Wounds 2 Wings Psychotherapy Services

Wounds 2 Wings Psychotherapy Services Wounds 2 Wings Trauma Yoga and Psychotherapy Services

Nicole Brown Faulknor, founder of Wounds 2 Wings;
Registered Psychotherapist CRPO ( #007596), CAPT;
Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga Facilitator (TCTSY-F);
CEO of non-profit organization Wounds 2 Wings Trauma and Embodiment Association of Ontario (TEAO).

Sunday Self-Reflection: How did the world turn us outward? Perhaps, the most radical act in a world that keeps us in su...
04/26/2026

Sunday Self-Reflection: How did the world turn us outward? Perhaps, the most radical act in a world that keeps us in survival and automatic patterns is this:

to become aware. (the turning back within i.e. the inward gaze)

Awareness interrupts unconscious loops.
…unconscious loops of overworking, overgiving, numbing, consuming. Not because we lack discipline, but because our nervous system learned to stay safe that way. What looks like “habit” may often be protection in disguise.

When we begin to notice our thoughts, our impulses, our body responses, we create space between reaction and choice. (read that again ⚠️)

We move from:
autopilot → intention
survival → self-connection
coping → consciousness
And in that space, something powerful happens.

We may start to honor our gifts, not as output for consumption, but as expressions of who we are. ⚠️

We build not just wealth in the material sense, but generational shifts in how we relate to ourselves, our bodies, and our worth.

Awareness is not just insight.
It is interruption, reclamation, and return.

Self-Inquiry: What if the way you’ve been thinking, reacting, and moving through your day isn’t who you are but what your nervous system learned to do to feel safe… and what becomes possible when you gently choose, even once, to respond differently? For example, doing everything in your day today, unhurried? 💙🙏🏾!





Fav Nuggets of the Week: Awareness is not just insight.It is interruption, reclamation, and return. Thoughts? 💙🙏🏾!
04/25/2026

Fav Nuggets of the Week: Awareness is not just insight.
It is interruption, reclamation, and return. Thoughts? 💙🙏🏾!





04/24/2026

Just Some Past Glimpses of Some Modern Day Luxuries.

Join us in community. 💙🙏🏾!

As Founder and CEO of the Trauma and Embodiment Association of Ontario (), I specialize in trauma-responsive, embodied approaches to mental health care that bridge systemic gaps and reconnect individuals to self, community, and purpose. My work integrates clinical practice as a registered psychotherapist with community-rooted, peer-led models of care that prioritize relational safety, consent, and cultural responsiveness as more reachable and non-clinical way of creating access to services.

My expertise sits at the intersection of:

1. Embodiment & Nervous System Regulation – translating somatic awareness into accessible practices that support healing beyond cognitive frameworks

2. Trauma-Responsive Systems Change – advancing models that move beyond trauma-informed awareness into lived, relational, and accountable care within institutions and communities

3. Peer Support & Community-Based Healing – designing and implementing scalable, non-clinical support systems that create early intervention pathways and reduce barriers to care
Intergenerational & Racialized Trauma – addressing how systemic inequities, cultural disconnection, and historical harm shape present-day mental health experiences

4. Leadership as Embodied Practice – reframing leadership as a nervous system responsibility that shapes organizational culture, safety, and sustainability

I have led the development of innovative programming including trauma-responsive peer support personnel training, embodied education series, and community care models that serve diverse populations across Ontario. My work is also grounded in lived experience, informing my approach to healing as both personal and collective.





Self-Permission Nuggets ✅: Every version of you had to exist for this one to make sense.Harm is harm even when done unt...
04/23/2026

Self-Permission Nuggets ✅: Every version of you had to exist for this one to make sense.

Harm is harm even when done unto ourselves. May we all stop turning on ourselves and attacking ourselves from versions we needed to survive our situations, people and events once upon a time. If we’re seeking non/violence in the world then we may want to start within, the inwards space we hold for ourselves first, becomes the true kindness and compassion we give to the world. Non-performative and non-transactional. Just deep love and care for Self that projects inside others without the shame and guilt of trying to be “good” or “responsible”.

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✔️ Self-Permission Nuggets posts are small, encouraging reposted messages designed to help people in a state of learned helplessness — that is, people who feel stuck, powerless, or unable to act on their own behalf because past experiences have conditioned them to believe they have no control.

These posts offer reminders and gentle affirmations that:

✅ It is safe to make choices for yourself.
✅ You have the right to say yes or no.
✅ Your body and your life belong to you.
✅ Small decisions are valid steps toward reclaiming your agency.

For folks who have lived in environments where choices were taken away — through abuse, oppression, or chronic disempowerment — Self-Permission Nuggets serve as bite-sized permission slips to rebuild trust in their own inner wisdom.

