I sat in more waiting rooms than I can count. Psych after psych, counsellor after counsellor, teacher after teacher. Same advice, different office: Push through it. Be firm. Consistency is key. Over 100 days of missed school in one year alone, and I did exactly what I was told, every time. And every time, it didn’t hold. Something in me knew there was a piece missing. Not because any of those professionals were wrong to try what they knew - but because what they knew was built on training that hasn’t caught up to where the research actually is. So I went and found it myself. University mental health trained, and a mum who needed answers nobody was giving me. I read the studies. I found the gap, and put it into practice. I rebuilt everything I did with my daughter around what the evidence actually says: body first, then mind. She went from unable to walk through the school gate to walking onto her first-choice university campus. I’m not anti-therapy. I’m not agains...