“Blue Knot provides a safe space for survivors to access the support and tools they need to heal from the impacts of trauma, and for those supporting them to access the strategies and resources they need themselves.”#BlueKnotDay#MentalHealth#TraumaInformedCommunity
“Blue Knot Day is an Australian national day on which Blue Knot Foundation calls on all Australians to unite in support of the more than 5 million Australian adults who have experienced complex trauma.” #BlueKnotDay#MentalHealth#TraumaInformedCommunity
“Blue Knot Day is day for all Australians to unite in support of adult survivors of complex trauma. By empowering recovery, we also foster hope and resilience.” #BlueKnotDay#MentalHealth#TraumaInformedCommunity
“Most importantly, we encourage you to take part and share with your own community in the lead-up and on the day. Share your thoughts on what a trauma-informed community means to you, and use the hashtags.” #BlueKnotDay#MentalHealth#TraumaInformedCommunity
***Trigger warning***: I cried last night for the first time in a long time. I was tagged in a post where a women was bashed by her partner. The mother said police protected the man, not her daughter, who was now in hospital, since she tried to take her life.
A brave young survivor who had also experienced DV and had been suicidal, shared a song she wrote to comfort the mother and daughter. I opened the song to read the words. They brought me to tears. The young survivor apologising to other women who experience DV, for her silence.
This survivor said her dad once hand cuffed her, when she said she was depressed and suicidal. Here is a brave young survivor comforting a mother in distress, by sharing her lived experience and her song. I told this survivor I was proud of her. I then slept to reset my mind.
My website has already had 3,889 visitors. 12,700 views. The top three topics are: “Why I Switched From Self Esteem to Self Compassion?”, “My Crazy Beautiful Story About Psychosis.” and “What Is Trauma Informed World?”. Thank you for learning about #HealingTrauma. 🌺🌿#YouBelong
#IncarcerationNation is a story told by First Nations voices. The power of the film reflects the power and resilience of First Nations Peoples - and makes it clear non-Indigenous Australia must listen and be led by First Nations voices when it comes to justice and sovereignty.
I am speechless. I went my own way. I had Psychosis twice trying to figure out this crazy, beautiful, terrifying life. The place we all call home. This year I was asked to be the Psychologist for 35 Indigenous Health experts at Closing the Gap on Indigenous Health. #HealingTrauma
I was asked to be on an expert panel about a new Adult Mental Health Service. I was invited to be interviewed on Brainwaves about my lived experience of Psychosis. I have been invited back onto Brainwaves for trauma informed tools for wellbeing. As if all of this isn’t enough...
Today, the President of Blue Knot Foundation National Centre of
Excellence for Complex Trauma contacted me. I thought I might be in trouble. Instead, they asked to catch up about how we might work together.
Why the divide and conquer mindset? Since we know it kills countless lives? It has destroyed this planet? Most people would agree that human being always want more. We consume, consume, consume. Then we consume some more. 1/20 #HealingTrauma
What most humans beings do not realise, is that we do not want more. What we are really after is all: Freedom. Except we can never have “all” physically or psychologically. Why not? Our body has a boundary. Our mind also has a boundary. 2/20
The boundary is what makes you, you, and me, me. So we cannot have “all” when you are half and I am the other half. Despite this, we persist endlessly. We divide and conquer: “I want the best job. The best house. 3/20
Three Phase Approach to Healing Trauma: Some trauma experts say it is dangerous to open pandora’s box. Some reasons: psychosis, sessions are not long enough, there are not enough sessions, or we have to return to a dangerous environment, 1/38 #HealingTrauma
vulnerable and have not yet established a sense of stability, clarity, the ability to regulate our emotions, or connection and belonging. So for such reasons there is a Three Phase Approach to Trauma:
1.Safety and Stabilisation
2.Processing
3.Integration 2/38
Safety and Stabilisation: This involves learning trauma informed tools for wellbeing. These tools help us to be grounded so we do not get “flooded”. What is “flooded”? There is an expression in the field of trauma: “Be with it, but not in it.” 3/38