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🦘Our new sensory play kit is ready to hop on over to a new home. "Who am I?" For young wanderers, exploring identity, naming big feelings, and discovering where they feel safe doesn't always happen through big words—it happens through low-demand, tactile exploration.👣My Outback Footprints is a thoughtfully designed sensory kit brought to life by @littleexplorersbox and created to build emotional safety, self-worth, and relational connection from the ground up. Rooted in trauma-informed frameworks and child-led somatic play, this kit gives children a zero-pressure space to map out their inner worlds through nature-inspired Australian wildlife themes.What’s Inside ✨️🐾 Custom Footprint & Track Stamps: Helps children visually map out their comfort zones—exploring whether they feel like an adventurous Tree-Dweller or a quiet, grounded Burrow-Rester today.🍂 Interactive Stamping Play: Offers a gentle, physical outlet for kids to stamp out big worries, name their hopes, and process complex feelings safely.🌱 Tactile Gum Leaves & Australian Sensory Bases: Calms and grounds the nervous system through rich, natural textures and tactile feedback.🦘 Karu Roo & Affirmation Prompts: Anchors the experience with soothing native eucalyptus scents and gentle reminders of belonging ("I am safe, I am learning, and I belong").😌 Perfect for home use, calm corners, therapeutic sessions, or early childhood classrooms.#Australiafamiles #messyplay #TherapeuticPlay #kidsplay by @ceyouthservices

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It’s not just mess—it’s medicine🌱When a child is deeply immersed in the fizz, bubbles, and textures of open-ended sensory play, something incredible happens beneath the surface. The tactile grounding acts as a physiological "circuit-breaker," helping their nervous system down-regulate, release built-up tension, and find a safe place to land. ✨ The real magic? It resets your nervous system, too. When you sit alongside your child in a low-demand, pressure-free space, you are practising co-regulation. Your calm anchors theirs, and their rhythmic, focused play helps soothe your own sensory baseline. It is a shared moment of decompression for the whole family.🌿 Want to bring this therapeutic magic into your home or clinic? Tap the link in our bio to check out our open-ended bundles, regulation tools, and upcoming workshop dates!👇 What is your family’s favourite way to decompress after a big, overwhelming day? Let us know below!#ceyouthservices #emotionalregulation #childmentalhealth #sensoryplay by @ceyouthservices

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✨ Prepping for our upcoming Therapeutic Sensory Workshops this August! ✨Whether your little one is navigating big emotions, needs a calm space to ground their nervous system, or just loves messy sensory exploration, these hands-on sessions are designed just for them! 🌿🧪We are bridging the gap between clinical regulation tools and playful, child-led exploration in a low-demand, supportive environment.📆 Available Dates & Locations:Friday, Aug 14th | 📍 Trott Park Community Centre | 🧒 Ages 2–5 yrsSunday, Aug 16th | 📍 Aberfoyle Park Community Centre | 🧒 Ages 5–8 yrsFriday, Aug 28th | 📍 Trott Park Community Centre | 🧒 Ages 2–5 yrs💰 Investment: $27.95 per child✨ What Your Little Wanderer Will Experience:🌞 Nature Sensory Quests: Practicing magical, somatic coping skills.🧪 Potion Creations: Brewing "Pop a Worry" or "My Comfort" potions (or inventing their own!).🏖 Sand & Playdough Play: Built-in therapeutic prompts to help name, notice, and explore feelings.🧸 Messy Play Trays: Tactile textures to practice grounding skills.🎨 Mindful Colouring: Bringing down the baseline for a gentle, calm finish.🔒 Spaces are strictly limited to keep group sizes small, safe, and regulated!👉 [Link in Bio to Book via Eventbrite] or drop us a message if you have any questions!(All fizzy products and bowls brought from @featherandleafco ) #adelaidemums #kidssensoryplay #adelaidekids by @ceyouthservices

