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-Reflections: Some Fun Facts & Tips for a Sunday One of the reasons we speak openly about trauma healing here...
12/28/2025

Sunday Self-Reflections: Some Fun Facts & Tips for a Sunday

One of the reasons we speak openly about trauma healing here is because it can feel profoundly isolating.

Healing often asks us to step away from familiar systems—family patterns, faith spaces, communities—that once gave us a sense of belonging. In that leaving, many people begin to wonder if something is wrong with them, rather than recognizing that something old is being outgrown.

If this season feels lonely, pause. Take a breath.
You are not broken—and you are not doing this alone.

Sunday Reflection:

Sunday reflections invite us to slow down, tell the truth gently, and remember our shared humanity. This reflection acknowledges the quiet grief of leaving what once felt like home while offering reassurance, presence, and collective belonging—reminding us that healing, though personal, is never meant to be carried in isolation. Ily 💙🙏🏾!





12/27/2025

This! 🫶🏾🫶🏾🫶🏾

Listen Carefully. T/T

I don’t think that it’s true either. Thoughts? 💙🙏🏾!

Love this so Much! 💙🙏🏾!Repost from •If you have an external orientation, reading through some of these questions is go...
12/26/2025

Love this so Much! 💙🙏🏾!

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If you have an external orientation, reading through some of these questions is going to feel like a mind blowing paradigm shift. it will feel like surprising simple permission, that you never knew to give yourself.

when you have the habit of taking everything in and making it mean something about you — it’s easy to forget that everyone has unfinished places, everyone has healing to do, no one is really okay.

it’s liberating, because the externally oriented have unconsciously made it their life purpose to shift and adjust to be what the room needs of them, what the neighbor needs of them, what the family needs of them. a brilliant survival skill for a small child. an overwhelming archetype for the safe adult.

you cannot be the source of everyone’s needs, you are not the reason that other people have unfinished places, your sovereignty cannot be contingent on another’s evolution.

we have to begin to unhook, to release ourselves from the hyper-responsibility, from the role of energy moderator and energy alchemist. it’s safe, healthy and appropriate to be disconnected at times.

A Christmas Note for the Ones Who Were Never Fully Held ⬇️For the last 7 years, this community didn’t just follow—it for...
12/25/2025

A Christmas Note for the Ones Who Were Never Fully Held ⬇️

For the last 7 years, this community didn’t just follow—it formed itself.
From the unseen.
From the unheard.
From people who learned how to survive long before they learned how to feel safe.

Here’s something many of us were never taught:

-> Most adult patterns didn’t start in adulthood.
The way you attach…
The way you protect yourself…
The way you shut down, overthink, chase, people-please, or fear closeness…

None of it came out of nowhere.

Your nervous system was learning before you had language.
From how you were held—or not.
Comforted—or dismissed.
Seen—or expected to be strong too soon.

🧠 What you lived through became what you learned.
🔁 What you learned became what you repeat.

This isn’t a flaw.
It’s adaptation.
It’s intelligence.
It’s survival.

And here’s the part I want you to sit with this Christmas—gently:
->Anything learned can be unlearned.
->Anything wired can be rewired.
->Your story doesn’t end where it began.

Healing isn’t about blaming the past.
It’s about finally understanding yourself with compassion instead of shame.

This space exists because you showed up—curious, brave, tired of repeating cycles that were never yours to carry alone.

This Christmas, may you give yourself what you needed then:

Safety.
Permission.
Gentleness.
Love.

You were always worthy of it. 💙🙏🏾!

12/24/2025

Still Surviving?

This Friday, Dec 26 at 12pm, we’re gathering for the next session of our Foundational Care Series (this month-> What Trauma Teaches Us About Survival (and What It Doesn’t Teach Us About Safety)—a monthly virtual space created to slow things down, come back to the body, and explore trauma-responsive care in ways that are accessible, human, and grounded in lived experience. Each month, we take one core theme and gently unpack it together—through reflection, education, and embodied awareness—without pressure to perform or “fix.” As Founder & CEO of , I’m really looking forward to hosting this series and sitting in community with you as we build a shared language for safety, care, and collective healing—one honest conversation at a time.

Trauma is a brilliant teacher of survival.
It shows us how to stay alert, push through, read the room, and keep going.

But survival is not the same as safety.
Survival helps us endure.
Safety teaches the body how to rest, receive, and soften.

If peace feels unfamiliar, it’s not because something is wrong with you— it’s because your nervous system learned in a different language.

Survival kept you alive.
Safety is what lets you live.

Registration: Link in Bio
Cost: Free (thanks to our funders & donors) in support of these monthly accessible trauma education & awareness to the public.

