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Deb and Me, Online, Mackay (2026)

09/06/2026

💚 Infant Mental Health Awareness Week (8–14 June 2026) 💚

Did you know that a child's emotional wellbeing begins long before they can put their feelings into words?

The early years are a critical time for brain development, emotional regulation and relationship building.

Safe, secure relationships help children develop confidence, resilience and a strong foundation for lifelong mental health.

While Infant Mental Health Awareness Week shines a spotlight on babies and toddlers, the principles of secure attachment continue to support children's wellbeing throughout childhood.

As a licensed Circle of Security Parenting® (COSP) facilitator, I support parents and caregivers to better understand what their child is communicating through their behaviour, strengthen connection and respond with confidence during both the easy and challenging moments of parenting.

COSP is an evidence-informed program that helps caregivers:

✨ Understand their child's emotional needs
✨ Build secure attachment and connection
✨ Support emotional regulation
✨ Strengthen confidence in their parenting

I offer the program in both group and individual formats.

If you would like to learn more about supporting safe, secure attachment with your infant or child, I'd love to chat. 💫

07/06/2026

Monday Musing…
Not every potato is perfect. Not every week is either.

Life leaves a few bruises on all of us from time to time. But bruised doesn’t mean broken. It doesn’t mean we stop being valuable, capable, or worthy.

As we step into a new week, let’s remember that showing up matters more than showing up perfectly.

We’ve got this 🙌

Wellbeing tip from Deb and Me:
If a potato with a bruise can still be useful, perhaps we can too 🥔 💫
Ps - don’t judge my cutting board … it’s seen some things 😂

04/06/2026

🌿NEW RESOURCE NOW AVAILABLE 🌿

I’m so pleased to share something I’ve been quietly creating behind the scenes…

Helping Children Heal
A practical trauma-informed guide for caregivers

This guide was asked for by caregivers supporting children who have experienced trauma.

Supporting children through big feelings, overwhelm and healing can feel a lot at times.
This resource offers gentle guidance, practical strategies and trauma-informed tools to support both children and the adults caring for them.
Inside you’ll find:

✓ understanding trauma and behaviour
✓ co-regulation support
✓ calming strategies
✓ breathing and grounding tools
✓ reflection prompts for caregivers
✓ practical ideas to support connection, safety and healing

Created with warmth through the Deb & Me lens … practical, relational and grounded in connection.

📥 Available now as a downloadable PDF
💛 Hard-copy workbook also available by request
🔗 Link to purchase/download here: https://payhip.com/DebandMe

This guide is part one of a series I am working on. Keep an eye out for next releases including guides on 'Helping Children Through Grief and Loss', and other important topics.

Workshops for therapists, service providers and parents/caregivers are being facilitated. If you are interested in participating in deeper learning about how to support people living with trauma, please reach out to express your interest, and I will be sure to let you know when the next workshop becomes available 💫

02/06/2026

There is something special that happens when people come together with openness, curiosity and a willingness to learn from one another ...

Yesterday’s 'In Safe Hands' workshop was filled with meaningful conversations, practical learning, reflection and connection. Participants shared that they valued the practical tools, reflective activities and the opportunity to learn in a safe and supportive environment alongside their peers.

My favourite part was witnessing people encourage one another, share their experiences, and discover that they are not alone in the challenges and responsibilities they carry.

Thank you to everyone who showed up, shared your wisdom and contributed so generously to the learning in the room.

Creating wellness really does happen one connection at a time 💫

If you are a supervisor or supervisee who would like to be part of supporting best outcomes for supervision, please reach out to secure a seat at the next 'In Safe Hands' workshop during August 2026!

31/05/2026

Monday Musing ...
Feel the adrenaline.

Before any workshop delivery, I notice the adrenaline in my body…
That little buzz of nervous energy. The quickened heartbeat. The extra spark.

For me, it feels like energy to connect with new people. Energy to learn from each other. Energy to show up fully in the room.

Over time, I’ve learned not to fight that feeling… but to welcome it.

Embracing the adrenaline is something I intentionally do.
Sometimes that looks like a few slow breaths.
Sometimes it looks like a quiet pep talk.
And sometimes… it looks like throwing on Eye of the Tiger and telling myself, “I’ve got this.” 🎵💛

Wellbeing tip from Deb and Me:
Not all nerves are a warning sign. Sometimes they’re simply your body helping you get ready for something meaningful.
When you feel that buzz this week, pause before pushing it away and ask yourself:
“Is this anxiety… or is this energy preparing me to show up?”

24/05/2026

Monday Musing ...
The ADHD Brain.

A little person I work with lives with an ADHD brain.
And what a marvellous brain it is 💫

A brain full of creativity, curiosity, imagination and wonderfully “out of the box” thinking.
A brain that notices things others often miss.

At times though, this same brain can find tasks requiring sustained attention, focus and stillness incredibly challenging. Not because this little person is “naughty” or “not trying hard enough”; but because ADHD brains are wired differently.

In my therapy room, this little person enjoys spending time with Shelly the Sloth.
Together, we practice three-minute “sloth moments” 🦥

We pick up books like a sloth.
We walk across the room like a sloth.
We even dance like a sloth.

