New Leaf Social Work

New Leaf Social Work 🌱 Neuroqueering
🌱 Trauma-informed support to guide your relationship with self, others, and the big scary world
🌱 Rebuild, reclaim, resist

For me personally, I find it so much easier to link what I'm asking for/needing/wanting to a human right first. It's the...
07/06/2026

For me personally, I find it so much easier to link what I'm asking for/needing/wanting to a human right first. It's the foundation for me and then I like it's a bit easier to then assert it. Anyone relate?

This workshop will go through all your rights so you get that ah-hah moment (maybe), validate why it's so bloody hard to bridge the gap between knowing you have rights and asserting them, and then give some small steps we can try.

This is the start of the yap & learn boundaries series. I know it doesn't say boundaries in the title but it's very boundaries-core.

Let's go! Share with your mates. Free spots for TGD and First Nations folk .

I don't talk about magazines enough, and I want to talk about them more! Magazines have always been the guiding light in...
06/06/2026

I don't talk about magazines enough, and I want to talk about them more! Magazines have always been the guiding light in my life. When I was a teenager, I got a job so I could buy every magazine I could afford. They transported me to a new world, and as a young person living in conservative rural QLD, that escape pre-internet days meant more than anything.

I still subscribe to as many magazines as I can. I was reflecting on it today and they are still my most trusted source of information on what's wholesome, what's happening, and what I should know. As I intentionally spend less time online, I'm beginning to use magazines as my compass once more. Every new I find myself watching a new tv series from SBS, buying a new cookbook, or reading a new piece of media I've discovered from the pages within.

Magazines are becoming my brain break instead of a cheeky scroll and I'm loving it. It's almost like going back to 14 year old pre-internet times. The dopamine of the eager anticipation of what the next page holds still hits the same now as it did then 😍

Yap & Learn kicked off this week and it was everything I hoped it would be + more.The next one is the foundational work ...
04/06/2026

Yap & Learn kicked off this week and it was everything I hoped it would be + more.

The next one is the foundational work around knowing your rights and why they are hard to claim (even if we know we have them) before we then look at ways to start actioning them in future workshops.

Link in bio or comment/DM 💪

*Free spots for TGD + First Nations folk. $10 concession, $20 standard.

Please share with your mates + networks + subreddits that might be interested 🤠

It's been one of my biggest weeks of advocacy as a social worker. And what I always come back to is that I stand on the ...
04/06/2026

It's been one of my biggest weeks of advocacy as a social worker. And what I always come back to is that I stand on the shoulders of giants. Always.
support has been someone I've connected with who has sent me resources, 900 voice notes, provided me with a million years of knowledge via lived and professional experience, and the fired up passion of a feminist queen who gets it. She's also a powerhouse who NO ONE, not even an ED part of someone, can go "but maybe she doesn't know x, y,z", instead they say "okay she knows ball" 😅

has taken 10pm phone calls highlighting water tight discharge plans, patient rights, and is and comes from a staunch line of advocates. She keeps acknowledging the discomfort you sit in as an advocate knowing you are "destroying the joint" and knowing how hated you are but reminding me we do it for social justice, human rights, and most importantly our clients who need it. I keep coming back to her saying something about the goal isn't friendship and collaboration with these people in these oppressive systems (like I kept saying) who refuse to be respectful and collaborate, it's liberation 💪

Thank you for the late night calls, the re-energising when I'm on the side of the ring about to give up, the reality checking, and most importantly the same level of dedication and commitment to social justice, femmo antics, and destroying the joint when needed.

The theme of this week is everyone talking about their IBS. It even came up in Yap & Learn and people were throwing out ...
03/06/2026

The theme of this week is everyone talking about their IBS. It even came up in Yap & Learn and people were throwing out memes and theories inclusive of Gina Rinehart removing minerals from the soil which has led to IBS haha!

But it's got me wondering... why don't we typically talk about IBS until it's really really bad and we can't sit through a session because we need to run to the bathroom haha.

I'm all for talking in depth about it. Someone said "how much is TMI?" and I said that's for you to decide. If it's impacting you, you're allowed to talk about it. It's your world and I'm just living in it for a bit and want to be as helpful as possible.

In yap and learn, I jokingly said do I need to make an IBS support group but.... should I? 🧐

I was just looking through my Canva and I don't think this post got the light of day. Super relevant with all the advoca...
03/06/2026

I was just looking through my Canva and I don't think this post got the light of day. Super relevant with all the advocacy I've been doing recently, alongside fighting patriarchy every damn day!

People always ask me if I feel like I "wasted" my law degree by not becoming a lawyer. The honest answer is ABSOLUTELY NOT. I use my law degree every second of every day at work. It's foundational to my practice, experience, and skills. I am who I am because I locked in and got that bloody degree (even if it nearly killed me haha!)

I also was always wanting to be a barrister so I feel like I get a lot more time to debate 1 v 1 with professionals now than I would as a solicitor anyway. I did my practical legal training and realised being a solicitor was A LOT of filling out and filing forms which surprise, surprise, is not for my ADHD brain 😅

Have you lived many lives and careers yourself? I made a notes list of all the jobs I could think of that I've had and I'm currently at 31. Can you beat that?🎪

02/06/2026

It's almost like everyone who has an ED is a unique individual with unique needs?? 😱

01/06/2026

Very privileged rant but I wanna know if this impacts other professionals because all caring careers are AFAB dominated

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