The Women’s Psychology Clinic

The Women’s Psychology Clinic The Women’s Psychology Clinic was borne out of Dr Libby Quinn’s sheer passion for enhancing the emotional and psychological wellbeing of women in northern NSW.

So much love + gratitude for the adventure we have been on. There’s no greater peace then meeting your darkest sides (n....
31/12/2024

So much love + gratitude for the adventure we have been on. There’s no greater peace then meeting your darkest sides (n.b we all have them) and having nothing but complete love + acceptance for the FULL human you are. When you can meet and love ALL of you , you can do the same for others. I would not change a single word in my book. All of it belongs there, as do all the words in yours. I hope 2025 is one filled with fun, love + good health 🫶

“You”re an old soul, aren”t you?!” These words were said to me this week, and it has quite possibly been  the highest co...
23/04/2024

“You”re an old soul, aren”t you?!” These words were said to me this week, and it has quite possibly been the highest compliment I’ve ever received. It struck me, this IS it. What do you want to be known for? to be remembered for? Is it your possessions, your status, bank account, clean house, your looks, your physique, your awards or achievements?
Because truthfully none of that matters now or when your body ceases to exist. I want to be remembered and known for my SOUL, my essence, my human ness/mess. It’s music to my ears to hear I have an old soul because I tell you I’ve felt ever corner, speed bump, stall, side-swipe, crash to get here and there is no price you can put on your own uniquely acquired wisdom. No one can take away from me or you the truly incredible wisdom you have collected on your journey. The wisdom that makes your innate essence / soul shine brighter than before. My wish for every woman is that she can truly embrace + celebrate her innate essence with the beauty of all of the wisdom she has acquired along the way. I’m BEYOND excited to share that after a solid hiatus my books are officially OPEN 🦋

THE WAY THAT YOU DO IT IS RIGHT 💫These words ringing in my ears again. A therapist from many years ago…once said to me w...
24/12/2023

THE WAY THAT YOU DO IT IS RIGHT 💫
These words ringing in my ears again. A therapist from many years ago…once said to me when I was in combat with my not good enough belief “ you won’t ever be like another therapist. It’s impossible. You are YOU!! Your unique personality, lived experience, acquired wisdom is something that should never be moulded to be like that of another.” Thanks to our perfectionistic culture many of us fail to realise that we are spending so much of our lives trying to be like somebody else. Trying to “fit in”. Trying to “fix ourselves”. Trying to literally iron out the creases. After a huge battle this year I now well and truly believe that I won’t ever try to be like somebody else and that wherever I’m at in my journey of being a messy human is in fact PERFECT. So are YOU! In 2024 I hope to truly mix my 8 years of study, 15 years of practice + 40 years of lived experience as a fellow human who has battled one of the most deadliest mental health disorders to help you also truly believe that the way that you do your human experience is 💯 right. 💫💫💫

One thing only life experience has taught me is that in this process of self-discovery + self-knowing you will never tru...
01/10/2023

One thing only life experience has taught me is that in this process of self-discovery + self-knowing you will never truly be “there” and if you think you are then consciously your “asleep”. I use to be naive and think that I knew myself. I could categorise myself, define myself, put myself into a box. Turns out our very human brains LOVE black and white, categorical thinking, + of course certainty. But really when you step back we can see that it is truly absurd to think that we can “box” in + define the “human experience”. Again I was so very naive in the past to think “not me”. Never would I do that or let that happen to me. Naive to think I could truly control EVERYTHING in myself + my life. Again the one thing certain in life is life’s uncertainty. I still grapple with surrendering to my messy human experience at times but I’m so proud of how much I have grown into allowing myself to really be FULLY HUMAN. I can also reflect back on and see how much mis-alignment there was between my values + what I was actually doing. Our behaviours often times don’t line up with our values but we convince ourselves otherwise. This picture really sums me up right now. Just doing my best to BE. To live in line with my values. To allow the good + bad to co-exist. Messy hair, dirt, nature, freedom, time with my family. I hope in time as I share more my experiences can help others to pause + reflect on if your truly living in line with your values or if your saying one thing + doing another. May this be your reminder to stop + think where are you “pretending” or really being “asleep” in your experience. 💫

☆The transformation you DESERVE hurts like f@ #$ ☆Well it has been more than a minute my beautiful people! The past 12 m...
22/02/2022

☆The transformation you DESERVE hurts like f@ #$ ☆

Well it has been more than a minute my beautiful people! The past 12 months for me has quite possibly been the hardest I've been thrown into...EVER. Powers bigger than me decided I could no longer continue in such a state of self-betrayal.

