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Nadia’s Choice Reduce Stress | Build Connection✨Heal & break toxic patterns🌱Raising emotionally secure kids🩵

25/11/2025

If your neurodiverse child is struggling with big feelings, impulsivity or overwhelm, I can help them therapeutically understand their emotions and develop the skills to pause, regulate and cope better.🕊️💐

I’m a BACP-registered counsellor with a passion for trauma-informed practice, supporting neurodiverse children and parents who are carrying weight that no one can see.💔

I also offer counselling for mums, online and in person in Hall Green (B28), you don’t have to do this alone.

💬Book a free discovery call, link in bio. I would love to connect with you & talk about how I can support you & your child.

24/11/2025

There’s a misconception that responding calmly to a child’s overwhelm means you’re being soft, permissive or “letting them get away with it.” It’s the opposite.

A child who is dysregulated is almost always a child with unmet emotional needs.
Their nervous system interprets those unmet needs as threat or danger and so the child reacts with fear.

Many parents, teachers & support staff don’t realise:
A child’s frontal lobe, the part responsible for logic, reflection and impulse control is still under construction. It cant stay online when their body senses threat or danger.

In those moments, the child doesn’t need more discipline or trying to get them to learn. How can a child learn or truly understand when frontal lobe is offline?🤷‍♀️

They need emotionally safe, mature adults who can show them how to settle, breathe, and come back into themselves.

Supporting a child during overwhelm doesn’t excuse the behaviour. It helps their brain return to a state where learning and accountability become possible.

🌳Connection brings the thinking brain back online
🌳Safety builds long-term self-control
🌳Co-regulation teaches the child how to calm their body
🌳Mature adults help wire the child’s nervous system
🌳Emotional safety today becomes emotional resilience tomorrow

This isn’t being permissive, this is evidence-based, trauma-informed practice.

✅We don’t lower boundaries, we deliver them in a way the child’s brain can actually absorb.
✅We don’t ignore feelings, we show children that emotions are not something to fear, but something a regulated body can cope with.

When adults model calm, children learn that they are safe enough to feel, safe enough to express, and safe enough to grow.

📌If you want support in creating a home or classroom where boundaries are firm and children feel emotionally safe, send me a message. I would love to support you.

Salam sisters, I hope you are all well. I haven’t been on here in a while, I’m hoping to get back to being active really...
22/11/2025

Salam sisters, I hope you are all well. I haven’t been on here in a while, I’m hoping to get back to being active really soon, insha’Allah.

Over the last few weeks, I’ve been completely absorbed in learning about neurodiversity and emotional regulation in children. I recently began working in an SEMH school, and subhanAllah… it has been one of the most eye-opening experiences of my journey so far.

Every day, I see how differently children respond when their nervous system becomes overwhelmed. One child explodes in anger, another walks out of class. Someone disappears into silence while others become noisy or chaotic.

Being in this environment has shown me just how misunderstood these reactions often are. Beneath the surface, there’s always a child who is struggling, not a child who is “naughty” or “disobedient.”

What has touched me most is what happens after the reaction: the shame, the guilt, the worry that they are “too much,” the way they avoid eye contact or make themselves small.

So many of these children are holding feelings much bigger than their capacity. Their behaviour is communication.
It’s their body’s way of asking for help with emotions they haven’t learned to manage yet.

Working so closely with neurodiverse children and children without additional needs keeps reminding me:

Children aren’t giving us a hard time… they’re having a hard time.

Our children need emotionally safe adults, parents, teachers, teaching assistants and trained counsellors/therapists who can help them make sense of their inner world without shame.

If your child is struggling, getting support early is powerful.
It doesn’t mean something is “wrong” with them, it means you’re helping them understand themselves better, build emotional language, and develop healthier coping.

Insha’Allah, I’ll be sharing more soon, from my counselling experience, trauma-informed training, and what I’m learning in SEMH environments about anger, dysregulation, overwhelm and big feelings.

I’ve missed you all, and I pray Allah fills your homes with peace, understanding, and ease. ❤️💐Keep me in your Duas 😁

24/09/2025

Strength isn’t about pushing through forever. It’s about having the right conditions to heal, to regulate, and to feel safe inside ourselves again.🌿🕊️

When we don’t feel emotionally safe, everything at home feels harder, we react instead of respond, we carry old wounds into new moments, and we lose sight of the peace we long for.💔

That’s why I created ‘Rooted & Regulated’ a 12-week trauma healing program designed to help you return to safety within yourself so you can build emotionally safe, connected relationships with your children.

So that you can finally see that so many of your triggers aren’t about today, or even about your children — they come from unresolved pain that you no longer have to carry.

✨ Your healing matters because when you heal, your family heals too.

