Three little words can empower those needing to hear them most

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Three little words can empower those needing to hear them most

Courage Wisdom Change provides trauma-responsive, neurodiversity-affirming support for children, adolescents and adults, individually and as families.


Services are provided through face to face or Tele-health appointments. It is also a registered NDIS Provider for Counselling and Early Childhood Intervention.


Many parents and carers of children with complex needs, through trauma, neurodivergence or a combination of many things, find themselves in a constant state of wariness, ready to defend not only their child, but also the way they parent.


This often leaves them feeling disempowered, disconnected and feeling as though they’re on a completely different journey to families around them. It can be exhausting but most of all, it can be isolating.


Dr Bruce Perry said “fire can warm or consume, water can quench or drown, wind can caress or cut. And so it is with human relationships: we can both create and destroy, nurture and terrorise, traumatise and heal each other”.


Three short words can open the door to a conversation, they can break down the isolation and acknowledge the parenting journey can be challenging, frustrating, overwhelming.


R U OK? So simple, and yet, sometimes so empowering. Next time you see a mate or a friend that you think may be struggling ask them: R U OK? They may not open up, they may not share what’s going on, but they will know that someone is there, ready to listen, someone cares.


Through Courage Wisdom Change parents and families will learn strength-based parenting skills, which may seem counterintuitive to how they have been parented or how others around them are parenting.


Ultimately, the goal is to ensure parents, carers and families are able to develop their emotional fitness to ensure they have the capacity to be present, empathetic, understanding and confident in their role.

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