Warida Wholistic Wellness

21/10/2026

What a beautiful morning here at Warriparinga! ☀️🌿

Taking a little time to enjoy the sunshine, listen to the birds and connect with Country before the day begins. Today, Warida is joining Nunkuwarrin Yunti’s Women, Children & Family Health team for their Wellness Day.

It’s a significant time for the team as they acknowledge nine years of the Australian Family Partnership Program and look towards a new chapter with Kuru Mankunthi.

I’ll be facilitating this afternoon, bringing everyone together through Gudu Guduwa (coming together) and Ngardi Guwanda (deep listening), creating space for connection, reflection and strengthening relationships.

Such a lovely way to begin a day focused on wellbeing, connection and what comes next. 💛

20/10/2026

Sometimes, five minutes out on glorious Kaurna Country is just what is needed in the middle of a very busy week! 🌿

It’s certainly been a full one for Warida Wholistic Wellness, with some wonderful opportunities to connect, listen and support our communities.

Yesterday, Warida was contracted by BilaEmpower to attend and present at the South Australian Public Sector Aboriginal Staff Forum. We had the opportunity to share who BilaEmpower is, what makes our First Nations led Employee Assistance Program (EAP) different, and how staff can access support. It was also an opportunity to answer questions, have some great yarns and provide onsite therapeutic support throughout the day.

Today, we’re supporting the Department for Environment and Water’s Aboriginal Rangers through a wellbeing training event.

Tomorrow, we’ll be walking alongside Nunkuwarrin Yunti’s Kuru Mankunthi (Holding the Coolamon) team as they reflect on where they’ve been, come together and identify their priorities for the future.

Somewhere in amongst all of that is report writing for BilaEmpower and finding time to keep progressing my PhD!

It’s a busy week, but one filled with meaningful work, connection and opportunities to make a difference.

It also reminded me today of something I often share with others. We can become so caught up in everything that needs doing that we forget to give ourselves permission to stop, even briefly.

Five minutes outside, feeling the breeze, listening to the birds and connecting with Country. Sometimes that’s enough to help us reconnect with ourselves before stepping back into the day.

How are you making a little space for yourself this week? 🌿

20/10/2026

🌿 Another wonderful milestone for Warida Wholistic Wellness!

We’re delighted to share that Warida is now officially People and Planet First Verified!

Since establishing Warida (under a different name) in 2015, our purpose has always been about more than running a business. It’s about creating meaningful change, challenging systems that no longer serve our communities, and supporting people to reconnect with their own strengths, wisdom and wellbeing.

Being a social enterprise means putting purpose before profit. It means making intentional decisions about how we operate, who we support and how we reinvest in creating positive social impact.

This international verification recognises businesses that genuinely prioritise people and the planet, reinvest the majority of their surplus towards their purpose, and have structures in place to protect that purpose into the future.

For Warida, this recognition sits proudly alongside our Supply Nation and Social Traders Australia certifications, reflecting our ongoing commitment to cultural integrity, reciprocity, community empowerment and doing business differently.

We’re proud of this milestone, not because it changes who we are, but because it recognises the values that have guided Warida from the very beginning.

🌏 People. Planet. Purpose. Always.

Learn more about People and Planet First: https://lnkd.in/edDgDxxV

19/10/2026

What a wonderful evening celebrating South Australian businesses at the Premier’s Business and Export Awards Friday night!

Warida Wholistic Wellness was incredibly honoured to be named a finalist in the First Nations business category. Whilst we didn’t take home the award, being recognised alongside other First Nations businesses doing such important work was something to celebrate in itself.

When I reflect on Warida’s journey, from a vision of doing things differently in mental health and wellbeing to the work we now do with individuals, communities and organisations, I feel an enormous sense of gratitude. Building a business that challenges conventional approaches, whilst staying true to our cultural values and purpose, hasn’t always been easy. Recognition like this reminds me why I started.

What made the evening even more special was having my two beautiful children, Savannah and Orson, there to share it with me. They’ve been part of this journey in so many ways, and having them beside me was probably the greatest highlight of the night. ❤️

Congratulations to the winners and all the finalists. It was lovely to see so many passionate South Australian businesses being recognised.

Here’s to continuing the work, staying true to our purpose and creating those ripples of change, one person and one community at a time.

Bianca xx

17/10/2026

🌿 A little more of Bianca’s creative journey…

Alongside her work through Warida Wholistic Wellness, Bianca has been reconnecting with the beautiful practice of therapeutic weaving.

For Bianca, weaving is a space for deep listening, reflection, connection and storytelling. Each piece emerges through the process of making, without a predetermined outcome, carrying its own story through colour, texture and form.

If you’d like to follow Bianca’s weaving journey, see her latest creations and the stories that emerge along the way, we’d love you to follow her page, Badimia Therapeutic Weaver. 🧡

16/10/2026

The Stolen Generations are not simply part of Australia's history. Their experiences continue to shape the lives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, families and communities today.

Two reports released by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare in 2026 bring this reality into sharp focus. Using data from 2022–23, the reports estimate that 23,300 Stolen Generations survivors aged 50 and over, and 200,000 adult descendants, were living in Australia. The true numbers may be considerably higher.

Among the findings:

• Stolen Generations survivors were 1.9 times as likely to experience high psychological distress compared with other Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people of the same age who had not been removed.

• Descendants were 1.3 times as likely to experience high psychological distress compared with other Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adults who were not descendants.

• Both groups continue to experience significant challenges in health, wellbeing and accessing support.

There is another part of these findings that deserves our attention.

Despite deliberate attempts to sever connections to family, culture, language and Country, cultural connection continues. Among descendants, identification with clan, tribal and language groups was higher on the measures examined.

For me, these reports reinforce why we cannot separate mental health from history, culture, family, community and the systems people must navigate. When we speak about trauma-informed practice, we must understand whose trauma we are talking about, the historical circumstances that contributed to it, and how those experiences continue to be felt across generations.

We must also recognise the strength, cultural knowledge and determination that families have carried forward. Healing requires more than acknowledging the past. It requires culturally safe services, meaningful self-determination, accountability and a genuine commitment to addressing the conditions that continue to affect people's lives.

At Warida Wholistic Wellness, our work is grounded in deep listening, culturally integrated wellbeing and the understanding that people hold their own answers. These reports offer further evidence of why this work matters, and why our responses must be shaped by the people, families and communities most affected.

The question is no longer whether the impacts continue. It is whether we are prepared to respond in ways that genuinely make a difference.

Sources: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2026), Survivors of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Stolen Generation (IHW 318) and Descendants of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Stolen Generations (IHW 319).

15/10/2026

Absolutely. ❤️

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13/10/2026

On Allied Health Professions Day (14 October), we find ourselves thinking about the people behind the professions: the ones who sit beside someone when life feels heavy, or notice what is not being said. The ones who listen beyond symptoms and take the time to understand the person, their story, their relationships, their culture, their community and the world around them.

At Warida Wholistic Wellness, we believe wellbeing is never just about one part of a person. We are interconnected with family, community, identity, culture, Country and the experiences we carry with us. Healing and wellbeing need space for all of that. That is why allied health professionals matter so much.

Across Australia, people from many different disciplines are walking alongside individuals, families and communities every day. Their work may look different, but at its heart is relationship, trust and helping people reconnect with what supports them to live well.

Today we want to acknowledge the allied health professionals who keep showing up, listening deeply and creating spaces where people can feel seen, heard and respected. Your work matters, often in ways you may never fully see.

Happy Allied Health Professions Day. 🧡

11/10/2026

Fabulous way to start the day!

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