# @juleswaller_ on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DZw-9-1EyC2
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/66971987-juleswaller-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-06-19T11:13:19.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Julie Waller (Jules) | School Refusal Support (@juleswaller_) — https://gondola.cc/juleswaller_

## Caption

For a long time the mornings started the same way.

A stomach ache, a pale face, “I feel sick.” And a small, exhausted part of me wondered if she meant it.

She did.

What I didn’t understand back then is that fear doesn’t always look like fear in a child. It looks like a sore tummy, a headache, a kid who genuinely cannot eat. The body sounds the alarm before the words can catch up, and the gut is usually where it lands first.

For a long time I tried logic. “You’re fine.” “You were ok last night”. None of it touched what was actually happening in her body, because you can’t reason with a stomach that thinks it’s in danger.

Once I stopped trying to talk her out of it and started settling her body instead, the mornings slowly stopped being a war.

Comment TOOLKIT for strategy that changed everything for us and things slowly went from 100+ missed days on one year to graduation with entry into her first choice university.

With love,
 
- Jules ♥️

#schoolrefusal #schoolanxiety #schoolsupport #teenmentalhealth #teenanxiety

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schoolrefusal, schoolanxiety, teenmentalhealth, schoolsupport, teenanxiety

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