Bloom Counselling & Consulting

Bloom Counselling & Consulting Maybe now is the time to reach for the support you need to grow into your fullest you. Bloom Counselling is here to help you grow.

Bloom Counselling & Consulting is a Winnipeg based therapy practice offering services to folks in Winnipeg and beyond. Sabrina Friesen brings over 10 years of experience working with individuals and couples who long to experience growth in themselves, in relationships, and in life situations, and with gentle wisdom she provides the environment and support necessary for such changes to take place. Whether it is getting help with a specific issue, or if it's time to explore pervasive patterns and more deeply rooted issues, Sabrina creates a safe and secure space in which to explore and unpack the barriers to positive movement.

06/08/2022

Connection and loneliness are two themes I hear about again and again in the therapy room.

People want community, but don't always know where to find it. Meaningful partnership and meaningful friendships can be hard to start.

A tiny way I'm trying to help is by creating spaces to connect. If you or someone you know is looking to connect in real life, please feel free to share about a little side gig I've begun.

Winnipeg Connect: Speed Dating + Friending Events is going to aim to create spaces to connect in real life, in a low pressure environment - maximizing the number of connections you can make in a couple hours, and then letting you build from there.

It's a starting point to new connections. Feel free to check it out and share.

www.winnipegconnect.ca

Hi!! Just another "hey there's space" note. Had some last minute shifts to my day, and that means space is open. Lmk if ...
01/20/2022

Hi!! Just another "hey there's space" note. Had some last minute shifts to my day, and that means space is open. Lmk if you're looking to book!

As 2022 arrives I have been reflecting on the year that passed and I've been thinking about what I want for the months a...
01/05/2022

As 2022 arrives I have been reflecting on the year that passed and I've been thinking about what I want for the months ahead.

2020 and 2021 were very gentle years for me. I gave myself loads of grace and room to move slowly, to conserve energy in a time where resources were in short supply, and found ways to incorporate ease and simplify. Those things were exactly what was needed in that season.

As a new year begins to unfold I'm noticing a shift in my own self and what my being is asking from me. There's an inner awareness that things are different, that they need to be different.

And so my aim is to walk into 2022 guided by the principle of effort.

Merriam Webster defines effort in the following ways:

1: conscious exertion of power : hard work

2: a serious attempt : try

3: something produced by exertion or trying

4: effective force as distinguished from the possible resistance

5: the total work done to achieve a particular end

There are things that I value, things that matter, things that I'd like to do or participate in or experience and be about in more intentional ways. If I want to see these things materialize, whether it's more hiking, more veggies, more movement, less screentime, less clutter, or more games played with people I love - I have to recognize and remind myself that nobody is going to curate these things for me.

I am radically responsible for my own growth and movement.

If I want to see things shift, I am the agent of change responsible for making them happen.

Yes, I will be gracious.
No, I will not be rigid.
Yes, I will listen to my body.
No, I will not bow out simply because something is hard work.

The kindness and compassion and gentleness of the season before were exactly what I needed, and my sense is that the year ahead is one of more action, of agency, and radical accountability for my own life.

I'm excited to commit to myself and my own deepening and unfolding with intention, and to see what intentional effort can grow.

Hoping that you, too, can find your own guiding principles for the year ahead, that you might listen to your own body, and give yourself whatever it is you're needing this season.

The way our most tender self gets tucked away between layers of protection when it's not safe to be who we are in the wo...
12/03/2021

The way our most tender self gets tucked away between layers of protection when it's not safe to be who we are in the world.

The way they stay hidden, yet whole.

The way we can unearth and open up those needed, protective layers - choosing now when we want to tuck in and when it's safe not to.

The way there are so, so many parts protecting the tiniest, most delicate one.

Therapy work for me seems to most often lead back to these things.

Noticing.
Opening.
Unearthing.
Honouring.
Discovering.
Welcoming.
Choosing.
And finding that deeply protected and still intact core.

Marveling at humanity today, like everyday, and at the ridiculous privilege it is to deeply witness and companion others as they dive inward.

