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Somatic Strength Studio, 608, Brunswick Street, New Farm (2025)

10/12/2025

Sometimes the system needs to go to back to school😒

08/12/2025

The grief that the protective parts of you worry will break you, is just what needs to be felt safely to fill the spaces in you with love, play, joy, connection, pleasure and delight! Spaces that should have held and filled when you were a kid!

02/12/2025

✨If you’ve spent your whole life feeling like your feelings don’t matter… like no one really hears you… and you’re exhausted from trying to prove you’re worthy of being listened to? This is for you..✨

➡️Would you like to be in relationships where you don’t feel like your throat doesn’t choke everytime you have to express yourself or where your body doesn’t brace in fear and panic when you are feeling vulnerable?

Where your voice matters, where you don’t second-guess every emotion, or where you can speak up without fear of being dismissed or misunderstood?

🍃I’m a specialist in attachment trauma and I help adults who grew up being told they were “too sensitive,” “overreacting,” or whose emotions were constantly minimized, ignored, or used against them....and are now stuck believing their inner world doesn’t count.

➡️ I use somatic and attachment-focused therapy to help you reconnect with the feelings you learned to suppress, dismiss, or apologize for, so you can finally trust your own experience.

➡️Because constantly doubting yourself is exhausting, especially when deep down you know something’s not right.

➡️Because your struggle to speak up isn’t weakness…it’s a nervous system that learned it wasn’t safe to take up space.

➡️Because healing isn’t just affirming yourself in the mirror…it’s noticing the tightness in your throat when you want to say something but stop yourself, the heat in your chest when someone dismisses you again, the way you freeze or shrink when your needs are ignored.

✨And slowly, safely, learning that your feelings are real, valid, and worth expressing.

Ready to reclaim your voice and trust your inner world again🍃

👉 Book a free consult through the link in bio.

You don’t have to keep silencing yourself to be in relationships✨

Appts available Online and In Person at
Ashgrove
Bardon
Mt Gravatt

13/11/2025

Your emotions feel like your enemy. But really, they’re bodily sensations. They’re trying to tell you something important.

I know that when you avoid feeling the rage, the shame, the grief, the terror—you think you’re protecting yourself.

And part of you is. The part that learned, through experience, that feelings weren’t safe.

But here’s what I’ve witnessed hundreds of times in my therapy room: the real work in therapy is learning to not avoid those feelings and that the avoidance keeps you safe, only from getting your needs met in a healthier way that suits today instead of trauma time.

Because you can’t heal what you avoid in accessing or feeling.

The truth is this: Those feelings you’ve been running from feel as dangerous as your nervous system believes. They consume you. They last forever. They feel like they make you “crazy” or “weak” or “too much.”

And this is because your nervous system doesn’t yet have the capacity and skills to grow around them and safely contain them.

What keeps you stuck isn’t the feeling itself. It’s the avoiding and not knowing how not to.

It’s the fear that you can’t handle what’s inside you.

In somatic trauma therapy, we don’t push you to feel everything all at once. We don’t flood you or re-traumatize you.

Instead, we create safety. We go slowly. We help your nervous system learn, perhaps for the first time, that feelings can be felt without destroying you.

We learn that healing doesn’t come from pushing feelings away. It comes from learning to safely feel them, understand them, and work with them with compassion.

Your inner experience—all those thoughts, emotions, and sensations you’ve been running from—is actually the doorway to your freedom.

You deserve to feel at peace in your own body. You deserve to stop running.

Ready to begin? Apply to work with me via Link in bio. 💫

12/11/2025

Simple Somatic Practice to regulate the Nervous System through pain…Pendulation.

When we can retrain our brain and nervous system to access parts of our body that don’t hold pain, instead hold more pleasant soft warm easier sensations…we can regulate our nervous system to feel safe and not hit the panic button easily, giving space for less pain.

Give this a try and leave a comment if you found it helpful 👇🏻

05/11/2025

🍃“I’m just so overwhelmed.”🍃

👉🏼But what if you’re not overwhelmed…what if a part of you is overwhelmed?

👉🏼This distinction is the heart of parts-based trauma work, and it’s transformative. When we blend with our parts, we become them. “I can’t do this” feels like absolute truth.

👉🏼But when we unblend and use parts language. “A part of me feels like it’s too much”, We create space for our adult self to respond with compassion.

👉🏼This isn’t just semantic—it’s neurological. Parts language activates your prefrontal cortex, your capacity to observe rather than react.

