SJP Wellbeing

04/03/2026

Parenting an ADHD child can feel like you're constantly trying to understand a brain that works completely differently to the systems around them.

School expects one thing. Your child's brain does another. You're trying to support them while managing everyone else's expectations and your own frustration when nothing you try seems to land.

The Academy's Positive Parenting eCourse was built for families navigating ADHD. It's not about fixing your child or forcing them to fit. It's about understanding how their brain works and giving you tools that actually match that reality.

The course covers things like co-regulation. How to manage your own emotions so you can help your child learn to manage theirs. How to let go of perfection and use the messy moments as connection points instead of evidence that something's wrong.

It's self-paced, which means you can do it in the margins when you actually have capacity. There's a community of other parents going through the same thing. Worksheets and scripts you can use when your brain won't come up with the words.

This isn't about adding more pressure. It's about giving you tools that actually fit how your family operates.

Find it at http://sjpwellbeing.com or call (08) 7480 4545 to ask about it.

04/03/2026

Parenting an ADHD child can feel like you're constantly trying to understand a brain that works completely differently to the systems around them.

School expects one thing. Your child's brain does another. You're trying to support them while managing everyone else's expectations and your own frustration when nothing you try seems to land.

The Academy's Positive Parenting eCourse was built for families navigating ADHD. It's not about fixing your child or forcing them to fit. It's about understanding how their brain works and giving you tools that actually match that reality.

The course covers things like co-regulation. How to manage your own emotions so you can help your child learn to manage theirs. How to let go of perfection and use the messy moments as connection points instead of evidence that something's wrong.

It's self-paced, which means you can do it in the margins when you actually have capacity. There's a community of other parents going through the same thing. Worksheets and scripts you can use when your brain won't come up with the words.

This isn't about adding more pressure. It's about giving you tools that actually fit how your family operates.

Find it at https://academy.sjpwellbeing.com/courses

03/03/2026

Relationship counselling isn't about sitting in a room while someone referees your arguments or tells you who's right.

Leanne uses the Gottman Method, which is research-based work that looks at the patterns playing out between two people.

Not just what you're fighting about, but how you fight. Not just what's being said, but what's underneath it.

The Gottman approach helps couples identify what's eroding connection. Things like criticism that sounds like character attacks.

Defensiveness that shuts down conversation. Contempt that creates distance. Stonewalling when it all feels like too much.

It also looks at what strengthens relationships.

How you turn toward each other during stress instead of away.

How you repair after conflict.

How you build fondness and admiration even when things are hard.

This isn't about fixing one person or making someone change.

It's about understanding the dynamic between you.

What's triggering these patterns. What each person needs to feel safe enough to stay connected.

Relationship counselling can be for people wanting to strengthen what's already working, or for people navigating whether to stay or how to separate respectfully.

Either way, the focus is on clarity and choice.

If your relationship feels stuck or disconnected, call (08) 7480 4545 to book with Leanne.

02/03/2026

There's this thing that happens when you've spent a long time feeling like you're too much in some ways and not enough in others.

You start to learn how to hide the bits that feel like too much.

You overcompensate in other areas to make up for it. You get really, really good at looking like you're managing, like you're fine, like everything's under control.

From the outside, people probably think you've got it sorted.

But that comes at a cost. It's exhausting. And eventually it catches up with you.

It's a survival response. Your system learned early that being yourself in certain ways wasn't safe or wasn't going to be accepted.

The work we do here is about understanding where that came from.

What happened that taught you that you needed to be less of yourself, or more of something else. Because once you can see it clearly, it makes sense.

You've been doing what you needed to do to get by.

If you're tired of performing, we're here. (08) 7480 4545

25/02/2026

We work with self-managed and plan-managed NDIS participants who have psychosocial disability support needs.

If you're using your NDIS funds for therapy or capacity building, we can help.

The way we work with NDIS clients is the same way we work with everyone else. We centre you, not your diagnosis.

We're not here to tick boxes or write reports that reduce you to a list of deficits.

We're here to support you in building the skills, understanding, and capacity you need to live the life you want.

A lot of our NDIS clients are neurodivergent, and we work in ways that are neurodivergence-affirming.

That means we're working with how your brain actually works, not trying to force you into systems that weren't built for you.

If you're looking for NDIS support that actually feels supportive, call us on (08) 7480 4545.

25/02/2026

A great morning was had helping to open doors of self discovery for business owners and leaders in The Compass & The Engine (Values as our compass and strengths (& feelings) as our guide) with our director Shani, in partnership with 🫶🏻

Thank you to everyone for being willing to get vulnerable, messy and confused in an effort to tune in with curiosity to our inner worlds that ultimately drive what we do, how we do it and why we feel good about that, or not!

We learned about the value of noticing tension between competing values and about whether the strengths we think we have energise and support those values, or whether they drain us, and much much more…

And how cool is my wonderful gift 💝

24/02/2026

We spend so much time at work. For a lot of people, it's more waking hours than they spend at home.

So when workplace experiences are difficult, toxic, chronically stressful, it doesn't just stay at work. It affects your nervous system in the same way that other forms of relational trauma do.

Workplace trauma can look like bullying, harassment, being micromanaged until you stop trusting yourself, environments where mistakes are punished harshly, being gaslit by leadership, or burnout that's stuck your body in survival mode.

A lot of people don't recognise it as trauma. They think, "it's just work, I should be able to handle this." But your nervous system doesn't separate work stress from other kinds of stress.

If you're spending most of your waking hours in an environment that feels unsafe, that shapes how you respond to everything.

It affects your sleep, your relationships, your capacity to regulate.

We work with a lot of people struggling with workplace issues.

The dynamics that show up in families show up in workplaces too. If you're in it or trying to recover after leaving, reach out.

