New Leaf Social Work

New Leaf Social Work 🌱 Neuroqueering
🌱 Trauma-informed support to guide your relationship with self, others, and the big scary world
🌱 Rebuild, reclaim, resist

It's been such a big week. But then I think I've said that for the approximately 216 weeks I've been a social worker so ...
24/04/2026

It's been such a big week. But then I think I've said that for the approximately 216 weeks I've been a social worker so maybe it's just the job I chose 😅

The vibe of this week has been talking about boundaries and taking your power back by going "actually no, this situation/relationship in its current form isn't going to work for me and it probably hasn't ever but I'm learning some things and it's time to choose me for once." What beautiful and scary work to do as a human. It's some of my favourite work to get to witness 🥹

Other themes include being annoyed as heck at the pesky ol' ED that once served you but is just holding you back. We're saying goodbye slowly but surely. That's also so scary! But very empowering to take back real control and power over mind + body + soul.

Basically, I'm in complete awe of the humans I get to work alongside everyday. It's really a blessing to be this tired from such a cool job. And I'm always reminded that if I'm this tired and my people are doing the heavy lifting to shift their lives, they are the real superstars 🌟

Anyway, I really need to know which basket you pick. This has been on my mind for a while 😅 it's also a timely executive function reminder that the shops are mostly all closed tomorrow so if you need anything, peel yourself off your couch or bed and go get it this evening.

Getting to experience Shark Cage on placement as a social work student changed my life as a neurodivergent human. So as ...
21/04/2026

Getting to experience Shark Cage on placement as a social work student changed my life as a neurodivergent human. So as soon as I could, I trained in it so I could teach it.

Learning about the ways trauma has impacted you, how boundaries work, how to spot people who potentially want to manipulate or abuse you, and how to communicate what you actually mean/want/say no? LIFE CHANGING.

It's nice that folks I've taught Shark Cage to have also said that it has changed their lives as well. Now we have that shared experience. Wholesome and empowering as!

This is my first time facilitating it online and I'm excited to open up to a broader range of people outside of Toowoomba. Link in bio or via https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/the-shark-cage-online-group-program-eoi-tickets-1984837782237?aff=oddtdtcreator

21/04/2026

Rental inspection? No worries bring your cat into my office. Haven't eaten? Bring your cheese platter. Whatever is helpful for you. It's so interesting that we tell people they are the experts in their lives but then have heaps of rules about how therapy should look.

I really want to use lists more because I think half my problem is keeping a mental load list in my brain that feels lik...
19/04/2026

I really want to use lists more because I think half my problem is keeping a mental load list in my brain that feels like it's eating me alive sometimes.

What app or physical list things work for you and why? Help me become a list person or just tell me if I'm absolutely ADHD delulu and it'll never work 😅

I have started using some app called "to do list" and I'm trying to remember to write all the random things in there that live in my mental list. I just wrote down "update photos in my hallway". Will it ever get done? Only time will tell haha!

No wonder when gen z have so much climate anxiety. This movie had 5 minutes of not sad content and then 1.5 hours of the...
19/04/2026

No wonder when gen z have so much climate anxiety. This movie had 5 minutes of not sad content and then 1.5 hours of the saddest and guilt-inducing moral responsibility to save the penguins and the world.

What a big week in the world this week has been ft a magpie carrying around an envelope in my neighbourhood. Where did t...
17/04/2026

What a big week in the world this week has been ft a magpie carrying around an envelope in my neighbourhood. Where did they get that and why? 😅

How are you planning to spend your weekend winding down? For me, this book just arrived today and I'm hoping it's sunny so I can lay outside and devour it. I think I have a workshop on shame percolating in my brain at the moment and this might be the final piece of it.

Neuroqueer book club is ONLINE and it's a quiet lil supportive group of people who mostly come to use the sense of urgency and external accountability to read a book they've been meaning to read... and then we all get there and no one has read the book in true us style. Which is super okay too. No rules, no pressure.

Want to join? Link in bio or via https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/online-neuroqueer-book-club-tickets-1977334449567?aff=oddtdtcreator

And if you have any idea's for future books to read, I'll love to hear your recommendations.

PMDD workshop tomorrow. Here are the key details:- Join LIVE at 5.30pm AEST Thursday or RECORDED and sent out afterwards...
15/04/2026

PMDD workshop tomorrow. Here are the key details:

- Join LIVE at 5.30pm AEST Thursday or RECORDED and sent out afterwards for you to watch when you can
- Open to PMDD sufferers, clinicians, carers, partners, and anyone who wants to learn more about PMDD
- NDIS billing options available if it aligns with your goals
- Pricing starts at $15 for individuals!

Workshop covers:
- DSM criteria
- Education on hormonal cycle and current most evidence based understanding of why PMDD happens
- Treatments including key medical, surgical, lifestyle, social and psychological supports
- Lived experience and clinician angle
- The treatment gap and self-advocacy supports
- Hope!!!!! There's always a lil hope!!

Link in bio or via https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/living-with-this-hell-pmdd-101-tickets-1985697811608?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl

Please share with anyone who might benefit or simply feel validated listening to me, in luteal right now about to spontaneously combust from PMDD headache/joint pain/fatigued as HECk/insomnia/wound up etetcetc talk about it like someone who ~gets~ it.

14/04/2026

My gp is the best girlypop ever so we can't come for her but damn, PMDD knowledge and research needs some funding.

Did you know that it's PMDD awareness month?I have a workshop on Thursday, recorded and live, for both clinicians and fo...
13/04/2026

Did you know that it's PMDD awareness month?

I have a workshop on Thursday, recorded and live, for both clinicians and folks who are PMDD curious. I'm trialling opening workshops up to everyone because I just feel like I don't really talk in a way about clients where I'd not want them around for a clinician workshop etc so why not let everyone join when it's a 101 crash course anyway.

And who better to hear and learn from if you're a clinician than people with lived experienced! I'm both. Let's do this!

Comment 🔥and I'll send you the link :)

I really needed a visual description to embody the experience of feeling tension and a rising sense of doom that could j...
12/04/2026

I really needed a visual description to embody the experience of feeling tension and a rising sense of doom that could just explode and make you spontaneously combust at *any* moment. I always feel like it's the rising suspense and tension of winding up a jack in the box, even knowing it's coming, but being terrified nonetheless when it pops out.

I'll talk more about this in my PMDD workshop on Thursday. Join us - https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/living-with-this-hell-pmdd-101-tickets-1985697811608?aff=oddtdtcreator

Being an upstander doesn't mean silence in the face of racism or any other harm. It means pausing to ask: is what I am p...
12/04/2026

Being an upstander doesn't mean silence in the face of racism or any other harm. It means pausing to ask: is what I am participating in still oriented toward repair? Or has it become harassment, public humiliation, a dynamic where one person holds all the power over when another person gets to be okay again?

Upstanding means speaking up against the original harm. And sometimes (at big personal cost that I'm about to cop) it means speaking up when the response to that harm has itself become something we wouldn't defend if we saw it happening in a different context.

The standard you walk past is the standard you are willing to accept. And this behaviour has become unacceptable. And I cannot remain silent. Holding everyone in mind because there's a lot of pain and hurt about. This isn't about taking sides, it's about saying enough is enough.

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