ResourceYourself

19/04/2026

🌿 Welcome back to Term 2! 🌿

We hope families have had the chance to slow down, connect, and enjoy some meaningful moments over the school holidays 💛 — laughing, exploring, and finding joy in the everyday.

As routines return, it’s okay if mornings feel a little busy or messy — connection doesn’t need to be perfect. Even in everyday routines, small moments of presence, kindness, and shared laughter make a difference.

Whether it’s a quick chat at the breakfast table, a smile on the way to school, or pausing to notice the little wins, these moments are what build connection, calm, and resilience in our families. 🌱Noticing the micro moments all adds up!

Here’s to a Term 2 filled with calm, connection, and everyday joy.

16/04/2026

👂 Have a listen to the Podcast below for a refresher or introduction to Dyadic Developmental Practise DDP.

Trauma born in relationship must be repaired in relationship! 🧠👩‍❤️‍👩

https://open.spotify.com/episode/4sTmdnTtfK1VHO9So8MhPm?si=pjE7WtgpSWWfW1sqVtU0Qg

14/04/2026

🗣️ 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.

12/04/2026

🌟 Queensland Youth Week 2026 11-19th April🌟

This week, we pause to celebrate the young people in our communities — their creativity, courage, resilience, and the ways they inspire change every day. 💛

Youth Week is a reminder of the power of connection, listening, and supporting our next generation as they explore who they are and the impact they want to make. It’s a chance to honour their voices, their ideas, and the heart they bring to our families, schools, and communities. 🌱

To all the young people shaping our world — we see you, we celebrate you, and we stand alongside you as you grow, lead, and create. Your presence matters. 🙌

09/04/2026

🌟 For the Teachers Who’ve Tried Everything… and Still Get the Big Behaviours ✨

If you’ve ever stood in front of a class thinking:
“Why is nothing working?!”
…this podcast episode is for you.

Because when behaviour hits the extremes—the shutdowns, blow-ups, refusals, meltdowns, “won’t do / can’t do” moments—traditional behaviour management strategies just don’t cut it.
Not because you’re doing anything wrong…
but because those strategies were never designed for kids whose nervous systems are already in overdrive.

This episode dives into PACE (Playfulness, Acceptance, Curiosity, Empathy)—not as another “tool,” but as a relational stance that helps you meet students where they actually are.

If you’re looking for something beyond sticker charts, behaviour plans, and “consequences,”
if you’re craving an approach that brings connection before correction,
if you’re ready for something that finally makes sense of those big behaviours…

🎧 Give this podcast a listen.
It just might shift the way you see the toughest moments—and the young people behind them.

If you would like more information on DDP PACE reach out!

https://open.spotify.com/episode/3AUSqzbTYHAWwSWP1JoFMe?si=ol7Uleb5TZi6TXh3EKrgSg&nd=1&dlsi=f84b9bbd8bee4c53

School Behaviour Secrets with Simon Currigan and Emma Shackleton · Episode

07/04/2026

🌞 Hello, first week of school holidays! 🌞

The holidays can bring excitement, adventure… and sometimes a little chaos 😅 Whether it’s juggling family plans, keeping kids entertained, or managing your own well-being, it’s easy to feel stretched.

This week, give yourself permission to practice self-compassion:

Pause and breathe — even for a minute or two

Let go of “perfect plans” and embrace the small, joyful moments

Remind yourself that being human means making mistakes, taking breaks, and asking for help

Holidays aren’t just for the kids — they’re for all of us. 💛 Take time to reconnect with yourself, your body, and your heart.

You deserve kindness, patience, and a little holiday magic too ✨

05/04/2026

📣 Calling all DDP Level 1 & 2 trained Practitioners! 📣
Our 2026 Australian DDP Supervision Groups are 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.

02/04/2026

🌱 What is P.A.C.E.?

Discover the heart of attachment-focused parenting with P.A.C.E. — Playfulness, Acceptance, Curiosity, and Empathy — a transformative approach developed by Dr. Dan Hughes to help children feel safe, seen, and supported. 💛

Check out the link to hear Dr Kim Golding and Dr Dan Hughes talk about and break down each element of P.A.C.E. and show how it:
✨ Strengthens connection
✨ Builds trust
✨ Supports children to heal from trauma and big emotions

Whether you’re a working with families, a foster parent, adoptive parent, or caregiver, this approach can bring calm, connection, and joy to everyday moments.

