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).

Let’s Unpack This: 👥 Shadow WorkPerhaps inner freedom doesn’t come from bypassing discomfort. It may come from allowing ...
01/26/2026

Let’s Unpack This: 👥 Shadow Work

Perhaps inner freedom doesn’t come from bypassing discomfort. It may come from allowing what’s unconscious to become seen.

Facing our shadow to heal?
Thoughts? 💙🙏🏾!

Inspired. Inspired to create these series of post from statement/embodied awareness “People think therapy is about fi...
01/24/2026

Inspired.

Inspired to create these series of post from
statement/embodied awareness “People think therapy is about fixing what’s broken. It’s not.
It’s about understanding the parts of you that got stuck in survival mode, and teaching them they don’t have to live that way anymore.”

________

Here are some thought-conscious nuggets by

1. Therapy isn’t about fixing you.
It’s about listening to the parts of you that learned to survive when there was no other choice.

2. What looks like “dysfunction” is often intelligence shaped by threat.
Healing begins when the nervous system learns it is no longer alone.

3. We don’t erase survival strategies—we thank them.
Then we gently teach the body that safety can exist without armor.

Thoughts? 💙🙏🏾!

Some Raw Notes & Nuggets. I’m always in community working, observing and gathering education to implement mutual aid fro...
01/23/2026

Some Raw Notes & Nuggets.

I’m always in community working, observing and gathering education to implement mutual aid from the voices, people and their needs. Becomes yo blueprint to every training, community workshop, program snd retreat.

Which one resonates with you? 💙🙏🏾!

01/22/2026

Calm Body First. ➡️ Then the Mind Follows. ⬇️

When the body is calm and feels safe the mind tinds clarity.

Try!…

Take a look at your feet.
Your hands.
Your legs.
Your entire body.
It’s carried you through every season of your life.
Honor it.
Appreciate it.
Be for the journey.

Educational Resource & Embodiment Awareness: ⬇️When a father figure was absent, emotionally unavailable, unpredictable...
01/21/2026

Educational Resource & Embodiment Awareness: ⬇️
When a father figure was absent, emotionally unavailable, unpredictable, or conditional in love, the nervous system may learn that joy is risky, visibility is unsafe, or expansion must be earned. This isn’t about blame—it’s about how a child’s body interprets protection, encouragement, and relational safety. Healing the father wound often involves gently restoring the body’s capacity to feel supported while reaching outward—allowing joy, play, and grounded confidence to exist without vigilance or collapse.

The father wound often shapes our felt sense of safety, joy, and permission to take up space in the world. While the mother wound tends to organize our internal worth and self-confidence, the father wound lives more externally—impacting how safe it feels to explore, trust, rest into pleasure, and move toward life with openness.




01/20/2026

Interesting 💭 🤔: Did I just get Called In? (was always the jokester (might still be hmmm?)

Does this call you in too?

Listen. 🎥

Thoughts?

Credit: TikTok Great Company • 2025-12-31
Why kids become funny when their parents are depressed
The School of Life’s Alain De Botton talks about the effects of hard childhoods AND why parents may be jealous of their kids.

Search ‘Alain De Botton Great Company’ on YouTube, Spotify and Apple for the full episode.

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It stops with me.So we’ve been playing tag—generation to generation?No wonder changing patterns and learning to regulate...
01/19/2026

It stops with me.

So we’ve been playing tag—generation to generation?

No wonder changing patterns and learning to regulate my nervous system around family and family dynamics took 7–8 years. Distance gave my body the space it needed to settle, to shore up from the inside out. Healing didn’t just happen emotionally—it happened in my body, on an epigenetic level.
That’s why the guilt can feel so heavy. Why voicing boundaries had to be slow and steady. My body learned long ago that closeness could cost safety—and unlearning that takes time, patience, and compassion.

As “It Didn’t Start With You” reminds us:

“When a trauma is too great to be processed, the intense emotional energy remains in the form of epigenetic tags, allowing the unfinished business of one generation to be lived out in the bodies of the next.”

Repeat to Yourself:

I choose to listen to my body.
I choose to pause.
I choose to end the cycle—with love, not force.
It stops with me.

