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).

Because unhealed pain doesn’t disappear —
it travels. It projects. It repeats.Across relationships. Across communities. ...
03/26/2026

Because unhealed pain doesn’t disappear —
it travels. It projects. It repeats.

Across relationships. Across communities. Across generations.

And so the work becomes collective:
to stop passing down what we haven’t had the space, safety, or support to face.

“Healing begins where the wound was made.” —Alice Walker

Maybe this is how we begin to change the world 
not by fixing others,
but by refusing to keep bleeding on them.

Excited About This Event: Come Join Us! 📣The energy is building… and this year, it’s something truly special.The Celebra...
03/25/2026

Excited About This Event: Come Join Us! 📣

The energy is building… and this year, it’s something truly special.

The Celebration of Hearts & Spirit Gala isn’t just a fundraiser—it’s a night where purpose meets presence, where community meets creativity, and where every ticket helps us continue the work that changes lives.
From powerful performances to meaningful connection, this year’s lineup is incredible—curated to move you, inspire you, and remind you why spaces like this matter now more than ever.
We’re gathering hearts, stories, and spirit under one roof… and you’ll want to be in that room.

✨ Come for the experience.
💙 Stay for the impact.
🙏🏾 Leave feeling something real.

Seats are filling—join us.

TEAO Celebration of Hearts & Spirit Gala
📍 Cambridge, Ontario
📅 June 20, 2026
🕔 5:30PM (doors open)– Evening Celebration to Follow

Link in bio or directly https://shorturl.at/imvje

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Grief, Named: Why It Matters Right Now 💙🙏🏾!Naming the many forms grief can take matters right now because we’re living t...
03/24/2026

Grief, Named: Why It Matters Right Now 💙🙏🏾!

Naming the many forms grief can take matters right now because we’re living through layers of collective grief—personal loss, identity shifts, systemic strain, and global uncertainty—all at once. When we expand the language of grief, people feel less alone, less “wrong,” and more permitted to process what they’re actually carrying instead of suppressing it.

In times like these, acknowledging grief in its full spectrum becomes a form of care and prevention—it helps regulate our nervous systems, deepens compassion for ourselves and others, and interrupts the pressure to “move on” before we’ve truly metabolized what’s been lost.

Grief doesn’t always show up the way we think it will.
Sometimes it’s missing someone who’s still alive.
Sometimes it’s grieving a version of yourself you’ve outgrown. Sometimes it’s feeling relief… and then wrestling with guilt for it.

Swipe through all these—you might find the one that finally gives language to what you’ve been holding.

Which one stayed with you? ↓

03/24/2026

What if the opposite of dysregulation isn’t calm—but trust?

At our recent Collective Series A Gathering of Sharings TEAO Canada held on the Spring Equinox, a powerful insight surfaced through shared somatic practice and dialogue among healers, educators, and community leaders:
We’ve been taught to aim for “calm” as the goal of healing.�But calm, without safety, is often performative.

Trust is the true regulator.

In trauma-informed and somatic frameworks, regulation is not about suppressing activation—it’s about building a felt sense of safety in the body over time. This happens through:
* Consistent, attuned relationships
* Environments where people can be seen without explanation
* Spaces where giving and receiving care are equally valued

Another key reflection emerged:�Our wounds and our gifts are not separate.

The very experiences that shape our sensitivity, awareness, and capacity to hold others are often rooted in what we’ve had to survive. When supported properly, these lived experiences become relational intelligence—not liability.

The Spring Equinox, recognized across cultures as a time of balance and renewal, offered a timely parallel:�We are not being asked to rush transformation—�We are being invited into gentle, sustainable growth.

For those leading, supporting, and holding space for others, the question becomes:
Where are you still overgiving—and where are you allowing yourself to be held?

Because sustainable systems change doesn’t come from depletion.
�It comes from practitioners who trust their bodies, their boundaries, and their belonging within community.

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Sunday Self-Reflection: 19 lines to change your life. Self Inquiry: Which one gravitates with you? “Work your light” is ...
03/22/2026

Sunday Self-Reflection: 19 lines to change your life.

Self Inquiry: Which one gravitates with you?

“Work your light” is not a call to constant action, it’s an invitation to discernment. There is deep wisdom in pausing, in saying no, in allowing space between impulse and response. Not every opportunity is aligned, not every urgency is yours to carry, and not every moment requires your energy. Choosing to wait is not hesitation—it is self-trust in motion. When you honour your capacity, your timing, and your inner knowing, you protect the integrity of your light rather than depleting it. Sometimes the most powerful act is restraint—because your energy is sacred, and where you place it shapes everything.



📸 Open Ty 💙🙏🏾!

03/22/2026

Sunday Self-Reflection: Gentle Reminder from Nervous System Health Educator,

The importance of embodiment may start with the curiosity of what takes us out of our body? What dissociates your from your heart and feelings?



03/21/2026

“Don’t shrink in shame. Be in awe” ⬅️

Repost from
Part 1: “Becoming Whole: Healing What Childhood Never Gave Us” 🕊️🧠💔➡️❤️‍🩹⁣
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Self-Permission Nuggets ✅: Even platonically, I always love intensely. ________✔️ Self-Permission Nuggets posts are smal...
03/21/2026

Self-Permission Nuggets ✅: Even platonically, I always love intensely.

________

✔️ 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

03/20/2026

Sunday Self Reflection: Today consider making friends with the anxiety, fear, sadness, pain or grief. (even notice your reaction to reading that part — the making friends, part, to these emotions).

Literally treat it like a friend or a friend you wish you had, or the parent you wish you had. Ask it what it needs. Let that emotion you are befriending know you’re here, today, tomorrow, then always. 💙🙏🏾!



03/20/2026

SOLD OUT.

But this was never about numbers.

Gathering of Sharings, a day rooted in collective care, embodied rest, and awakened healing. This gathering is part of the Collective Care Series, offering a community-centered space where people can reconnect with themselves and one another through gentle practices, creativity, reflection, and shared presence.

With these free spaces it shows us over and over the need is there.

A ‘Gathering of Sharings’ is about
coming home to self,
to each other,
to the parts of us that have been waiting to be felt.

We’re ready to hold, witness, and be in this together.

See you in the space 🌿

For those interested in supporting the sustainability of these throughout Ontario TEAO Canada has created a collective space to gather funds https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-teao-canada-sustain-traumainformed-community-care?attribution_id=al%3Aa9d53cc2-5b0a-42d4-9458-6c533d7a1a84 - or link in bio your support is always welcome

03/19/2026

Sunday Self-Reflection: May you sit and reflect on this insight by as you explore the underpinnings of somatic work after trauma (or state of survival mode) & the importance of the capacity to rest.

What if our bodies were innately do this for us in our states of depression or times of isolation.

What I’ve observed is….

When are our bodies are ready it integrates. What if we weren’t so shaming & critical of ourselves during those times. What if we as a society wasn’t so shaming and critical?

These are only 💙🙏🏾!



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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.