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✨Potion Play, Sensory Quests, & Emotional Learning Sessions!Term 3 mid-month reset for the older wanderers who are in School or Kindy, I have added a weekend sensory play session!The Details:🗓️ Date: Sunday, August 16th⏰ Time: 9:50 AM – 11:00 AM📍 Where: Aberfoyle Community Centre (Children's / Multipurpose Room)👧 Ages: 4–8 years old👥 Group Size: Min 6, Max 8 children (1 parent per child to keep the space calm, safe, and regulated).💰 Investment: $27.95 per child (excluding service fee).🧪 Examples of What You & your Child Will Explore:✨ Start the session as a group to explore feelings, use your senses to find magical coping skills and practice the skills together, before heading over to create our potions (choice of using our special recipe cards to pop a worry or comfort potion or create your own).🎨Moving into free time to go and explore the different sensory play activities to help with emotional regulation, optional use of therapeutic prompts to encourage feeling conversations/play.🛍️ Take-Home Goodie Bag: To keep the magic skills going at home!Because we keep our group sizes small to protect the sensory space, tickets will go fast. Give your child a safe, zero-pressure space to explore their emotions on their own terms. 🐢👉Tickets are available right now via Eventbrite. Click the link in our bio to secure your spot!📧 Questions? Feel free to drop a comment below or email us directly at ceyouthservices@outlook.com.au.We can't wait to create this space for you ❤️#sensoryplay #playtherapy #adelaidemums #adelaidekids #emotionalregulation by @ceyouthservices

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🥶Are your kids or yourself feeling overwhelmed, anxious, or stuck in a stress spiral? Try getting cold!The cold is an incredibly fast, free way to interrupt the stress cycle and engage your body’s natural calm system 🧘‍♀️The Science of "Chill"🧊🔁Full Reset: Cold on your neck or face immediately slows your heart rate and lowers stress hormones🙂‍↕️Instant Focus & Mood: It triggers a flood of dopamine —your brain's natural feel-good chemicals—for clean, sustained energy and clarity.🚴‍♂️Stress Training: You're teaching your brain how to stay cool under pressure. Practice with the cold, and you might find you're handling real-life stress better.Try it today: Finish your shower with 30 seconds of cold or hold and drink an icy cold drink or jump in the pool or simply walk outside at 7am it was only 3 or 4 degrees this morning ❄ Let us know in the comments - Did you find yourself feeling a bit calmer? ⏬️#ceyouthservices #coldtherapy #mentalhealth #anxietyrelief by @ceyouthservices

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Let’s take a look inside: The Wildlife Wanderer Workbook 📖👀✨Ever wonder what a 65 + page somatic expedition actually looks like? Today, we are opening the covers to give you a quick look inside the ultimate emotional regulation toolkit! 🎒We didn’t want to create another boring, text-heavy manual. Instead, this is a beautifully illustrated, clinical roadmap that turns big feelings into a joyful nature adventure🦘Here is a quick look at the trail map your Little Wanderer will explore🐾 Chapter 1: Meet the Wanderer – Setting off on the trail by mapping out personal strengths, favorite things, and finding their unique selves. 🌬️ Chapter 2 & 3: Welcome to the Wildlife & Safety Seeds – Learning to notice, name, and measure big feelings in the body. Kids build a "Safe Burrow," practice "Wombat Breath," and learn how to hop over "Worry Wattles."🦅 Chapter 4: Karu's Lookout Leap – Using a "Super-Sensor" to scan the trail ahead, learning to spot "Storm Signals" before the sensory bucket gets too full.🧭 Chapter 5: My Inner Sparkle – Navigating emotional storms using a "Value Compass" to figure out what they can and can’t control & using Tully's Stormy Reef Dive Kit to bring a stormy reef of values and feelings to life 🤝 Chapter 6 & 7: The Social Pack & Our Calm Burrow – Mastering social boundaries and transitions, followed by resting in the clearing with mindful coloring, forest puzzles, and the Karu's Path board gameEach activity comes with Adult Wanderers guide to help enhance the therapeutic play🩷Every single page gently weaves together evidence-based practices (CBT, DBT, ACT, and Art/Sensory Therapy) in a low-demand, completely child-led way. It’s therapy, packaged as a playground. 🌿✨🎒 Ready to flip through the pages yourself? Tap the link in our bio to grab The Wildlife Wanderer Workbook on its own or as part of our Ultimate Bundle that comes with Tully's Stormy Reef Dive Kit brought to life by @littleexplorersbox with an added turtle @featherandleafco👇 Which chapter sounds like something your child or clinic space needs the most right now? Let us k by @ceyouthservices

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🩷Thankyou to everyone who has sent messages of support, liked, shared my posts to help me rebuild by @ceyouthservices

