Bottle Tree Counselling

I’m Megan, the person behind Bottle Tree Counselling.  Today, I wanted to share a bit about myself.  I live in a beautiful and quite hot part of Queensland, Australia, called Emerald.  I’ve lived here for fourteen years and despite the beach being three and a half hours away, I love living here.  Our crazy household…

Not Good Enough:Subduing my Inner Critic This week I want to share a personal story, the story of not good enough. The story that followed me everywhere and stopped me from being my best self for a long time. I think that so many people look no further than the surface of what other people…

Before I stepped into the world of counselling and coaching, I used to work in the child protection industry.  I talked to a LOT of families about trauma.  I often wondered why people didn’t seem to understand what I meant when I talked to them about trauma.  But one day, one day I finally got…

So often we do things in our day to day without thinking about why.  The “right” way to hang the washing, the “best” way to make bechamel sauce, the “only” way to really eat a burger.  They all sound a little silly, but do you ever stop and wonder why you do some things in…

Part six of the Mental Wellness series How healthy are your finances? Do you even have a plan? Do you just wing it, hoping nothing too big goes spectacularly wrong? Are your fingers crossed every time you swipe your card? How would you even know if you had everything under control? What is financial wellness?…

Part Five of the Mental Wellness series So – what on earth is intellectual wellness? It can best be defined as knowing your creative abilities and finding ways to expand your knowledge and skills. In other words, it’s about knowing what you know, knowing what you don’t know and knowing how to bridge the gap…

Part Five of the Mental Wellness series We often fail to consider how our social interactions work towards our wellness as a whole. Connection is an incredibly important part of our overall wellness and this is build through our social interactions. Social wellness is about how our social connections and interactions support us in our…