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Untangled Therapy and Training is a specialised occupational therapy and mental health service located in Bunbury and servicing the southwest of Western Australia.

28/08/2026

Seven years ago today our eldest was born and I became a mum.

I had absolutely no idea what was coming.

I knew I would love our baby.
I knew my life would change.
I knew there would be sleepless nights and nappies and tiny clothes and a whole new routine.

What I didn’t know was that I was also becoming someone new.

I didn’t know about matrescence.

I didn’t know that becoming a mother could feel like both an expansion and a loss. That you could be completely in love with your baby and simultaneously grieve parts of the person you had been.

I didn’t know how much my identity would shift.

How my priorities would change.
How my nervous system would change.
How my relationship with my body would change.
How motherhood would stretch parts of me I didn’t know could stretch.

I didn’t know how hard it could be.

The exhaustion.
The uncertainty.
The pressure to get it right.
The opinions.
The invisible mental load.
The moments of wondering where I had gone.

I also didn’t know how incredible the becoming would be.

How motherhood would introduce me to a depth of love I couldn’t have imagined.

How much I would learn about myself.

How fiercely I would advocate.
How much softer I would become in some places and stronger in others.
How my understanding of women, mothers, identity, relationships, bodies and mental health would deepen.

Seven years into my matrescence, I don’t think I am the woman I was before motherhood and I know I am not meant to be.

I am still becoming.

And perhaps that is one of the most beautiful things about motherhood.

Happy 7th Birthday to our eldest 🤍 I will forever be grateful that I get to grow up with you.

24/08/2026

Caring deeply about people can sometimes mean carrying more than is actually ours.

Their feelings.
Their expectations.
Their reactions.
Their problems.

A gentle reminder: caring does not require you to carry everything.

18/08/2026

Sometimes we get so used to noticing what everyone else needs that we forget to check in with ourselves

17/08/2026

Anger can be deceptive.

It is big.
It is loud.
It is hard to ignore.

And sometimes anger is exactly what we are feeling.

But sometimes it is also carrying something else.

Hurt.
Fear.
Shame.
Disappointment.
Rejection.
Feeling powerless.

Sometimes anger is the part that says,
“Something about this feels too much”.

That does not make the anger wrong.
And it does not mean we need to look past it or explain it away.

It simply gives us another place to be curious.

Rather than only asking a child or ourselves to manage anger we can also wonder:
What is this anger telling us?
What happened just before it arrived?
What else might be sitting alongside it?

Because understanding anger is not the same as excusing what happens when we are angry.

We can hold the boundary and stay curious about what’s underneath.

11/08/2026

We [society] talk a lot about body positivity.

Love your body.
Celebrate your body.
Be grateful for your body.

But what happens when you don’t feel any of those things?

Maybe you don’t love your body.

Maybe you don’t even particularly like it.

Maybe you’ve spent years feeling disconnected from it, judging it, changing it, hiding it or trying to make it smaller.

And maybe ‘love your body’ feels like one more thing you are failing at.

What if we aimed for something different?

What if you could feel at home in your body?

Not because you think it’s perfect.

Not because you love every part of it.

But because your body is the place you live your life.

The body that carries you through your children’s bedtime.
The body that gets you through work.
The body that experiences pleasure, exhaustion, grief, excitement and connection.
The body that changes through puberty, pregnancy, postpartum, perimenopause and ageing.

Our bodies are not separate from our everyday lives.

How we experience our bodies can influence what we wear, where we go, whether we participate, how we move, how we connect with others and the things we feel able to do.

So perhaps the goal is not always how do I learn to love my body?

Maybe it is how do I learn to live in my body with a little less judgement?

How do I participate in my life without waiting until my body changes?

How do I care for my body without constantly trying to control it?

How do I reconnect with the experience of being a person rather than constantly evaluating what I look like?

You don’t have to love your body every day.

You don’t even have to like it.

But you deserve to experience your life without your body being the price of admission.

Maybe body acceptance is not about finally loving what you see in the mirror.

Maybe it’s about remembering that you are so much more than what your body looks like.

04/08/2026

How often have you told yourself “I just need to be more calm”.

It is something so many of us strive for yet it can leave us feeling like we’re failing when life feels messy, overwhelming or emotionally intense.

But here is the thing, the goal is not to be calm all the time.

A healthy nervous system is not designed to stay in one state.

It’s meant to move.

To feel excitement when something lights you up.
To feel grief when you have experienced loss.
To feel frustration when your boundaries have been crossed.
To feel joy, curiosity, passion, anticipation and love.

The goal is not to avoid these emotions.

The goal is to be able to move through them without becoming stuck there.

Regulation is not about never feeling anxious, angry or overwhelmed. It’s about recognising what’s happening in your body, responding with compassion rather than criticism and trusting that you can find your way back.

