Nurtured Minds Wellness and Therapy Services

11/21/2025

Come and say hi to Charlie and Kaylei at the Holly and Heels Chamber Luncheon today 🤍 Learn more about our 2026 retreat offerings plus new services coming next year!

Get your Christmas shopping done next week! Heels & Holly Market & Luncheon is jam packed with great vendors with unique offerings, there's something for everyone on your list!

Learn more at https://business.yourchamber.ca/chamber-events/Details/2025-heels-holly-market-luncheon-1358829?sourceTypeId=Website

See you there!
MARKET VENDORS:

Black Gold Gallery & Frame Inc
Blonde Bombs
Budget Blinds Leduc Camrose
Carter’s Creations Bakery
City of Leduc
Dark Kiss Coffee
Haylstorm Fitness
Lazy Pine Clay Design
Little Lotus Buds
Loganberry's Antiques & Curiousities
Mindful Printing & Promotions
Montana's BBQ
Namans Canada
Norwex
Nurtured Minds Wellness and Therapy Services
Organic Peach
Progressive Pathways Behaviour & Disability Services Association
RAD Torque Raceway
Saradee Boutique
Side Street Vintage Ltd.
Spirit Over Ego
Travel Your World
Vertical Roots Leduc
Wellness Concepts
Wild Rose Tallow
Wild Summit Collective
Wild Thing Living
Willow Park Physio & Health Clinic
Yesterday's Treasure Market
Millet N More Liquor

11/20/2025

What if seasonal shifts could feel like coming home to yourself?

What if feeling different during colder, darker times wasn’t something to overcome but something to tend to with care?

We’re dreaming of a world where seasonal sensitivity is met with understanding. Where your body’s responses to environmental changes are witnessed with curiosity rather than hurried past.

Where winter support circles feel as natural as book clubs.

This is the gentle world we’re nurturing, one conversation at a time.

Comment ❄️ if this feels like something your heart longs for.

11/19/2025

Perhaps your winter feelings aren’t meant to be fixed...

When daylight shifts dramatically and temperatures drop, feeling different isn’t necessarily a sign that something’s wrong with you.

Your body might be responding to environmental changes with ancient wisdom - the same responses that helped humans attune to seasonal rhythms for thousands of years.

Sometimes what gets labeled needs gentleness and understanding rather than solutions.

You might not need fixing. You might simply need witnessing. You might not be broken. You could be beautifully human.

🌙 If this found you at the right time, follow .minds.wellness for more nervous system wisdom.

11/14/2025

What if therapy didn’t feel like just one more thing on your to-do list? 💭

After years in traditional mental health settings, we kept hearing:
“Therapy feels so clinical. Can I just… talk to someone who gets it?”

So, we built something different.

Therapy that includes:
✨ Body-based tools you can actually use in the moment — like when your aunt asks that question.
🌲 Forest therapy walks that help your nervous system remember what calm feels like.
💛 Support that doesn’t label family dynamics as problems, but helps you navigate them with more ease and compassion.

Because healing shouldn’t feel like hard work — it should feel like coming home to yourself.

We offer sessions in person in Nisku, Leduc, and Calmar, and online across Alberta and Canada.

We also have a low-cost therapy program, because we believe everyone deserves access to care.

Ready to try therapy that feels more human?

Send us a DM or book a free 20-minute discovery call through the link in our bio.

11/12/2025

Your body keeps a calendar — not just of birthdays and holidays, but of every joyous moment and every difficult family gathering. 🎄

Someone sat in our therapy room recently and said,
“I don’t know why I’m already tense about Christmas. Nothing bad even happened last year.”

Her body knew something her mind hadn’t named yet.
It remembered the pattern — the years spent managing emotions, keeping the peace, staying small so everyone else could stay comfortable.

Your nervous system doesn’t think in years.
It thinks in patterns.
Similar situation = similar response.

This isn’t you being dramatic.
It’s your body trying to keep you safe in the only way it’s learned how.

Here’s what shifts when you start working with your body instead of against it:
🌙 You notice tension sooner and can choose a softer response
🌙 You move through family dynamics with more ease
🌙 You give yourself permission to feel, rest, and still show up

At Nurtured Minds, we use somatic tools and nervous system practices to help your body learn:
this December, you have more choices than you did at 8, or 15, or even last year.

Want to feel more grounded this holiday season? Let’s walk through it together.

If this found you at the right time, follow .minds.wellness for more grounded nervous system wisdom.

11/11/2025

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie,
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields- By John McRae.

With respect and remembrance this day and always,
The Nurtured Minds team 🏵️

11/07/2025

“I used to feel such dread when the light began to fade”...

She showed up for her rest walk therapy session, wrapped in a blanket scarf, shoulders tense.

“The light’s changing,” she said. “And every year when it does, I feel such dread.”

A self-employed mom who’d been running on empty for years — always managing, rarely resting.

She thought her sensitivity to the darker months meant something was wrong.

But through somatic work, guided meditations, and quiet forest sessions, her body began to remember what safety felt like again.

To feel without fear. To slow without shame.

“This season feels different,” she said. “I finally have gentle tools that actually help.”

If you’re craving the same, our team of psychotherapists in Leduc (and virtually across Alberta) is accepting new clients.
Free 20-minute discovery calls available through the link in bio.

Follow for more reminders that you’re not broken — you might just be tired from living out of rhythm with yourself. 🍂

10/28/2025

🌕 Full Moon Forest Bathing Walk
Friday, November 7th | 6:30–8:00 p.m. | Wizard Lake

Our final event of 2025 ✨

Join us beneath the November full moon for an evening of stillness and connection- a guided forest bathing walk through the quiet woods of Nurtured Minds Retreat, Leduc County.

As the moonlight filters through the trees, we’ll move slowly, breathe deeply, and let the year settle gently around us.

An invitation to release what’s been held, and arrive back home to yourself- body, breath, and earth.

🌲 Limited spots available.
🔗 Register through the link in bio.

10/21/2025

She felt calm in the forest — and broken everywhere else.

“I feel fine when I’m outside,” she said. “But the second I’m back in real life, it’s gone.”

That’s the thing about the nervous system — it remembers safety in the forest.

Your body knows the language of wind and birdsong and slow, steady rhythms.

But we’ve built lives that speak in pings, deadlines, and noise.

It’s not that you’re bad at regulating.

It’s that you’re trying to do it in an environment your body was never built for.

This is why we bring people into the woods — not for the aesthetics, but because your nervous system needs to remember what safe feels like.

One walk.
One hug given to a tree.
One quiet moment where your body gets to say, “Oh. This.”

That’s where healing starts — not in fixing everything, but in remembering what you already are.

Tell us your fave nature spaces ✨

Follow for more reminders that your nervous system isn’t broken.

10/17/2025

You've been doing everything right - therapy, books, breathwork, and practices.

Yet, something still feels stuck. A memory, tension, or old story persists.

That's okay. It doesn't mean you're broken.

Sometimes our nervous systems need help.

EMDR supports your brain in reorganizing memories, so they no longer control your body.

Your body has the ability to heal; EMDR creates the right conditions.

Book an EMDR consultation with Jas in October for $90 (originally $180).

In-person sessions available in Leduc and Nisku.

Drop a 🕊️ if this speaks to you.