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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.

12/19/2025

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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12/04/2025

Your nervous system isn’t just reacting to danger - it’s constantly scanning for safety too.

That “safety state” comes from ventral vagal activation, a branch of your parasympathetic nervous system (PNS) that helps you feel grounded, connected, and steady.

For first responders, this matters because:

🔥 Your job pulls you into survival mode fast. High-alert states (fight/flight or freeze) are essential during calls - they keep you sharp. But staying there too long strains your mind and body.

🌀 Ventral vagal activation brings you back. It shifts your system out of threat mode and into regulation.

This is the state where you can:
* Think clearly
* Make good decisions
* Feel connected
* Recover after intense calls
* Prevent burnout, anxiety, and emotional overwhelm

⚖️ It’s the reset your body needs. Without ventral vagal/PNS activation, you get stuck in stress loops - even off-shift. Over time, this contributes to PTSI, sleep disruption, irritability, reduced resilience, and compassion fatigue.

⭐️ Building this awareness is power. When first responders understand their nervous system, they can intentionally support recovery rather than waiting for it to happen.

Your system is built for survival - but it’s also built for healing.
Understanding both is what keeps you strong in and out of uniform.

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12/03/2025

Resilience isn’t forged in the heat of the call, it’s built in the moments after.

Each small act of recovery - a pause, a connection, a breath - builds your long-term resilience.

First responders carry more than most will ever see.
Your strength grows when you give your nervous system the space to reset, repair, and rise again.

Every day you recalibrate, you rise stronger.

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12/02/2025

“The Guilt You Carry Isn’t Yours to Hold Alone.”

First responders often carry a kind of guilt that the rest of the world never sees.

Guilt about the calls you couldn’t change.
The outcomes you couldn’t control.
The moments that replay long after the shift ends.

But here’s the truth:

Human limits are not moral failures.
You do the best you can with the tools, training, and information you have in the moment.

Guilt often comes from your compassion, not your mistakes. Healing starts when you stop carrying it in silence.

➡️ Talk about the weight you hold.
➡️ Lean into support before the load becomes a burden.
➡️ Remember: You don’t have to justify your humanity to anyone.

Your service has impact.Your guilt deserves space.And you don’t have to carry it alone.

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12/01/2025

“Between stimulus and response there is a space…”

That space is where your nervous system pauses long enough to let you choose - not react.

For first responders, life is often lived in milliseconds. High-stakes calls, rapid decisions, and constant stress can make it feel like there is no space at all. But even a single breath, a moment of grounding, or a micro-pause creates room for clarity.

“…In that space is our power to choose our response.”

This is where your agency lives. Not in the call you were dispatched to, not in the chaos around you - but in the choice you make with the nervous system you’ve trained and cared for.

“In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”

Every intentional response builds resilience. Every moment you choose awareness over autopilot strengthens your capacity. This is where healing happens. This is where you reclaim what chronic stress tries to take: your freedom to respond from your values, not just your survival system.

Takeaway:
➡️ Slow down for one breath.
➡️ Notice your internal space.
➡️ Choose the response that supports your wellbeing, not just the moment.

This is tactical self-leadership and growth - even in the hardest jobs.

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11/28/2025

🌲Nature resets your nervous system.

Have you ever went for a walk in a trail, placed your hands in a river, or simply listen to the sounds in nature and instantly feel a sense of inner peace and calm?

Science shows that natural environments activate the parasympathetic nervous system - the part responsible for rest, repair, and recovery.

We’re wired to connect with nature - it grounds us, regulates us, and brings the body back into balance.

Even 5 minutes outside can shift you out of survival mode. If you can’t physically go outside, imagining being in your favourite place in nature can also be just as supportive.

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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.