🎥 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWuFH44NFC8

The Traumatized & At-Risk Youth Toolbox: https://amzn.to/3FxE2lD 🌱 What is P.A.C.E.? Discover the heart of attachment-focused parenting with the P.A.C.E. mo...

31/03/2026

🎉 Happy April Fools’ Day! 🎉

We’ve got a big announcement… from today onwards, all misbehaviour will be magically fixed with just a snap of your fingers! ✨No more ruptures, no tears, no meltdowns — just perfect regulation and instant attunement!

…Okay, maybe not 😅

But in true Dyadic Developmental Practise style, what does work is something a little less magical but way more powerful:

⭐Showing up with PACE — Playfulness, Acceptance, Curiosity & Empathy

⭐Repairing ruptures instead of avoiding them

⭐Attuning to what’s really happening under the behaviour

So today, let’s celebrate the real magic: relationships that stretch, hold, and heal. No fairy dust required ✨

29/03/2026

In relationships, rupture is inevitable… but it’s the repair that creates healing 🌿

Within Dyadic Developmental Practise, rupture isn’t something to avoid or fear — it’s something to gently lean into with curiosity and care.

Moments of disconnection, misunderstanding, or heightened emotion are opportunities. Opportunities to slow down, attune to what’s really happening beneath the behaviour, and reconnect in a way that builds safety and trust over time.

Through a PACEful approach — playfulness, acceptance, curiosity, and empathy — we support children and families to experience something different:
That relationships can stretch, hold, and come back together again.

Attunement is what guides the repair — helping us respond to the need, not just the behaviour. And from this place, discipline shifts too. It becomes less about correction and more about connection, teaching, and supporting regulation within the safety of the relationship.

Repair doesn’t need to be perfect.
It just needs to be real, attuned, and safe.

Because it’s in the repair that new meaning is made… and healing begins.

25/03/2026

💥 RELATIONAL REMINDERS 💥

In the busyness of everyday life, it’s easy to forget that at the heart of parenting, caring, teaching, case managing — and being with families and children — is relationship.

So many moments are filled with doing rather than being, and over time this can quietly erode connection. When this happens, we miss the very relationships right in front of us. We lose opportunities to prime the brain for safety and regulation, and we miss the moments that fill our cups and sustain joy in the roles we hold — as parents, carers, educators, and helpers.

This visual is a gentle invitation to return to the simple, relational practices that often get lost in the doing. The practices that support both us and our children to thrive.

💗 Go slow to go fast — stay mindfully connected to the moment and what is truly needed
💗 Playfulness, Acceptance, Curiosity & Empathy (PACE) — lead with relationship
💗 Notice shame when it shows up — so we don’t unintentionally fuel it
💗 Name the experience — say what you see to deepen a shared understanding
💗 Connection before correction — co-regulation must come first, especially in hard moments
💗 Check what’s being activated in your values system — respond, don’t react
💗 Nurture and Structure — being with and doing together, with emotional co-regulation as the foundation for action

Small relational moments, practiced often, create the safety and connection that make everything else possible.

💞

22/03/2026

At Resource Yourself, we offer therapeutic and coaching spaces designed to support individuals and families navigating complexity, change, and life transitions. As we progress into Term 2 2026, we have a small number of spaces available.

🌿 Our areas of practice include:

Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP)
An attachment-focused, relational therapy supporting children and families impacted by developmental trauma. DDP creates a safe and supportive space for emotional connection, healing, and repair between caregivers and children.
This approach is particularly supportive for foster care, adoption, reunification, and families experiencing attachment-related challenges.

ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy), EFT (Emotionally Focused Therapy) & Narrative Therapies
We integrate ACT, EFT and Narrative approaches to support individuals, parents, couples, and families to develop psychological flexibility, strengthen emotional bonds, and reshape the stories that may be holding them stuck. These approaches support meaning-making, emotional safety, and connection while honouring lived experience and identity.

Our work recognises the profound impact early life relationships have on the brain, body, and relational patterns across the lifespan. We support clients to build safety, emotional regulation, and a felt sense of connection and trust. Through strengthening emotional attunement and relational security, we support families and couples to move toward healing, joy, and greater satisfaction in life.

Each therapeutic journey is thoughtfully tailored to meet the unique needs of those we support — whether working with a child and caregiver, parents, couples, or individuals and is always trauma and attachment informed.

📍 Sunshine Coast
📩 Enquiries welcome - hello@resourceyourself.com.au