# @juleswaller_ on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DctN_Ukk4Vq
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/69794027-juleswaller-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-08-31T13:41:48.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Julie Waller (Jules) | School Refusal Support (@juleswaller_) — https://gondola.cc/juleswaller_

## Caption

It took years, not weeks, before mornings looked anything like easy.

For a long stretch, every school day started the same way. 

The same fight, the same driveway, the same forty five minutes (minimum) of trying everything I could think of to get her out the door. 

I remember genuinely wondering if this was just who she was going to be. A kid who couldn’t do mornings. A kid who couldn’t do school.

She wasn’t. 
She just needed something different to what I kept offering her.

The twelve-minute Tuesday in this carousel is real, it’s just not from year one. It came after a long time of getting it wrong, then slowly getting it right. 

My daughter missed over 100 days of school in a single year. She’s now at her first choice university.

If you’re in the driveway version of this right now, I promise it’s not the whole story yet. It just might take longer to get there than anyone tells you it will.

With love,

Jules ❤️

#schoolrefusal #schoolanxiety #teenanxiety #teenmentalhealth #childrensmentalhealth

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schoolrefusal, schoolanxiety, teenmentalhealth, teenanxiety, childrensmentalhealth

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