Individual counselling
for empowered living.
Why ReFocus?
The onus will be on helping people to appreciate that their childhood experiences of relationship with their primary care giver, usually the mother, will impact and instruct subsequent relationships in their life. We will focus on self-healing, refocusing their minds in a way that teaches them to respond as opposed to react, to be present, to learn to make friends with the parts that make up the whole, that they are not JUST their anxiety or their fear of lack of self-confidence or their sorrow and pain. To help them see that the story they tell is just that, a story.
Vision
My vision is to help people to realise that they are the answers they have been looking for.
That they can heal themselves, that they are not mad, bad or sad, they are hurting.
Julie Ann Santall
Certified holistic counsellor
Drug and alcohol counsellor
Hypnotherapy
General Nurse Div 1
IICT full member
I started my career as a Div 1 Registered General Nurse,
specialising in Trauma 35 yrs ago.
Since moving to Australia from the UK, almost 20 yrs ago after being sponsored by the Alfred Trauma Centre, I moved in to complex Psychosocial work, and worked with the marginalised, the sad, maligned people who were addicted and unwell and suffered. This suffering impacted them at every level of life from housing to relationships. Their connection to themselves, to others, to nature was absent.
Over the years of working with people with severe addictions to substances, and hearing their stories; it became clear to me that the common denominator was the trauma that ran through the family like a juggernaut and that the person in front of me was holding the pain of the ancestors.
My knowledge of the nervous system recognises that the body has an innate potential for protection and survival.
My holistic training has shown me that the way we bond to our primary care givers, and the level of love and nurturing they are able to provide or not, in turn informs the way we respond in relationship, in the same way our caregivers learnt from theirs, 7 generations forwards, 7 generations back.
The Seventh Generation Principle is based on an ancient Iroquois philosophy that the decisions we make today should result in a sustainable world seven generations into the future. But, it can also be applied to relationships - every decision should result in sustainable relationships seven generations in the future. For further reading please visit: https://www.ictinc.ca/blog/seventh-generation-principle
The people I saw weren’t mad or bad, they were hurting.
In our way we are all hurting. In a world of seeming confusion and busyness we are told to ignore the hurt. We carry on and forget our hearts and ourselves. We ‘flip our lids’ and we lie in bed at night, our mind incessantly interrupting our sleep and we drag ourselves through the day in a haze until exhausted our body lets us know, with injuries and illnesses that it wants you to stop. Please, just stop.
We are not sick. We are hurting.
However, I have learned that we can learn to heal. We can learn to soothe our body, understand ourselves and as such those in our life. When we consider ourselves in high regard, when we learn to know and love ourselves, we can in turn learn to have compassion for the other. When we learn to see reality as it is and not through the filter of hurt and pain, we are free and the world opens to possibilities without fear.
Without fear we are empowered to live life to its fullest.
My intent is to walk with you on this part of your journey and assist you in finding your path to an empowered life.
