Jathina Blais MSW, RSW - Counselling

11/06/2025

11/04/2025

Repost Understanding someone’s pain doesn’t mean excusing what they do with it.

You can care about where it came from and still set limits on how it shows up.

Compassion should never cost your peace, and empathy doesn’t mean letting someone keep hurting you.

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10/30/2025

Reposted feom .therapist Therapy isn’t always a glow-up — sometimes it’s a breakdown that makes room to rebuild. ☁️

Some days you leave feeling light, empowered, and clear.
Other days you walk out exhausted, emotional, and unsure of what just happened. Both are progress. Both are valid. 💗

Healing doesn’t always look graceful, but it’s still movement forward.
If you’ve ever left therapy wondering, “Was that progress?” — this post is for you. 🧠✨

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10/28/2025

.and.cptsd What’s a boundary with yourself that’s helped you heal?⁠

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10/27/2025

I'm proud to support the next generation of female athletes! 💪❤️💙

As a sponsor of local girls’ ringette, I'm cheering on every goal, every pass, and every moment of teamwork on (and off) the ice.

Here’s to empowering young girls through sport — building confidence, leadership, and lifelong friendships. 🥏✨ - Jathina Blais M.S.W, R.S.W

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10/19/2025

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"The ideal goal in healing is that we could heal with our families.

Many of us wish the cycle ending looked like reconciliation, like mutual growth, like finally being able to come together and break the patterns that harmed us.

Many of us just want the pain and shame & negativity to end.

That is the hope, that family could be part of the healing.

But the reality is often different.

Many families would rather preserve the cycle than end it.

They choose denial, silence, or loyalty to dysfunction, even if it means remaining in a family dynamic that keeps harm alive.

They want to remain family at any cost, even if that cost us our dignity, safety, or truth.

So for many of us, the cycle ending does not happen in the family system.

It happens when we choose not to carry the cycle forward in our own lives.

It happens when we choose ourselves, our healing, and our liberation, even if they refuse to come with us.

And let me be clear, ending the cycle on your own still is cycle ending. It still matters. It is still sacred. You do not need their cooperation to heal & have liberation.

You're not betraying your family by ending the cycle you are honoring and respecting yourself. 🦋"

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10/16/2025

Reposted ✨ Your nervous system isn’t broken — it’s protecting you.
When you find yourself fawning, stuck in fight/flight, or frozen, your body is simply trying to keep you safe.

💛 The good news: you can gently guide it back into balance.
Small, simple practices like grounding, breathing, or mindful movement can signal safety and help you return to yourself.

Healing doesn’t mean forcing or rushing — it means listening to your body with compassion.

Save this chart as a reminder: your body is doing its best, and you deserve to feel safe again. 🌱

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10/16/2025

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" the “and” is where wholeness lives.
where truth feels softer,
and healing feels human. ✨

that’s where self-compassion lives, in the space where it’s okay to be both🩵"

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10/08/2025

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10/08/2025

Reposted .therapist "No one talks about the crash that comes after the healing begins.

The exhaustion. The brain fog. The body pain that shows up the moment you feel safe.

Because when you’re surviving, your nervous system stays in fight, flight, or freeze.
It keeps you functional, not well.
Your amygdala stays alert. Your cortisol stays high. Your body holds it all in, because it has to.

But when safety returns?
That’s when your system finally lets go.
That’s when the symptoms surface.

Not because you’re falling apart:
But because your body is finally safe enough to feel.
That’s not weakness.
That’s your nervous system exhaling.

This is what healing really looks like.
Messy. Slow. Sacred.
And deeply, beautifully real."

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10/07/2025

Repostes .life.

Releasing anger:

1. Name the feeling (the loop you are stuck in)
2. Long slow deep breaths
3. Move to release the physical energy

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09/25/2025

Reposted from "Placing your hand on your heart while taking 5 deep breaths activates your parasympathetic nervous system and releases oxytocin. This gentle self-touch tells your brain that you are safe and loved.” ~Inspirology

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