# @juleswaller_ on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DSv0SGKk2un
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/59933371-juleswaller-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/df3641c3c3.jpg
- **Posted:** 2025-12-27T00:40:57.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Julie Waller (Jules) | School Refusal Support (@juleswaller_) — https://gondola.cc/juleswaller_

## Caption

There’s a moment many parents reach - quietly.
When the strategies are gentle.
The tone is calm.
You’re doing everything you were told would help.

And instead of easing … the anxiety is getting worse.
That moment isn’t a failure of parenting.
It’s a signal.

Because once fear is driving the nervous system, effort alone can’t turn it down.
Reassurance stops landing.
Consistency stops helping.

And parents start blaming themselves - even when nothing they’re doing is wrong.

This is usually the point where families realise:
Something has shifted.
And support needs to shift with it.

If this question has been sitting in your chest lately,
you’re not behind - you’re at a decision point.

This account is for parents navigating school refusal.
I’m a university-trained mental health mum who’s lived this - and come out the other end

- Jules ❤️

#schoolrefusal #schoolanxiety #anxiouskids

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## Tags

schoolrefusal, schoolanxiety, anxiouskids

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