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When you’re ready, therapy can be a place to breathe again. Mind Revitalized offers psychotherapy for individuals and couples.

Book today and take your first step toward healing and self-worth. [www.mindrevitalized.com] Mind Revitalized is a space dedicated to self-discovery, growth, and healing. Every story is unique, and each person deserves a compassionate, personalized approach that nurtures self-worth and helps process what has been carried, unspoken, or unresolved. My work supports those moving through anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, relationship struggles, and life transitions. I integrate somatic practices, nervous system awareness, and communication tools to foster resilience, clarity, and connection — always at your pace, in a way that feels sustainable and real.

01/19/2026

Mindful Moments:
Sometimes we push because we believe effort equals worth. We push harder, explain better, prove more, try again.

But the nervous system does not learn safety through force. It learns through listening.

This is where The Thread Between comes alive.

Self-worth begins when we stop interpreting resistance as failure. When the body tightens, goes quiet, or pulls back, it is not being dramatic or lazy. It is communicating. Listening to that signal is an act of self-respect. Worth is not earned through endurance. It is honoured through attunement.

Belonging grows when we realize we do not have to fight the current to be allowed in. It happens when we stop performing clarity or confidence and allow ourselves to be exactly where we are. Belonging does not come from fitting in. It comes from being met while we are still finding our footing.

Communication is not only words. It is pacing. It is noticing when something inside you says slow down. When we stop pushing against the current, we make room to hear what has been trying to surface all along. Needs. Boundaries. Grief. Longing. Truth.

Curiosity is the bridge between all three. Curiosity asks, “What is this moment asking of me?”, instead of “Why am I not handling this better?”

Sometimes the most meaningful answers arrive not when we strain forward, but when we soften enough to listen. And that, quietly, is where repair begins.

© Mind Revitalized
The Thread Between™
Lavender & Mountain™

01/16/2026

Forever Feels:
Self-worth, belonging, and communication are often treated as separate struggles. But in lived experience, they are braided together.

When self-worth is fragile, the voice learns to perform or disappear. When belonging feels conditional, communication becomes careful, strategic, or silent. Over time, people stop speaking from who they are and start speaking to stay safe.

The thread between self-worth and belonging is what gives communication its strength. When that thread holds, words don’t have to earn approval. They can be honest, imperfect, and present.

This is where communication shifts from managing relationships to actually being in them.

© Mind Revitalized
The Thread Between™
Lavender & Mountain™

01/14/2026

Woven Wonders:
Communication breaks down when speaking has felt unsafe for too long.

When self-worth is fragile, the voice either disappears or over explains. When belonging feels conditional, words become careful, edited, delayed. So communication turns into management instead of connection.

The thread between self-worth and belonging is what gives communication its strength. When that thread holds, you can speak without performing, listen without defending, and stay present without abandoning yourself.

Communication, at its core, is not about being understood by everyone. It’s about remaining intact while reaching toward another.

© Mind Revitalized
The Thread Between™
Lavender & Mountain™

01/12/2026

Mindful Moments:
Belonging is often mistaken for fitting in. But fitting in usually asks you to edit yourself first.

Real belonging works differently. It forms when you no longer have to translate your feelings, soften your edges, or disappear in order to stay connected. When your nervous system can rest because your presence is not being evaluated.

In the work I do, belonging isn’t created by being understood by everyone. It’s created when you remain intact while being seen. That is the thread between self worth and voice.
And when that thread holds, belonging follows.

© Mind Revitalized
The Thread Between™
Lavender & Mountain™

01/09/2026

Forever Feels:
Self-worth isn’t a loud declaration or a finish line you cross. It’s quieter than that; it’s more like a thread.

At first, it frays when you keep pulling yourself apart to fit, to please, to stay safe. The knots form. And this happens when you leave yourself behind in conversations, relationships, decisions. But one day, you decide to start looking inward, and over time, with care, that thread begins to weave in a way you need.

Self-worth is not about becoming unbreakable.
It’s about choosing to stay woven to yourself, even when belonging feels uncertain.

That choice changes everything.

01/07/2026

Woven Wonders:
Therapy isn’t about “fixing” what’s broken. At its core, it’s about self-worth, belonging, and communication. The Thread Between™ that shapes how we relate to ourselves and others.

At Mind Revitalized Counselling, The Thread Between™ runs through all of the work I offer:

🌿 Individual therapy: to slow down, reflect, and reconnect with yourself.

🌿 Couples therapy: to strengthen connection, trust, and emotional safety.

🌿 Walk & Talk therapy: to support grounding, regulation, and clarity through movement and nature

As we better understand ourselves, we become more able to set boundaries, express needs, and communicate with compassion rather than self-judgement.

You don’t have to have everything figured out to begin. You just have to start where you are.

