Year one of school refusal, I made every mistake in the book. I pushed her through the door every single morning. I used the reward charts. I followed every professional recommendation without question. I told myself consistency was the answer. She got worse. What nobody told me - what took me two years and a complete breakdown of trust to figure out - is that you cannot push a dysregulated nervous system into regulation. The system isn’t built around that truth. I had to find it myself. Once I stopped fighting her body and started working with it, everything changed. She’s now at the university she wanted. First choice. If you’re in year one right now doing everything you were told and watching it fail - you’re not doing it wrong. You’re just working from the wrong framework. There’s another way. Comment TOOLKIT and I’ll send you the exact framework that changed everything for us. ♥️ - Jules (University mental health trained. And a mum who lived it.) #schoolrefusal #scho...