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WARNING: Major Side Effects Detected! 🌿✨When families start using The Wildlife Wanderer Ultimate Bundle, something amazing happens beyond the activities. Our clinical data and family feedback have identified some severe side effects you need to be aware of! 😉We are seeing reported cases of:✨ Extreme Emotional Literacy: Children finally finding the words for their big feelings before the meltdown starts.💪 Resilience & Confidence: A deep sense of inner strength and self-belief.🌱Co-Regulation: A new shared language of calm between you and your Little Wanderer.🐢 Lasting Social Resilience: Building better, healthier connections with others.But most importantly? Total, immersive family fun 🎨As a Social Worker, I designed this 65+page somatic expedition to bridge the gap between heavy, complex therapeutic frameworks (like CBT, DBT, and ACT) and child-led, nature-inspired play. It is your clinical roadmap to calmer days and deep connection, entirely on your child's terms.🎒 Ready to experience these "side effects" in your own home?Tap the link in our bio to shop the Wildlife Wanderer collection and sensory kits! 🐢👇 Which one of these side effects does your home or clinic space need the most right now? The emotional literacy, or the fun? Let’s chat below!Tully’s Stormy Reef Dive has been brought to life by @littleexplorersbox 🩷 #ceyouthservices #emotionalregulation #playtherapy #socialwork #traumainformedparenting by @ceyouthservices

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UNDERSTANDING YOUR CHILD'S STRESS: The Window of Tolerance (WOT) 🖼️Every person has a stress sweet spot—the Window of Tolerance (WOT). This is the optimal zone where you can handle life's challenges, noise, and unexpected changes without getting overwhelmed 🧘‍♀️For many kids and teens, their optimal window is naturally smaller, meaning they can be pushed out of that zone more quickly and enter either the hyper or hypo zone. 🚥OUTSIDE THE WOT: Know The Signs.When a child is pushed outside their window, the nervous system reacts in two key ways:1.Hyperarousal (The Fire)🔥: Explosive anger, meltdowns, screaming, and intense resistance ("Losing it").2.Hypoarousal (The Freeze)🥶: Withdrawal, zoning out, dissociation, or seeming unreachable ("Checking out").Practical Fixes to Get Back IN WOT:The goal is to gently bring their arousal back to the middle zone.🔥For HyperarousalCalming & Grounding: Use an Outdoor Reset, deep pressure, or a Sensory Cave (quiet, dark space).🥶For HypoarousalActivating & Engaging: Use a physical activity, a sharp flavor (mint/sour), or a quick grounding exercise (e.g., Five Senses).What brings one person back to safety might not work for the next. You know your child and your system best.💬 Share in comments: Which one of these reactions is the most common for your child? (Hyperarousal or Hyperarousal?)What is your family's No-Fail Anchor Point that always helps bring them back in? 👇🔖Save this post so you have the solutions handy when you need them most!#ceyouthservices #WindowOfTolerance #KidsAnxiety #EmotionalRegulation #ParentingBigFeelings by @ceyouthservices

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🌊Deep Dive Into Regulation: 4Tully’s Stormy Reef Kits left!Ever wondered how to bridge the gap between physical, messy sensory play and long-term emotional coping skills? We’ve got you covered👇When you pair Tully’s Stormy Reef Dive sensory kit with The Wildlife Wanderer Workbook, you aren't just giving your child an activity—you are giving them a complete therapeutic roadmap for their nervous system🐢Here is how this ultimate regulation duo works together:🔵 Somatic Grounding with Tully's Stormy Reef Dive🐢When emotional storms hit, kids often get trapped in their heads or experience physical tension. Diving into the textures, deep ocean blues, and fizzy ocean elements of Tully's kit acts as a physiological "circuit-breaker." It gives their body the intense, grounding tactile feedback it needs to calm a racing heart and mind.📖 Processing with The Wildlife Wanderer WorkbookOnce their nervous system feels safe and settled from the sensory play, they are in the perfect "regulated zone" to connect with the workbook. Through its 70 pages of evidence-based CBT, DBT, ACT, and art therapy frameworks, they can gently explore their inner landscape, map out their big feelings, and practice lifelong coping strategies without pressure🎨🧭Together, they take the clinical concepts of emotional regulation and turn them into a child-led, nature-inspired adventure right at your kitchen table or clinic floor.🎒 Ready to build your ultimate regulation toolkit?Tap the link in our bio to explore the Wildlife Wanderer collection and discover our therapeutic sensory kits!🧪 Tully’s Stormy Reef Dive Kit: Brought to life by @littleexplorersbox Box, this 100% taste-safe fizz kit turns a clinical concept into a literal treasure hunt for their values. With an added eco cutter Turtle from @featherandleafcoFREE SHIPPING AUS WIDE! 🇦🇺👇 Does your little wanderer prefer grounding in the deep blue ocean or exploring out in the wild scrub? Let us know their favourite way to play below! #ceyouthservices #traumainformed #kidsmentalhealth #sesnoryplay #emotionalregulation@my_princess_emmy by @ceyouthservices

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