© 2026 Natalie Baillargeon
The Thread Between™ is an original “noticing lens” of Mind Revitalized Counselling. All rights reserved.

01/05/2026

Mindful Moments:
When someone puts you down or tries to shrink your choices, it can feel personal, like you must have done something wrong, like you need to explain yourself or become smaller to keep the peace.

But more often than not, what you’re encountering isn’t clarity or truth. It’s someone else’s unfinished business trying to manage its own discomfort by controlling the world around it. You don’t need to pick that up. You don’t need to carry what was never yours to resolve.

Growth doesn’t come from convincing others you’re allowed to live your life. It comes from staying rooted while the weather passes, from continuing to choose your own direction, even when someone else is shouting from the sidelines angrily.

So let their noise stay where it belongs. Keep living. Keep growing. And trust the quiet work you’re doing beneath the surface.

01/04/2026

Soulful Stillness:
Water has a way of meeting us exactly where we are.

Beneath the surface, it holds what we’re not ready to name. Above the surface, it reflects what we’ve survived. And within it… something in us remembers how to loosen our grip.

Whether we’re swimming, wading, or simply standing at the edge, water teaches us the sacred art of not giving up, but giving in to the truth of the moment.

Letting the current carry what’s too heavy. Letting the ripples soothe what’s been tense for too long. And, letting ourselves be held without needing to perform strength.

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Lavender & Mountain™ are original, hand-drawn characters, and their story is written entirely by me.

I create their world through drawing, poetry, and therapeutic reflection, shaping meaning and symbolism by hand.

While I am not an animator, I use AI-assisted digital tools to gently bring my own original work into motion.

These characters exist to support healing, symbolism, and connection, not to present technical animation skill or to claim it as such.

© 2025 Natalie Baillargeon. All rights reserved.

01/01/2026

As we enter 2026, I’m reminded that growth rarely looks like a clean, upward line.

It’s more like a tide rising, retreating, reshaping us quietly from within. If the 2025 year stretched you, softened you, or asked more of you than you expected, I hope you meet yourself with gentleness as you cross into the next chapter.

You don’t need resolutions carved in stone. You don’t need to reinvent yourself overnight. All you need is one honest step, and then another.

May the new year bring steadier ground, deeper belonging, and moments that remind you you’re alive in the best ways.

Here’s to a year that feels more aligned, more spacious, and more you.

Happy New Year, my friends.

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Lavender & Mountain™ are hand-drawn and hand-written by me.

I create the characters, stories, and meaning through drawing, poetry writing, and therapeutic reflection.

I am not an animator; I use AI-assisted digital tools to animate my own original work.

These characters exist to support healing, symbolism, and connection. It’s not to showcase technical animation skill or claim it as such.

All rights reserved.

12/31/2025

Woven Wonders: Coming in 2026 ✨

I’m opening a Mind Revitalized counselling office for in-person therapy.

I will continue to offer virtual therapy as it is valuable, accessible, and supportive in its own unique way. And I also believe there is something important about sitting together in a quiet office, sharing the same space, and allowing connection to form in a very human way.

I’m finding more people are looking for in-person therapy, and I wanted to be able to offer that option. Being physically present together allows for attunement, subtle cues, and a kind of connection that doesn’t always translate through a screen.

I’m really looking forward to holding this space and keeping in-person therapy alive as part of my work.

12/29/2025

Mindful Moments:
The holidays don’t just leave people tired. For some, they leave a quiet heaviness behind.

After weeks of heightened emotion, social demand, pressure, memory, grief, and overstimulation, it’s common to feel low once it’s over.

Flat. Tearful. Disconnected. Unmotivated. Drained. Sometimes even depressed.

Totally normal! This isn’t weakness. It’s physiology, psychology, and lived experience catching up. The nervous system downshifts. The adrenaline fades.

A few gentle ways to support yourself right now:

🐾 lower expectations (this is a recovery window)

🐾 return to simple routines

🐾 get daylight and slow movement

🐾 rest without earning it

🐾 reach out if the heaviness lingers or deepens

And if what you’re feeling is more than tired, if it feels dark, heavy, or hard to carry alone…support matters. You don’t have to push through this season by yourself.

Sometimes the most therapeutic thing we can do is let ourselves rest…like my Tisa. 💤 🐾

Take gentle care.

12/28/2025

Soulful Stillness:
There’s something tender about the way animals remind us that seeking warmth isn’t weakness, it’s wisdom.

We all have moments where the world feels a little too cold, a little too sharp. And sometimes the bravest thing we can do is let ourselves be held, supported, or carried for a stretch.

You don’t have to push through everything alone. There’s no shame in choosing comfort when you need it.

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Monday	11am - 8pm
Tuesday	11am - 8pm
Wednesday	11am - 8pm
Thursday	11am - 5pm

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+19053716810

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http://mindreviatlized.com/

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