Breathe and Bloom Gathering Space

11/04/2025

Have you noticed how you feel when you engage in something creative?

Creativity has been linked with…
🎨 Improved mental and emotional health
🎨 Reducing stress
🎨 Enhance cognition
🎨 Boost confidence and sense of purpose
🎨 Strengthen social connections, and more!

To provide some inspiration, check out the link in the bio for how to make your own paper as demonstrated by our new team member, Richard!

11/03/2025

We are excited to share our website's relaunch!

https://www.breatheandbloomgatheringspace.com/

😍 New logo, new branding, & new growth

As we continue to settle in Nova Scotia, we are planting seeds for further growth for current and future offerings.

Current offerings:
🍂 Virtual & in-person counselling (Dartmouth and Shubenacadie)
🍂 Group yoga sessions (Maitland and Shubenacadie)
🍂 Integrative Somatic Therapy Practice (ISTP)™

Breathe and Bloom Gathering Space is excited to introduce a new team member, and co-founder, Richard Blackwell! He joins Julia as a horticulturist, landscaper, and author.

Stay tuned for ongoing developments as we work towards offering:
🌿 Sensory garden
🌿 Additional yoga and mindfulness-based offerings
🌿 Gift shop
🌿 Workshops
🌿 Retreats

Making dreams a reality to support individual, group, and community healing!

10/18/2025

As a counsellor, one of the top self care practices people identify is going for a walk in nature.

A wonderful way to keep those nature walks fresh and mindful is to invite in a childlike wonder.

🍂 Slow down and let yourself toddle behind a usual pace
🍂 Engage the senses
🍂 Collect fallen treasures - turn the ordinary to extraordinary
🍂 Be amazed and savour the simple things
🍂 Breathe, laugh, & smile

How else may you be the “Alice” of your Wonderland?

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10/15/2025

10/02/2025

Hello, October!

Sharing some updated offerings taking place in Nova Scotia's East Hants and Halifax areas.

Please feel free to share with those who may benefit, or to contact me for any inquires or bookings.

email: breatheandbloom.gatheringspace@gmail.com
website: https://www.breatheandbloomgatheringspace.com/

09/18/2025

I am pleased to share that I will be offering in-person sessions on Wednesdays and Thursdays at The Yoga Lounge, located in Shubenacadie!

If you're looking for counselling that it is in a relaxed and open space, then this may resonate.

To book, please visit my website or email:
https://www.breatheandbloomgatheringspace.com/
emaiL: breatheandbloom.gatheringspace@gmail.com

The Yoga Lounge welcomes Julia Blackwell- Registered Counselling Therapist- Candidate.
✨️Julia will be offering in-person counselling sessions on Wednesdays and Thursdays beginning in October.
For those seeking individual support to process and cope with various life experiences, counselling may provide an anchor to pause and reflect in a safer space. ✨️
Julia Blackwell is a Registered Counselling Therapist - Candidate, and is fully certified in Integrative Somatic Therapy Practice (ISTP)™, 200 RYT, and certified in Ayurvedic nutrition. Julia is a member of the Peepeekisis First Nation, with mixed European ancestry.
Connect with Julia @ breatheandbloom.gatheringspace@gmail.com to book an individual counselling session that is grounded in mindfulness and holistic wellness.

09/07/2025

🌸 Important update - introducing... Breathe and Bloom Gathering Space!

With my personal move from the Canadian west to east coast, this comes with a business development from "Press Pause Counselling Services" to "Breathe and Bloom Gathering Space."

As the business works throughout this transition, things you may expect:
🌸 Continued virtual individual sessions for counselling and ISTP™
🌸 Name changes on my social media platforms and Jane App booking system
🌸 Eventual rebrand for the website and email to reflect the new name
🌸 In-person counselling session at ML Family Counselling in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia

Further things to look forward to include:
🌸 Mindfulness-based classes
🌸 Workshops & Retreats
🌸 Wellness Garden
🌸 Walk & Talk session
🌸 In-person ISTP™ session in Maitland, Nova Scotia

Let's see how this adventure unfolds! Thank you for your continued support and interest as the practice deepens and evolves.

07/30/2025

I'll be leading my final yoga practice as part of the Yoga in the Park series with Moving Forward Family Services today, Wednesday, July 30th, at 6:30pm at Surrey's Hawthorne Park!

Frances will be teaching at the same location on top of the hill and in the shade of the trees for August 13, 20th, and 27th!