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Pure Solace Co. Isabella Houareau is a Somatic Therapist offering a range of mind body approaches to stress management and relaxation.

These include compassionate enquiry, mindfulness, reiki, meditation, breath-work, and kundalini and yin yoga.

30/03/2026

Frustration isn’t the enemy. It’s the doorway to resilience. 🤍

When we stop trying to eliminate it and start helping our children tolerate it, we build confidence, problem-solving, and emotional strength.

The goal isn’t to avoid hard things.
It’s to build the capacity to face them.

✨ Save this for the next meltdown.
And tell me - how do you usually respond to frustration?

This doesn’t excuse the behaviour … and it doesn’t require shaming the system that produced it. Repair, responsibility, ...
26/03/2026

This doesn’t excuse the behaviour … and it doesn’t require shaming the system that produced it. Repair, responsibility, and support are what actually reduce the chances of it happening again. Safety changes patterns. Shame keeps them going.

If this resonates, comment “SAFETY” below.

Let’s normalise repair over punishment.

23/03/2026

Screen time isn’t the real problem. Our guilt is.

When we react from shame, our kids learn shame.
When we regulate first, they learn self-awareness.
Pause. Check your state. Then respond.

✨ DM me to explore how I can help you, your child and your family through Somatic Therapy.

“They’re too young to notice.” They notice everything. Children don’t understand context — they understand feeling.And w...
18/03/2026

“They’re too young to notice.” They notice everything.

Children don’t understand context — they understand feeling.
And when something feels heavy, they often make it about them.

Pause and reflect — what did you once believe about yourself?

✨ DM me to explore how I can help you, your child and your family through Somatic Therapy.

16/03/2026

When your child triggers you, pause and ask:
Who am I responding to right now?
Awareness changes everything. Sometimes we’re not reacting to our child… we’re reacting to our own childhood.
Pause. Breathe. Choose differently. 💛

✨ DM me to explore how I can help you, your child and your family through Somatic Therapy.

When we use gratitude to shut down big feelings - in ourselves or our children … the nervous system doesn’t settle. It p...
09/03/2026

When we use gratitude to shut down big feelings - in ourselves or our children … the nervous system doesn’t settle. It protects. Shame increases threat and keeps fight, flight, or shutdown online. Regulation grows from safety, not from being told we should feel differently.

✨ DM me to explore how I can help you, your child and your family through Somatic Therapy.

03/03/2026

One reason children don’t listen (and it’s not defiance).

✨ DM me to explore how I can help you, your child and your family through Somatic Therapy.

Strong reactions don’t mean you’re a bad parent. They mean your nervous system went past what it could hold in that mome...
27/02/2026

Strong reactions don’t mean you’re a bad parent. They mean your nervous system went past what it could hold in that moment. When we meet these experiences with curiosity instead of judgment, capacity can slowly grow … and different responses become possible.

✨ DM me to explore how I can help you, your child and your family through Somatic Therapy.

23/02/2026

STOP TRYING TO FIX YOURSELF. TRY THIS INSTEAD

✨ DM me to explore how I can help you, your child and your family through Somatic Therapy.

16/02/2026

If you want one intention for 2026… let it be this:
When there is a rupture, choose repair.
It will transform your relationship with your children - and with yourself.

What repair is NOT
✖️ Repair is NOT lecturing your child about what they should’ve done differently.
✖️ Repair is NOT guilting them into better behaviour.
✖️ Repair is NOT something we do in the heat of the moment.
✖️ Repair is NOT a way to teach children a lesson.

What repair IS
✔️ Taking responsibility for our own behaviour.
✔️ Acknowledging where we could have done things differently.
✔️ Reconnecting with our child once we are regulated again.
✔️ Showing humility, honesty, and emotional leadership.
✔️ Building safety after moments of rupture — because connection is built through rupture and repair.

✨ DM me to explore how I can help you, your child and your family through Somatic Therapy.

Discipline was never meant to be about control.It was meant to be about teaching.So often, what we call “bad behaviour” ...
12/02/2026

Discipline was never meant to be about control.
It was meant to be about teaching.

So often, what we call “bad behaviour” is really a child communicating a need — for connection, safety, rest, or understanding.

This carousel is a reminder:
Consequences don’t have to hurt to work.
Punishment isn’t guidance — it’s a missed conversation.

✨ Let’s rethink what discipline was always supposed to be.

When we’re activated and respond from a stressed place, our nervous system is speaking louder than our words. Even when ...
06/02/2026

When we’re activated and respond from a stressed place, our nervous system is speaking louder than our words. Even when our intention is to correct a behaviour, a child’s body often receives threat, not guidance.

The correction lands not as:
👉 “That behaviour isn’t okay”
but as:
👉 “I am not okay.”
Children don’t learn who they are from what we say:
they learn it from how it feels to be with us in those moments.
✨ Behaviour can be guided.
✨ Safety must be preserved.

Reflection for parents:
What do you notice in your body before you try to correct your child?

✨ DM me to explore how I can help you, your child and your family through Somatic Therapy.

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Tuesday 09:00 - 17:00
Wednesday 09:00 - 17:00
Thursday 09:00 - 17:00
Friday 09:00 - 17:00

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