Dr Leila Davis- The Relationship Whisperer in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia | Medical and health

Dr Leila Davis- The Relationship Whisperer

Locality: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Phone: +61 424 775 564

Address: 59 Broseley Rd 4066 Brisbane, QLD, Australia

Website: http://www.leiladavis.com.au/

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25.01.2022 Good morning! Arrived at the Maroochy river in pouring rain last night and as I sat journalling this morning, this happened! Im spending a weekend singing with my chorus, 20 of us having fun and a whole weekend away from our families. ... I feel the guilt at not being with my boys, and also the deep need to do this for myself and fill my own cup. How do you fill your cup, so you can return to them fresh and happy? #barbershop #womensweekend #joyofsinging

22.01.2022 My daily walk used to be the last thing I prioritised and the first thing to drop off when I got busy. Everyone else's needs took priority over my own. It's something I see so many women do, fit everyone else's oxygen mask before their own. It stems from a deep seated belief that our needs are not important.... And it has a cost when repeated for decades, most often showing up in an unhealthy work-life balance. Happily, I've turned things around and now my walk is the most important part of my day. I look forward to it, it's my mental health hour, I do it at the BEST time for me instead of cramming it in. And it makes me feel valued, loved, healthy and well. it lifts my mood and I'm a better mother, wife, doctor and therapist for it. So what changed for me? I started to speak more kindly to myself, value my work and uncover the lurking beliefs that fed my behaviour. It's been a long road! Beliefs like, "I'm not good enough" "I'm only of value when I'm helping others" "I'm different and don't belong" "If it's not perfect it's not good" "The buck stops here" This is where the work is that I do with my clients. It changes your whole life, not just your attitude to work. If you're ready to live a rich, vibrant, wholehearted life I have two spaces available to work with me. Send me a dm. #worklifebalance #support #changetheparadigm #wellbeingexpert

21.01.2022 Getting ready for the weekend flourishing women mastermind retreat in #stanthorpe. Birdsong, bees, full moon and such stillness. It’s magical ... See more

20.01.2022 Do you have painfully exacting standards of yourself and others? Are you constantly feeling that you're just not good enough and neither do others try hard enough? Do you feel that if you were just more perfect you could avoid judgement, blame and all the shame that goes with it? Perfectionism is a hard place to live, some of us might visit occasionally and others take up residence for longer. Whatever your experience, it's worth taking some time to examine the thinking behin...d it and start to interrupt the pattern before it grows into a monster in the dark. https://www.linkedin.com//perfect-isnt-pretty-dr-leila-dav

20.01.2022 Fear means youre out of your comfort zone and need support. Think about where you could find more support. Not whinging, venting or blaming but real support. ... Support will help you to be all you can be, step in or step out, but make a powerful decision either way. My clients tell me they feel supported and challenged. Just the right amount of both. You have the answers and everything you need inside you. Never doubt that. Therapy is not about making nice, its about having a deep conversation and being supported to look clearly at difficult issues so you can make change for the better. At all points you get to choose. The important thing is to start.

20.01.2022 Post retreat high! It's a thing, the good part is it lasts for weeks and it can guide us towards the change we need. I've been away last weekend in Stanthorpe with my Flourishing Women's Mastermind retreat, and I'm definitely feeling it. What a great preliminary to our five day retreat in October!... As one participant said, 'I've returned full of possibilities! I feel light, excited and connected. I'm softer with myself and softer with others. I now see possibilities everywhere, I feel powerful, and I understand what you mean about being magnetic. I've dropped guilt. There's no guilt about looking after myself and the focus is on doing me and doing it well. Everyone else benefits because I'm so much happier, I've lost the fear of not being enough. I'm so much clearer about what I would like, and I ask!' Magic happens when we spend time together in deep connection with ourselves and with others, in the quiet beauty of nature. It is the ultimate and best remedy I know for anxiety, guilt and shame. These women are all working towards the change they want to see in their lives. They want to drop indecision, resentment, guilt and despair, and replace them with empowerment, wonder, joy and deep intimacy so that they can live full, rich and juicy lives. Theres a retreat opportunity in October. Send me a dm!

