With Grace Therapy

22/12/2025

Food is not a reward.
Movement is not a punishment.
Your body is not a moral project.

Diet culture tells us to bargain with food and bodies at Christmas - enjoyment doesn’t require compensation.

✨ Eat because you’re hungry or because it’s delicious
✨ Move because it feels good, not because you “should”
✨ Let joy, rest, and connection be part of health

You’re allowed to enjoy Christmas without guilt or shame.

👉 Read more: https://withgracetherapy.com.au/christmas-lunch/

A HAES-informed perspective on Christmas food, bodies, and movement. Challenge diet culture, let go of food guilt, and enjoy holiday meals.

20/12/2025

Our team will be taking a short break over the holidays to rest and recharge.
With Grace Therapy will be closed Monday 22 December - 4 January, reopening Monday 5 January.

If you need support during this time, please reach out to:

• Lifeline: 13 11 14
• 13 YARN (First Nations crisis support): 13 92 76
• Butterfly Foundation: 1800 33 4673
• Parentline: 1300 30 1300
• QLife (LGBTIQA+ support): 1800 184 527
• DVConnect : 1800 811 811
• Su***de Call Back Service: 1300 659 467
• Mental Health Access Line: 1300 642 255

We wish you a gentle, safe and restful holiday season.

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16/12/2025

Holiday meals can be a time of connection and joy but if you’re navigating eating-disorder recovery, they can also bring unexpected challenges. In our new blog post by therapist, Christophe, we share how a little planning, honest self-compassion, and leaning on supports can help you stay grounded and enjoy the season without pressure.

If this resonates, consider passing it on to someone who might benefit ❤️

Navigating eating disorder recovery can be difficult in the holiday season. Tips to help you through Christmas meal times.

08/12/2025

The holidays can be a time of connection, but they can also bring stress, loneliness, or grief. If this season feels heavy, please know you’re not alone and help is always within reach.

We’ve gathered a list of 24/7 helplines and Queensland-specific supports to help you or someone you care about through the festive season.

👉 Read the full blog here: https://withgracetherapy.com.au/mental-health-support/

From all of us at With Grace Therapy, we wish you a calm and connected Christmas.

Find mental health and crisis support this Christmas. 24/7 helplines and resources to help you stay safe, connected, and cared for.

01/12/2025

Food routines aren’t always about control and for some they’re about creating safety and predictability in your day.

For many people (especially those who are neurodivergent or living with anxiety), having regular eating patterns can help reduce decision fatigue, support energy levels, and make mealtimes feel less overwhelming. This is why it's important to take an individual approach for dietetics and not a one size fits all!

A few suggestions you may use to build routines that regulate, not restrict:
🥣 Choose predictable meal patterns e.g., breakfast, lunch, dinner + 2–3 snacks or eat regularly roughly every 3–4 hours.
🍏 Keep a few go-to meals that you know feel safe and satisfying.
🥕 Include low-effort snacks like yoghurt, crackers with cheese, or fruit cups - nourishment doesn’t need to be fancy.
🌈 Make your meals sensory-friendly - pay attention to textures, temperatures, and flavours that feel good for you.
🧃 Add structure with flexibility - routines should support you, not stress you.

Food is part of your regulation toolkit - not something to be earned or micromanaged.

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28/11/2025

🌸 Perinatal Mental Health Week - Be Gentle With Yourself 🌸

Becoming a parent is more than just a change in role and it often reshapes your identity, your body, your rhythms, and your expectations. As you navigate this transition, one of the most powerful supports you can offer yourself is self-compassion.

If you’re feeling self-critical, overwhelmed or like you’re the only one struggling know this: you are not alone. By treating yourself with the same care and understanding you’d show a good friend, you tap into strength, grounding, and deeper healing.

At With Grace Therapy, we support individuals to build self-compassion skills and to find space for their evolving identity. Whether you’re pregnant, in those early postnatal months or in the thick of parenthood, you deserve compassion, care and support.

📖 Read our blog on self compassion written by psychologist Rebecca: https://withgracetherapy.com.au/self-compassion/�

Ever find it hard to be kind to yourself? Our Brisbane psychologists are skilled at working with you to develop self compassion in therapy.

