ResourceYourself

24/07/2025

📣 Calling all DDP Level 1 & 2 Practitioners! 📣
Our 2025 Australian DDP Supervision Groups are now underway — and we’d love for you to join us.

These small, reflective groups are designed to deepen your DDP practice, build relational confidence, and keep you anchored in the core principles of DDP and the PACE attitude. It’s a space to share challenges, celebrate the wins, and stay connected to the heart of the work.

We currently have groups running on Mondays, Thursdays, and Fridays, with options available for teams seeking tailored supervision for staff who’ve completed Level 1 or 2 training.

✨ Stay nourished, supported, and seen in your practice — because we all do better when we’re held in connection.

📩 Get in touch to express interest or find the right fit for your schedule.

23/07/2025

🌿 It’s International Self-Care Day
…and a gentle reminder that self-care is more than bubble baths and face masks.

Real self-care is a practice of tuning in — not checking out.

For those of us who support others (parents, carers, therapists, educators), self-care often looks like:

🧠 Knowing your nervous system — and how to come back to baseline.
💬 Speaking to yourself with the same compassion you’d offer a child in distress.
🌱 Creating pockets of stillness, especially when life feels loud.
🤝 Reaching out instead of toughing it out.
💛 And allowing your needs to matter — even when you’re used to putting others first.

We can’t pour from an empty cup, but more than that — you deserve care, too. Not because you’ve earned it. Just because you’re human.

✨ Today is your reminder:
Self-care isn’t selfish. It’s how we sustain connection, presence, and purpose.

20/07/2025

✨ Parenting doesn’t come with a manual — but it doesn’t have to feel like guesswork.

Our Family & Parent Coaching supports you to break old patterns, stay connected, and grow confidence in your everyday parenting.

Think: guidance, reflection, and a gentle cheerleader in your corner. 💛

📍 Available online or on the Sunshine Coast
📩 Get in touch to learn more. Hello@resourceyourself.com.au

17/07/2025

Connection isn’t just comforting — it’s neuroscience. 🧠

When working with complex situations and families, we often speak about the power of connection. But it’s more than just a warm concept — it’s the foundation of healing.

People who’ve experienced trauma show us what it means when early relationships wire the brain for survival, not safety. Hypervigilance, shutdowns, and mistrust aren’t “bad behaviour” — they’re adaptations.

✨ That’s where PACE — Playfulness, Acceptance, Curiosity, Empathy — comes in.

It’s not just a way to “manage behaviour.” It’s a way to create relational safety that supports neuroplasticity — the brain’s ability to rewire in response to new, safe experiences.

When we meet fear with empathy, shame with acceptance, and control with curiosity, we’re not just supporting kids… we’re helping their brains heal.

This isn’t just therapeutic.
It’s transformational.

Let’s keep sharing the message:
💛 The right relationships don’t just help children cope.
They help them heal.


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15/07/2025

🗣️ Storytelling is more than words — it’s how we heal and it's a vital element of Dyadic Developmental Practise (DDP).

From the earliest days of humanity, storytelling has been how we pass on knowledge, build identity, and connect with one another. It’s an interactive art — combining words, expression, and imagination to bring meaning to experience.

But storytelling isn’t just tradition.
✨ It supports oral language development
✨ Builds emotional literacy
✨ Creates belonging and felt safety

In DDP storytelling becomes something even deeper: a pathway to healing.

For children with early trauma or out-of-home care experiences, parts of their story are often missing — or misinterpreted in ways that shape painful internal beliefs.

When we use storytelling in therapy, we’re not just talking.
We’re giving language to what was once unspeakable.
We’re re-narrating experiences in a way that fosters understanding, compassion, and a new internal dialogue.

This is more than memory.
It’s meaning-making — and it’s essential.

13/07/2025

At Resource Yourself, we offer therapeutic and coaching spaces that work to support individuals and families navigating complexity and change.

We specialise in:

Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP):
A relational, attachment-focused therapy supporting children and families impacted by developmental trauma. DDP creates a safe space for emotional connection and healing between caregivers and children.

Children, Families, Parents and Couples:
Our approach acknowledges the impact of early life relationships and how these can affect the brain, body and relationships. We support clients in building safety, regulation, and a felt sense of connection and trust. We focus on strengthening relationships, emotional attunement and security within family systems to ensure healing, joy and satisfaction in life can be achieved.

