Sanctuary for the Heart.

03/27/2026

Just feeling the warmth and coziness of my fuzzy brown socks helps me return.

Sunday Online Gathering - Returning - March 29th, 10 - 11:30 am PDT by donation

A safe and welcoming space of rest; gentle presence and practices for the weary heart.

Email: candace@candacekirby.ca for more details

03/27/2026

Heartbreak is the gap between who I believe I should be and who I am in this moment.

03/26/2026

This moment. This body.

Sunlight on your skin. The feel of the ground. Breath. Silence.
Your own hand offering warmth and support.

We’ll explore this kind of presence in The Alchemy of Trauma and the Awakening Heart, an 8-week course beginning April 10th.

Join Candace and a small group of friends for this 8 week transformative online course as we shift the orientation of our lives from survival to simple being. A gentle and slow present moment approach to restoring safety and meeting the undigested past.

03/26/2026

Approval seeking is innocent. If you notice this impulse in yourself, it's important to know that it formed in childhood as a survival response. Children need to experience the approval of their caregivers. They need a clear reflection of their goodness; innocence; value and unique beingness. So many of us are still looking for that. "Please see me". The most beautiful gift we can give to another is to see and reflect their goodness; innocence; value and beauty.

I will be teaching about attunement to self and others in my upcoming 8 week course: “The Alchemy of Trauma and the Awakening Heart”.

Join Candace and a small group of friends for this 8 week transformative online course as we shift the orientation of our lives from survival to simple being. A gentle and slow present moment approach to restoring safety and meeting the undigested past.

03/25/2026

For old friends and new friends. Here we go.....again and again arriving at the very same place we never left. :) Tickets go on sale tomorrow.

The Alchemy of Trauma and the Awakening Heart

Join Candace and a small group of friends for this 8 week transformative online course as we shift the orientation of our lives from survival to simple and authentic Being”.

03/25/2026

“For years I called it anxiety. Managed it, tracked it, worked the protocol. Then worked a better map.
What I had was a loss I couldn't name yet.
You can't manage a loss. I kept getting better at trying.
What we've been treating as anxiety is grief that never found a name.
It sits in the chest the same way. Wakes you at the same hour.
But it isn't afraid of what's coming. It's still holding what left.”
~ Old Man Talks

03/24/2026

Gabor Mate says that, " the only time there is a lack of compassion is when the heart has been shut down and there is only one reason the heart is ever shut down and that is because it has been bruised."

03/24/2026

Without having both of our feet on the ground of right now and an established orientation to the present moment even healing trauma can become a fixation on the past and future.

The traumatized physiology has an impulse towards "anywhere but here right now" and that must be met with great tenderness and patience.

I will be teaching the practice of orienting to the present moment in my upcoming 8 week course: “The Alchemy of Trauma and the Awakening Human” A slow and simple present moment approach to restoring safety and meeting the undigested past.

An 8 week online course beginning April 10th, 2026. For more information or to be added to the waiting list email candacekirby@shaw.ca

03/24/2026

We don’t have an alternative to this experience right now. All we have is this moment and this physiology. Notice what is already happening and what naturally wants to happen. Sunlight coming through the window; the feel of ground; taste of coffee; sound of traffic; contraction in the body; silence; a soft blanket and the warmth of your own hand offering support to this tired body.

I will be teaching the practice of orienting to the present moment in my upcoming 8 week course: “The Alchemy of Trauma and the Awakening Human” A slow and simple present moment approach to restoring safety and meeting the undigested past.

An 8 week online course beginning April 10th, 2026. For more information or to be added to the waiting list email candacekirby@shaw.ca

03/24/2026

“Never underestimate the power of a quiet loving life.” ~ Peace Pilgrim

03/24/2026

“Basic trust is a non conceptual confidence in the goodness of the universe, an unquestioned implicit trust that there is something about the universe and human nature and life that is inherently and fundamentally good, loving, and wishing us the best.” ~ A.H. Almaas

03/23/2026

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpGS7cTlv68

Learn how nervous system dysregulation and unresolved stress responses can contribute to chronic health issues and why healing requires getting to the root, ...