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True North Alignment

Wellness consulting, coaching, & counselling for frontline workers & their spouses/partners. Energy Healing Sessions, Yoga & Meditation classes/workshops.

Our mission is to reconnect you back to your True Self, which is unlimited and in alignment with your highest potential. "True North", is your orienting point - your fixed point in a spinning world that helps you stay on track as a leader in your own way. When you feel alive with a burning desire, that is when you are in sync with your "True North". Different healing modalities can assist people to remove stagnant energy in the body that becomes blocked over time. By bringing balance into the physical, emotional, mental & spiritual body will help remove blockages that are holding us back in life from truly living limitless and freely. Helps create awareness of our subtle energy field and an understanding of our life's experiences. Meditation also helps bring balance into our often too busy chaotic lives. It can help improve quality of life, focus and clarity by calming the mind. Meditation helps reduce stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, lack of sleep and so much more. It will also increase focus, creativity and motivation. Yoga helps unite mind/body/spirit connection to bring about balance in life. Although there are many styles of Yoga, the main intention is to bring about self awareness through movement of the body and breathing techniques. Together, with an open mind and heart, Vicki will help support you in your healing journey from a place of compassion and understanding.

12/31/2025

💫Happy New Year to Our First Responders

As the year turns, we honour everything you carried - the calls that changed you, the losses that stayed with you, and the quiet wins that may never make the news.

Reflection matters.
Not just on what went right, but on what was hard and what it cost you. Both shaped your growth, your grit, and your humanity.

May the new year bring space to recover, strength to continue, and permission to acknowledge all of the story - not just the strong parts.

Thank you for showing up. Happy New Year 🎉.

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12/28/2025

Social engagement is not a “soft skill” in the First Responder world - it is an operational necessity.

The ability to co-regulate effectively with colleagues, leadership, and the public directly impacts decision-making under stress, emotional resilience, and long-term retention.

Strong social connection supports nervous system recalibration, reduces cumulative stress load, and builds trust within teams. When responders can stabilize one another in high-pressure moments, performance improves and burnout decreases.

3 ways to create social engagement:

👁️ Eye contact can instantly create connection with team members while responding to a stressful call that signal the nervous system - “I’m here with you, we got this”.

😮‍💨 Taking a micro moment to take a deep breath helps recalibrate the nervous system and supports in co-regulation when connecting with public members - this helps them to feel safe.

🥾 Notice your feet on the earth below you and scan your environment to bring you back into present moment. Looking around with curiosity helps shift the nervous system back into connection.

A sustainable future for First Responders depends not only on equipment and training, but on healthy, regulated humans who are supported by connection - not isolation.

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12/24/2025

🎄Season’s Greetings!

Wishing all first responders and their families a joyful and safe holiday season.

Take time to rest, recharge, and stay safe while you continue to serve your communities. Your well-being matters.

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12/23/2025

As a first responder, stress and trauma are part of the job…

But when your body reacts, it’s not a weakness.

Understanding your nervous system shifts the question from “What’s wrong with me?” to “What is my body trying to tell me?”

This perspective helps you recognize signals of fatigue, hypervigilance, or shutdown, and respond with awareness instead of judgment. Listening to your nervous system is a form of strength, not a flaw.

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12/22/2025

Strength isn’t just what you carry into the call.
It’s what you carry through it.

Showing up, adapting under pressure, and continuing to serve despite what you’ve seen - that’s real resilience. Your steadiness matters more than you know.

Stay safe out there, especially over the holidays ♥️

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12/19/2025

The holidays look different when someone you love answers the call.

You carry the quiet weight:
* Waiting through late shifts
* Celebrating without certainty
* Holding space for stress you didn’t create but still absorb

While others count down to gatherings, you count hours, radios, and safe returns.

Your strength often goes unnamed - but it matters.

Supporting a first responder means managing unpredictability, emotional spillover, missed moments, and the mental load of being “the steady one.” During the holidays, that weight can feel heavier.

If you’re a first responder’s partner, parent, or child:
* Your fatigue is valid
* Your mixed emotions make sense
* Your support is not invisible

This season, you deserve rest, appreciation, and care too.
Behind every first responder is a family quietly serving alongside them ♥️.

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12/18/2025

🎄During the holidays, this becomes especially real.

Gatherings often bring together excitement, grief, pressure, expectations, and unspoken stress - sometimes all in the same room. Your nervous system is constantly co-regulating with those around you, which means even joyful moments can feel exhausting.

If you’re feeling depleted, nothing is “wrong” with you. It’s a normal physiological response to prolonged emotional exposure. The holidays don’t just take time and energy - they require nervous system bandwidth.

