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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
🧠 Carer burnout is a nervous system injury (not a self care problem)
🧡 Somatic support for autism mums and complex needs parenting
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💬 Email enquiries or book via the website 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

04/09/2026

I keep hearing things like “My child’s NDIS funding was cut by 50%.”

And yes… some families are absolutely seeing cuts.

But what I’m seeing behind the scenes is also families getting results like THIS. 👇

Before: approx. $20,000
After: approx. $70,000

And this wasn’t luck.

This family did a huge amount of work to get here.. gathering evidence, documenting what daily life actually looks like, strengthening reports, showing the functional impact, identifying the gaps and making sure the funding being requested could be clearly justified.

I supported them with the strategy, evidence and wording, but they did worked really hard for this. 🙌

And the wild part?

This is actually the smallest funding increase I’ve seen for one of my clients in the past month.

I’m sharing these wins because there is SO much fear around NDIS reviews right now and that means that some children who GENUINELY need more support, are missing out.

Funding outcomes are never guaranteed. But good evidence, strong preparation and clearly showing the reality of support needs still matters.

Please don’t let all the horror stories convince you that there’s no point asking for what your family genuinely needs.

Comment NDIS and I’ll send you the link to my NDIS support options.

Follow me for more NDIS tips, evidence guidance and actual family outcomes.

03/09/2026

Autism parenting will really refine your tolerance levels 😂

If you’re raising an autistic child or navigating disability parenting and you like your support with a side of dark humour, follow me Jade Addicott | NDIS + Burnout Support - you’re definitely among friends here 💚

03/09/2026

Okay, this is one of those NDIS changes that sounds incredibly complicated, but here’s what it actually means for families.

Previously, a family might ask for an early plan reassessment because something major had changed.
Maybe Grandma had been helping after school 3 days a week but could no longer continue. Maybe a child’s ability to communicate, manage personal care or stay safe had declined. Maybe there had been a change in school, living arrangements or the family’s capacity to keep providing unpaid care.

You can still request an early reassessment for those reasons.
But now, simply telling the NDIA what happened may not be enough. You need to show how that change has significantly affected the participant’s ongoing disability support needs.

For example, it may not be enough to say:
“Grandma can’t help us anymore.”
You may now need evidence explaining:
• how much disability-related support Grandma was providing
• why she can no longer provide it
• why this change is ongoing
• what support gap this has created
• how it affects the participant’s safety, care or ability to participate
• what paid support is now needed

The same applies to a new diagnosis. The diagnosis itself may not be enough. The evidence needs to explain what has changed in everyday life and why the participant now needs additional or different NDIS support.

Running out of funding is also unlikely to be enough on its own. You need to show the actual change in disability support needs behind the funding problem.
There is also a new form, evidence needs to be provided with the request, and the NDIA now has up to 90 days to decide what happens next.

I’m not saying this to discourage anyone from asking for what they need. I just don’t want families submitting a request without understanding what they now need to prove.

Save this post!

If you need help working out the right pathway, gathering evidence or preparing for an NDIS plan reassessment, comment NDIS and I’ll send you information about my services.

Current as at 3 September 2026.

03/09/2026

I haven’t released a podcast episode in nearly three months.

But while I’ve been quiet, 1,188 Australian parents and carers have told me what is happening behind closed doors.

These aren’t just numbers.
They are parents trying to survive an impossible caring load while the systems around them continue to look away.

This episode shares an early snapshot of the findings from The Invisible Cost of Care survey... and it’s only the beginning.

I want our stories in front of government, the media and every person with the power to advocate or create change.

This is a public health crisis.

Comment EP8 and I’ll send you the episode.

And fans please share it. Australian parents and carers have spoken. It’s time people started listening.

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02/09/2026

A while ago I realised I’d started judging my days differently.
I wasn’t asking, “Was today good?”
I was asking things like:

Did we get through the school run without a crisis?
Did I manage to stop things escalating?
Did everyone get to the end of the day safely?
Did I keep it together enough to do it all again tomorrow?

And that became the benchmark.
That’s the part of disability parenting people don’t always see.

You can adore your child and still dread what the next few hours might bring.

You can be doing an incredible job and still feel like your body is permanently waiting for the next thing.
That constant state of readiness is exactly why so many carers end up burnt out.

This level of care asks a lot from a human nervous system.

Follow me for more on disability parenting, carer burnout and nervous system recovery.

02/09/2026

One vague sentence in an NDIS report can make a perfectly reasonable support request much harder to understand.

And I see this ALL the time.

“Would benefit from…”
“Could benefit from…”
“May benefit from…”

But the NDIS needs more than that.

A strong recommendation should help clearly explain:

• the disability-related functional impact
• exactly what support is being recommended
• how often and for how long
• what the support is intended to address
• what functional outcome it is working towards
• why that level of support is needed

Your therapist might know exactly why they’re recommending something.

You might know exactly why it’s needed.

But the person reading the report wasn’t in the room.

Don’t make them connect the dots.

Make the connection between impairment → functional impact → support → outcome really clear.

Save this before your next NDIS report or review.

And follow me for practical NDIS tips without the confusing jargon.

If you need help working out what your evidence is actually missing, comment NDIS and I’ll send you the best place to start.

01/09/2026

Anxiety doesn’t always look like a panic attack.

Sometimes it’s a tight chest, racing thoughts, clenched shoulders, feeling overstimulated by everything around you, or being exhausted but still unable to properly switch off.

For women and mums carrying a huge mental load, these little nervous system resets can be much easier to actually use than trying to “calm down” when your body is already on high alert.

This one combines gentle rhythmic touch with a longer exhale to give your body another cue that it can soften. You don’t need a perfect morning routine, 30 minutes of meditation or a completely quiet house. You just need a few seconds.

Save it for the next time you feel anxious, overwhelmed or overstimulated. 🤍

Follow me for more simple somatic exercises, nervous system regulation tools and burnout support for women and mums that you can actually use in real life.

And comment FREE and I’ll send you the link to my free resources with more tools to help with anxiety, overwhelm and nervous system regulation.

01/09/2026

If disability parenting had its own book section… it would be somewhere between comedy, psychological thriller and complete fiction 😂📚

Because somehow a sock seam can ruin a morning, the wrong chicken nuggets can become a national emergency, the trampoline can become a full-time residence, and poo can appear in places no poo should ever be.

If you’re a disability parent, autism parent, special needs parent or carer, you already know these books are basically documentaries.

Which title was the most accurate for your house? 😂
Or better yet, what would YOUR book be called?

Follow me for more real disability parenting, carer burnout support, nervous system tools and the kind of humour that gets us through the week.

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