Holding Spaces Holistic Counselling & Therapy

24/10/2025

🫶🏼”Neurokin: Transforming Neurodivergent Care from the Inside Out” brings together ten authors, an experienced group of nurses, counsellors, therapists, kinesiologists, healers, educators and parents.

Each one became an expert in holistic health and wellbeing for neurodiversity, because their own personal survival or that of their family depended on it.

Together, we’ve written the book we once needed. A book in hope of creating care that fits us. A book filled with practical strategies, why standard healthcare approaches fail, how things can be approached differently and shared lived experiences. Written for professionals, parents and NeuroKin alike.

I’m proud to stand among these men and women and I’m looking forward to introducing them over the following weeks.

25/01/2025

🧡 unconditional love doesn’t result in freeze, flight, fight or fawn responses. It’s not “I love you no matter what” if that means ignoring harm or sacrificing ourselves. True unconditional love is rooted in acceptance—seeing someone as they are, without trying to change or fix them. But it also means holding love for ourselves just as tenderly.

To truly love ourselves, we must honor our boundaries. Sometimes, this means recognizing that in order to keep loving someone, we may need to limit their involvement in our lives—or even let them go entirely. Love isn’t about enduring what diminishes us; it’s about creating space for both compassion and self-respect. Letting go doesn’t mean we stop loving—it means we choose to love in a way that honors the fullness of who we are.

09/04/2023

We are heading off camping for the next 5 days with limited reception. Catch you all on the flip side with some new and exciting plans for our next events. 😘

03/04/2023

MEET AVA. Our super star child wrangler. ✨✨✨✨

Ava has been babysitting and nannying for over 10yrs! She’s also a support worker. She has all the usual credentials including:

💁🏻‍♀️ blue card
💁🏻‍♀️ First aide
💁🏻‍♀️ years of experience

When Ava isn’t supporting kids she’s:
✨ painting and creating art
✨ camping with friends
✨ spending days at the beach

30/03/2023

❤️ 3 TIPS FOR HAVING THE PERIOD CONVERSATION

✨ Start normalising periods and period products in your home from toddlerhood.

Gone are the days where periods are a secret until our girls reach 9 or 10 and then we SHOCK them with the details.

Normalise periods in your home with both boys and girls.

✨ Lots of little conversations often and building on information and detail each time.

You know your child, let them guide you. Answer questions AND…….

✨ Use resources - books, images, diagrams, videos, workshops, friends and family.

Sometimes it helps if the info comes from other sources too! Encourage conversations with other trusted people and use other sources of info as well according to what suits your child!

And if you want your tween girl to learn more about periods and your here on the Sunshine Coast, you can book them in to our school holiday workshop PERIODS 101

🗓️5th April
⏰10:30am-12:30pm
📍Baringa Community Centre

BOOKING LINK IN BIO
OR copy
>>> https://py.pl/z8Fbp

27/03/2023

WHAT’S COMING UP THIS SCHOOL HOLIDAYS.

APRIL 5th | 10:30am - 12:30pm | Baringa Community Centre rooms 1 & 2

🤎PERIODS 101🤎

With Andrea Sunderland

Periods are still a taboo in our society and for many, full of myths and misinformation. Let us help you start the period conversation with positivity and understanding, minimising embarrassment and creating a sense of celebration and connection.
Your child will come home informed, prepared and confidently ready to start this new adventure in the journey of puberty.

🤎NAVIGATING PERIMENOPAUSE🤎

With Naturopath Colette Carfrae


Colette will show us how to reclaim our health, reinvigorate our life and alleviate uncomfortable symptoms so we can dance into menopause with confidence.

GET YOUR TICKETS AT THE LINK IN OUR BIO. 🤎

26/03/2023

Doesn’t that sound so beautiful?

My kids and I attend the most wonderful little group OT session every week. It’s a new thing, and the beautiful OT who runs it writes this in almost every email.

**our goal this term is to create a space that signals safety to our nervous systems, rather than being purely goal driven, so the children feel secure to form sweet friendships, learn and share together.**

It really grabbed my attention. I thought about several times over the last week, I wrote it up in my whiteboard so I could look at it and it’s because it so perfectly described what I was trying to create for you at our events. And for the facilitators at our events. And also what I am trying to create in my home and in my life and my kids lives after so many years (ever really) living with a nervous system stuck in a fear response.