Permission to pause, step outside, breathe, or choose smaller moments of connection. Protecting your energy capacity is not avoidance; it’s self-leadership.

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12/17/2025

Many first responders live with functioning PTSI (Post-Traumatic Stress Injury)…

Showing up, performing, leading, and holding it together on the outside, while carrying unresolved stress and trauma on the inside.

In high-performance cultures built on toughness and reliability, symptoms often get minimized or suppressed:
* “Others have it worse.”
* “I can handle it.”
* “It’s just part of the job.”

But functioning does not mean uninjured.

Chronic hypervigilance, emotional numbing, irritability, sleep disruption, and internal exhaustion are not personal failures - they are nervous system adaptations to repeated exposure to threat and loss.

Acknowledging internal strain does not weaken operational readiness. It preserves it.

Healing begins when we normalize that PTSI can exist without visible collapse - and that support is a strength, not a liability.

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12/15/2025

Emotional wellness for first responders is not about being unaffected - it is about understanding what affects you.

👉Trauma
Repeated exposure to critical incidents keeps the nervous system in survival mode. Even when you “handle it well,” the body still records the impact. Unprocessed trauma shows up as hypervigilance, sleep disruption, or emotional numbness.

👉Grief
Loss is not limited to fatalities. It includes lost patients, missed family moments, career transitions, and cumulative moral injury. Grief that is not acknowledged often turns inward or resurfaces later as burnout.

👉Anger
Anger is frequently a protective response to powerlessness, injustice, or chronic stress. In first responders, it is often misinterpreted as a problem rather than a signal that boundaries, rest, or support are needed.

👉Shame
Shame thrives in cultures that reward toughness and silence vulnerability. It convinces capable professionals they are weak for being human. Shame disconnects people from their teams and from help - often quietly.

Why this matters:
Addressing trauma, grief, anger, and shame is not about “fixing” first responders. It is about giving the nervous system permission to reset so clarity, connection, and resilience can return.

Strength in this work includes emotional literacy.

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12/12/2025

Energy is currency - protect it.

For first responders, the holiday season often amplifies everything: the pace, the calls, the emotional load, and the pressure to keep showing up. Your energy is not an unlimited resource; it is a physiological budget your nervous system manages every single shift.

When you over-spend that budget - through chronic hypervigilance, lack of rest, emotional suppression, or seasonal overwhelm - your system taxes you with fatigue, irritability, reduced resilience, and slower recovery times.

Protecting your energy during the holidays is not selfish. It is operational readiness.
It is career longevity.
It is how you stay connected to the people and traditions that matter most.

This season, create boundaries around what drains you, intentionally invest in what restores you, and choose rest without guilt. You cannot serve others if you continually bankrupt yourself.

Your energy is your most valuable currency. Spend it wisely. Rebuild it deliberately. Protect it fiercely.

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12/08/2025

“Courage Isn’t the Absence of Emotion - It’s Understanding It.”

In the field, you’re trained to run toward what everyone else runs away from. But true strength isn’t shutting your emotions down - it’s knowing how to name them so they don’t own you.

Emotional awareness isn’t weakness. It’s tactical.

It helps your nervous system recalibrate faster, sharpens decision-making, and builds trust within your team.

Courage isn’t stoicism. Courage is honesty - with yourself and with the people who rely on you.

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12/05/2025

Laughter isn’t just a good moment - it’s a nervous system relief valve.

🎭 Last night a friend took me to a comedy club and after a stressful week - it was exactly what I needed. It reminded me of the importance of changing your environment, of human connection, and the medicine from laughing to also let some steam off 🌬️.

When you laugh, your body shifts out of survival mode and into safety:

* Your vagus nerve activates
* Cortisol drops
* Breath deepens
* Muscles release
* Your system remembers it’s allowed to exhale

For first responders who carry constant hyper-alertness, laughter isn’t trivial, and it is not always avoidance when it comes to the “dark humour” that only people who’ve seen what you’ve seen understand…
- it’s physiological medicine.

It reminds your body what calm feels like, even for a second. And sometimes, that second is everything.

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Energy healing modalities & meditation groups/workshops.

Different healing modalities can assist people remove stagnant energy in the body that becomes blocked over time. By bringing balance into the physical, emotional, mental & spiritual body will help remove blockages that are holding us back in life from truly living limitless and freely.

Meditation also helps bring balance into our often too busy chaotic lives. It can help improve quality of life, focus and clarity by calming the mind. Meditation helps reduce stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, lack of sleep, physical pain and so much more. It will also increase focus, creativity, motivation and sense of oneness.

Learning both about different healing modalities along with meditation has helped me find balance and calmness back into my life. I believe through self love and awareness we can better navigate the stresses in life so we can be the best version of ourselves and live our full potential.