Reflecting on what it means to be human, to be a mother, to love deeply, to witness, and to really hold space.
09/23/2021

Reflecting on what it means to be human, to be a mother, to love deeply, to witness, and to really hold space.

Things fall apart.Plans.Relationships.Dreams.Bodies.Jobs.Much loved blankies.Families.Communication.It happens, try as w...
09/21/2021

Things fall apart.

Plans.
Relationships.
Dreams.
Bodies.
Jobs.
Much loved blankies.
Families.
Communication.

It happens, try as we might to circumvent it, regardless of protest or best laid plans to avoid disastrous endings.

No matter how hard we work to hold things together, no matter how much we try to stop it, or sidestep it, sometimes they still just shatter into a million tiny pieces.

And it is devastating to sit in the mess of shapeless shards that used to be something so exquisite.

Appropriately so.

And yet somehow the falling apart always gives way to a new reality. Not always a desired reality, yet there is still something left in it's place. Something keeps going even as it seems everything should come to a crashing halt, and quite marvelously so. Maybe even miraculously so sometimes.

Maybe things falling apart isn't the ending, but rather a new beginning? Even as there is grief and longing for what was and is no longer.

Maybe there is room for nuance here, maybe there is room to lament the loss - but also tiny slivers of space to anticipate what might emerge in its wake within us or the world around us, as a result of the shattering of things as we once knew them?

Holding curiosity about the broken spaces tonight, about love and loss and things that go sideways. And about how to move with the certainty of things continually collapsing and emerging anew as we move through this life. Holding space for the sorrow. Holding resilience reverently. Sending love to those whose hands are full of tiny pieces tonight ❤️

Pondering pain and suffering and the juxtaposition of beauty and joy alongside currents of grief and loss.Reflecting on ...
09/20/2021

Pondering pain and suffering and the juxtaposition of beauty and joy alongside currents of grief and loss.

Reflecting on purpose and path and what this is all for, what it all means. The grandeur and the obscurity of it all, such a wild mixture to behold.

Feeling reflective.
Feeling curious.
And feeling like the secret is found in the smallness of things, tucked away between the mundane and the ordinary.

What if it isn't about arriving at all? What if the secrets of living, what if the point of it, are hidden in plain sight?

Nestled in the beauty of light on branches.
In the warm smile of strangers.
In hugs.
In the shifting of seasons.
In hearing someone's yes.
Or even their no.
In long, quiet drives.
In cakes eaten just because.
In showing up.
In trying. And trying again.
In looking people in the eyes.
In swaying gently in a hammock.
In putting in a hard days work.
In growing things.
In discovering new spaces.
In puppy snuggles,
and the smell of new babies.
In singing to the brilliantly orange harvest moon underneath a starry sky in your best Neil Young voice.

Feeling inspired by a recent reminder that it's about the journey - not the destination.

Could this be living?
Maybe this is the point -
the being, rather than an arriving.
Being, in it's entirety. All of it.
The sweetness, and the struggle.
The delight, and disappointment.
The not yet, and yet still here.
The inconveniences.
The moments of ease.
The chaos, and the quiet peace.
The connection,
and solitude,
and stillness,
and the pain of loss and longing that begs to be felt and not fixed.

Maybe it's about being awake to it, and holding space to notice it and tend to it all. The full spectrum of it. The mess and mystery of all things. Maybe it's about being where we are and really allowing it to be, in all that it holds. Maybe it isn't about where we're going so much as it's about being really in each moment along the way.

I don't really know. But I do know I'll be over here, shuffling around the monotonous and mundane and looking for signs of life.

Feeling extra grateful for the capacity we hold as humans to take on new roles and to develop new patterns and ways of m...
09/17/2021

Feeling extra grateful for the capacity we hold as humans to take on new roles and to develop new patterns and ways of moving.

I am so grateful for the opportunity to practice new stances in relationship, and for the ways that here and now safety can invite us into new movements with others.

Today I'm feeling deeply moved by the experience of receiving. As somebody who has spent decades in the role of giver of care, there is something so beautiful about being invited to switch seats, teaching my nervous system that it is good and okay to have space held for me, and to move out of the role of supporter and instead take in experience of being supported.