Turns out my brain has done a fabulous job of TRYING to keep me safe for most of my adult life. It's been doing what it was designed to do really. As much as it has tried to keep me safe it's kept me STUCK. It's kept me in a state of familiar dysfunction. It's kept me in situations so my self worth doesn't bloom. Like many I've had a long-standing belief that I'm not good enough. I've worked hard to break this pattern but despite all of the inner work...I was living in a situation that unbeknownst to me was keeping my not good enough story alive.

I tried everything under the sun to avoid the highest pain I was going to endure. Again, ze ol brain trying to protect me. If you want the transformation back to you...you need to welcome pain.

I have had a TEAM of therapists, health practitioners, family, friends, business mentors, doctors holding me. The greatest gift this team has given me was honesty when my dear old brain just wanted to stay in the familiar. The familiar feels so God damn good, so safe, so predictable but I hadn't realised that my soul was flat-lining and in recent weeks my body came close too.

There's ALOT of wisdom thats still downloading and will be shared in due course.
I wanted to pop on to say I'm still here, so grateful for your presence and that I've been somewhat distracted by being thrown into the biggest growth portal of my life.

May this be a reminder that your life starts and ends with you. You cannot half-ass a relationship with yourself. You cannot lie to yourself. You cannot make do. You cannot live for other people's happiness at the expense of your own. Don't spend another day disconnected from the deep truth that sits in you.

All the love and kindness you give to others must be spent on you first...always. x

The higher the DISCOMFORT the higher the  GROWTH 💥We are wired to stay in patterns that feel so FAMILIAR for us. It’s ou...
13/11/2021

The higher the DISCOMFORT the higher the GROWTH 💥

We are wired to stay in patterns that feel so FAMILIAR for us. It’s our brains way of trying to keep us safe. We unknowingly listen to these limiting beliefs. We repeat the same patterns. We become fearful of doing ANYTHING different. Our brain will trick us and validate our “normal”.

More times than not what has become “normal”, “familiar” for us is not what is BEST for us.

To completely REWIRE our limiting beliefs we have to be WILLING to walk through the ring of fire 🔥

The more support you can have around you to take the unfamiliar action the more likely you will be able to commit to the changes YOU NEED.

Ive just walked through the biggest ring of fire in my life…the greatest pain.

Already the level of growth has been PHENOMENAL ⚡️

Don’t let fear hold you back from what you know you deserve. The pain is temporary, the growth is forever 💫

You know what’s wild?! 🔥There are so many future iterations of YOU that you haven’t met yet. There are versions of you t...
27/09/2021

You know what’s wild?! 🔥

There are so many future iterations of YOU that you haven’t met yet.

There are versions of you that you cannot even begin to conceive what it is that they will live through, learn from, take giant leaps on, the rigid beliefs that will fade, the people they will meet…✨

You are not the same version of yourself from 5 years ago & I can guarantee you the version you are now will not be the version of you 5 years from now.

Our brains 🧠 are malleable. There is a good dose of life that is outside of our own volition that changes us. Then there is change that we choose. All of the experiences we move through change us.
The more you can open your mind to the limitless possibilities of experiences✨growth ✨change
the more you come to realise that you steer your own ship of growth 🚢
Whether that be through some giant f&@$ off waves + stormy seas or mellow waters.

Sometimes change will find you but more often then not you need to be WILLING to go find the change. You need to be willing to steer your ship in the direction of change 🔥

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✨OWN YOUR NEEDS✨Unmet social / emotional needs stemming from our childhood are at the root of our limiting core-beliefs ...
25/09/2021

✨OWN YOUR NEEDS✨

Unmet social / emotional needs stemming from our childhood are at the root of our limiting core-beliefs that sit in our sub-conscious.

Your parents are humans. Being human it is impossible for a parent to meet all of our social/ emotional needs. Combine this with a sensitive temperament and the underdeveloped + ego-centric nature of a child’s brain it is the perfect recipe for developing unmet needs + limiting core-beliefs.

As we are then exposed to the bigger world outside our nucleus family we can then be vulnerable to other experiences which can further serve to consolidate these liming beliefs (e.g bullying, traumatic events).

We develop maladaptive coping mechanisms such as avoidance strategies, including denial, emotional suppression, people pleasing, self-sabotage as a way to prevent us from feeling this deep psychological pain.

These maladaptive behaviours can give us a kick of dopamine which can make it feel as though we are meeting these unmet needs. However this couldn’t be further from the truth.

By the time we have entered adulthood we have also internalised the social script that to be attuned to our own needs and meet them is selfish. That to be a “good / successful” woman one must deny her own needs + instead focus on meeting the needs of those around her.

