Jade Addicott at SoulShift for Carers

Jade Addicott at SoulShift for Carers SoulShift for Carers offers an exclusive support program to parents and carers of people with a disability - because you deserve to thrive too!

Jade | Nervous System Repair for Special Needs Mums
🧠 Carer burnout is a nervous system injury (not a self care problem)
🧡 Somatic support for autism mums and complex needs parenting
âś… Start here: Free Toolkit
💬 Message “BOOK” for session availability Our 1:1 holistic support aims to help you to reclaim your identity, restore and sustain mental, emotional and spiritual wellbeing and rise into empo

wered, purpose-driven living. I know first hand the impact on your whole self that caring for a loved one has and want to support you to live the life you deserve with a sense of peace and purpose. Our goals:
- Improve mental health and emotional resilience
- Build a supportive and understanding community
- Provide trauma-informed holistic healing therapies for carers
- Empowerment & life design guidance
- Support spiritual growth
- Prevent and reduce carer burnout
- Address and reduce the risk of addiction or maladaptive coping strategies
- Support grief and chronic sorrow

I have 12 years of lived experience having a daughter who has a severe disability/rare genetic disorder and years of professional experience supporting families. I also ran a successful business providing support to families and respite for people with a disability. My qualifications include:
- Holistic Wellness Practitioner
- Advanced Transformational Life Coaching Practitioner
- Inner Child Healing Practitioner
- Mental Wellness Coaching Practitioner
- Mindfulness Coaching Practitioner
- Polyvagal Therapy Practitioner
- Certificate in DBT (Dialectical Behaviour Therapy)
- Certificate in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Quantum Healing Practitioner
- Crystal Energy Healer
- Certificate IV Alcohol & Other Drugs
- Certificate IV in Training & Assessment
- Certificate III Community Services
- Bachelor of Arts - Youth Studies
- Mental Health First Aid
- First Aid Level 2
- ASSIST (Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training)
- Currently completing Graduate Diploma in Counselling

11/06/2026

25,000 parents and carers are here now.

That number feels huge… but what matters more is what it represents.

It means thousands of people are quietly carrying things most people never see.

The advocacy.
The grief.
The guilt.
The broken sleep.
The behaviours.
The paperwork.
The fighting for support.
The loving your child fiercely while feeling like you’re disappearing.

This page was never created to make caring look pretty.

It was created for the parents and carers who are exhausted, overwhelmed, touched out, burnt out, laughed-out-or-they’ll-cry… and still showing up every single day.

For the ones who need truth.
Dark humour.
Real support.
Nervous system repair.
And a place where they don’t have to explain why they’re so tired.

If you’ve been here for a while, thank you.

If you’re new here, welcome. You don’t have to pretend you’re fine.

And if you know another parent or carer who needs to feel less alone in this life… I hope they find their way here too 🖤

11/06/2026

A carer impact statement is important.. but it is not evidence on its own.

It helps explain the day-to-day reality of caring.

It helps pull the story together.

It helps show the impact on the family, the carer, and the person needing support.

But if you are putting something in your carer impact statement, you need to ask:

What evidence backs this up?

For example:

If you say your child needs constant supervision because of safety risks, can that be supported by OT reports, school notes, incident records, behaviour support reports, paediatrician letters or therapist recommendations?

If you say you are exhausted, burnt out or unable to keep providing the same level of informal support, can that be supported by GP letters, mental health treatment plans, work changes or medical evidence?

The carer impact statement gives context.

The evidence gives weight.

You need both.

This is where a lot of families get stuck because they explain everything beautifully, but the evidence is not clearly linked to what they are asking for.

Save this if you are preparing for an NDIS review or planning meeting.

And if you need help strengthening your carer impact statement, reach out.

10/06/2026

Transitions…

“Time to get dressed.”
“Time to leave.”
“Time to turn the iPad off.”

For many autistic and ADHD children, transitions can feel huge.

They’re not being difficult.
Their nervous system is being asked to stop one thing, start another, cope with uncertainty, and shift gears quickly.

And if we’re already stressed, rushed or bracing for the battle, they often feel that energy too.

One thing that helps in our house is remembering that transitions aren’t just about cooperation. They’re about regulation.

Sometimes a countdown, a visual cue, a familiar script or simply helping your child feel safe in their body can make all the difference.

If transitions regularly turn into meltdowns, battles or shutdowns, you’re not failing.

You might just be dealing with a nervous system that’s struggling to switch tracks.

I’ve put my go-to scripts, visual card ideas, flow chart and a plan B into a $9 mini kit because mums need something practical in real life, not perfect theory.

💛 Comment TRANSITIONS and I’ll send you the link.

10/06/2026

Special needs parents are often told to stay strong, stay positive, keep going, be grateful, advocate harder, explain better, document more, fight louder…

But no one seems to care about what that actually does to our body.
The chronic stress.
The grief.
The guilt.
The hypervigilance.
The exhaustion of always needing to prove how hard things really are.

Burnout is definitely not something another “self-care night” is going to fix.

When your nervous system has been living in survival mode for years, your body eventually starts screaming for support.
And special needs parents deserve support for that too.

I’ve created free resources to help you start understanding carer burnout, nervous system survival mode and small ways to begin coming back to yourself.

Comment FREE and I’ll send them through 🤍

Follow for real, honest special needs parenting support.

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