Some days regulated might look like tackling a busy day with confidence. Other days it might look like cancelling plans, asking for help, going for a walk, crying in the shower or choosing an early night because your nervous system is asking for rest.

That is not failure. That is flexibility.

So if you have been judging yourself for not feeling calm lately, perhaps the question is not “why can’t I just be more calm?”

Maybe it is “What is my nervous system trying to tell me today?”

Your nervous system isn’t asking you to be perfect.
It is however asking you to listen.

28/07/2026

If you have ever had this thought you are not alone.

When we look in the mirror, we often assume we are seeing ourselves objectively but we are not just seeing an image, we are interpreting it.

Our brains make sense of what we see by drawing on our past experiences, beliefs, emotions, memories and the messages we have absorbed over time.
Those experiences can influence where our attention goes and the meaning we attach to our reflection.

If you have spent years believing you are too much, not enough or focusing on perceived flaws, your brain may become more likely to notice the parts that seem to confirm those beliefs. This is called confirmation bias.

This is why two people can look in the mirror and have very different experiences.

The reflection may be the same.
The story attached to it is not.

So the next time you catch yourself thinking, “I don’t like what I see,” pause for a moment and ask yourself:
Am I responding to what I am seeing or to the story my brain has learned to tell me about what I’m seeing?

You deserve the same compassion you so readily offer to the people you love.

Healing doesn’t begin by changing the reflection.

It often begins by changing the relationship you have with it.

27/07/2026

✨ It’s finally here! ✨

After months of planning, writing, refining (and lots of editing), I am so excited to officially launch the Untangled Therapy and Training Professional Development & Consultancy Catalogue.

This catalogue brings together everything we have been building over more than a decade: practical, evidence informed training and consultancy designed to support educators, school leaders and school communities navigating behaviour, regulation, mental health, trauma and student wellbeing.

Inside you’ll find four comprehensive training streams:
• Behaviour, Regulation & Emotional Safety
• Mental Health, Trauma & Student Wellbeing
• Educator Wellbeing & Staff Capacity
• Leadership & Whole School Approaches

Every workshop has been developed from years of clinical practice, working alongside schools, and a genuine passion for helping educators deepen their understanding of the children and young people they support.

Our goal has never been to provide ‘one more thing’ for schools to do. Instead, it is about building understanding, confidence and practical strategies that can be embedded into everyday practice, creating calmer classrooms, stronger relationships and better outcomes for both students and staff.

Whether you are looking for a single workshop, a full professional development day or ongoing consultancy support, training can be tailored to meet the unique needs of your school or organisation.

Thank you to every educator, school and leadership team who has trusted me to learn alongside you. I’m incredibly excited for what’s ahead.

📩 If you’d like a copy of the catalogue or would like to discuss professional learning for your school, I would love to hear from you.

You can find a copy of the catalogue on our website www.untangledtt.com.au/training

25/07/2026

Both can be true.

You can be deeply grateful for your child while also feeling exhausted.
You can adore them and still long for a moment of quiet.
You can cherish this season and still grieve the parts of yourself that have changed.
You can know they’re not giving you a hard time while also acknowledging that you are having a hard time.

Parenting isn’t difficult because you don’t love your child enough.

It’s difficult because it asks so much of you.

It stretches your patience, your nervous system, your identity, your relationships and your capacity in ways few other experiences do.

Struggling doesn’t make you a bad parent.
It makes you a human parent.

You don’t have to choose between loving your child and being honest about how hard this can be.

The two can exist together.

🤍 Sometimes the most healing thing we can do is let go of the guilt and make space for the whole experience of parenthood.

24/07/2026

Grief is so often associated with death but it reaches far beyond losing a person.

We can grieve the childhood we didn’t have.
The relationship we hoped would be different.
The version of ourselves we had to leave behind.
The life we imagined.
The loss of safety, health, identity, fertility, innocence or dreams that never came to be.

The thing about grief is that it doesn’t simply disappear because time has passed.

Sometimes a new experience shines a light on an old wound. Becoming a parent may bring up grief for the parenting you didn’t receive.
A healthy relationship can highlight the pain of past ones. Feeling safe for the first time may uncover emotions you had to push aside just to survive.

This is not a sign that you’ve failed to heal.

It is often a sign that you’re in a place where your mind and body are finally ready to process another layer of what was lost.

Healing isn’t linear and grief isn’t something we ‘get over’.
We learn to carry it differently as we grow.

So if an old grief has resurfaced we can meet it with curiosity rather than criticism. It may simply be asking to be acknowledged in a way it couldn’t before.

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Bunbury, WA
6230

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http://www.untangledtt.com/

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