Your Life Design Inc.

11/20/2025

Youth aged 15 to 18 with intellectual disabilities, this is your invitation to an empowering experience designed just for you.

Join us for Resilient Futures, a free, interactive workshop designed to build emotional resilience, life skills, and social connection in a supportive environment.

📅 Saturday, November 29, 2025
🕤 9:30 AM – 12:00 PM
📍 Jack Blanchard Hall, 7 Pond St, Charlottetown

✨Register now by emailing info@yourlifedesign.ca

11/18/2025

Youth aged 15 to 18 with intellectual disabilities, this is your invitation to an empowering experience designed just for you.

Join us for Resilient Futures, a free, interactive workshop designed to build emotional resilience, life skills, and social connection in a supportive environment.

📅 Saturday, November 29, 2025
🕤 9:30 AM – 12:00 PM
📍 Jack Blanchard Hall, 7 Pond St, Charlottetown

✨ Register now by emailing info@yourlifedesign.ca

11/16/2025

There’s still time to register for the Promoting Healthy Alcohol Consumption workshop for individuals with intellectual disabilities.

An in-person free session is happening on Tuesday, November 18, a great opportunity for adults with intellectual disabilities, caregivers, and support staff to learn about making safe choices and building confidence.

📧 Register by emailing: info@yourlifedesign.ca

Join us for a safe and inclusive learning session designed for adults with intellectual disabilities, direct support professionals, respite care professionals, caregivers, and families.

This PEI Association for Community Living initiative, in partnership with Your Life Design, is funded by the 2025 PEI Liquor Control Commission Community Fund of the Community Foundation of PEI.

📅 In-Person: Tuesday, November 18, 2025 | 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
📍 The Rodd Royalty, Charlottetown

💻 Virtual: Friday, December 12, 2025 | 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
🌐 Platform: Zoom

📧 Register for free: info@yourlifedesign.ca

11/15/2025

I’m allowed to rest. I’m allowed to feel. I’m allowed to grow at my own pace.

Your worth isn’t measured by how much you do or how quickly you move forward.
Healing, growth, and rest all take time,and that time is yours to honor.

💙 Be gentle with yourself. You are already enough, exactly where you are.

📧 info@yourlifedesign.ca
🌐 www.yourlifedesign.ca

11/14/2025

At Your Life Design Inc., we believe that everyone deserves access to caring, quality mental health support.

Through our Graduate Practicum Internship Program, we welcome dedicated graduate students from across Canada who bring fresh insight, compassion, and commitment to helping others.

Under the close supervision of Senior Therapist, they provide FREE therapy to clients across the country.

✨Meet our intern therapists:
Alice • Brittany • Carline • Erin • Karen • Rachael

Each of them is passionate about creating a safe and supportive space where you can talk openly, explore your thoughts and emotions, and take meaningful steps toward growth and healing.

Whether you’re navigating anxiety, stress, relationships, trauma, or major life changes, our intern therapists are here to listen and walk beside you, at your own pace, and in your own way.

You don’t have to go through it alone. 💙

If you’ve been thinking about reaching out for support, this might be the gentle place to start.

👉Book your free therapy session: https://yourlifedesign.janeapp.com/

11/13/2025

Join us for a safe and inclusive learning session designed for adults with intellectual disabilities, direct support professionals, respite care professionals, caregivers, and families.

This PEI Association for Community Living initiative, in partnership with Your Life Design, is funded by the 2025 PEI Liquor Control Commission Community Fund of the Community Foundation of PEI.

📅 In-Person: Tuesday, November 18, 2025 | 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
📍 The Rodd Royalty, Charlottetown

💻 Virtual: Friday, December 12, 2025 | 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
🌐 Platform: Zoom

📧 Register for free: info@yourlifedesign.ca

11/12/2025

Our YLD facilitators had the privilege of a final in-person class on Saturday, spending time with the current Respite Care Microcredential Cohort #5 at Holland College Customized Training as they prepare to complete their training.

This program supports participants in building the practical and relational skills needed to provide meaningful respite care to individuals and families across PEI. We are inspired by the dedication, empathy, and commitment each participant brings to this work.

A sincere thank you to our partners at Holland College Customized Training for supporting this important training pathway and to Skills PEI for continuing to invest in this important training pathway.

✨ A new cohort will begin in the new year. It’s fully funded - No Cost.

Your Life Design Inc. is honoured to walk alongside individuals and communities who care deeply about supporting one another.

11/11/2025

Today, we pause to remember.

To honour the courage, sacrifice, and resilience of those who served, and those who continue to serve.

We also hold space for the families, caregivers, and communities whose lives have been shaped by their service.

Remembrance invites us not only to look back, but to reflect on how we care for one another in the present, with compassion, understanding, and humanity.

❤️ We remember.

