Healing Quest Counselling

Healing Quest Counselling Mental Health counselling from an attachment and trauma informed lens. Empowering you to live fully.

For a lot of people, self-criticism developed as a way to stay acceptable, stay connected, or prevent mistakes. It had a...
02/16/2026

For a lot of people, self-criticism developed as a way to stay acceptable, stay connected, or prevent mistakes. It had a job.

When compassion wasn’t modelled, or didn’t feel safe, gentleness can register as unfamiliar rather than soothing.

Unfamiliar might be uncomfortable, but it doesn’t mean danger.

Save this for the moments when your inner voice gets loud.

02/01/2026

To be fair, you don’t have to spend your morning in torrential downpour to reap the benefits of nature. Even a stroll around the block to get some daylight in your eyes will increase endorphins and lower cortisol 🌱👌🏼

01/25/2026

Save this for when part of you wants to cross the finish line.

When a trauma therapist says “we can go as fast as you can go slow” it’s because shifting the nervous system out of urgency is the whole point! ❤️‍🩹

If complex trauma means the system has learned that you are in a perpetual state of emergency, then healing is allowing the body to realize and relax into safety.

And since our brains and bodies are wired to survive, we remain on high alert - by design! Shifting out of urgency and survival mode… takes conscious effort, consistency, and time 🌱

01/23/2026

We have to slow down to notice what drives us and what is no longer true. You can’t rush healing.

01/20/2026

Apparently yesterday was blue Monday… the most depressing and gloomiest day of the year. Did anyone else miss the memo? 😂🖤

01/19/2026

It’s hard to scroll past so many promises of fast relief without feeling a bit sick 🤢 I know how tempting quick fixes are… especially when you’re tired of carrying so much. Wanting relief makes sense.

But a hyper-protective nervous system is slow to shift, by design.

When change feels slow, it’s often because your system is doing exactly what it learned to do to keep you safe.

If you’re not seeing instant shifts, you’re not broken.
You’re human.

01/11/2026

Come outside with us 🖤 🌱

I don’t know about you, but my 2025 was full of reminders. Some welcome. Some terribly unwanted. All meaningful and sign...
01/01/2026

I don’t know about you, but my 2025 was full of reminders. Some welcome. Some terribly unwanted. All meaningful and significant.

Take what resonates. Leave the rest 💗

Catch you on the flip side✌🏼 #ʜᴇᴀʟɪɴɢᴊᴏᴜʀɴᴇʏ

12/05/2025

Shaking is an accessible way to help the body metabolize activation so it can settle again 💗

Feelings aren’t flaws. They’re signals. 🌱
11/25/2025

Feelings aren’t flaws. They’re signals. 🌱

Trauma isn’t stored in your hips - but your body does keep the score. Trauma shows up in your nervous system: in hypervi...
10/18/2025

Trauma isn’t stored in your hips - but your body does keep the score. Trauma shows up in your nervous system: in hypervigilance, shutdown, or tension patterns. Practices like movement, breath, and therapy can help bring release… not because trauma is trapped in one body part, but because healing happens when your whole system feels safe again.

Guilt isn’t always what it seems. Sometimes it’s about survival, sometimes it’s protecting us from harder feelings, and ...
10/18/2025

Guilt isn’t always what it seems. Sometimes it’s about survival, sometimes it’s protecting us from harder feelings, and sometimes it’s just an old story.

The next time guilt shows up, pause and ask: what is this guilt trying to do for me? Can I be curious with it, instead of led by it? 🌿

Does this way of looking at guilt resonate with you?

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