👉🏼Parts language helps us manage triggers because it interrupts the automatic reaction. When something activates your nervous system, instead of spiraling, you can pause: “Who’s triggered right now? What does this part need? “

➡️ When triggered, try these:

Notice: “The parts are triggered today”
Ground: Feel your feet, lengthen your spine
Comfort: Place a hand on your heart, ask “Is this better?”
Breathe: Allow yourself to sigh

👉🏼Each small intervention is a 10% solution. Therapy helps 10%. Grounding helps 10%. A hand on your heart helps 10%. Add them up, and you get the relief you deserve.

👉🏼When we welcome all parts to the table, something remarkable happens: they start to trust us 10% more. And when our parts feel heard, they soften. The triggers lose their grip. We become whole.

Like this post if it gave you a small starting place today for your trauma healing💕

04/11/2025

When even trauma responses elicit abuse or abusive reactions…

In abusive environments, the responses one may have to being subjected to trauma…along with the original emotional experience… may also elicit more abuse or bullying…

This may look like being ridiculed, shamed, bullied or punished or being met with harsh or toxic reactions… when you try to fight back, avoid the situation or the person or use other avoidance strategies or when you felt so frozen and couldn’t more or when you may have been immobilised…

It may have left you feeling like you are damned if you do and you are damned if you don’t… it makes sense then that you maybe experiencing shame or fear around your own trauma responses…

This is a big reason why trauma recovery is so layered… because the relationship you may have had with your trauma responses maybe holding a lot of layered shame…

Often it maybe this layered shame that then goes onto be held in dissociative parts trying to create a sense of protection towards those survival responses that came about in response to the vulnerable emotional states…

Trauma recovery is long and layered and what was harmed day in and day out for years needs time to be soothed , processed and integrated…

If you are looking for a therapist that has really specific experience in supporting complex trauma and dissociation/fragmentation…I’ve got a few therapy spots open foe new clients.

Sessions held in Ashgrove and Mt Gravatt, Telehealth is available too.

✨Go have a peek at my website and apply to work with me using the link in bio ✨

28/10/2025

The next time your shoulders collapse in shame and your belly shrinks into the pit…here’s a small practice to work with the heaviness….

Sun Rays Into Your Body: A gentle, 2–5 minute reset to “thaw” shame’s contraction and invite warmth and openness.

🍃Arrive and orient: Sit or lie down. Let your eyes soften and notice three safe details around you. Imagine a safe place in nature where you feel held and at ease.

🍃Hand-to-belly anchor: Place one hand over your belly button. Feel the contact, temperature, and weight of your hand. If possible thank the shame for showing up and let it know that it is safe with you.

🍃Warmth visualisation: Picture the sun above you, just right for you today: warm, bright, and inviting. Imagine a soft ray landing at your belly, like light through a window, meeting your hand.

🍃Breath with the ray: Inhale gently toward your hand for a slow count of 3 or 4. Exhale for 4 or 5. With each exhale, let the warmth spread a little wider through your belly, ribs, and back. If it feels good, silently say: “Warmth in. Soften out.”

🍃Savor and notice: Stay with any pleasant or easing sensations for 10–20 seconds at a time.

🍃Track what shifts: breath rate, muscle tone, posture, or emotion. When ready, open your eyes wider and re-orient to the room.

Tips:
👉🏼Keep the sun “just right.” If the image is too intense, dim it or move it farther away.
👉🏼If shame spikes, return to step 1, feel the support under you, and shorten the practice and return to grounding.

24/10/2025

If you want to learn how to gently shift from shame to compassion, here is a small somatic practice to help⬇️

A gentle, 2–5 minute reset to “thaw” shame’s contraction and invite warmth and openness.

👉🏼Sit or lie down. Let your eyes soften and notice three safe details around you.

👉🏼Imagine a safe place in nature where you feel held and at ease.

👉🏼Place one hand over your belly button.

👉🏼Feel the contact, temperature, and weight of your hand.

👉🏼Picture the sun above you, just right for you today: warm, bright, and inviting.

👉🏼Imagine a soft ray landing at your belly, like light through a window, meeting your hand.

👉🏼Inhale gently toward your hand for a slow count of 3 or or 4 and Exhale for 4 or 5.

👉🏼With each exhale, let the warmth spread a little wider through your belly, ribs, and back.

👉🏼If it feels good, silently say: “Warmth in. Soften out.”

👉🏼Stay with any pleasant or easing sensations for 10–20 seconds at a time.

👉🏼Track what shifts: breath rate, muscle tone, posture, or emotion.

👉🏼When ready, open your eyes wider and re-orient to the room.

🍃Save this post to revisit when you have that part of you saying”you aren’t doing enough”.

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