Wisemind Wellness

07/07/2025

Trauma impacts occur as somatic bodily responses for survival.

06/10/2025

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06/06/2025

Contact us for trauma support.

05/24/2025

The neurites in the human heart are specialized nerve fibers that are part of the intrinsic cardiac nervous system, playing a crucial role in regulating cardiac activity, modulating heartbeat, and potentially influencing cognitive and emotional processes. Your heart and brain connect in your nervous system and increasing experiences and feelings of love, connection and joy are profoundly healing to reduce traumatic anxiety. That’s the healing science.💕🎈🌸

05/22/2025

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Six best mental health advice..

05/07/2025

A spring walk is calling you.

🌿 1. Bilateral Stimulation Walks
Take a walk where you alternate tapping your hands on your thighs in rhythm with your steps (left-right-left). This mimics the bilateral stimulation used in EMDR and can help calm your nervous system.
🧘‍♀️ 2. Body Scan Meditation with a Safe Place Visualization
Use a guided body scan to reconnect with your body, followed by a few minutes of visualizing your “safe place.” This strengthens that internal resource and helps you ground.
🎧 3. Bilateral Music or Sound Therapy
Listen to bilateral audio tracks (music that alternates between the left and right ear) to support emotional regulation. Make sure to use headphones for the full effect!
🧸 4. Soothing Object Practice
Keep a comforting object nearby (like a soft stone, essential oil roller, or grounding crystal). During moments of distress or being overwhelmed, use it while gently self-tapping or breathing to help self-soothe and reconnect with safety.
✍️ 5. Journaling EMDR Reflections
Write down key insights, body sensations, or emotional shifts. This helps your brain continue to integrate new information and gives you a safe space to reflect on your healing journey.

05/03/2025

So many survivors of trauma struggle with gut health…and its impact on mental well-being. Stress impedes our ‘rest and digest’ processes and if you are in hyper or hypoarousal due to trauma triggering, you may see more gut distress too. Working on strategies to calm both mind and body, and setting healthy boundaries will help. So will eating whole foods. Wishing you a calm day :)

The gut and 🧠 are interconnected through a bidirectional communication network called the gut-brain axis, where signals travel both ways.

This connection involves the nervous system, the microbiome, and chemicals like hormones and neurotransmitters. The vagus nerve is a key physical link, while gut bacteria influence the release of chemicals that affect brain function.

Here's a more look at the connections:
Nervous System: The gut has its own nervous system, the enteric nervous system, which communicates with the brain. The vagus nerve acts as a major conduit for signals traveling between the gut and brain.

Microbiome: The trillions of bacteria, viruses, and fungi in the gut (the microbiome) play a significant role in gut-brain communication.
Gut bacteria can influence the release of chemicals, like serotonin, which can affect mood and other brain functions.

Chemicals: Hormones and neurotransmitters are involved in signaling between the gut and brain.
The gut microbiome can produce chemicals that impact brain function.

Impacts:
The gut-brain connection can influence mood, cognition, and other aspects of mental health.
Changes in the gut microbiome have been linked to conditions like anxiety, depression, and autism.
The gut-brain axis also plays a role in digestion, pain perception, and immune function.

Overall, the gut and brain are deeply intertwined, with the gut influencing brain function and the brain influencing gut activity. This complex connection is mediated by a variety of factors, including the nervous system, the microbiome, and chemical messengers.

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04/12/2025

Trauma work must be done with understanding of the context in which trauma has occurred. Colonial violence is continuing and amplified these days. Rage and grief are righteous responses to injustice and harm.

03/26/2025

When someone experiences a traumatic event or experiences extreme fear, 🧠 chemistry is altered and the brain begins to function differently--this is called the "Fear Circuity" and it is a protective mechanism which we all have inside of us.

The effects of trauma on the brain--is important to understand because it helps break down common misconceptions and victim-blaming about gender-based violence and it helps survivors to understand their experience and the aftermath in a new way.

Trauma mainly affects three important parts of your brain:

•Amygdala-our emotional and instinctual center

•Hippocampus-controls memory

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•Prefrontal cortex-responsible for regulating your emotions and impulses.

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03/10/2025

The monthly online consultation group is beginning again with space for new social workers or psychotherapists. Focus in the group is primarily trauma/attachment, complex trauma and intergenerational resiliency with anti-racism, anti-oppression analysis. Just message if you’re interested?

03/06/2025

Shout out to the 41 people who participated in our first training event “Braiding Knowledge: The Neurobiology of Trauma” held Feb 22-25 at Limberlost Forest Reserve. Miigwetch, Nia:wen to all.