conflict is exhausting and may leave you feeling powerless. You may begin to question your partner's or your own commitment to the relationship.

If you find yourself stuck here, it is important to become aware of your contribution to the pattern because what you contribute is what you can control.

You can do this by asking yourself:
- What am I doing that is contributing to the current situation? How do I keep it going?
- What do I want to happen between us that is in the best interest of both of us?
- What do I need to stop/start/continue doing in order to achieve that?

Remember, contribution is not about blame, it is about identifying what you can control. It is empowering. Once you understand what you control, you have the power to effect change and act in a way that is aligned with who you want to be.

Dynamics of conflict can be difficult to identify and manage on your own. Consider reaching out to a therapist who can help you to navigate you through the process.

21/01/2022

A relationship is made up of two strangers who, over time, grow to become familiar with one another. Each person comes into the relationship with their own unique experiences from childhood and previous relationships. It is through these experiences that an individual learns to make sense of themselves and the world around them.

A relationship can be adversely impacted by experience and expectations if a person carries a wound into the relationship. For example, if you or your partner has experienced a betrayal in the past, a wound of mistrust has been created. Without healing, they may expect to be betrayed again. This expectation becomes a lens through which they interpret situations.
For example, if a return phone call is delayed, they may immediately interpret the reason for the delay to be that their partner is having an affair (an act of betrayal). This triggers past feelings of pain, panic, and inadequacy. To quell the painful emotions and create a sense of safety they may employ safety-seeking behaviours. This could be: preemptively ending the relationship, becoming physically sick, withdrawing from the relationship (ghosting their partner for hours/days), finding faults with their partner or the relationship, or they may be tempted to betray their partner.

Safety-seeking behaviours vary. Others are: lying/hiding information, stalking on social media, yelling/blaming, people-pleasing, controlling, over/under eating, over/under working, excessive reassurance-seeking or need for physical intimacy etc.

With compassion, we can begin to understand that safety-seeking behaviours are self-protective defense mechanisms designed to keep that person safe. It is likely that these behaviours kept them safe in childhood but now are preventing them from developing an intimate adult connection.

In order to heal, we need to experience the opposite of what hurt us. By experiencing the opposite of a wound (the opposite may be connection/acceptance), we create a relative expectation of the world. It is from here that we can begin to enjoy and sustain quality relationships.

Growing from past experiences can be painful. Consider engaging a therapist for support.

20/01/2022

In order for a relationship to grow and develop, we must be willing to be vulnerable with our partner as this lowers defenses and creates understanding within a climate of compassion.

Vulnerability sounds like: “when you raised your voice at me, I felt afraid. I was reminded of my father who would yell at me whenever I displeased him. For a long time, I never thought I was good enough as a person, like all I was capable of was letting people down.” Here we have gentle openness which calls for empathy from your partner.

This example is in contrast to an invulnerable approach which might sound like “you are always yelling at me! What is wrong with you? Do you need your hearing checked?! You are weak and I can’t stand you anymore!” Here we have defensiveness which calls for self-protection from your partner.

Vulnerability also takes the form of stating what we intimately need. This can be difficult because it requires us to firstly acknowledge the truth that we need things from others and secondly there is a possibility our request may be rejected.

Vulnerably stating a need sounds like: “I need you to understand how sensitive I am to volume and lower your voice when you are mad. I understand that because of your childhood, it’s normal for you to raise your voice but for me it triggers fear and self-loathing. I’m still feeling upset about it and I need you to hold me and reassure me that you understand, what I am saying makes sense, that you won't hurt me, and you love me.”

Vulnerability takes an incredible amount of courage. We need to be brave to lower our defenses and ourselves and others to see and accept all parts of us - the part’s we show and the part’s we hide.

Vulnerability can be difficult to facilitate on your own. Consider engaging the support of a therapist to help you navigate this area of your relationship.

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