Dooragan House

05/02/2022

Much is said about self-esteem but few know what it means.

It has many nuances, but ultimately it is about our own self worth. 🙃🙂🙃

Trauma undermines our sense of worth, and creates issues with our ability to connect with and express self respect.

So one of the best things to do in healing is to focus on building and re-establishing our self-esteem... our self worth 💐🤗💐

31/01/2022

To deal with anger we must identify and respond to the hurt and wounds we feel and carry.

Next time you feel angry ask yourself what do I feel hurt or wounded about.

And next time someone else is angry remember that it's important to discover what is hurting or wounding them.

29/01/2022

When issues in our lives occur... whether with others or within ourselves it's easy to get swept along with big emotions we experience about the issues at hand. In these times we need to clearly define the issues and realise that the issue is separate from the people involved.

Noone is ever the issue... it is that there are behaviours, beliefs, actions and the like that are the issue... so be gentle on the human and tough on resolving the issues that need change.

That's what it means to be tough on the issue

06/12/2021

It's a free webinar especially for you and it's happening this
Sun, December 12, 2021
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM AEDT

It's for you if you answer yes to one of these:
Has trauma undermined your sense of safety in the world?
Does it impact your daily life or routine?
Learn how to restore a sense of safety.

Book your free tickets here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/x/6-tools-to-restore-a-sense-of-safety-in-the-world-after-trauma-tickets-199573749457

06/12/2021

It's a free webinar especially for you and it's happening this
Tue, December 14, 2021
7:00 PM – 8:00 PM AEDT

Does overwhelm make your days harder than they need to be?
Does it impact your daily life or routine?
It's time to discover how to regain control so you can get on track to succeed.

Book your free tickets here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/how-to-regain-your-centre-when-feeling-overwhelmed-tickets-199572796607?keep_tld=1

30/11/2021

🐝 Our brain and body have evolved to keep us alive and keep us safe.

🦉When significant events occur in our life, we record the particulars for future safety.

🌼 The brain and body record the particulars of the event so we can be safe and stay alive. When the brain and body record it, it is like turning all the colours up in an image, tuning up all the sounds, increasing the intensity of all smells, tastes, feelings, sensations, etc.

🐬 The nervous system imprints all the most crucial "facts" of the event.

💓 These recordings are what gets 'triggered' in trauma. The crucial 'facts' of the situation floods back.

🌟 Our first response is always one of survival. Our thinking, creative and problem-solving brain goes off-line and into survival resources only.

🧚 We must learn how to manage when we get triggered. Above is just one effective short process that some people find helps them.

Check out Upcoming Online Free Events-
🌈 6 Tools to Restore a Sense of Safety in the World After Trauma
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/199573749457
🍄 How to Regain your Centre when feeling Overwhelmed
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/199572796607

25/11/2021

🐝 Domestic violence is an issue worldwide. Not a single land is free from violence against others. Those who perpetrate the violence do it to those with who they are closest.

🦉 It speaks loudly of our social norms and cultural beliefs. Each land has slightly different belief systems, cultural rules and paradigms. There are, however, some similarities that condone violence against those we hold closest.

🌼 Domestic violence is systemic due to power differences between people. While some people are feeling disempowered, other people are being disempowered and oppressed. It leads to a deadly combination. Domestic violence can kill. When it doesn't kill the body, it leaves scars carried for life in the mind, body and ability to connect to one's spirit.

🌟 We all must take actions- big or small to end violence. Our actions (or lack of action) either dispel domestic violence or condone it (implicitly or explicitly). The most important thing is being consistent in the change

01/11/2021

🌼 These messages have the ability to alter our identity of ourselves and our beliefs. Therefore it is given the power to alter our behaviour towards ourselves (and others)

🦉 When we take ownership of a message that someone else says to us, we are giving our power to them.

🌼 These messages have the ability to alter our identity of ourselves and our beliefs. Therefore it is given the power to alter our behaviour towards ourselves (and others).

🐬 These words or messages are not yours!!! They belong to the person who said them... They are not a reflection of you, but of the other person's consciousness.

💓 So, give those words back to the owner, and begin now to treat yourself with the love, respect and care you know you are deserving of and is your right.

🐬 These words or messages are not yours!!! They belong to the person who said them... They are not a reflection of you, but of the other person's consciousness.

🌟 Be kind, be generous, be self-respecting and self-nurturing. End the cycle. It begins today. 🌟

25/10/2021

🐝 Trauma we experience can change the way we see ourselves and how we think about ourselves. Trauma may change our identity.

🦉 The great news is it is possible to change our identity into something that is true of us, despite what has happened in our life.

🐬 When we learn simple to apply tools that help us to move from overwhelm (trauma) and be in our power we get to choose and create our life again.

💓 There is a way to recreate your identity into something where you feel proud, and alive again. Where you are writing the story of your life as you dream it to be.

🌟 It starts with the choice to heal your life, to heal the past and the present... clearing the way for your future identity to be one of strength, flow, joy and ease. 🌟

18/10/2021

🐝 When we experience a painful moment in our life our brain (amygdala) registers it as something to pay attention to and to avoid at all costs in the future.

