# @juleswaller_ on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/Db7X2NSk7iF
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/69142930-juleswaller-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-08-12T05:05:54.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Julie Waller (Jules) | School Refusal Support (@juleswaller_) — https://gondola.cc/juleswaller_

## Caption

7:15am. Her shoes are by the door. 
Neither of us has said a word yet.

That was every morning, one particular year.

I don’t remember the exact day it started to shift. 
There wasn’t a single breakthrough, no perfect thing I said. Just a slow trade - less pushing, more listening (maybe I was just too exhausted).

There was less “you’re going,” and more “what does your body need right now?”

Some (many) mornings still fell apart. 
But something underneath them was different. 
She wasn’t bracing the same way anymore.

She’s at university now. 
Not because I found the right words in the end. 
Because we finally stopped looking for the right words, and constantly pushing through.  And started with the right starting point.

If your 7:15am looks like that shoe-by-the-door silence right now - I promise you, you can shift this. 

We did.  It wasn’t how they told us to do it.
And it wasn’t magic. 

It was just starting in a different place.

Comment TOOLKIT and I’ll show you where.

- Jules ❤️
University mental health trained. And a mum who lived it.

#schoolrefusal #schoolanxiety #schoolsystem #teenanxiety #teenmentalhealth

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schoolrefusal, schoolanxiety, teenmentalhealth, teenanxiety, schoolsystem

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