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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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A soft blue background with a simple, elegant line drawing of an adult hand gently holding a baby’s hand. At the top, on a pale blush brush-stroke banner, the text reads: “Perinatal Mental Health Week.” At the bottom, centred, the text says: “You deserve support, not silence.” The handle appears underneath.

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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

02/11/2025

✨ Connecting for Mental Health ✨

For Queensland Mental Health Week, our team joined the wonderful community at Baringa Community Centre for With Grace Therapy’s Connect for Mental Health event.

It was such a beautiful reminder that connection really is at the heart of wellbeing whether it’s a chat over coffee, sharing stories, a smile, or finding new ways to support one another.

Thank you to everyone who stopped by to say hello, joined in the activities, and helped make the day such a welcoming and inclusive space.

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A cheerful person, Paige, stands outside the Baringa Community Centre with arms open wide, smiling beneath the building’s large sign. The weather appears overcast but bright, and the scene feels welcoming and community-oriented. In the background, a With Grace Therapy table is visible inside the entry area.

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A close-up of the With Grace Therapy display table set up outside Baringa Community Centre. The table is covered with a lilac cloth featuring the With Grace Therapy logo and is arranged with colourful pens, small games, flyers, and activity materials. Nearby are hula hoops and ring toss games for visitors, creating a friendly, interactive space.

16/10/2025

Starting out as a newly qualified social worker is a unique mix of excitement, uncertainty, and growth. You’re stepping into real-world practice with all its complexity and supervision can be the anchor that helps you thrive, not just survive.

In our blog post, we explore how structured, thoughtful supervision supports new grads to:

✨ Reflect thoughtfully on practice
✨ Navigate ethical challenges
✨ Process emotional load and build resilience
✨ Transition theory into practice
✨ Shape your professional identity and direction

At With Grace Therapy, our supervision support is tailored to you - no cookie cutter approaches here!

If you’ve just entered the field or are supervising early-career social workers, you might find this read helpful.

➡️ Read more here https://withgracetherapy.com.au/supervision-for-new-graduate-social-workers/

📩 Thinking about supervision support or have questions? Send us a message as we’d love to help.

New to social work? Clinical supervision is essential for new graduates, helping you build skills, confidence, and a sustainable career.

30/09/2025

From Partners to Parents 💞

Becoming parents is a big change and even strong relationships can feel the strain. The good news? Connection doesn’t require grand gestures.

Research shows that just six intentional hours a week through small rituals like daily check-ins, affection, and regular date nights can keep your bond strong.

👉 Read more about keeping your relationship strong: 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.

25/09/2025

📱 Managing Screen Time Without the Struggles 📱

Tired of daily battles over devices? You are not alone!

Our blog by therapist Karly shares simple, compassionate strategies like setting clear limits, co-creating rules, and using gentle transitions to make screen time calmer and more cooperative.

👉 Read more: https://withgracetherapy.com.au/managing-screen-time-without-the-power-struggles/