Sunday Self Reflection: Know Your Worth Might Start with Letting Go. ↩️Why letting go feels so hard? ⬇️Nobody teaches us...
01/18/2026

Sunday Self Reflection: Know Your Worth Might Start with Letting Go. ↩️

Why letting go feels so hard? ⬇️

Nobody teaches us this part:
Starting something new isn’t the hardest part.
Letting go without feeling guilty is.

In many families and communities, especially racialized families & communities:

* We’re taught to be loyal
* We’re praised for sacrificing ourselves
* We’re told to “be strong,” “hold it down,” or “not change”
So when we grow, it can feel like:
* We’re being selfish
* We’re abandoning people
* We’re acting “better than”
But that is not true.

What you may need to let go of
You might be letting go of:

* expectations that no longer fit your life
* labels people gave you that don’t feel like you anymore
* roles where you had to stay quiet or small
* versions of yourself that survived by ignoring your own needs

That doesn’t mean those versions were bad.
It means they did their job—and their job is done.

The big truth
You cannot grow into who you’re becoming while carrying who you had to be to survive.
Growth is not about doing more.
It’s about carrying less.
Less guilt.
Less pretending.
Less self-betrayal.

⬆️

What letting go really means
Letting go does not mean:

* you’re ungrateful
* you don’t love people
* you think you’re better than others

It means:

* you’re being honest
* you’re choosing with intention
* you’re protecting your future

And yes—everything and everyone cannot come with you.
That’s not cruelty.
That’s clarity.

Final reminder: 💙🙏🏾!

Stepping into purpose isn’t loud.
It’s lighter.

And you are allowed to choose a life that no longer requires you to disappear to belong.





01/17/2026

Saturday Informational Corner: Anger is an Energy. 🔖

Let’s not confuse it with rage or what we saw (anger to harm those that misused there power i.e. a mother who took out her feelings or withheld care / attention when she was mad at you to punish you = rage aka silent treatment.)

Self hate is anger turned inward cause it was never safe or you were never allowed to have boundaries or felt deserving to have your needs met, once upon a time knowingly or unknowingly.

Anger is an energy. It carries information. It signals that something matters, that a boundary was crossed, or a need went unmet.

Rage is different. Rage is anger mixed with power and harm—what many of us witnessed growing up. A caregiver who withdrew love, used silence as punishment, or took their feelings out on you wasn’t expressing healthy anger; they were discharging unprocessed pain onto a child. That’s not anger. That’s misuse of power.

When anger was never safe to express outwardly, it often turned inward.

Self-hate is frequently anger with nowhere to go.
If your needs were overridden, mocked, or punished… if you learned that asking was dangerous or undeserved… your nervous system adapted by swallowing the anger instead of risking connection. That wasn’t a flaw. It was protection.
Healing isn’t about eliminating anger.

It’s about restoring permission, boundaries, and safety—so anger can move, inform, and pass without becoming harm.

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MentalHealthAwareness

“When Everything Feels Like Too Much: A Call Back to Inner Consent” ↩️When your inner values, needs, and boundaries aren...
01/16/2026

“When Everything Feels Like Too Much: A Call Back to Inner Consent” ↩️

When your inner values, needs, and boundaries aren’t aligned, your nervous system stays in a low-grade survival state—so even neutral requests register as pressure. Alignment restores internal consent, allowing energy to feel like choice instead of demand. (↩️ read that again) 💙🙏🏾!





01/15/2026

A Thursday Throwback (2022): What is the difference between self-pity, resilience and grief?

From a trauma-responsive lens, self-pity, resilience, and grief are not character traits but nervous-system states shaped by safety, meaning, and capacity.

Self-pity often emerges from learned helplessness—a state where the body and mind remain preoccupied with preventing harm from returning, replaying the past to stay vigilant. It is not weakness, but a survival strategy that narrows focus and collapses agency when overwhelm exceeds capacity.

Grief, by contrast, is a regulated encounter with loss: it allows the past to be felt without needing to relive it or defend against it, moving through waves of sadness, anger, and longing while staying oriented to the present.

Resilience is not the absence of pain, nor forced positivity; it arises when the nervous system has enough safety and support to metabolize grief, integrate experience, and restore choice.

Where self-pity loops in what happened and what might happen again, resilience gently reclaims what is possible now—not by bypassing grief, but by allowing it to be witnessed, held, and slowly transformed into meaning and agency.






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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.