We tailor each therapeutic journey to meet the needs of those we support—whether that’s a child and caregiver, a couple, parents or individuals.

Work and Attachment

10/07/2025

📣📣TOWNSVILLE - Supporting Complex Behaviours with DDP PACE is coming to you in October! 📣📣

Last week you would have seen our post regarding the PACE attitude and how it supports relational intervention that meets the child where they are at.

PACE is a way of thinking, feeling, communicating and behaving. The approach focuses on building trust, strengthening emotional connections and shared experiences, developing a sense of security and containing heightened emotions.

Using PACE helps adults to slow down their own reactions, stay calm and attune to what the young person is experiencing in the moment. It sends signals that make it safe to be sad, share moments of joy or seek comfort. In tricky moments it helps stay emotionally regulated and guide the young person through their emotions, thoughts and behaviours.

In turn, PACE helps the young person feel more connected to and understood by adults in their life. It helps to slow down their own responses and break down the wall of shame and mistrust many feel.

This training is for best for Youth Workers, Case Workers, Teachers, Carers, Child Protection workers or anyone wanting to add DDP to their intervention options.

Brain-based attachment model for supporting children, young people and families/carers

08/07/2025

Self-compassion is not just about being kind to yourself—it’s a practice with three essential parts:

Giving Compassion to Others – Extending empathy, care, and support outward.

Receiving Compassion from Others – Allowing yourself to be supported and cared for.

Offering Compassion to Yourself – Tuning in to your needs with warmth, not judgment.

These three elements are connected. If one is missing, compassion becomes imbalanced—and burnout, disconnection or resentment can creep in.

True compassion starts with you.

06/07/2025

“Are you holding space for others without space for yourself?"

Supervision is a vital act of care—for you and the work. How do you prioritise spaces for yourself that nourish, reflect and support the work that you do with your staff or clients.

📣 We have space open for Supervision

Are you a therapist, caseworker or educator supporting children and families? Our reflective supervision groups (led by Leah Millward, Social Worker with 27+ years' experience) offer a safe space for thinking, feeling and staying resourced in the work.

💬 Online and in-person options
🧠 Specialising in DDP, trauma, attachment, systems and strengths-based modalities
📍 Sunshine Coast & Microsoft Teams
📅 Enquire now to see how we can ResourceYou.

01/07/2025

At Resource Yourself, we’re passionate about supporting individuals, families, and professionals to grow, heal, and thrive. Whether you're navigating personal challenges or working to support others, we're here to help you deepen your understanding of yourself—and resource you with the tools you need to flourish.

We specialise in:

Therapy and Support for children, families, and couples

Education & Consultation for professionals working in family and child services

🧩Training & Supervision in areas such as:

🧩Mental Health, Trauma & Attachment

🧩Child Development & Disability

🧩Child Protection & Out-of-Home Care

🧩Complex Family Systems

Leah, our founder, is a qualified Social Worker with over 27 years of experience across the Government and Non-Government sectors—including Education, Youth Justice, Domestic and Family Violence, and Child & Youth Mental Health. Based on the Sunshine Coast (QLD), Leah brings warmth, depth, and insight to every session.

🌈🧩 At Resource Yourself, we’re all about helping you connect the pieces—so you can thrive.

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30/06/2025

Today is International Joke Day!

Play, lightness and joy are an essential part of being a human. To know ourselves in our most authentic form, we must play, laugh and find things that bring us joy.

Joking can be a way to play and experience joy with someone. Using words in funny ways, to elicit laughter and connection is one of the best ways to feel connected with people.

When was the last time you shared a joke, laughed and felt the connection with who you were with? How good did it feel?

We hope you enjoy our jokes today!

30/06/2025

Have you heard about the PACE attitude?

Are you a Teacher, Residential Worker, Child Protection Worker, Youth Justice Worker, Foster/Kinship Carer working with children and young people with complex needs and presentations?

Do you feel you are consistently putting out fires, responding reactively to behaviours or simply just fatigued from the increased workload and limited engagement from the young people?

Are you ready to mix up your way of "being with" children and young people to maximise your work satisfaction and engagement?

If so, join us in our next DDP PACE workshop in Parramatta to learn more about the relational and brain-based PACE attitude.

For more information about the PACE attitude head to https://ddpnetwork.org/ddpi/

Or book online at https://www.compassaustralia.com.au/

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