There are lots of giggles … but also something beautifully intentional happening underneath the fun.
These moments help create opportunities to pause, regulate and gently reset a busy brain rather than overwhelm or bore it.

Shelly has now been joined by a brother sloth named Stevie, who sometimes sits beside this little person in the classroom when slowing down and grounding feels helpful.

A beautiful reminder that sometimes support does not need to be loud or complicated.
Sometimes support looks like understanding.
Creativity.
Connection.
And a little sloth named Stevie 💛

Truthfully, there are moments I think we could all benefit from carrying a support sloth around with us during stressful days 😅

Wellbeing tip from Deb and Me:
Different brains do not need shaming or “fixing” … they need understanding, flexibility and safe spaces to thrive. Sometimes the most meaningful support begins when we stop asking people to fit the world, and instead help the world better fit them 💫

22/05/2026

27 women have been murdered in Australia so far in 2026!

Twenty-seven lives lost. Twenty-seven families forever changed.

Since launching private practice, I am once again directly supporting people experiencing domestic and family violence. What is confronting is that coercive control continues to exist within relationships and many of the systemic gaps, barriers and inadequate responses I witnessed more than 10 years ago, are still being experienced today.

Too often, those living with fear, manipulation and control are expected to navigate systems that can feel overwhelming, inconsistent or difficult to access at the very time they are most vulnerable.

We cannot continue to speak about domestic and family violence only after lives are lost. Prevention, early intervention, education, accountability and trauma-informed responses must remain a national priority … not simply a reactive conversation when tragedy occurs.

This is a national crisis demanding stronger action, safer systems and ongoing community responsibility!

Rest peacefully to all lives lost.
And to those currently experiencing violence or coercive control … you deserve to be heard, believed, supported and safe. 💫

20/05/2026

20th May … World Bee Day 🐝🍯

A timely reminder of the healing benefits found in honey as we head into cold and flu season… and honestly, after reading these bee facts, I’ve decided bees are wildly overworked and deserve annual leave 😂

Did you know…

🐝 Bees don’t actually have knees.
Which means “the bee’s knees” is one of history’s most confusing sayings.

🐝 Honey has natural antiseptic properties and has historically been used to help treat burns, wounds and cuts.

🐝 Athletes often use honey as a natural energy boost.
Meanwhile I’m over here using it to justify tea and toast 🫖😂

🐝 Beekeeping dates back more than 4,500 years.

🐝 Bees must gather nectar from TWO MILLION flowers to make just half a kilo of honey 😳

🐝 One bee may fly around 145,000 kilometres in its lifetime to help make that honey.
That’s basically a FIFO worker with wings.

🐝 The average bee produces only 1/12th of a teaspoon of honey in its entire lifetime.
Imagine working that hard and someone squeezing your life’s work onto burnt crumpets in 3 seconds 😭😂

🐝 A honey bee visits between 50–100 flowers in one trip.
I get annoyed doing two errands in one outing.

🐝 Bees can fly up to around 24 kilometres per hour.

🐝 And perhaps my favourite fact of all … Bees communicate by dancing 💃🐝
Honestly, this feels like a communication style I could fully commit to.
No emails. No meetings. Just interpretive dancing and aggressive jazz hands when stressed 😂

Wellness reminder from Deb & Me:
Even the busiest little beings remind us to pause, connect, work together … and enjoy a little sweetness along the way 💫

17/05/2026

Monday Musing 💫

A friend shared with me recently that she is her harshest critic …

It got me thinking about how common that experience really is. So many of us hold ourselves to incredibly high standards. We strive to grow, improve, achieve and do better … and while there is beauty in continuous improvement, there also needs to be gentleness along the way.

Growth does not have to come through punishment.�Learning does not require shame.�Becoming a better version of yourself should never come at the expense of your wellbeing.

Sometimes the voice we speak to ourselves with is far harsher than we would ever speak to someone we love. Yet kindness, compassion and understanding are often the very things we need most in moments where we feel we’ve fallen short.

What if we allowed ourselves to be both a work in progress and worthy of care at the same time?

Wellbeing tip from Deb and Me:
Speak to yourself with the same kindness and encouragement you so freely offer others. Growth flourishes best in environments of compassion, not criticism 💫

12/05/2026

Our Culture of Care Framework in action today 💫

Today, Nomes and I had the privilege of spending time with a full room of people who chose to pause, reflect, and move toward improved wellness and sustainable care for themselves.

The program delivered today represents phase two of our Culture of Care Framework - our Sustaining You program - an opportunity for people to:�
Reflect. Restore. Be well.

Day one focused on understanding the impacts of burnout and vicarious trauma, particularly the ways they affect both brain function and the body - emotionally, mentally and physically. Together, we explored an important truth:�
Wellness is not something that simply happens to us … it is a choice. A choice that deserves intention, care and attention.

Throughout the day, participants were gently invited to reflect on what wellness truly looks like for them personally ... not someone else’s version, but their own vision of a life that feels healthy, sustainable and meaningful.

We concluded the day with choice and intention … creating space for each person to begin imagining the life, balance and wellbeing they want to move toward.

On day two, participants will bring these visions back with them as Nomes and I share practical, tangible tools to help support sustained wellness in both life and work.

If your workplace wants to know more about how our Culture of Care framework can support you and your staff to experience sustained wellness, please reach out 💫

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