We also offer Mental Health First Aid training and leadership wellbeing programs for organisations wanting to do things differently.

contact@sjpwellbeing.com

23/02/2026

If you're struggling with self-worth, you're probably struggling in your relationships too.

They're not separate issues, even though we sort of think about them as separate things.

But they're woven together.

The way you see yourself, your sense of worth, that gets shaped early by your family, by the people around you, by how you were treated when you were vulnerable or needed something.

If you grew up in an environment where love felt conditional, or where your needs got dismissed, or where you had to earn approval, that becomes the blueprint.

Not just for how you see yourself, but for what you expect from other people too.

So if you struggle with self-worth, it shows up in your relationships.

You might let people treat you in ways that don't feel good because part of you believes that's what you deserve.

You might find it really hard to hold boundaries because saying no feels selfish or risky.

You might stay in dynamics that hurt because leaving feels impossible, or because you're worried no one else will want you.

The reverse is true as well. If your relationships have been difficult, rejecting, unsafe, that impacts how you see yourself.

Repeated rejection teaches your nervous system that connection is dangerous.

Feeling unseen or unheard in relationships reinforces the belief that you're not worth listening to. Human beings are wired for connection, so when relationships feel hard or unsafe, it's not just painful in the moment.

It changes the story you tell yourself about who you are.

That's why in therapy, we work on both.

Because when you start to understand where your sense of worth came from, you start to see why your relational patterns look the way they do. When you start to shift how you show up in relationships, your sense of self starts to shift too.

Human beings are tricky like that. They move together.

If this is making sense, we can help. We work with individuals navigating trauma and self-worth, and we also work with couples.

Whether you're working on your own patterns or working on them together, reach out.

(08) 7480 4545

21/02/2026

If you’ve tried or heard of EMDR, have you heard of BSP?

Our director Shani is a phase 5 trained BSP Practitioner and uses it in almost all trauma therapy in some way or another 👌

🧠What’s the difference between EMDR and Brainspotting?🪄

Here is an extract taken from Taproot Therapy - talking about when David Grand Discovered Brainspotting through the use of EMDR.

‘During that session, Grand was using EMDR’s bilateral eye movements, slowly waving two fingers back and forth as the skater tracked them while focusing on the performance block. Then something shifted. As Grand moved his fingers to a particular position in her visual field, he noticed an involuntary wobble in one eye, a reflexive response he had observed countless times during EMDR sessions but never understood. Usually, he would continue the bilateral movement pattern, following the EMDR protocol. This time, acting on pure intuition, he did something different. He stopped moving his hand and held his fingers in that exact position where the eye wobble occurred.

“Keep looking right here,” he told her.

What happened next changed both their lives and ultimately the field of trauma treatment. As she maintained her gaze on that fixed point, processing accelerated dramatically. Material emerged that hadn’t surfaced during months of bilateral EMDR. Memories, emotions, physical sensations, and insights cascaded through her awareness with unprecedented intensity. The session produced breakthrough after breakthrough, layer after layer of the trauma and psychological material underlying her performance block releasing in ways Grand had never witnessed.’

To find out more or explore training opportunities in Brainspotting or receiving Brainspotting therapy for yourself, visit Brainspotting Training Uk - Transform Your Therapeutic practice!🌀🌿

📧 info@bspuk.co.uk

🌐 bspuk.co.uk

18/02/2026

We think one of the most harmful things people get taught is that change should be dramatic.

That if you're working on yourself, you should be able to see this big shift happening, and if you can't, something must be wrong.

But that's not how it works.

Most of the time, change is slow. You're noticing things a bit earlier, pausing before you react, choosing something slightly different than you would have a few months ago.

Because those shifts are small, it's easy to miss them. It's easy to feel like nothing's changing when you're in the middle of it.

This is why reflection is built into our Person First Pathway.

We use reflection points strategically to help you catch these moments and bring them into consciousness so that you actually notice.

Because noticing is what helps create more of the same.

Those small things add up over time.

But if you're not pausing to look back at where you've come from, it can feel like you're standing still.

If you're feeling like you're not getting anywhere, that doesn't mean you're failing. It might just mean the change is quieter than you expected.

Learn more about our Person First Pathway here: heyzine.com/flip-book/4a2d28bd45.html

Or call (08) 7480 4545

17/02/2026

A lot of people, especially parents and carers, feel guilty about taking time for themselves.

Like it's selfish to rest when other people need you, or to set boundaries when you're already stretched thin.

But self-care isn't about spa days or treating yourself.

It's about the basics that keep you functioning. Sleep. Boundaries.

Saying no when you need to. Not pushing through when your body is telling you to stop.

When you're running on empty, you can't show up the way you want to for the people who need you and then the guilt gets worse because you're snapping at your kids, or you're disconnected from your partner, or you're just barely getting through the day.

Real self-care is about making sure you have enough in your tank to keep going. It's not indulgent. It's necessary.

If you're struggling to prioritise yourself without the guilt, reach out.
(08) 7480 4545

16/02/2026

If breathing exercises have never worked for you, you're not doing them wrong.

A lot of people find that focusing on breath alone actually makes things worse, makes them more aware of feeling stuck or anxious.

These practices give your breath something external to focus on.

So instead of trying to control your breathing, you're just blowing into a balloon or creating bubbles, and your breath naturally slows down without you having to think about it.

The resistance of the balloon, the sound when you release the air, watching bubbles float, that's giving your nervous system something concrete to orient toward and for some people, the playful element matters.

It softens things, makes it feel less serious, less like you're supposed to be fixing yourself.

You might find one works better than the other. You might find neither of them land for you, and that's okay too. It's about finding what actually helps your body settle, not what you think you should be doing.

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