19.01.2022 Would you like to be able to do your job without it costing your peace of mind? Imagine if work was fun. Imagine if you also had a rich life outside work: health, friends, good food, fun. Imagine if you were kinder to yourself. ... I made this journey. It started in Brixton when I was pregnant with my first child. I went to see a therapist. I knew I didn't want the negativity inside my head to be visited upon this small, pure little being who was about to arrive in the world. You see, I was really hard on myself. Externally all was success, a good job as a partner in general practice, well paid, responsibility, a partner, new flat in London, I was an excellent weight, fit, looked good. But inside was more messy! I often felt overwhelmed and connecting with others was difficult. It was hard to feel enjoyment, satisfaction or trust. It was as if I just couldn't relax and see my good qualities and like myself a little. It took time, but I developed self compassion, confidence and courage to make good choices for myself. Work became more on my terms, I felt powerful, relationships deepened and became warmer, and I stopped worrying all the time! You are that powerful too!! If this resonates for you, drop me a message and lets talk about how I can support you.

19.01.2022 Do you look after everyone else but not yourself? Your needs always come last, and it sometimes feels like you're grinding yourself into the dust. It's an old pattern you recognise, that probably started in childhood, but you just can't seem to shake it and do what might serve you better. Somewhere you know this is not sustainable and if things don't change soon, some part of you is going to break, your physical health or your mental health.... Who's going to take care of you? I know how this feels, I was looking after my kids, my parents and my patients as a busy GP and therapist. But a point came when I realised I had to put myself back into the equation. Life had to be good for me too, and that wasn't a shameful or guilty thing, it was just true, I was no use to anyone as a burned out, resentful, irritable version of myself. So here are my three tips to start changing this up, Let go of guilt around serving yourself first. You can give so much more when your own cup is full. Schedule time for yourself - a walk, a massage, a coffee with a good friend, even a retreat. Get used to saying NO. Let me know in the comments one thing you can do today to start this change. One simple thing. I have a five day retreat in the stillness of nature, on a forty hectare property of granite outflows and untouched angophora forest outside Stanthorpe starting October 9. Come join me and learn how to make these three tips a reality for you every day. Send me a message to find out more. Yours in connection, joy and adventure, Leila

18.01.2022 When I was thirty two I spent a year travelling. It wasn't the first time I'd had an extended period of travel and adventure, that started at 14 when my family travelled across Asia and Europe for a year. In Thailand I met and travelled with Pierre, a french lad just out of the army, from Montpellier in the southwest of France. One of my dreams was to live and study in France and, according to Pierre, Montpellier was THE place for foreign students.... So 6 months later, after trekking Annapurna, doing my first meditation retreat at Ko Pan monastery outside Kathmandu, travelling through Turkey and round the Greek islands, visiting Prague, Budapest and Vienna, I turned up in Montpellier to find out for myself. It was like I had arrived in a dream. An ancient walled city, streets made of marble, the oldest University in Europe, a medical school that boasted Rabelais as an ex-student. Amazing food, sunshine and je ne sais quoi, which filled my heart with excitement. I had spent 8 years at University during my twenties, living on lentils, had intense internship and house officer jobs in hospitals, and now was my chance for a little freedom, where I got to design my life. I knew immediately I wanted to live and study in Montpellier. One year and a UK diploma in Anaesthetics later, almost to the day, I drove into Montpellier in a tiny little Austin metro with UK plates, and enrolled at the Universite Paul Valery for 12 months of French language studies. It was at once the most exciting and the most terrifying of days as I found my feet. Have you taken a big adventure? Or is it yet to come? Let me know in the comments! #Montpellier #jeparlefrancais #Adventure #wellbingexpert

18.01.2022 I hear so many objections to starting Psychotherapy If youre you a lawyer or barrister close to burnout, feeling unsupported in your work, anxious and overloaded, it can offer a life changing transformation. ... Ive seen it so many times. Maybe even your physical health is suffering. This journey offers you the ability to approach work and life feeling calm, confident and expansive, making good choices that protect you. It is possible. Its the shift that happens for my clients. You think you need a mentor within the law but actually the work we can do together will support you to live better all round. You will be able to make boundaries around what you love, speak up for yourself and have the courage to take your next brave steps in life. Yes you have to feel your feelings, but in a supported, safe way. Yes you have to commit time, energy and money but the payback is lifelong. Yes you have to find your courage and make changes in your life, but these will free you to live the life you want. Yes you have to go over some painful stuff and there will be tears, but it will be transformational. You will rise. Send me a dm to book a free chat. Im not scary!