I love the way that our bodies can learn and grow and expand and adjust. And I love the way in which we have the capacity and agency to challenge old stories and learn new ones, we walk ourselves into new spaces - and knowing this is within my own reach and capacity is deeply freeing.

Hoping that you may see spaces and places and postures before you that may be deepening and healing and expansive, and that you can choose to support your own healing and growing as you step forward into these new ways of moving.

Since chatting with a dear friend this morning I have found myself with questions reverberating around my head.What if w...
09/10/2021

Since chatting with a dear friend this morning I have found myself with questions reverberating around my head.

What if we shared about and celebrated rest the way we proclaim and applaud productivity?

What if we encouraged and delighted in the experiences of friends and family who tell us how they took it easy and watched a show, left the dishes, or read a book? What if they delighted in us?

What if we felt safe to speak of our "non-productive" (or perhaps non-output-producing) times without fear of being judged as lazy, unproductive, or wasting time?

What if we valued rest as much as we valued output?

Wondering how it might shift things if we felt like we had collective permission to do less, be more, and prioritize our well being over our ability to get things done.

I think that would feel so much gentler.

Thanks for listening to my thoughts from today, as I again marvel at my pup finding the most beautiful spot to snooze.

Happy restful weekend to you and yours. ✌️ Feel free to share your own restful wins if you like. Let us celebrate them with you.

I have feelings + sensations moving in lots of directions these days: there's hope, frustration, anticipation, exasperat...
09/08/2021

I have feelings + sensations moving in lots of directions these days: there's hope, frustration, anticipation, exasperation, gratitude, excitement, curiosity, indifference, contentment, patience, sorrow, optimism, nervousness, and a sense of gentle acceptance.

These things are fuelled by an array of lifey circumstances and situations, amplified by the state of things these days, and intensified as we shift into a new routine as school returns. This is adulthood, isn't it? The changes, the feelings, the unexpected life things, the ways things happen in our broader orbit that leave our bodies talking inside.

I am already being reminded that my body needs me to pay extra attention to her right now as she cycles through all the things, so that she can stay online and able to hold all that's coursing through my veins.

She needs me to listen to her.

To give her enough water.
To feed her fruits and vegetables.
To drink less coffee, or at least lay off the Coke.
To let her rest when she asks.
To let her be held in the hammock.
To invite her to tend to life gently, doing the dishes, tidying up, and putting things away without pressure or shame.
To breathe deeply more often.
To walk slowly.
To read leisurely.
To cry when she needs.
To cozy up in her favorite blanket.
To get more sleep.
To say no when she just can't.

Honoring her current.
Trusting in her capacity.
Going with the flow.
Allowing.
Accepting.
Reminding her that things ebb and flow.
Knowing she can handle things.

Hoping you can honor your own self these days in the ways it needs, and that you can trust in its capacity to hold all the things and carry you through. ❤️

Dismembering brain and body, separating joy and sorrow, exiling pain from delight, this is not wholehearted living. This...
09/08/2021

Dismembering brain and body, separating joy and sorrow, exiling pain from delight, this is not wholehearted living. This is not the goal.

Healing is wholing.

It is the pulling together is seemingly disparate parts of self, a noticing of nuance, an acceptance of the fullness of our human experience, which is complex and varied.

Healing isn't synonymous with comfort. But perhaps rather with withness, the ability to sit in both the sacredness and suffering of our humanity.

Such a beautiful memoir by .

📗: Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted

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Tuesday 8:45am - 2:45pm
Thursday 8:45am - 2:45pm
Sunday 5pm - 9:45pm

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Bloom Counselling & Consulting is a Winnipeg based therapy practice offering services to folks in Winnipeg and beyond. Sabrina Friesen brings years of experience working with individuals, couples, and families who long to experience growth in themselves, in relationships, and in life situations, and with gentle wisdom she provides the environment and support necessary for such changes to take place. Whether it is getting help with a specific issue, or if it's time to explore pervasive patterns and more deeply rooted issues, Sabrina creates a safe and secure space in which to explore and unpack the barriers to positive movement. Bloom Counselling is here to help you grow.