They’re meant to break through the freeze or stuckness of learned helplessness by:

🫶🏾 planting seeds of possibility
🫶🏾 validating even the smallest acts of self-care or self-advocacy
🫶🏾 normalizing the right to choose, act, and decide for oneself

04/22/2026

Equity in Leadership Peer Circle: Racism, Sexism & the Body of Leadership; A Resource for Leaders, Educators, and Systems Thinkers

I remember doing this reel last year for black leaders as an embodied educator to bring awareness to knowing when our bodies are working from a survival mode vs when we are not.

Tomorrow, I step into community not just as a facilitator—but as a witness to the lived realities of leadership that often go unseen.

We’re gathering to explore racism and sexism not as abstract concepts, but as lived, embodied experiences that shape how leaders move, speak, and sustain themselves within systems that weren’t built with them in mind. This space is rooted in bottom-up learning—where we begin with the body, with lived experience, with truth—rather than staying only in theory or policy.

Because racialized leadership is not just about navigating systems…

it’s about navigating what those systems do to the nervous system, to relationships, and to our sense of self.

The intention is simple and powerful:
to create a space where leaders can exhale, speak without translation, and begin to shift from surviving leadership… to redefining it.

This is the work.
And it happens in community.



Thank you the invitation into this space

Unpack Awareness on the Father Wound. 💙🙏🏾! How we learned, how to “adapt” to our parents is the deep imprint of how we’v...
04/21/2026

Unpack Awareness on the Father Wound. 💙🙏🏾!

How we learned, how to “adapt” to our parents is the deep imprint of how we’ve learned to relate to the world.

When we say “it’s not who our parents were, but who we had to become to survive them,” we’re naming the adaptations—being the strong one, the achiever, the invisible one, the caretaker—that once protected us but may now limit our ability to feel, receive, and connect. Breaking the cycle begins with awareness: noticing these patterns without judgment, reconnecting to the parts of yourself that were unmet, and allowing new, healthier experiences of safety, support, and self-worth to exist. Healing the father wound is not about rewriting the past, but about no longer letting it unconsciously define your present.

Understanding our father wound is not about blaming our father—it’s about recognizing how his presence, absence, or inconsistency shaped the version of us that learned to survive. The father wound can show up as a deep longing for validation, difficulty trusting authority or men, over-independence, or constantly trying to prove your worth.



🎥 credit to the meme - unknown. (resources for educational content sent by community members to build education resources)

Sunday Self-Reflection: Underrated Mental Health Hack. We often place the weight of our unmet needs, our wounds, and our...
04/19/2026

Sunday Self-Reflection: Underrated Mental Health Hack.

We often place the weight of our unmet needs, our wounds, and our longing onto one person, hoping they will hold, heal, and mirror back everything we’ve yet to give ourselves. But no one person was meant to be our everything. The human experience is layered, complex, and expansive and so are our needs.

Part of awakening is recognizing where we are projecting, where we are asking someone else to fill spaces that are actually calling for our own self-love, our own tending. When we begin to meet ourselves with care, we shift from needing one person to be all things, to allowing relationships to exist in truth. some nourish, some challenge, some reflect, some hold.

Self-Inquiry: What if the parts of you that feel unmet aren’t meant to be fulfilled by one person but are invitations to deepen your relationship with yourself while allowing different connections to meet you in different, meaningful ways?


 
 
 


Sunday Self-Reflection: Underrated Mental Health Hack. We often place the weight of our unmet needs, our wounds, and our...
04/19/2026

Sunday Self-Reflection: Underrated Mental Health Hack.

We often place the weight of our unmet needs, our wounds, and our longing onto one person, hoping they will hold, heal, and mirror back everything we’ve yet to give ourselves. But no one person was meant to be our everything. The human experience is layered, complex, and expansive and so are our needs.

Part of awakening is recognizing where we are projecting, where we are asking someone else to fill spaces that are actually calling for our own self-love, our own tending. When we begin to meet ourselves with care, we shift from needing one person to be all things, to allowing relationships to exist in truth. some nourish, some challenge, some reflect, some hold.

What if the parts of you that feel unmet aren’t meant to be fulfilled by one person but are invitations to deepen your relationship with yourself while allowing different connections to meet you in different, meaningful ways?


 
 
 


04/18/2026

It’s a Work Weekend, for Us.

I’ll be facilitating our 3rd Online Peer Support Certification: Trauma Responsive Care & Systemic Impact Awareness Training since last July, a focus from an embodied lens of mental health first aid for our practitioners, clinicians , leads, frontline, etc i.e. the helpers.

As the developer of this training, I want to speak to what sits at the heart of this work. 💙

This wasn’t created to add another layer of knowledge.
It was created because I kept seeing the same gap—across systems, across organizations, across communities.

We are trying to support people through experiences that live in the body…using approaches that live only in the mind.

At , this training was intentionally designed to shift that.