📌 The final round of 2025 is now open. 💬 Comment YES on this post if you’d like the link to book onto the info session, where I’ll share all the details and answer your questions.

17/09/2025

When you feel triggered, it is easy to believe someone else made you feel this way. The truth is, no one can cause your pain. They may touch it, but the wound lives inside.

This is liberating! It means you are not helpless, and you are not a victim of other people’s behaviour. You have free will. You can heal. You can choose differently.

Every step you take in self-responsibility is a step into freedom. You can move from reaction to intention. You begin to create your life with awareness & your children get to grow up in that safety and consciousness too.🌳

🌿Join the Safe Space Community today to work from the inside out, raise your children consciously, and create beautiful results in your family life.💐🕊️

💬Or book a free discovery call to explore how counselling sessions can support you in making lasting, positive change. Link in bio.💕💐

12/09/2025

When children act out, shut down, or seem constantly on edge it’s not “bad behaviour.” It’s the nervous system in survival mode.

For many children, past experiences of stress or trauma have taught their brain: “I’m not safe.” When the brain doesn’t feel safe, it switches off learning and switches on protection.

Fear may get short-term compliance, but it deepens disconnection. Safety, on the other hand, tells the nervous system: “You can relax. You can learn.”

✨ Emotional safety is the foundation every child needs not only to learn, but to heal, connect, and thrive.

What if the patterns you’re stuck in: pushing through, 🎯 needing to be perfect & holding it all in🤐 aren’t personality t...
27/07/2025

What if the patterns you’re stuck in: pushing through, 🎯 needing to be perfect & holding it all in🤐 aren’t personality traits but signs your nervous system is still in survival mode?

This is how you have adapted to feel safe & it’s worked for so long, until its started costing you your peace, your presence & your connection with the people you love the most. 💔

In Rooted & Regulated, my 8-week trauma healing program, you’ll finally allow yourself to feel what you’ve spent years suppressing, to emotionally let go 💧, reconnect with your body 🤲, and become deeply aware of yourself 🌱.

When you understand your own triggers and wounds, you stop passing them on. You stop taking them out on the people you love, especially your children 👶❤️.

The program starts in September, the spaces are limited.

I’m holding a free info session on Friday 1st August to walk you through the program, answer your questions, and help you decide if it’s the right fit for your healing journey 🌿.

📩 DM me for the link to register, or comment “Yes” below and I’ll send it over to you.

🧠How Trauma Impacts the BrainSome traumas are big and obvious, like:🚨 Physical abuse💔 Loss of a loved one⚡ Car accidents...
11/03/2025

🧠How Trauma Impacts the Brain

Some traumas are big and obvious, like:
🚨 Physical abuse
💔 Loss of a loved one
⚡ Car accidents or natural disasters

But trauma can also show up in less obvious ways, like:
💥 Constant conflict between parents
❌ Overly critical parents
⏳ Childhood without love, care or attention

These big T and little t traumas don’t just affect us temporarily — they change our brains and stay with us as we grow into adulthood.

Think about how this impacts:
💍 Marriages — unresolved trauma can affect how we communicate and trust in relationships
👶 Parenting — the way we were raised influences how we raise our own children
💼 Success and happiness — trauma can create internal blocks that make it harder to feel fulfilled or succeed in life

The good news? Healing is possible. 🧠✨
By focusing on nervous system regulation, helping our brain feel safe through therapy, mindfulness, inner child work, emotional processing, and cultivating safe relationships, we can rewire our brains.

It’s not about erasing the past, but learning to live fully in the present with the tools to feel safe, strong, and in control.

Join us in The Safe Space Community to bring safety to your nervous system & build a healthier, more connected family life. Comment YES for the link to join.

Is your child’s ‘disrespect’ actually triggering something deeper? 🤔When our kids push back, challenge us, or express bi...
09/03/2025

Is your child’s ‘disrespect’ actually triggering something deeper? 🤔

When our kids push back, challenge us, or express big emotions, it can feel deeply triggering. But often, our reaction isn’t just about their behaviour—ITS ABOUT WHAT’S HAPPENING INSIDE US.

If we grew up in an environment where questioning was seen as disrespect, our nervous system might still register these moments as a threat. That’s why we react with anger, control, or shutdown—our body is protecting us from an old wound.

So how do we break the cycle?
🌿 Nervous system regulation – Learning to calm our triggers before reacting.
💭 Processing our past – Understanding why these emotions feel so big.
👶 Reparenting ourselves – Giving ourselves the patience, safety, and understanding we needed.

This is a journey, and you don’t have to do it alone. 💛

✨ Join The Safe Space Community—a support group for mums navigating these struggles together. Comment ‘YES’ & I will send the link to join straight to your inbox.

✨ Or book a free discovery call, and let’s have a chat about I how can support you to create an emotionally secure connection with your children & family.

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