🦉 It becomes programmed in our nervous system and in our body cells as a memory with charge on it.

🌼 How we process what happens to us at any moment is where we have the power to program it as trauma or as a moment we are in our power.

🐬 What we see, how we feel, the smells, the noises, the tastes, the thoughts we have and what we say to ourselves about the event influences what happens to it in the brain, and how it is stored.

💓 So your power comes by adjusting those aspects to make it be what you want to remember it as. You are in control of your mind, your body and your life through the decisions you make in each moment.

🌟 Trauma does happen, but it can be healed. Sometimes we are so overwhelmed by the moment, trauma will be registered in the body. Thankfully, after the event, it can be changed. 🌟

11/10/2021

🐝 Trauma experienced in life can lend us a weary hand where we get separated from ourselves, our power, our connection to our strengths and our truest identity.

🦉 In taking time to centre, to connect, to be calm and thinking good of ourselves is great power for a life filled with life, more ease and joy.

🌼 Thinking good of ourselves sends energetic messages to others to treat us good too

🐬 In treating ourselves well and good, we also are more inclined to spread this care and positiveness to others for a better world to live in. We attract people who are more like us...

💓 Take time to be good to yourself today, for more ease, flow, love and joy in your world. 💓

🌟 Despite what has happened in your life, you deserve to think good of yourself 🌟

04/10/2021

🐝 As trauma survivors we often feel that things are just impossible... this is because we are overwhelmed.

🦉 Overwhelm is not a time to make decisions about things that matter in our life.

🌼 So take a moment to calm yourself and come back to your centre. Put the palm of your hand on your forehead, and breathe deeply and slowly. Tell yourself at this moment everything is okay, or we will find a way to work this out.

🐬When you are calm, strong and centred, this is the time to make decisions about things that are important to you and HOW you are going to do something, and WHEN. It may be now, to later (With a date and specific time in mind)

💓 Be kind to yourself and stay connected to your centre, your power. 💓

03/10/2021

🐝 There are times in our life when we want to transform our lives.
🦉 These times are motivated by one of two places...
🌼 Times when we get so inspired or times when we are so desperate for the change... that we then commit ourselves to the effort that is required to create the change now.

🐬 Which method do you use most?

💓 It creates a powerful understanding when you know what motivates you. Does it not?

🌟Now you know how to go about kick-starting change. Yes?

🧚 And now you can go ahead and create it without delay. :-)

17/08/2021

As survivors of trauma, we know how this feels. When you are doing your best with what you know, you have been put into survival mode during these times.... and then a seemingly simple thing happens that makes it all tumble down and bring you to your knees, crying and feeling broken all over again. Be kind to yourself in these moments. Reach out and get help to come back out of survival mode so you can think clearly again, be able to carry the items you need as you move forwards, and put in the past the things you no longer need to carry with you. At Dooragan House we are here reaching our hand out to you, willing to help stop the survival existing, and move you into living life. Blessing and care to you, and a soft landing when you come to your knees. Maybe even you know it is time to reach out before you have to come to that.

You never know the burdens being carried by others. Be kind to those around you...and gentle with yourself.

04/08/2021

It's time for us all to make sure we are following Covid protocols to the highest level... It has been detected in Lake Cathie and Bonny Hills.

⚠️ PUBLIC HEALTH ALERT - SEWAGE DETECTION
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NSW Health have announced that sewage samples taken from Belmont, Shortland and Burwood Beach, Coffs Harbour and Bonny Hills sewage treatment plants have all returned positive detection results for COVID-19.

These treatment plants cover a population of over 400,000 people across Newcastle, Lake Macquarie and southern Port Stephens.

Following these results NSW Health strongly encourage anyone who has even the mildest symptoms to get tested.

Testing locations can be found via https://www.nsw.gov.au/covid-19/health-and-wellbeing/clinics.

The catchment for the treatment plants where positive detections occurred cover the following suburbs:

🟧 Burwood: Newcastle City area and surrounding suburbs of Dudley, Charlestown, Jesmond, Lambton, New Lambton, Mayfield, Elermore Vale, Wallsend, Kotara, Garden Suburb, Adamstown Heights, Kahibah, Highfields, Merewether, Waratah West, Georgetown and Carrington.

🟧 Belmont: Belmont, Warners Bay, Gateshead, Tingira Heights, Bennetts Green, Jewells, Redhead, Eleebana, Croudace Bay, Valentine, Marks Point, Blacksmiths, Pelican, Swansea, Swansea Heads, and Caves Beach.

🟧 Shortland: Shortland, Cameron Park, Minmi, Fletcher, Maryland, Birmingham Gardens, Wallsend, Callaghan, Sandgate, Stockton, Fern Bay and Mayfield West

🟧 Coffs Harbour: Coffs Harbour area

🟧 Bonny Hills: Bonny Hills, Lake Cathie,

30/07/2021

This is embracing our inherent strength... accepting our abilities and making the best of our living moments. We can all live what we have. 😇

Members of Deaf Indigenous Dance Group practise on a wooden stage so that they can feel the drums and the tapping of the sticks.