When I think about all of the events I hold for you, I’ll think about this. Every time. ❤️

21/03/2023

🤎 DO YOU FEEL SNAPPY AND CRANKY OVER THE SMALLEST THINGS?

It could be your nervous system. In fact, it’s very likely, at least in part, you’re nervous system. The huge load placed on mothers and women in generally means that our nervous systems find it hard to distinguish between being chased by a lion and our kid’s noisy breathing.

Checkout some of the ways our nervous system becomes dysregulated. It’s no wonder we’re screaming at our partners for asking where the sauce is.

🧘 If you want to learn more about how to regulate your nervous system with tools you can use IN THE MOMENT- like when kids are crying or yelling or breathing loudly- Come and hang out with us and this Saturday the 25th at 10:30am. Book at the link in our bio.

13/03/2023

NAVIGATING PERIMENOPAUSE ONLINE WORKSHOP is happening this week!

>>>>>BOOK HERE https://py.pl/2DVFPL

Wednesday 15th March | 7:30pm | Zoom

A recording will also be sent out if you can't make it live, but well worth attending on the night as there will be time for questions with Passionately Vital Wellness Clinic Colette Carfrae.

If your 35 or over and you want to:

🙋🏻‍♀️Reduce symptoms
🙋🏾‍♀️Reclaim your health
🙋🏼‍♀️Reinvigorate your life
🙋🏿‍♀️Come through perimenopause with your sanity in tact

Collette will help us:

1. Gain a clear picture of what perimenopause is
2. Explain how perimenopause is a CRITICAL WINDOW of health
3. Her tips on health & wellness strategies, lifestyle changes etc so we can set ourselves up for a smooth transition into menopause.

This workshops is THE GOODS! obviously, I've had a sneak peak 😄! Bring a cuppa (or a wine) and a notepad and pen or other note taking device- but don't stress as everyone will receive the recording too.

Naturopath Colette Carfrae will lead us in a 45 minute workshop for women 35 and over ready to navigate the years leading up to menopause with confidence and transition into menopause with health and vitality. ALL DETAILS WILL BE EMAILED WITHIN 24HRS 😊 contact sam@holdingspaces.com.au for queries...

02/03/2023

MEET COLETTE!

A homeschooling mum and a community-focused business owner and health practitioner. She is a qualified Nutritionist, Naturopath and Herbal Medicine Practitioner and an accredited, practising member of the Australian Natural Therapists Association (ANTA). AND she has a background in Psychology.

Colette loves combining the best of naturopathy’s traditional wisdom and practice with the latest academic research in order to ensure the very best outcomes for her clients.

🤎Women’s Health is her Special Passion

While she welcomes everyone, her special interest is in women’s health. In particular, she loves to assist women in managing the symptoms of perimenopause to support their transition to menopause as comfortably as possible. She can also offer practical solutions of diet, lifestyle, nutritional supplements, as well as tips on how to speak to your doctor about hormone therapy.

Hear colette present NAVIGATING PERIMENOPAUSE.

ONLINE 15th MARCH | 7:30pm

BOOK HERE>>> https://py.pl/2DVFPL or at the LINK IN OUR BIO

01/03/2023

I’ve been working on something and it’s finally here. 😊 WORKSHOP LINE UP FOR MARCH APRIL. Both online and child friendly face to face events. So check ’em out and book at the links below. 😘

ONLINE NAVIGATING PERIMENOPAUSE

https://py.pl/2DVFPL

REALISTIC MINDFULNESS TOOLS FOR MUMS��https://py.pl/JKXqc

PEIRODS 101

https://py.pl/z8Fbp

NAVIGATING PERIMENOPAUSE

https://py.pl/uhJv3

DOUBLE PASS for PERIODS 101/ NAVIGATING PERIMENOPAUSE

https://py.pl/nwoo9

28/02/2023

🙋🏻‍♀️WHAT IS MINDFULNESS?

The practice of applying meditation techniques to every day tasks.

I did not know this!!!! The thought of sitting down for 20 minutes to meditate gives me anxiety. (But I’m not giving up on it! More in another post). BUT attaching meditation techniques to everyday tasks, to help calm these fragile nerves, sounds more doable!

🤎 if you want to learn more about attaching meditation techniques to everyday tasks so you can remain calm when your kids are loosing it, grab a ticket to “Realistic Mindfulness Tools For Mums” LINK IN BIO.