Sandplay Counselling and Education in Tatura, Victoria | Mental health service

Sandplay Counselling and Education

Locality: Tatura, Victoria

Phone: +61 428 597 619

Address: 75 Hogan St. 3616 Tatura, VIC, Australia

Website: http://www.sandplaytherapist.com

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23.01.2022 16th - 20th November is World Nursery Rhyme Week! Today we have a very special performance of ‘Jack and Jill’ from Chloe. Enjoy!... #WorldNurseryRhymeWeek #JackAndJill #DownSyndrome #WouldntChangeAThing

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19.01.2022 "We are all layered, we are all complicated people." says Noni Hazelhurst when speaking about a very successful Australian television series. "A Place To Call Home", was set after the war- particularly 1953- 1959 and the issues then are still with us. Aboriginal issues, gay rights, class system, racism, migrants, post stress disorder and much more. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZudwOMsBZs

18.01.2022 A 10 year old arrives (Britain's Got Talent) with her two Mums to sing an original song about how adults 'do not always listen to their kids' A powerful message !

16.01.2022 THE SPIRAL OF GRIEF Grief is not something we get over by following pre-prescribed stages, but a partner that we dance, play, honor, argue, and weep with as ...the cycles unfold. Its appearance and the ways it longs to be tended are unique for each person. The timeline for this voyage is not knowable by the psychiatric community, nor by insurance panels or teachers of spirituality, but is birthed and unfolds within the open pathways of the holy human nervous system. To rush, force, or pathologize the experience of grief is to work against nature. The grieving process may not have an endpoint or state of completion in which we come to some final resolution, where we finish and land in some untouchable place, free from our embodied vulnerability, somatic aliveness, and from falling apart and breaking open yet again. For it is this alchemical rotation of vast cycles of rupture and repair that touch and open the human soul. While it may be tempting to hold some fantasied end state as a goal which we reach as we master life or learn endless new metaphysical theories, the heart is not interested in mastery. But in entering, playing, and unfolding the mystery in more subtle and sensitive ways. The heart itself is endless, and the visitors of grief may companion us in their various forms for a lifetime. They arrive not to harm, but to reveal a portal into wholeness, mercy, and luminosity. Shifting shapes, circulating, and rotating, as they open and close passageways in the landscape of the interior pathways. Grief is not so much a process that we make it through, but a non-linear, purifying midwife and shepherd of the unknown. It moves not by way of straight line, but by that of circle and spiral. Photo by Myeongae Lim

16.01.2022 Welcome to our page where we will be keeping you up to date with the work and projects we are doing for the Homeless We will be connected to the community and together we can make a difference.Welcome to our page where we will be keeping you up to date with the work and projects we are doing for the Homeless We will be connected to the community and together we can make a difference.

14.01.2022 A friend shared this and I really liked the lesson! *original poster (Kate Scott 2020)*: RUN THE DISHWASHER TWICE. When I was at one of my lowest (mental) poin...ts in life, I couldn’t get out of bed some days. I had no energy or motivation and was barely getting by. I had therapy once per week, and on this particular week I didn’t have much to ‘bring’ to the session. He asked how my week was and I really had nothing to say. What are you struggling with? he asked. I gestured around me and said I dunno man. Life. Not satisfied with my answer, he said No, what exactly are you worried about right now? What feels overwhelming? When you go home after this session, what issue will be staring at you? I knew the answer, but it was so ridiculous that I didn’t want to say it. I wanted to have something more substantial. Something more profound. But I didn’t. So I told him, Honestly? The dishes. It’s stupid, I know, but the more I look at them the more I CAN’T do them because I’ll have to scrub them before I put them in the dishwasher, because the dishwasher sucks, and I just can’t stand and scrub the dishes. I felt like an idiot even saying it. What kind of grown ass woman is undone by a stack of dishes? There are people out there with *actual* problems, and I’m whining to my therapist about dishes? But my therapist nodded in understanding and then said: RUN THE DISHWASHER TWICE. I began to tell him that you’re not supposed to, but he stopped me. Why the hell aren’t you supposed to? If you don’t want to scrub the dishes and your dishwasher sucks, run it twice. Run it three times, who cares?! Rules do not exist, so stop giving yourself rules. It blew my mind in a way that I don’t think I can properly express. That day, I went home and tossed my smelly dishes haphazardly into the dishwasher and ran it three times. I felt like I had conquered a dragon. The next day, I took a shower lying down. A few days later. I folded my laundry and put them wherever the fuck they fit. There were no longer arbitrary rules I had to follow, and it gave me the freedom to make accomplishments again. Now that I’m in a healthier place, I rinse off my dishes and put them in the dishwasher properly. I shower standing up. I sort my laundry. But at a time when living was a struggle instead of a blessing, I learned an incredibly important lesson: THERE ARE NO RULES. RUN THE DISHWASHER TWICE!!!