26/11/2025

🌱 From Partners to Parents - Keeping Your Relationship Strong During Parenthood 🌱

Bringing a baby into the world is such a joyful milestone yet it also brings profound change to your relationship. Research from John Gottman shows that around two-thirds of couples experience a dip in relationship satisfaction in the first three years after baby arrives.

If you’re navigating early parenthood, these tips are worth holding onto:
➡️ Prioritise connection through small, intentional moments each week — like saying goodbye and reconnecting, showing appreciation, sharing physical affection, checking in on your relationship together.
➡️ Understand that the shift you’re going through is massive — emotionally, physically, socially. It’s OK to feel disconnected, exhausted or unsure.
➡️ If things feel stuck, resentful, or disconnected, it may be time to explore couples therapy - strong relationships aren’t about never struggling, but about showing up for each other.

At With Grace Therapy we work with couples navigating the transition from partners to parents - helping you build connection, understanding and resilience as you grow into this new chapter.

Read the full article here: https://withgracetherapy.com.au/keeping-your-relationship-strong/

Becoming parents can strain the strongest relationships. Small daily moments of connection to stay close, even in chaos of early parenthood.

23/11/2025

🌿 Perinatal Mental Health Week: You Don’t Have to Navigate This Alone 🌿

Pregnancy and early parenthood can bring big shifts - in your emotions, identity, relationships, and sense of self. Yet so many people move through this transition without the support they deserve.

If you’re feeling overwhelmed, unsure, or stretched thin, you’re not alone. Counselling offers a safe, non-judgemental space to explore your feelings, decisions, and experiences during this time of change.

Read our recent blog by social worker, Emily on pregnancy support counselling: https://withgracetherapy.com.au/pregnancy-support-counselling/

You deserve support, clarity, and care. 💛

With Grace Therapy provides counselling for pregnancy, post partum and parenthood. Experienced therapists for perinatal mental health.

22/11/2025

Perinatal Mental Health Week (23-29 November) reminds us that becoming a parent is one of the biggest transitions we’ll ever face and it’s okay if it doesn’t always feel like joy and bliss.

If you’re finding this season of parenthood harder than you expected, you’re not alone.
💭 Your life has changed
💭 Your identity has shifted
💭 Your sleep, energy, and emotions are different

Here are some small things that can help you find steadiness again:

✨ Rest - even 10 quiet minutes counts
✨ Talk - to your GP, midwife, partner, or a counsellor
✨ Nourish - eat regularly, even when it’s simple
✨ Connect - you deserve support, not silence

You don't have to do this alone and below are some support lines:

PANDA (Perinatal Anxiety & Depression Australia): 1300 726 306 PANDA
Beyond Blue: 1300 22 4636 Beyond Blue
Lifeline: 13 11 14
Parentline QLD & NT: 1300 301 300
13 HEALTH (Qld Health): 13 4Queensland Healthd Health

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16/11/2025

A good Sunday isn’t about getting everything done it’s about giving your nervous system what it needs.

Rest, routine, nourishment, connection - whatever helps you feel grounded heading into a new week.

How are you spending your Sunday?

11/11/2025

Emotions aren’t all-or-nothing.

You can be happy and grieving.
You can be confident and uncertain.
You can be healing and hurting.

Coexisting feelings are a part of being human and allowing them to exist together is a sign of emotional growth but can still be tricky to navigate!

When we make space for all of our feelings, we build compassion, resilience, and self-understanding.

What two feelings have been showing up for you lately?

03/11/2025

NDIS Support Coordinators and Support Workers, are often juggling complex participant needs, funding systems, and a significant emotional load that takes strength, compassion, and resilience.

That’s why supervision matters in all helping professions!

Supervision with an experienced supervisor gives you a safe space to:
💭 Reflect on your work and make sense of challenges
🧭 Navigate ethical or complex situations with confidence
💪 Strengthen professional boundaries and avoid burnout
🌱 Grow your skills and confidence
❤️ Stay connected to your purpose and values

If you’re an NDIS Support Coordinator, Specialist Support Coordinator, or Support Worker looking for reflective, strengths-based, and trauma-informed supervision, we’d love to support you.

Read more about supervision on our latest blog - https://withgracetherapy.com.au/why-supervision-matters-for-ndis-support-coordinators-and-support-workers/

You deserve support too.

Supervision and mentoring for NDIS Support Coordinators and Supports Workers in Brisbane, Sunshine Coast and Online