self-care | brokentobrilliant

Sep 8
3 min

Affirmations - What are affirmations, why do they work, how do they work, how are they useful for a domestic violence survivor

Affirmations are simple (but powerful, we’ll get to that later) tools that involve repeating positive statements to encourage a...

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Sep 1
4 min

What is Self-Care and Why Do Domestic Violence Survivors Need to Learn Self-Care Tools?

It is crucial for survivors to seek out self-care practices to break this cycle and promote long-term healing and overall well-being.

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Nov 22, 2023
4 min

Empowering Journeys with Broken to Brilliant's Support Walk

The Broken to Brilliant's Support Walks in West Chermside Brisbane and Mackay are filled with laughter, healing, gratitude, and community co

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Oct 25, 2023
3 min

Our Open Day and RESTORE Experience

The RESTORE Program is a specialised initiative designed to empower women survivors on their journey to healing.

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Apr 19, 2023
3 min

Using Regulation Tools to sustain peace after DV

I’d had a really big day and was tired and agitated when we had the Broken to Brilliant lesson on tools for regulating our emotions.

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Apr 12, 2023
3 min

The Handbag Reminder

This day was different. The counsellors explained that the bags had been donated and prepared for women who had left domestic violence

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Jan 27, 2023
2 min

Financial Superwomen

Financial Superwomen is a FREE Workshop for female domestic violence survivors looking for financial knowledge.

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Jun 23, 2022
2 min

Healing through creativity & symbolism

Domestic violence amazing resilient thrivers spent two days immersed in creativity & healing. There is deep symbolism in their mandalas

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May 19, 2022
2 min

How I get enough sleep

If you’re reading this blog, I guess it caught your attention because you’re looking for ways to get a better night’s sleep. I’ve been look

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May 1, 2022
2 min

How I tackled anxiety and nightmares to heal my sleep

Trauma impacts sleep, and it caused significant challenges for me. When I reflect on how much my sleep has improved now, I feel proud of my

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Apr 28, 2022
2 min

You deserve to rest

I haven’t slept much for such a long time that I hadn’t thought about how it could be affecting me.

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Feb 1, 2022
3 min

The Benefits of Blogging for Survivors

Broken to Brilliant developed a creative writing capacity-building program called Blogging self-care designed to run on ZOOM

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Jan 22, 2022
3 min

Self-Care: Putting my Needs First

Self-care it’s like it’s the new buzz word, especially after all the lockdowns and restrictions that have been in place. What does it mean?

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Jan 18, 2022
3 min

A Strategy for Self-care

There is no single, magic ingredient for healing. Healing is messy, and how we move forward is usually a result of many different practices

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Jan 15, 2022
3 min

The challenge and reward of practicing self-care

My self-care plan that helps to maintain my health includes crisis-care ingredients, flexible-sometimes ingredients and let’s-do-nothing ...

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Our mission is made possible by the generosity of our supporters and funders. We are so grateful for their support.

Our mission is made possible by the generosity of our supporters and funders.
We are so grateful for their support.