Body Mind Soul Clinic

Body Mind Soul Clinic Services:
Psychological Counselling - Adults &
Relationship Counselling. Online and face to face.

It’s happening today… Important safety reminder for women with a concealed safety phoneAusAlert will run a national test...
26/07/2026

It’s happening today…

Important safety reminder for women with a concealed safety phone

AusAlert will run a national test alert across Australia.

The test alert is expected to go to most mobile phones, and some smart watches and tablets. Devices may vibrate and play a siren-like warning sound for around 10 seconds.

If you have a second or concealed safety phone, please plan ahead.

Because this is a Critical Alert, it cannot be turned off in your phone settings. To prevent the alert sounding, AusAlert advises that the device needs to be turned off or switched to aeroplane mode before the scheduled test time, and kept off or in aeroplane mode for at least one hour.

For Queensland, NSW, ACT, Victoria and Tasmania, the test is scheduled for 2:00pm AEST.

For SA and NT, it is scheduled for 1:30pm ACST.

For WA, it is scheduled for 12:00pm AWST.

Please share this information discreetly with anyone who may need it. A safety phone can be a lifeline, but only if it stays concealed when it needs to.

More information is available on the official AusAlert website.

https://www.ausalert.gov.au/

I remember the exact moment I stopped recognising myself in the mirror.Not because I looked different. But because the w...
17/06/2026

I remember the exact moment I stopped recognising myself in the mirror.

Not because I looked different. But because the woman looking back at me had eyes that were… somewhere else. Scanning. Calculating. Bracing for something that wasn't even coming anymore.

I'd gotten out. I was safe, technically. But my nervous system hadn't received that memo. Still running on high alert. Still shrinking. Still waiting for the other shoe to drop — even when the house was quiet and no one was there.

If you've been through abuse — whether you're still in it, newly out, or years down the track wondering why you still don't feel like yourself — I want you to hear this:

What you're experiencing isn't weakness. It's not "not trying hard enough."

It's trauma. Stored in your body. Wired into your nervous system. Wrapped around your identity so tightly that you've genuinely forgotten who you were before it all started.

And here's what doesn't get said clearly enough:

Getting out is the beginning. Healing is the work that comes after.

The kind of support that actually moves the needle isn't surface-level. It's real, deep, evidence-based trauma therapy — the kind that works at the level where it's actually stored.
The research is clear: trauma is treatable. Identity comes back. Women find their way back to themselves. Not a performance of okayness — the real thing.

Because she's still there. Not gone. Buried. And waiting.
So here's a genuine question — not rhetorical:
What does "feeling like yourself again" actually look like for you?

Not what you think you're supposed to say. Not "happy" or "healed" or whatever the wellness industry has told you the destination looks like.

What does your version of you look like? How does she move through a room? What does she feel in her body? What does she no longer tolerate?

Drop it in the comments if you're willing. Because sometimes naming it — even to strangers on the internet — is the moment she starts coming back.

And if you're ready to stop waiting and start the real work, I'd love to begin that conversation with you. We'll take the time to make sure we're the right fit before we do anything else.

👉 Find out more and book in here: https://bodymindsoulclinic.com.au

This is for you. Not a version of you that's finally "over it." You — exactly as you are right now, ready to begin.

If you're in immediate danger, please contact 1800RESPECT on 1800 737 732.

When dissociation is mentioned, people often picture dramatic scenes — someone losing hours of time, not knowing where t...
08/06/2026

When dissociation is mentioned, people often picture dramatic scenes — someone losing hours of time, not knowing where they are.

For most women, it looks much quieter than that.
It's the drive home you don't remember.
The conversation you nodded through but couldn't retain.
The feeling of watching your life from slightly outside yourself.
The way you can sit in a room full of people and feel completely unreachable.

Dissociation is a spectrum, and at its core it is a protective mechanism — the nervous system creating distance from an experience that is too overwhelming to be present for.

van der Kolk's research, and the work of Onno van der Hart on structural dissociation, helps us understand this not as pathology but as an ingenious — if costly — adaptation.

The cost is disconnection: from body, from emotion, from the present moment, from relationships.

Healing asks us to slowly, safely, build a bridge back.
If you recognise this experience, you're not alone — and you're not broken.
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Most women I speak with have an easier time being compassionate to strangers than to themselves. They'd never speak to ...
06/06/2026

Most women I speak with have an easier time being compassionate to strangers than to themselves.

They'd never speak to a friend the way their inner critic speaks to them at 2am.

Kristin Neff's decades of research on self-compassion challenge the cultural narrative that we perform better under self-criticism — that being hard on ourselves keeps us motivated, accountable, good.

The evidence says otherwise. Self-compassion is associated with greater emotional resilience, less anxiety and depression, and more — not less — personal accountability.

