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Healing spaces provides a warm and welcoming place with our main focus on supporting you move towards the life you dream for yourself!

We focus on counselling support for anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, chronic pain, and chronic illness. Healing Spaces believes strongly in transparency and ensuring you growth and healing is the priority.

02/25/2026

Your anxiety is rational. Your nervous system is just doing its job.

Your autonomic nervous system constantly scans for threats. When it finds something that matches a pattern from the past—a tone of voice, a situation, even a feeling—it activates a survival response. Fast. Automatic.

Your heart races, your breath shortens, your thoughts spiral. Not because you're broken, but because your system thinks the threat is happening again.

A challenge? Your nervous system doesn't update itself. A critical parent from childhood becomes a critical boss today—and your body reacts the same way. Bullying from school becomes social anxiety decades later.

This is why "just calm down" doesn't work. You can't logic your way out of a nervous system response. It's happening in your body, not your thoughts.

What actually helps?

- Grounding techniques
- Breathwork that signals safety
- Safe relationships that help regulate your nervous system
- Therapy that works with your body, not just your mind

Your anxiety makes sense. The work isn't fixing yourself—it's helping your system catch up to where you actually are.

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𝗔𝘁 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗦𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗲𝘀, 𝘄𝗲 𝗼𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘂𝗺𝗮-𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗽𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝗩𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗼𝘂𝘃𝗲𝗿, 𝗞𝗮𝗺𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗽𝘀, 𝗡𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗵 𝗩𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗼𝘂𝘃𝗲𝗿, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘃𝗶𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗮𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘀𝘀 𝗕𝗖. 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝟭𝟱-𝗺𝗶𝗻 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝘂𝗹𝘁.

02/24/2026

One of the hardest realities for families with PDAers is how often parents are told they’re not doing enough — or doing it wrong.

❌Too permissive.
❌Too anxious.
❌If only you did X, Y, or Z, your child wouldn’t struggle like this.

(anyone else just get hot!)

PDA doesn’t live in isolation — it lives in a family system, shaped by nervous systems interacting under pressure. Of course families are stressed - they are working so hard to support beautiful tender systems in a world that doesn't make space to even believe such tender beings have such tender needs.

For many PDAers, the drive for safety can become so intense that it overrides even basic biological needs like eating, toileting, or drinking. That’s not willfulness. That’s a nervous system prioritizing survival.

As Kristy Forbes so clearly names it:
“PDA isn’t about defiance — it’s about survival.”

Let's stop blaming parents and start understanding the system, everything shifts.

👉 Check our more of our PDA supportive resources. Link in bio

02/20/2026

We often think of bullying as something that happens on a schoolyard. But the trauma of bullying and being told you aren't enough or right or you don't belong echos for years inside someone.

Bullying doesn’t just hurt in the moment. It quietly shapes a person’s nervous system. It can teach someone to scan rooms before entering. To shrink. To overperform. To stay quiet. To question whether they truly belong.

Bullying is rarely random. The ones who are targeted are often the ones who stand out — because of how they think, how they look, how they move through the world, how they love, how they communicate.

Bullying doesn’t always disappear with age. It grows up and puts on a suit.
It becomes workplace culture that isolates.
It becomes policies that exclude.
It becomes racism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia.
It becomes the ongoing harm of colonization.

It becomes systems that quietly protect power and marginalize difference.

On February 20 — World Day of Social Justice — we’re invited to widen our understanding of what belonging really means.

On February 25 — Pink Shirt Day — we’re reminded that anti-bullying work cannot stop with children, because bullying itself doesn’t.

If we want safer communities, we have to look at both the personal and the systemic. We have to ask hard questions about who feels safe in our spaces — and who has learned to brace.

What would it look like to build communities where difference isn’t merely tolerated, but genuinely honoured?

👉Check out link in bio for blog

02/18/2026

Nothing is “too small” to celebrate.
There’s no such thing as a small win — not when you’ve fought through fear, patterns, history, or a nervous system running on fumes.

Every shift counts.
Every moment of honesty.
Every boundary.
Every pause before spiraling.
Every step toward yourself.

These are not minor.
These are seismic.
And we celebrate them all.
Truly & deeply.

What have you celebrated lately?

02/16/2026

Two of my all-time favorite therapy moments:

A longtime client saw me on a virtual session and said they were “so glad I felt comfortable enough to wear pajamas.”
Reader… it was NOT pajamas. 😆

A brand-new client was sharing for a few minutes, leaned back, and said:
“Your job is really weird. Do people just come here and tell you things?”
Yep. That’s the job. We both laughed.

Therapy is deep, meaningful work—and also very human.
If you’ve had a funny/wholesome therapy moment, share it below (no identifying details).

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02/14/2026

Some days I get through knowing there’s pajama yoga waiting for me.
And by yoga, I mean savasana.
And by savasana, I mean lying on the floor and letting my nervous system catch up.

It’s not fancy.
But it works.

What’s the small, cozy thing you look forward to on hard days?

02/13/2026

This week in BC has been a lot.

Tuesday's shooting in Tumbler Ridge took nine lives—including children. A town of 2,700 people is grieving something no community should ever have to hold.

And almost immediately, the trans community became a target. After police identified the shooter as trans, hate flooded online. Politicians and pundits claimed trans people are "dangerous" and "violent". It's scapegoating.

On top of that, BC announced a major overhaul of autism funding on the same day—
For neurodivergent families who've built entire support systems around existing funding, this is upheaval. Uncertainty. Exhaustion.

Here's what we need right now: Unity.
Let's grieve for Tumbler Ridge TOGETHER.
Let's protect trans folks from being scapegoated for a tragedy they had nothing to do with TOGETHER.
Let's support neurodivergent families navigating systems that keep changing without enough consultation TOGETHER.
Let's hold space for all of it TOGETHER.

Mental health is collective. When your community is hurting, you feel it. Collective grief is real. Vicarious trauma is real. And if you're part of a targeted or marginalized community, the weight of this week is even heavier.

You're allowed to not be okay right now. And you don't have to carry it alone.

💚 We see you.

02/12/2026

"Trauma-informed" has become a buzzword—but what does it actually mean in practice?

Here's what it looks like when you work with us. You deserve therapy that honours your story, your pace, and your needs.

We're here when you're ready 🌿

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