17.01.2022 Is anxiety interfering with work? Have you had a panic attack? Its really common and really treatable. Youre not destined to be an anxious person for the rest of your life just because you grew up in an anxious family.... Or because work stresses you out. There are simple steps you can take now to decrease anxiety and find your calm. Taking action now will allow you to be your best, enjoy your day and stop wasting your precious energy on unproductive worrying. Wouldnt you prefer to be effective and brilliant because youre lit up from the inside instead of giving yourself an ulcer? The beginning of your journey is in this link to my five day series on anxiety busting. Its free and it works. If you want more support with anxiety management, send me a dm. Dont let it take an ongoing toll on your health, wellbeing and career. https://www.subscribepage.com/v7q8i3 #anxiety #free #changeyourmind #wellbeingexpert #DrLeila

17.01.2022 One thing many of my clients have in common is not being able to access or befriend their emotions. Even being a little afraid of them. After all emotions are out of control, right? Antonio Damasio has powerfully written about the role of emotions in so called rational thinking. Without emotions there is no rational thinking. ... So this is what I teach them. Feelings are just energy in motion. They tell us whats going on. Anger means my boundary has been crossed Fear means Im unsupported. Envy means something is missing from my life Grief means there is unexpressed love. Finding this compassionate view towards emotions means you can do something about them. Use them powerfully to make change.

17.01.2022 Im in heaven. Aka straddle/ Minjerribah. So glad we made the effort to get here this morning even though it was raining! Perfect day of whales, dolphins, friends and beach walking.

17.01.2022 Are you an Olympic worrier? Here are my top 3 tips to manage anxiety in the moment. Dont let it continue to take a huge toll on your physical and mental wellbeing. ... You dont need to suffer in silence. 1. Tap into your breath to calm your nervous system, close your eyes and breathe in counting to four, breathe out counting to four, increase to five, then six. Do this for two minutes. Time your count with the ticking of a clock. 2. Bring your attention to your immediate experience. What can you see, feel, hear, smell? Take one minute. 3. Move your body, go for a walk, stretch, get a drink of water. Youll find more practices in the comments to develop more anxiety tolerance and improve your wellbeing.

16.01.2022 Are you at the mercy of your emotional states? It can feel out of control sometimes, like stress and anxiety have you by the throat. ... What if you could change that? Take a moment, close your eyes and breathe. Become present to yourself and notice your inner state. Now bring to mind freshly mown lawns, the smell of coffee in the morning, birdsong in a pristine forest, the rolling of the ocean. What do you notice in your experience as you do this? Imagine if you could actively move yourself into this state, no matter what the prevailing conditions. I’m offering a five day retreat where we will be befriending our nervous system at it's three levels of engagement with the world, Darkness Chaos Flow Send me a dm if you’d like to know more. Starts October 9, Stanthorpe

16.01.2022 I just love the positive changes my clients make during our journey together. Jacinta lost 20 kg and started dancing Kaye left a toxic job and created her own business Jane went on the world trip of a lifetime and lived in London for 2 years... Helen built her business and stepped into leadership Fiona started speaking up for herself and left a toxic relationship Lisa calmed her anxiety and now lives with grace instead of panic Support is the key. Let me know if I can support you to make life more wholehearted, juicy and fun! #juicylife #wholehearted #livenow #wellbeingexpert #yestolife

16.01.2022 The biggest change that happened for me when I made my Gestalt journey is that I started to listen to myself and respect myself more. I stopped putting up with things in my life that werent in my best interests. I changed jobs!... Yes, I was here to serve others but it also had to be good for me. I made myself part of the equation and took positive action which has made the last ten years of my life so much more rewarding and fun. Its an ongoing process and its incremental. I chose a job close to home I chose to ride my bike to work I chose to pursue another career pathway part time I chose to go on a yoga retreat in Bali I chose to offer a Gestalt retreat in Bali I chose to make my part time fun job my full time fun job and say goodbye to an identity I had worked so hard for. The difference was that I chose from a deep connection to myself, knowing what I loved and wanted. No one else suffered, in fact I became a better mother, wife and daughter because I was happy and fulfilled!! I can help you to take a similar journey back to wholeness. If life isnt offering you what you need, get in touch and lets talk about how we could work together. #gestalttherapy #professionals #doctors

