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🇦🇺 Psychologist
🧠 @theneuronurturecollective
✨ Supporting autistic/ADHDers to live well by compassionately caring for their brain, not by ‘fixing it’

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... my GAWDDDD we have some smartie pant folks inside The Uplevel.

Let’s give it up to our newest members 👏🏼❤️

Wanna be part of this ROOM? Comment UPLEVEL and I’ll send you the dets x

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All in all (sans with a few hazard cones and road bumps), it was a heckin GEWD month ❤️❤️❤️

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Three days at a business retreat in Bali called Uplevel, wrapped up like this.

The last morning, we wrote each other letters. I have read mine four times now and I am still not finished with it.

Somewhere between the massage and the fire pit, I stopped counting how spoiled we were and just let it happen.

Marshmallows melting into chocolate as the sun went down over Uluwatu. Engagement stories and bad dates in the same breath, nobody rushing to the next one.

Anita is the woman behind all of it, and I did not know how much of a reset I needed until I was in the middle of one she built.

🖤

#upleveled #balibusinessretreat #femalefounder #womeninbusiness
#hairdresserlife

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Day two, I sat in a room listening to Lou Rice talk about nearly running out of cash. Borrowing money to cover stock nobody bought. The specific loneliness of holding a business together while everyone assumes you have it handled.

I recognised every part of it. Not because it was inspiring. Because it was mine too.

I have reinvented this business half a dozen times now. Through COVID. Through staff leaving for their own reasons. This time was different. This time I got to rebuild it just for me.

If you are a hairdresser who has ever run the business and done the hair and smiled at a client while working out if payroll clears, this is for you. Strength is not the photo on the deck with thirteen other women. Strength is the version of me that kept showing up to a chair for clients while deciding, quietly, whether the whole thing was going to survive.

By day three, my mind had finally slowed down enough to feel any of it. Sound healing for the first time. A friend I want to know more of, not less. A final breakfast I did not want to end.

The answer did not change. It just got clearer, and for the first time, I could feel it too.

If any of this sounds like your year, I would love for you to stick around.

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#salonowner #hairbusinessowner #haircommunity
#femalefounder #womeninbusiness

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If you've been thinking about getting an autism assessment, we have current availability in our online clinic! 👩‍💻

Here's a run-through of what it looks like from start to finish.

If you'd like further information about how we work, you can find it on our website which is www.theneuronurturecollective.com or please feel free to email our lovely admin team admin@theneuronurturecollective.com ☺️

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A week ago today, I was in Bali some of it just for my family, resetting and regrouping, and some of it at a business retreat with a room full of founders.

This was day one, and it went somewhere I didn’t expect. We wrote our own eulogies. Twice once as someone who loves us, once as a client.

We named the states we operate from the one that survives, and the one that actually builds.

There was a session on AI too.
One line stuck ‼️treat every prompt like it could end up in the Daily Mail If you wouldn’t want it published, don’t type it in. Simple, but most of us have never thought about it that way ‼️

Mostly what stuck, why I started this in the first place. Not the numbers. The people 🫶🏼

Anyone else know that strange retreat feeling, running on empty and full of energy in the same breath, already impatient for day two?

Day two and three still to come.

SJ x

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Not going to lie, getting a little emotional writing this post 🥹❤️

Every year, I take a bunch of my clients OFFLINE as we strategise on their next level (while indulging in good food, epic company, and some very well-deserved relaxation).

…and in the few days leading up to it, I always get a little nervous.

Will everyone get along?
Will everyone enjoy what I’ve got planned?
Will everyone walk away feeling like they got what they needed?

And then the retreat starts…

…and all those worries flurry away🥹

I see breakthroughs happen in the most micro moments.

I see people let their armour down, sometimes for the first time in a long time.

I see one conversation completely shift something someone has been circling for months.

I see people who were strangers days ago become friends, collaborators and cheerleaders, forming relationships I know will last long beyond these few days.

And EVERY single time, I’m reminded:

The room you’re in matters.

You see, I am a strategy gal through and through.

But all the strategy in the world means nothing if your identity who you believe you are and how you’re showing up isn’t aligned with where you want to go.

That’s why I love experiences like this.

We get to fuse strategy with identity.

Yes, we jam on the business.

But we also get to turn down the external noise and dial up the internal.

And there is something incredibly powerful about doing that surrounded by high performers.

People who think bigger.
Move differently.
Ask better questions.
Challenge your thinking.
Share generously.
And genuinely want to see you win.

Because sometimes your next level doesn’t need another strategy.

Sometimes you just need to be in a room that raises your standard for what’s possible.

And this room?

It was pretty damn special. 🥹❤️

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The countdown is AWWWNNN 🏝️

9 weeks until I take an intimate group of my clients away to Bali and we disconnect from the world and immerse ourselves into a few days of relaxation, genuine connection, strategy, live masterminding and epic good food.

A pretty good workcation me thinks.

If you are ready for a few days of slow down and you’re ready to do so with a group of incredible humans who will level you up. Don’t miss this. We will cry, laugh, eat, indulge and it’s gonna be epic.
Final spots, if you want in?!

DM or comment RETREAT and I’ll send you more info x

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Rebecca Gannon @kaleidoscopeassessment and Esther Fidock @estherfidock sharing their excitement at the Yellow Ladybugs Conference! 'Autistic Christmas' and a 'delight' – pure joy from this amazing event. #YellowLadybugs #AutismAcceptance #ConferenceVibes #CommunityLove #InspirationDaily #Neurodiversity

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Yellow Ladybugs 2026. Community is everything. Healing is relational. Joy is worthy. Thank you @yellowladybugs_autism and thank you to friends, neurokin and new connections for the yarns, glimmers, penguin pebbles, laughs, your presence and your time. Thank you for making it safe for vulnerability. My heart is full and words don't mean enough right now. 🖤🐛🐞🪲🪱

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The past few days of the Yellow Ladybugs Conference have left me with a full heart.

I was privileged to listen to and learn from so many incredible people with Autistic and otherwise neurodivergent lived experience; advocates, researchers, clinicians, educators, parents and more who generously shared their wisdom, vulnerability, and expertise. Every conversation, presentation, and connection reinforced something I know to be true: our stories matter, and our community is so deeply important. This community has changed my life.

As Neurokin, finding spaces where we are understood, accepted, and celebrated authentically is transformative. There is something profoundly moving about being surrounded by people who share similar journeys.

I left Day 3 feeling incredibly exhausted, but moreover inspired, empowered, hopeful, and deeply grateful. Grateful for the knowledge shared, the connections strengthened, and the beautiful humans I get to call my friends.

Thank you, Yellow Ladybugs, for creating a safe space where our neurosparkly brains can flourish 💛

I didn't take much content from the day as I was so present with Neurokin but I am so grateful to each and every person that I connected with. You know who you are.

#YellowLadybugs #Neurodiversity #Neurokin #ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD

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In addition to the 80s theme at this year’s YLB conference @yellowladybugs_autism, there were underlying themes of hope and healing. Both of which I am so grateful to have experienced. From the moment I walked in, I felt like I belonged. It meant the world to be immediately embraced with hugs and warm chats. I couldn’t get enough of connecting - Reconnecting with friends whilst deepening and sparking connections with other neurokin. I celebrated and cherished the day, including the rarity of ending it without a diminished capacity. I’m so appreciative of everything the YLB conference brings and continues to foster. 💝

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