I kept thinking I just hadn’t found the right strategy yet. So I tried another one. And another. Each time telling myself this would be the one that finally worked. What nobody told me was that every failed attempt was doing something. Her nervous system was quietly learning that school meant threat, that nothing helped, that her body was right to be afraid. The neuroscience calls it an alarm - not a thought pattern, not a behaviour, but a physiological signal living in the body. Dr Russell Kennedy, medical doctor and neuroscientist, describes it this way: the brain doesn’t create the alarm. It just generates thoughts to explain why it’s going off. Which is why every approach that tried to think or push or reward her through it made things worse, not better. She didn’t need a better strategy. She needed her alarm turned off first. She missed over 100 days in one school year. She graduated successfully and is now at university. And you can get there too. - Jules ❤️ #s...