15.01.2022 Are you wearing black all the time? Check your wardrobe and see how much colour is daring to appear. Something can happen to women at a certain age, where we can start to make ourselves disappear. It happened to me and I fought back.... My turnaround moment was when I fully accepted that, despite all my outward success - I was a GP, a Psychotherapist, I was financially successful and had a lovely family - my yoga teacher had a MUCH more exciting life than I did. From that moment forward I took deliberate action to create a life that worked for me as well as everyone around me. Every 'yes' I said to myself was a 'no' to someone else, but what I discovered is that this started a cascade of change in every relationship and every situation in my life, and most of them changed for the better! I'd love to bring you on that journey if you want to start living in technicolor and make your forties and fifties the BEST decades of your life. Where you claim your mastery and enjoy the abundance which flows from that. Now I take responsibility for my own happiness and make choices which include others AND me. I travel to Bali twice a year, work a four day week, work from home, have no boss but myself, and I look after myself. After all, I'm the goose that lays the golden eggs. I'm the breadwinner in my family as well as the home creator. I know everyone else's timetable and keep track of everyone else's passwords. In the comments is a link to how we can work together. Don't let another day go by, throw out that black dress! #black #Maturewomen #goldengoose #wellbeingexpert #bringbackcolour

15.01.2022 Full of possibilities, light, excited and connected. Is that how youd like to feel instead of lonely, unsupported and overloaded? I have an exciting retreat opportunity in October and only one place remaining. ... Too busy? Too stressed? Worried you might have to feel your emotions? Feel like youre just too broken? I give you permission to support yourself, to reach out and replenish, restore and reinvigorate yourself. Send me a dm if youd like to know more. Heres the last retreat group!

15.01.2022 Can't wait to start the Flourishing Women mastermind on Wednesday evening!

15.01.2022 Paddington spring morning!

14.01.2022 Three tips for women who do it all. Do you work harder than everyone else, at work and at home? It can leave you feeling like you're the only one who shoulders the weight of responsibility, and that can be a lonely place.... If you practice getting in touch with your needs and expressing them before they become a command, you're more likely to achieve your desired outcome. I have three tips for you to begin a change cycle which can create support, spaciousness and ease. 1. Schedule time to look after yourself, because no-one else is going to do it for you. Start small, once a week schedule something that lights YOU up - walk along the river, lunch with a friend, massage, beach time, listen to music, etc. You know best what lights you up. 2. Let yourself imagine how you would like to be supported, do this in FANTASY first, see how it feels. Colour it in, exactly who is doing exactly what? 3. Practise asking those around you for the support you would like. Start small if this fills you with dread. Start where it feels most likely to be successful. There is always more support available than we think. Habit keeps you from accessing it. Let me know how you get on, I always love hearing from you. Change does happen, but it starts from the inside! #insidejob #change #responsibilityqueen #wellbeing

13.01.2022 Womens mastermind #retreat this weekend in #Stanthorpe.

12.01.2022 Cant wait to start the Flourishing Women mastermind on Wednesday evening!

11.01.2022 Is your work life balance out of whack? Mine was.... I knew because I had #insomnia, I was #secondguessing myself, and life felt #flat. Even as a self employed entrepreneur this can happen, I was obsessed with my business and how to get my message across to the right people because I am passionate about my work. So I did something about it. Here are the steps I took so you can do it too. It takes five minutes of #deliberateaction to make small changes that could save your marriage, wellbeing and career. If you don't take #responsibility for it, no one will. 1. Consider what you love to do, what brings YOU joy, happiness and calm (mine was singing) and calculate how much of this you are actually doing (in my case, none) each week. 2. Explore the avenues for you to do this special thing more each week, dedicate one evening a week or a weekend a month, and actually explore HOW you can incorporate it into your life. (I explored all the choirs in Brisbane and joined one) 3. Commit to doing this joy inducing thing for your own benefit, for love of that small precious part of you that deserves to live a good life, be happy and be more than a good worker, a professional and a perfect Mum. 4. Discover that when you prioritise doing this thing, you feel so much better, everyone around you benefits, and contrary to what you believed, nobody else suffers! Let me know how you get on, I'm still singing with my chorus and we're performing next week at a wedding! Here's a link to the meditation library, do the joy meditation which will help you connect to what brings you joy. https://leiladavis.com.au/free-meditation-library-2/ #worklifebalance #wellbeing #DrLeila

11.01.2022 Is anxiety interfering with work? Have you had a panic attack? It's really common and really treatable. You're not destined to be an anxious person for the rest of your life just because you grew up in an anxious family.... Or because work stresses you out. There are simple steps you can take now to decrease anxiety and find your calm. Taking action now will allow you to be your best, enjoy your day and stop wasting your precious energy on unproductive worrying. Wouldn't you prefer to be effective and brilliant because you're lit up from the inside instead of giving yourself an ulcer? The beginning of your journey is in this link to my five day series on anxiety busting. It's free and it works. If you want more support with anxiety management, send me a dm. Don't let it take an ongoing toll on your health, wellbeing and career. https://www.subscribepage.com/v7q8i3 #anxiety #free #changeyourmind #wellbeingexpert #DrLeila

