Jade Addicott at SoulShift for Carers

Jade Addicott at SoulShift for Carers SoulShift for Carers offers an exclusive support program to parents and carers of people with a disability - because you deserve to thrive too!

Jade | Nervous System Repair for Special Needs Mums
šŸ§  Carer burnout is a nervous system injury (not a self care problem)
šŸ§” Somatic support for autism mums and complex needs parenting
āœ… Start here: Free Toolkit
šŸ’¬ Message ā€œBOOKā€ for session availability Our 1:1 holistic support aims to help you to reclaim your identity, restore and sustain mental, emotional and spiritual wellbeing and rise into empo

wered, purpose-driven living. I know first hand the impact on your whole self that caring for a loved one has and want to support you to live the life you deserve with a sense of peace and purpose. Our goals:
- Improve mental health and emotional resilience
- Build a supportive and understanding community
- Provide trauma-informed holistic healing therapies for carers
- Empowerment & life design guidance
- Support spiritual growth
- Prevent and reduce carer burnout
- Address and reduce the risk of addiction or maladaptive coping strategies
- Support grief and chronic sorrow

I have 12 years of lived experience having a daughter who has a severe disability/rare genetic disorder and years of professional experience supporting families. I also ran a successful business providing support to families and respite for people with a disability. My qualifications include:
- Holistic Wellness Practitioner
- Advanced Transformational Life Coaching Practitioner
- Inner Child Healing Practitioner
- Mental Wellness Coaching Practitioner
- Mindfulness Coaching Practitioner
- Polyvagal Therapy Practitioner
- Certificate in DBT (Dialectical Behaviour Therapy)
- Certificate in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Quantum Healing Practitioner
- Crystal Energy Healer
- Certificate IV Alcohol & Other Drugs
- Certificate IV in Training & Assessment
- Certificate III Community Services
- Bachelor of Arts - Youth Studies
- Mental Health First Aid
- First Aid Level 2
- ASSIST (Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training)
- Currently completing Graduate Diploma in Counselling

18/06/2026

Feeling wired, tense, or like your body just wonā€™t come down?

Try this quick nervous system reset.

Slowly move your tongue around your gums and the roof of your mouth.

It sounds too simple, but your mouth is full of cranial nerve pathways that help send calming signals back to the brainstem.

This is bottom-up regulation.

Not mindset.
Not ā€œjust breathe.ā€
Not trying to talk yourself out of it.

Itā€™s giving your body a physical signal of safety.

And for overwhelmed mums, autism mums and carers living in constant fight or flight, these tiny tools can matter so much.

āœØ Save this post so you can come back to it when you need it
āœØ Follow me for simple nervous system tools that actually work
āœØ Grab my free Calm Mum Toolkit for more body-based support made for overwhelmed mums

Youā€™re not broken. Your nervous system just needs the right input šŸ§”

17/06/2026

I feel this to my core. šŸŽÆ

17/06/2026

Tell me you have an autistic child without telling me you have an autistic childā€¦

Iā€™ll go first:
2 iPads, 4 TVs on, 12 lights blazing, and nobody is in any of those rooms. šŸ˜‚ IYKYN

17/06/2026

Some mums donā€™t get help until their body forces them to stop.

And by then, it is not a little bit of burnout.

It is crisis.

It is collapsing in private.

It is pretending youā€™re okay while your whole nervous system is screaming.

It is being praised for coping while quietly wondering how much longer you can keep doing this.

This is why I talk so much about nervous system regulation for special needs mums.

Not because breathing fixes everything.

Not because regulation replaces real support.

But because your body needs somewhere to put the stress.

It needs tiny moments of safety.

It needs repair.

It needs to stop living like every single day is an emergency.

You are not weak because this life has changed you.

You are not failing because you need help.

You are a human being carrying a level of responsibility most people will never understand.

And you deserve support before you break.

Comment FREE and Iā€™ll send you my nervous system regulation resources.

17/06/2026

My daughter is 13.
And after 10 years of toilet training (on and off), we are still here.

Not because we didnā€™t try.
But because strategies only work when everyone around the child is actually consistent with them.

Home. School. Support workers. Therapists. Family.
When everyone does something different, when plans arenā€™t followed, when support is patchy, the child is the one who pays the price.

Would it have changed everything if the right supports were in place and followed properly?
I donā€™t know.
And honestly, thatā€™s the part that makes me the angriest.

Because maybe it could have.

I am as much to ā€œblameā€ as anyone else due to severe carer burnout so this isnā€™t about blaming others. Itā€™s just a s**t (literally) situation.

Follow me for the parts of autism parenting people donā€™t talk about enough.

Which one is your favourite? Or which one did I miss? šŸ˜‚Special needs parents hear some absolutely cooked comments from p...
17/06/2026

Which one is your favourite? Or which one did I miss? šŸ˜‚

Special needs parents hear some absolutely cooked comments from people who usually mean wellā€¦ but somehow still manage to activate the eye twitch.

Drop the phrase that makes you want to scream šŸ™€

Follow me for honest, funny and very real conversations about special needs parenting and carer burnout.

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