To move us from:
knowing → to feeling
doing → to relating
helping → to holding

What we centre here is not just skill—but presence:
• relational safety as something that is experienced, not explained
• consent as a continuous practice
• cultural awareness as responsibility, not checkbox
• understanding stress responses without pathologizing them
• reducing harm by becoming aware of our impact—not just our intention
• sustaining the helper, so care does not come at the cost of self

Because the reality is—peer support is often where people land first, not last.

And if we get that space right, we change outcomes.
We interrupt escalation.

We create access where there once was none.
Peer support does not replace clinical care.

It strengthens the continuum—by meeting people in the moments systems often miss.

This is the work.
And this is the shift I believe we are being called into.

MentalHealthLeadership

Self-Permission Nuggets ✅: Today, clap for yourself Go ahead 👏🏾…clap for yourself 👏🏾👏🏾🦋🦋🐞________✔️ Self-Permission Nug...
04/17/2026

Self-Permission Nuggets ✅: Today, clap for yourself Go ahead 👏🏾…clap for yourself 👏🏾👏🏾

🦋🦋🐞
________

✔️ Self-Permission Nuggets posts are small, encouraging reposted messages designed to help people in a state of learned helplessness — that is, people who feel stuck, powerless, or unable to act on their own behalf because past experiences have conditioned them to believe they have no control.

These posts offer reminders and gentle affirmations that:

✅ It is safe to make choices for yourself.
✅ You have the right to say yes or no.
✅ Your body and your life belong to you.
✅ Small decisions are valid steps toward reclaiming your agency.

For folks who have lived in environments where choices were taken away — through abuse, oppression, or chronic disempowerment — Self-Permission Nuggets serve as bite-sized permission slips to rebuild trust in their own inner wisdom.

They’re meant to break through the freeze or stuckness of learned helplessness by:

🫶🏾 planting seeds of possibility
🫶🏾 validating even the smallest acts of self-care or self-advocacy
🫶🏾 normalizing the right to choose, act, and decide for oneself

Watch the Last Video 🎥 —We’re sorry (The KaramoShow) Q: Why is This Loss so Hard? (these slides are for those who unde...
04/16/2026

Watch the Last Video 🎥 —We’re sorry (The KaramoShow)

Q: Why is This Loss so Hard? (these slides are for those who understand this on a felt level but hard to put words to - you are not alone.)

A: Because the loss isn’t visible—your mother is still alive—others struggle to understand that you’re grieving not a person who died, but the mother you never had and the love that was never safely given.

It’s an unfathomable grief because there’s no clear ending, no shared language for it, and no closure—just the ongoing reality that my mother will never be who I needed her to be.

My mother will never…..
emotionalabuse narcissisticabuse traumarecovery

04/15/2026

I AM.

“I am” is powerful because it sits at the intersection of identity, language, and belief and in times like these, people are searching for something to anchor themselves in.

1. It defines identity, not just experience
2. It speaks directly to the nervous system (the body)
3. It interrupts inherited narratives
4. It moves from survival into authorship

It’s both ancient and deeply human
Across cultures, “I am” has always carried weight spiritually, philosophically, and communally. It’s often connected to existence itself.






At its core, it’s a declaration of being.

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About Nicole Brown Faulknor

Nicole is a Yoga Instructor, Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) and Child and Youth Counsellor as well as a member of both the Colleges of Registered Psychotherapist in Ontario and the Canadian Association for Psychodynamic Therapy with over 18 years of professional experience working with marginalized, vulnerable and oppressed communities, individuals, families and children. She has worked extensively with individuals and communities suffering from mental health, addictions, systemic poverty and profiling in order to therapeutically improve relationships with government programs and services.

In 1998, she graduated from Mohawk College with a Diploma in Child and Youth Counselling, received her Bachelor degree from the University of Waterloo in 2001 in Social Development Studies with two certificates, General Social Work and General Social Work (Child Abuse) and a 5 year Master's equivalency diploma from the Ontario Psychotherapy and Counselling Program in 2018 where she is currently at part-time instructor.

Using a psychodynamic approach that is rooted in the therapeutic relationship built between client and therapist with individuals, adolescents and group, this model of psychodynamic psychotherapy, seeks to reveal the unconscious, dynamic content of the mind, in an effort to alleviate mental tension which can manifest in a variety of symptoms that distort and disrupt our sense of self and well-being. By uncovering the hidden roots of our unwanted thoughts, emotions and behaviours, we can consciously change how they experience the world and ourselves. In addition, Nicole uses a body-centered approach, which may be known as somatization. With this approach it may be possible to recognize the intimate relationship between the physical body and the psychological well-being of a person. This practice maintains the view that the body is a resource for self-discovery and psychological healing. Bodily awareness and movements are used to explore and treat psychological symptoms and issues. This work can be both very subtle, involving only awareness of bodily sensation, or utilize physical movement and manipulation.