11.01.2022 #womenlawyers Five tips for getting back to #happy. You CAN have it all. A successful career AND a rich, juicy, wholehearted life.... Don't let the dominant paradigm become your reality. DM me for a chat. #wellbeingexpert #DrLeila

09.01.2022 Post retreat high! Its a thing, the good part is it lasts for weeks and it can guide us towards the change we need. Ive been away last weekend in Stanthorpe with my Flourishing Womens Mastermind retreat, and Im definitely feeling it. What a great preliminary to our five day retreat in October!... As one participant said, Ive returned full of possibilities! I feel light, excited and connected. Im softer with myself and softer with others. I now see possibilities everywhere, I feel powerful, and I understand what you mean about being magnetic. Ive dropped guilt. Theres no guilt about looking after myself and the focus is on doing me and doing it well. Everyone else benefits because Im so much happier, Ive lost the fear of not being enough. Im so much clearer about what I would like, and I ask! Magic happens when we spend time together in deep connection with ourselves and with others, in the quiet beauty of nature. It is the ultimate and best remedy I know for anxiety, guilt and shame. These women are all working towards the change they want to see in their lives. They want to drop indecision, resentment, guilt and despair, and replace them with empowerment, wonder, joy and deep intimacy so that they can live full, rich and juicy lives. Theres a retreat opportunity in October. Send me a dm!

09.01.2022 Time to draw a line in the sand? #recoveringperfectionist I can support change which will make this load a whole lot lighter. ... Check out my website in the comments below and if it resonates for you, lets arrange a free chat. #lawyers # #barristers #womenlawyers #professionals

08.01.2022 When I was thirty two I spent a year travelling. It wasnt the first time Id had an extended period of travel and adventure, that started at 14 when my family travelled across Asia and Europe for a year. In Thailand I met and travelled with Pierre, a french lad just out of the army, from Montpellier in the southwest of France. One of my dreams was to live and study in France and, according to Pierre, Montpellier was THE place for foreign students.... So 6 months later, after trekking Annapurna, doing my first meditation retreat at Ko Pan monastery outside Kathmandu, travelling through Turkey and round the Greek islands, visiting Prague, Budapest and Vienna, I turned up in Montpellier to find out for myself. It was like I had arrived in a dream. An ancient walled city, streets made of marble, the oldest University in Europe, a medical school that boasted Rabelais as an ex-student. Amazing food, sunshine and je ne sais quoi, which filled my heart with excitement. I had spent 8 years at University during my twenties, living on lentils, had intense internship and house officer jobs in hospitals, and now was my chance for a little freedom, where I got to design my life. I knew immediately I wanted to live and study in Montpellier. One year and a UK diploma in Anaesthetics later, almost to the day, I drove into Montpellier in a tiny little Austin metro with UK plates, and enrolled at the Universite Paul Valery for 12 months of French language studies. It was at once the most exciting and the most terrifying of days as I found my feet. Have you taken a big adventure? Or is it yet to come? Let me know in the comments! #Montpellier #jeparlefrancais #Adventure #wellbingexpert

08.01.2022 My only retreat this year will be in Stanthorpe in October. Early bird ends September 9th.

07.01.2022 Heres my article on work life balance. Let me know your thoughts. https://www.linkedin.com//dr-leila-davis-%F0%9F%8C%BB-7731

06.01.2022 Do you have enough support to take the big, bold steps that will make life rich, rewarding and fulfilling? Need more? Find out about how a women's mastermind can support you move from anxiety to confidence, from not enough to good enough, and from 'done to you' to 'done by you'.

05.01.2022 How to get back to happy! This interview is all about what you can do for your own mental health https://www.linkedin.com//dr-leila-davis-%F0%9F%8C%BB-7731

05.01.2022 What an amazing group. We have held each other in order to grow. Im so grateful for this amazing community of women! #womensmastermind #stanthorperetreat

03.01.2022 Here's my article on work life balance. Let me know your thoughts. https://www.linkedin.com//dr-leila-davis-%F0%9F%8C%BB-7731

02.01.2022 #truthbomb To heal it you have to feel it. The way out of suffering is through it. Not avoiding it. ... I used to think this was all a bit miserable till I realised (quite literally) that in the other side, Its beautiful!! So if youre in pain, suffering, find a good therapist, start exercising and meditating and support yourself to go through it. See you on the other side!!