13.01.2022 CintiaCabib "Labyrinth Journeys" is a 27-minute documentary which presents the stories of individuals who use the labyrinth as a tool for healing, rehabilitation, stress reduction, meditation, spiritual awareness and playful exploration. Visit http://www.labyrinthjourneysfilm.com

10.01.2022 Want to know more about how to support children’s ability to regulate? Especially during COVID? Join me on a super fun podcast with the #studentfitnessexpert...s - a great resource for coaches, teachers and parents! .... In this episode, I explain and discuss the importance of regulation. I also share how we can use forms of play, children’s most natural form of communication, to help. I share the fastest way of communicating with children and ways children can learn to develop a relationship with the experiences that are happening in their bodies. If you are a coach, teacher or parent who is struggling with managing children’s behaviors and dysregulation, have a listen! https://podcasts.apple.com//the-student-fitne/id1479350958

07.01.2022 Being calm is one of the most misunderstood parts of regulation. Being calm is not the point- learning how to stay mindfully connected to ourselves in the mi...dst of the internal activation we experience is the the goal of learning how to regulate. When we put more value on being calm, we not only send a message that the other emotional states inside us are not as good setting ourselves up to feel guilt and shame when they arise or when being calm is a struggle, but we also set the stage to inadvertently bypass the most important part of the regulation experience- Learning how to mindfully be with all aspects of our human experience.

04.01.2022 Join Amy from Primary Care Connect and learn some important tips on good oral health! In this video Amy explains WHY it is so important to have good oral health and also talks about HOW to clean your teeth properly!

02.01.2022 Just because we have an experience does not mean it is integrated and metabolized. Just as the belly can experience leaky gut, undigested emotional and soma...tic experience can leak from embodied awareness making it difficult to assimilate its essential nutrients. At times, we will have the internal resources (enzymes of spaciousness and safety) to digest intense experience, while at other times we need the presence of another. This presence does not involve more insight or advice, but right-brain immersion in embodied we-space where we feel felt and understood. When an experience is integrated, it becomes part of a cohesive, retrievable narrative and memory a whole neural net of bodily sensations and impulses, smells, sounds, thoughts, emotions, and images, all wired up together in a coherent way. We are then able to make use of the experience to support resilience, aliveness, creativity, intimacy, and play, with others and with the phenomenal world. If the enzymes are not present, the experience is stored outside awareness, limbically and in the body, where it remains available for re-presentation, re-imagination, and re-organization. Colloquially we refer to this re-presentation as a trigger, which is a bit aggressive, however that is often the way it feels. Jung speaks of a complex being constellated, which evokes imagery of space and the stars. In these moments, the little one appears, peeking their head around the corner, longing, How about now? Am I safe to come yet? I’m not here to harm you, I just want to return home. I’m tired, scared, and so alone. It can be so difficult in the moment to hold that little one that is enraged, anxious, or frightened, to provide just a moment of that true nourishment they have been aching for, for so long. The enzyme of holding, of love, in which they can rest in safety from an exhausting journey. The shakiness in the belly, constriction in the throat, that deep sense of annihilatory panic... yet somehow the resources, the help, the ally, the friend appears. It may seem that we are alone, but things are not always as they appear. Photo by Lisa Runnels

01.01.2022 Being soft and to sit in silence and to go on a journey to discover yourself and with the pain you will fall and need to ask people for help, even for a lesbian Latino from the Bronx.