Gentle Pathways Project

Healing hearts. Restoring dignity. Shaping generations.

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Founded by Linda Meredith, Gentle Pathways is where heart & soul meet action ~ a bridge uniting those rebuilding safety, restoring dignity, and renewing lives. By connecting people, projects, and purpose, we’re breaking cycles of trauma and creating a future grounded in healing and freedom.

Gentle Pathways Project

A place of safety. A path toward healing. A future with hope.

Welcome

Welcome to Gentle Pathways - a heart-driven initiative founded by Linda Meredith to bring together people and projects devoted to breaking generational cycles of trauma. From safe homes and education programs to community outreach and recovery initiatives, Gentle Pathways partners with those already making a difference, helping to amplify their impact and connect them with the resources and visibility they need.

We believe lasting change happens when compassion meets collaboration - when everyday heroes unite around one shared goal: restoring safety, dignity, and opportunity for those rebuilding their lives. Gentle Pathways exists to weave those threads together - creating real-world partnerships that open doors to healing, empowerment, and generational freedom.

💜Our Heart

🏡 Safe Homes
Provide housing where women can find safety, stability, and dignity as they take their first steps forward.


🔨 Practical Skills
With hands-on teaching in everyday skills, trades, and household management, women gain confidence to stand strong in independence.

📚 Generational Healing
Through restorative education and compassionate support, women are empowered to heal from the hand-me-downs of trauma - breaking patterns of the past and creating new beginnings for themselves and their children.

🌱 Spiritual Growth
We gently meet each woman where she is on her faith journey, offering space for reflection, connection, and hope - honouring every path that leads toward restoration and peace.
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Why Gentle Pathways?

Domestic violence, Addiction, Intergenerational Toxic Stress and Developmental Trauma don’t just break homes - they echo through generations.

Gentle Pathways was created to change that story by bringing together safe housing, practical education, and trauma recovery support under one vision of generational healing.

What began as a vision in Australia is now growing into a global initiative - a network of heart-aligned partnerships working side by side to bring safety, dignity, and restoration where it’s needed most.

Gentle Pathways partners with:

  • Community leaders and Ministries bringing new programs to Australia to support families affected by addiction and trauma.

  • Local initiatives creating safe housing, job pathways, and practical rebuilding skills for women and families.

  • Trauma-trained professionals providing education, mentoring, and recovery support for those ready to heal from generational and developmental trauma.

Together, we create a bridge from survival to stability - and from stability to genuine thriving.

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How it all began

Naturally, over a cuppa...

On a cold winter’s afternoon, I sat with a warm cup of tea across from Karen. Both of us single mums in a quiet moment, no kids interrupting, she began sharing a dream that stopped me mid-sip - a vision that no woman should ever have to walk through what we had endured, alone, losing our homes and without support.

I sat there, stunned, because it was the exact same vision that had been stirring in my own heart: that women could have a safe place to rebuild, heal, and give the next generation something better than what they’d lived through. All without having to contemplate having to move home in the middle of generational healing and change.

Since that day, Karen has turned that vision into something remarkable. She’s designed and built her own tiny home, become qualified to teach others how to do it, and has now taken two groups of twenty women through her building course - each group completing a fully functional tiny home. These women aren’t just learning construction; they’re reclaiming confidence, gaining skills, and stepping into the workforce.

The home in the photo below is her third build - nearly ready to provide emergency housing for women leaving domestic violence. It represents more than walls and a roof; it’s safety, dignity, and a new beginning.

You can see more of Karen’s incredible work and the Dandelion Safe Homes initiative here: https://www.dandelionsafehomes.com.au
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Karen's first tiny home build: her own home

Another winter, another cuppa, this time outside Karen's tiny house

Karen's third tiny home for emergency DV housing

During those years Linda's heart stayed the same, but her focus became Developmental Trauma Recovery ...

During all those years, Linda’s heart never changed - but her focus grew clearer.

What began as a shared dream between two women over cups of tea slowly branched into two powerful callings: Karen’s path into building homes, and Linda’s into rebuilding lives.

While Karen was outside hammer in hand, Linda was deep in study - first in Australia, then internationally, chasing answers about why trauma rewires the brain and how healing really happens.

She became a Counsellor, a Trauma Recovery Coach and Supervisor, built her international practice, and never stopped learning.

Her journey led her to create NeuroSynqt™ - a neuroscience-based, trauma-trained approach for reconnecting the mind, soul, and body - along with Trauma Integrated Movement, a gentle pathway to help survivors experience integration, not just insight.

Today, she’s developing a Global Master Certification for professionals, runs the Thriver Library for individuals and mental health professionals worldwide, and works with clients from every corner of the globe who are ready for genuine recovery after decades of therapy that didn’t reach the roots.

And in the middle of all that? She kept walking her own healing road - recovering from childhood developmental trauma, navigating the later-life discoveries of ADHD and ASD, and learning to laugh at the irony of it all.

She calls her brain “alphabet soup with a dash of untangling” - and it’s exactly that mix of science, humour, and heart that defines everything she does.

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