When we don't need to hide from our mistakes in shame, we can actually look at them honestly.

Self-compassion is three things in Neff's model: self-kindness, common humanity, and mindfulness.

Not positive thinking.
Not letting yourself off the hook.

The simple recognition that suffering, failure, and imperfection are part of the human experience — and that you deserve the same care you'd offer anyone else in pain.

You are allowed to be gentle with yourself.
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Have you ever noticed you have parts of yourself that seem to want completely different things? The part that wants to ...
04/06/2026

Have you ever noticed you have parts of yourself that seem to want completely different things?

The part that wants to rest — and the part that won't let you.

The part that wants to be seen — and the part that is terrified of it.

Richard Schwartz's Internal Family Systems model says: that's not confusion.
That's the complexity of being human.

Swipe through for a gentle introduction to one of the most compassionate frameworks in modern trauma therapy.

Save it.
Come back to it.
You might recognise yourself in here.
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If you've ever swung between feeling completely overwhelmed one day and completely numb the next, you're not unstable. ...
01/06/2026

If you've ever swung between feeling completely overwhelmed one day and completely numb the next, you're not unstable.

You're outside your window of tolerance.

Dan Siegel developed this concept to describe the zone of nervous system activation where we can function, feel, reflect and connect.

Not too activated (hyperarousal — anxiety, panic, reactivity). Not too shut down (hypoarousal — numbness, dissociation, flatness).

For many women who've experienced trauma, that window is narrow.

A small trigger sends them above or below it quickly.
And then comes the shame of overreacting, or the confusion of feeling nothing when they "should" feel something.

Trauma therapy — particularly approaches like EMDR, somatic therapy, and parts-based work — is fundamentally about widening that window.

Building capacity for more experience, more sensation, more life.

You were not designed to live outside your window.
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These five words changed how an entire generation understands trauma.van der Kolk's research showed us something that ma...
30/05/2026

These five words changed how an entire generation understands trauma.

van der Kolk's research showed us something that many women had felt intuitively for years but couldn't name: the body doesn't forget.

Unprocessed trauma isn't stored in a memory file you can simply decide to close. It lives in the posture, the gut, the chronic tension in the jaw, the startle response, the immune system.

This is why "just thinking differently" is rarely enough on its own.
And why somatic, body-aware approaches to therapy — things like working with the nervous system directly, not just the narrative — matter so much.

If your body has been speaking to you in symptoms, in pain, in exhaustion — it may be telling you something that hasn't yet been heard.

We're here to help you listen.
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John Bowlby's attachment theory has given us something remarkable: a map.A map of how our earliest relationships shaped ...
27/05/2026

John Bowlby's attachment theory has given us something remarkable: a map.

A map of how our earliest relationships shaped our expectations of love, safety, and connection — and how those early blueprints run quietly in the background of every significant relationship we have as adults.

Secure attachment isn't a personality type you either have or don't.

It's a pattern.
And patterns can shift.

Swipe through to explore what secure attachment actually involves — including a few things that might surprise you.

Save this one.
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Women come into therapy exhausted in a way that rest doesn't fix.They've slept.They've had the quiet weekend.They've don...
25/05/2026

Women come into therapy exhausted in a way that rest doesn't fix.

They've slept.
They've had the quiet weekend.
They've done yoga.
And they're still bone-tired.

Bruce McEwen's research on allostatic load gives us a language for this. Allostatic load is the cumulative physiological wear on the body from chronic stress and threat-response activation.

It's not about what happened today — it's about what your nervous system has been managing for years.

For many women, that load includes:
→ Scanning social environments for emotional danger
→ Managing others' moods and needs before their own
→ Processing unresolved experiences alone and at night
→ Suppressing responses that didn't feel safe to express

Arlie Hochschild called the emotional management women perform "emotional labour."

Your nervous system experiences it as genuine physiological work. Because it is.

If you're exhausted, you're not weak.

You've been working harder than anyone can see.

Healing begins when we stop asking "what's wrong with me?" and start asking "what have I been carrying?"
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POST CAPTIONJudith Herman wrote those words in Trauma and Recovery — arguably the most important clinical text on trauma...
22/05/2026

POST CAPTION
Judith Herman wrote those words in Trauma and Recovery — arguably the most important clinical text on trauma ever published.

And yet so many women who've been through difficult experiences do the opposite.
They isolate.
They manage.
They perform wellness while quietly carrying weight that was never meant to be carried alone.

If you recognise yourself in that — it makes complete sense. Isolation is also a trauma response.

When relationships have been the source of pain, of course connection feels risky.

But Herman's research is clear: the path through is relational. Not necessarily romantic.
Not necessarily family.
But some form of witnessed, safe, consistent human connection.

Therapy is one form of that. Not the only form — but a meaningful one. You don't have to figure this out alone.
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