# @juleswaller_ on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/Dch85uBEyco
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/69794034-juleswaller-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-08-27T04:40:50.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Julie Waller (Jules) | School Refusal Support (@juleswaller_) — https://gondola.cc/juleswaller_

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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 against any of the professionals who tried to help us. But I lived in those trenches far longer than I needed to - and I don’t want that for you.

Comment TOOLKIT if you want to know where to start. 👇

With hope, 

Jules 🩷

#schoolrefusal #schoolanxiety #schoolsucks #teenmentalhealth #childrensmentalhealth

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