By bypassing our own needs we are causing DIRECT psychological + physical harm to our pressure selves. We are significantly degrading our own life experience.

I know this to be true thanks to all of the study I have completed to date, the thousands of women I have worked with and my own very humbling life experience of what it means to be woman in this modern world. I’ve felt it, struggled with it and have made it my life mission to always be attuned to my needs and empower more women to meet their own.

We all DESERVE this 🔥Please share this message far + wide 🙏

These are my needs I’m working on.
I would love to know what is one unmet need you are working on meeting yourself?

You’re too f$& magical to fit in a boxOur perfectionistic culture that we have been steeped in can make life appear to b...
24/06/2021

You’re too f$& magical to fit in a box

Our perfectionistic culture that we have been steeped in can make life appear to be pretty categorical. That life is a series of check boxes and that our identity is too.
We can often think if I can just fit myself in a box (remove all the messy human parts) and then tick multiple boxes I will be one shiny successful human having a successful life.
Sounds alluring but what you can actually say hello to is megadoses of suffering, self-silencing + shrinking your magical self. The truth is we were never designed to fit in a box and not least remove our messy human parts.

I’ve totally given up trying to fit into a box. To fit society’s expectations of what it means to be a woman today. To fit anyone’s expectations. Because all of us are too f$& magical to fit in a box 💥

Here are some of my contradictions that I LOVE about myself + will likely be there until my last breath!

•I love to follow rules and equally love breaking them
•I doubt the s$&t out of myself but have always had a fierce belief in myself
•I’m so introverted I didn’t even make it to the scale but LOVE people + interactions with strangers
•I can be super serious but love inappropriate jokes
•I love to have plans but can be equally impulsive
•I have an equal love for inappropriate hip-hop + punk
•Pretty sure I will die with eyeliner intact + nikes on my feet
•I swear like a sailor + can be too polite
•I overshare + can be painfully private

I would love to know what are some of your biggest contradictions? More importantly do you embrace them? If not it’s time to get on it!

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WILLINGNESS…This would have to be one of my all time favourite concepts 💥When we set out on any kind of quest we NEED to...
24/06/2021

WILLINGNESS…

This would have to be one of my all time favourite concepts 💥

When we set out on any kind of quest we NEED to go into it with the mindset that s@&$! will happen. This is not being pessimistic or going against the laws of attraction…(or maybe it is 🤨 ) but it’s what we call being REALISTIC 💥

We are humans living a very human life. With brains wired for protection (read we are wired to avoid discomfort of any sort). Good + bad things happen in life. There are variables we can’t foresee that can have the potential to side swipe us on said quest. Sometimes they do + that is totally ok. But we can’t let every obstacle freeze us + GIVE UP. We can pause. Stop even. We can lie down and wail + wonder how the f$&@ to get around the obstacle. We can validate our experience + then get cracking on engaging some FLEXIBLE + CREATIVE thinking on how we are going to shimmy our way past this obstacle (dancing always helps 💃).

This is what we call exercising willingness. Knowing that uncomfortable feelings, thoughts, + experiences are going to come up ESPECIALLY when we are expanding our comfort zone. If we know it will come up we are more likely to accept it when it does and work with it rather than running away from the obstacle + subsequently keeping our experience of life small.

Expect obstacles, accept them, work with them + keep going 💪 🔥

✨YOUR LIFE ~ YOUR VALUES ✨Not living in line with YOUR values is one of the biggest contributors to feeling low, anxious...
17/05/2021

✨YOUR LIFE ~ YOUR VALUES ✨

Not living in line with YOUR values is one of the biggest contributors to feeling low, anxious, stressed, confused, and overwhelmed.

The quickest way to check in with your values is to draw up 4 squares on a piece of paper, breaking into Relationships, Hobbies, Health, Work / Study.
In each of these areas try to come up with at least one value you want to be living in line with in these areas. In order to do this you need to try and let go of perceived expectations you feel others (including society) might have of you. You need to try and let go of the thinking of what the “right / good” thing to do is. You need to be completely selfish when doing this exercise so you can drill down to your core values.

Once you have one or a few you can reflect on your current experience from today or yesterday as to whether you have been in line with these values. If your human chances are you are possibly out of alignment on one of not all! I certainly have been!

Starting today you can set yourself small goals as to how you can connect more with some of these values.

Taking small actions in line with our values can completely transform your mood, sense of clarity, meaning and purpose within a day!

It’s one thing to know your values but it’s not until your taking committed action that your experience of life will feel different.

Your values are yours. Get clear, own them, live within them and please know it’s not your job to fit into anyone else’s expectations. ✨

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