So Important ⬇️ Thank you .fremon —> As more and more people claim to do trauma-work, and trauma-centered content c...
12/23/2025

So Important ⬇️

Thank you .fremon —> As more and more people claim to do trauma-work, and trauma-centered content continues to trend, we need to have deeper discussions on the shadow side of this visibility. ⁣


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12/22/2025

Monday Truth 💭

Therapy comes alive in truth—
not the polished kind we rehearse,
but the kind that’s vulnerable enough to sting.

When you enter therapy trying to repair
an idealized version of yourself,
you bypass the places that are actually asking for care.
Healing can’t reach what you keep denying.

Transformation starts the moment
you stop performing for your own mirror
and begin encountering who you really are.
Not the imagined self you chase,
but the real one—
the one shielded by defenses,
by perfectionism,
by the automatic “I’m fine.”

That version is the doorway.
That’s where compassion belongs.
That’s where your intention must land.

Therapy isn’t about inventing a new self.
It’s about unearthing what’s always been there—
your essence, buried beneath years of survival.
And the work begins the instant
you choose honesty over appearance.

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💭 Save this for the moments you notice yourself performing instead of feeling.

[Video from the Hannibal 2013 Series]

Sunday Reflection:“All of life is love trying to remember itself.”Somewhere along the way, survival taught us to forget—...
12/21/2025

Sunday Reflection:

“All of life is love trying to remember itself.”

Somewhere along the way, survival taught us to forget—urgency over presence, protection over tenderness, productivity over being. Yet joy keeps calling us back anyway. Not as denial of pain, but as recognition beneath it. When joy returns, it feels like home because it is—the original language of the body before fear took the wheel. Even through trials and tribulations, love keeps rehearsing remembrance, patiently inviting us back to what we’ve always been.

Have you ever wondered why that was? Or why that is? 💙🙏🏾!

12/20/2025

Wow 🤯 Did literally awaken the embodied-educational awareness of “triggers” as a gift towards self-learning & self-love?

Conscious evolution isn’t about being unbothered—it may only be about being willing to learn. When we turn toward our reactions with compassion rather than condemnation, we transform reactivity into self-knowledge and self-knowledge into self-love. That’s the real awakening.

Triggers may become teachers when we stop outsourcing responsibility through self-blame or victimhood and instead get curious: What part of me is being touched right now? What boundary, wound, or unmet need is speaking?

Underrated Life Skill. Thoughts? 💙🙏🏾!
12/19/2025

Underrated Life Skill.

Thoughts? 💙🙏🏾!

Affirming Thoughts 💭 | Trust the ExpansionThe life you’re reaching for asks for a nervous system that no longer survives...
12/18/2025

Affirming Thoughts 💭 | Trust the Expansion

The life you’re reaching for asks for a nervous system that no longer survives on urgency, pressure, or stress.

As your body learns new pathways of safety, ease may feel strange at first.

That doesn’t mean something is wrong.
It means your system is reorganizing around care instead of collapse.

Unfamiliar is not unsafe.
Unfamiliar is growth remembering itself.

Affirmation:
“I allow my nervous system to release its attachment to stress and receive a life rooted in safety, ease, and expansion.”

12/17/2025

Love this Unlearning & Debunking Education from

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I work in psychiatry, and here is the truth about what mental breakdown really is.

1. I’ve learned there are no “crazy” people here.
Only people who weren’t helped in time.
I’ve seen a former bank director simply stop showing up to work one day.
He turned off his phone and sat in his apartment in complete silence for ten days.
When they found him, he was staring at one spot, repeating one word.
Not alcohol.
Not crisis.
His nervous system burned out so quietly he didn’t notice it happening.

2. In the next room, I’ve seen a woman who raised three children alone.
Years of tension, silence, swallowed tears, and lack of sleep.
She tried to “hold the family together,” smiled at everyone except herself.
Then she started talking to herself at night and wiping mirrors over and over.
The children were temporarily taken away.
Nobody saw it coming because she functioned normally until she couldn’t anymore.

3. Behind another wall, I’ve seen a programmer, twenty-eight years old.
Two years without days off, without breaks, without real mornings.
“After this release I’ll rest,” but releases only multiplied.
One day he walked outside barefoot and forgot his name.
When they stopped him, he could only say, “I’m tired.”
The simplest truth his body had been screaming for months that his mind refused to hear.

4. This is what I’ve learned: nobody sees the line.
Today you’re just tired.
Tomorrow you don’t open the door.
In a month, you’re in an ambulance.
This isn’t madness.
This is a restoration system that broke long before anyone noticed.
Mental breakdown isn’t sudden — it’s the final collapse after months of ignored warnings your body kept sending.

5. Check yourself honestly.
Three weeks of bad sleep.
Words slip away.
Messages get postponed.
Food tastes like nothing.
Your body doesn’t want to go outside.
When silence doesn’t calm but crushes — that’s the warning sign you can’t ignore.

They share educational post and reset tips after burnout Ty 💙🙏🏾!

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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.