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Affirmations - What are affirmations, why do they work, how do they work, how are they useful for a domestic violence survivor
Affirmations are simple (but powerful, we’ll get to that later) tools that involve repeating positive statements to encourage a...
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Sep 8, 20243 min read
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What is Self-Care and Why Do Domestic Violence Survivors Need to Learn Self-Care Tools?
It is crucial for survivors to seek out self-care practices to break this cycle and promote long-term healing and overall well-being.
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Sep 1, 20244 min read
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Embracing Self-Care: Moving Beyond Feeling Stuck
It's Self-Care Sunday, and I want to take this opportunity to talk about a feeling many of us know all too well: being "STUCK".
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Jul 7, 20242 min read
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Empowering Journeys with Broken to Brilliant's Support Walk
The Broken to Brilliant's Support Walks in West Chermside Brisbane and Mackay are filled with laughter, healing, gratitude, and community co
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Nov 22, 20234 min read
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Our Open Day and RESTORE Experience
The RESTORE Program is a specialised initiative designed to empower women survivors on their journey to healing.
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Oct 25, 20233 min read
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Spreading the Message of Care, One Bag at a Time: St. Rita's College Students' Take Action
Care and Compassion Packs In a world often marred by challenges, it's inspiring to see young minds taking proactive steps to make a...
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Oct 18, 20233 min read
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Dear Money: My money relationship
I learned strategies to help manage our money. A key one to get started with was to determine our limiting beliefs and blocks with money.
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Apr 26, 20232 min read
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Using Regulation Tools to sustain peace after DV
I’d had a really big day and was tired and agitated when we had the Broken to Brilliant lesson on tools for regulating our emotions.
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Apr 19, 20233 min read
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The Handbag Reminder
This day was different.
The counsellors explained that the bags had been donated and prepared for women who had left domestic violence
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Apr 12, 20233 min read
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Planning Self-Care
I now see that planning self-care is essential. It makes me feel good and helps me to be more organised. Making self-care a priority is...
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Apr 5, 20233 min read
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Finding the time to be active
Our self-care challenge was to include more activity or exercise to improve healing. My first response was: when am I going to fit more...
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Oct 30, 20223 min read
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Relieving DV stresses through Tapping or Time Out.
Starting the tapping activity for this blog, was a reminder of when I used this method years ago. Positioning myself for Tapping...
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Oct 23, 20223 min read
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Being active after Domestic Violence
I was so excited about making changes to better my life and to introduce activities that I could continue with regularly. I made a simple...
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Oct 16, 20222 min read
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Climbing the summit in search of support
You can’t deal with a domestic violence crisis or the long and hard healing journey alone. Broken to Brilliant strongly recommends that...
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Oct 9, 20223 min read
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Do the Work: The long term impact of abuse
A key process to rebuild your life after abuse is to ‘Do the Work’. Now this is not as easy as it sounds. You may think it is just doing...
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Oct 5, 20223 min read
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Self-care towards healing after Domestic Violence
When I learnt about self-care using the illustration of a fenced corral, I could only see a wide open space. The thought of fencing in my...
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Aug 1, 20222 min read
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How I get enough sleep
If you’re reading this blog, I guess it caught your attention because you’re looking for ways to get a better night’s sleep.
I’ve been look
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May 19, 20222 min read
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How I tackled anxiety and nightmares to heal my sleep
Trauma impacts sleep, and it caused significant challenges for me.
When I reflect on how much my sleep has improved now, I feel proud of my
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May 1, 20222 min read
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You deserve to rest
I haven’t slept much for such a long time that I hadn’t thought about how it could be affecting me.
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Apr 28, 20222 min read
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Fill your self-care cup… with sleep!
The road to healing from trauma includes filling up your own cup, taking time to look after yourself, and putting into action self-care...
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Apr 24, 20223 min read
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