11/10/2025

Thank you to everyone who joined us on Friday for our Empower Her session in Summerside. 💙

We are deeply grateful to each participant, support worker, family member, and facilitator who helped create a compassionate and uplifting space.

A heartfelt thank you to the PEI Association for Community Living for engaging us in this work, and to the Interministerial Women’s Secretariat Grant to PEI ACL for making this project possible.

Your voice matters. Your growth matters. Your presence mattered in that room.

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💙Ongoing Support for Families – Free and Accessible Counselling

Your Life Design Inc. offers continuing care options designed to support individuals and families with compassion and care:

✅ Free counselling through our internship program (Individual, Couples, and Family)
✅ Affordable sessions with senior therapists (covered by most insurance plans)

Book a Session
🌐 https://yourlifedesign.janeapp.com/

or use the direct links below:

Intern Therapist (Free):
🔹 Brittany McKenna
https://yourlifedesign.janeapp.com/ #/staff_member/62

Senior Therapist (Covered by most Insurance Plans):
🔹 Karen Milligan
https://yourlifedesign.janeapp.com/ #/staff_member/5

📧 info@yourlifedesign.ca
🌐 www.yourlifedesign.ca

11/07/2025

She speaks often,but today was different.

Our founder, Jill Stewart, MSW, is no stranger to the stage. But her keynote today for hundreds of Direct Support Professionals from the PEI Public Schools Branch was especially near and dear to her heart.

Many of those in the audience were former students Jill had taught and mentored in Human Services and Education Assistant programs at Holland College, now doing powerful, emotional work in the field.

We wanted to share a piece of her message with all of you, especially those who might need a reminder that your heart matters too.

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💙 A message from Jill:

Today was a beautiful day — not because I gave a keynote, but because I got to be with people I care deeply about.

I’ve witnessed firsthand what happens when passionate, dedicated people step into roles supporting others through trauma, disability, and complex needs, and I’ve also seen what happens a few years in: the exhaustion, the disconnection, the quiet pain of burnout.

I created Your Life Design to be a place where helpers can be helped.

Because moral injury is real.
Because empathic distress is heavy.
Because burnout is not your fault.
And because you deserve a space to rest and be held.

So here’s my request to you:

✨ Please take care of your heart.
✨ You’re allowed to rest.
✨ You’re allowed to receive help, not just offer it.
✨ You don’t have to carry it all alone.

Let today be more than a keynote. Let it be a turning point.

You matter. You are not alone. And your healing is essential.

With Care,
Jill Stewart, MSW
Founder, Your Life Design Inc.

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Need someone to talk to? We’re here.

🆓 Book FREE therapy with one of our intern therapists:
https://www.yourlifedesign.ca/free-therapy

💼 Book regular therapy or clinical supervision with our team:
She speaks often, but today was different.

11/02/2025

You don’t have to be perfect to be worthy.

Your value isn’t measured by flawless actions or constant achievements.
You are worthy simply because you exist. 💙

Take a breath today and remind yourself: I am enough, exactly as I am.

📧 info@yourlifedesign.ca
🌐 www.yourlifedesign.ca

11/01/2025

Your Life Design Inc. offers a Graduate Practicum Internship Program, selecting top-notch graduate students to join our team.

Our dedicated intern therapists provide FREE therapy under the expert supervision of experienced clinicians.

✨ Meet Brittany McKenna — Intern Therapist at Your Life Design Inc.

Based in Prince Edward Island, Brittany brings nearly a decade of experience supporting individuals with diverse needs. She has worked as both a community support worker and an educational assistant, fostering meaningful relationships built on respect, empowerment, and inclusion.

Brittany is currently completing a Master of Counselling at Athabasca University. She also holds a Human Services Diploma from Holland College, and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of Prince Edward Island (UPEI).

In her counselling practice, Brittany integrates evidence-based approaches such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and mindfulness-based strategies. She tailors her approach to each client’s background, values, and goals, creating a warm and collaborative environment where clients feel heard and supported in their journey toward growth and healing.

Brittany’s areas of focus include:
🔹 Working with individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
🔹 Addiction(s), Anxiety, depression, trauma, and emotional challenges
🔹 Working with individuals with Intellectual Disability (ID), and/or physical disabilities
🔹 Guiding individuals through life transitions and building resilience
🔹 Incorporating mindfulness-based and evidence-based approaches (CBT, ACT)
🔹 Empowering children, youth, and adults across diverse backgrounds to foster independence and meaningful change

Brittany is passionate about helping clients enhance their well-being, strengthen coping strategies, and live fulfilling, autonomous lives. She is honored to walk alongside clients as they navigate their unique paths of growth and self-discovery.

💙 Ready to start your therapeutic journey with Brittany?
👉 Book your free session here: https://yourlifedesign.janeapp.com/ #/staff_member/62

📧 info@yourlifedesign.ca
🌐 www.yourlifedesign.ca