Resilire Health

08/01/2025

I talk about this all the time.
Love the imagery ♥️
We (humans) are so fascinating.

“All the eggs a woman will ever carry form in her ovaries while she is a four-month-old fetus in the womb of her mother.
This means our cellular life as an egg begins in the womb of our grandmother.
Each of us spent five months in our grandmother’s womb, and she in turn formed in the womb of her grandmother.
We vibrate to the rhythm of our mother’s blood before she herself is born, and this pulse is the thread of blood that runs all the way back through the grandmothers to the first mother.”

( ✍️ Layne Redmond - 'When the Drummers were Women' )

Art : Amy Harderer - "Triple Goddess"

07/10/2025

A simple tool for health is to practice body mapping. Bringing your awareness to the size, shape and weight of your body.

I continually work hard to stay in my body as this wasn’t typically in my practice. Now with years of practice It helps me to understand my pain, tightness I have, emotions etc.

As a young child, one of my clients learnt to dissociate when her parents were arguing. When I first started treating her, and didn’t understand the dissociation model I now work with, we both thought the sessions were productive because she consistently reported a warm, floating quality. A space where her body did not constrain her.

However, her symptoms never changed.

It took me over a year to work out what was going on. Her healing started when she made friends with her ‘boring’ body.

Most people dissociate most of the time, and the pleasant, dream-like quality in dissociation is often confusing. Dissociation is surprisingly common and people frequently enjoy being dissociated. Being in a body is hard work. It is a constant negotiation to clearly map the size, shape and weight of the body.

Many people can misinterpret the dreamy floaty quality of dissociation as an expansive, spiritual, healing experience. I have treated many long term meditators, yoga teachers and spiritual searchers. The relationship to the body offered through an understanding of trauma and dissociation has been surprising and beneficial for many of them. It is essential to not be too quick to let go of the body.

Before we can transcend our body we have to have a body.

For most of us there is a lifetime of work involved in exploring our flesh.

Deepening into our bodies is the necessary step that allows us to widen our perceptual horizons and drop into deeper tides and stillness. It is true that the sense of the body can become much more diffuse and fade into the background. However the form is never lost, as in dissociation, and is always available for our return.

A simple tool for health is practicing mapping out and connecting to your size, shape and weight as accurately as possible.

The bigger the gap between our real body and our virtual body (the perceived map we make of our body) the greater our pain, anxiety and depression.

You can explore my upcoming Trauma and Tension Releasing Exercises (TRE) trainings at www.trecollege.come, or see the link in my bio.

05/19/2025

Keep Calm I’m Canadian 🇨🇦
Happy 11th Birthday Marlin. This dog has taught me so much about Osteopathy, respect and how scars f*ck up the entire fascial body. Most crucially, how easily they can be returned to a health state using an Osteopathic approach. Like detangling a knotted rope with care and Patience.
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Time, precence and respect. His responses to treatment fascinate me.
Have your animals taught you something profound? ♥️

05/09/2025

As a practitioner I have been working clinically for over 12 years. After a lot of education and even more life experience, I have nestled myself in a small, private practice in the best community I could ever dream of living in. To top it off I officially heard the best excuse ever for a client being late…

“I just got here! I’m late because I had to take my dog swimming!”
This, spoken with a huge smile and endless laughter🤭
I have so many regular clients. Clients who love the work, benefit deeply and believe in me. It honestly feels like a two way street of deep gratitude. And if being a minute late is our biggest problem today, life is pretty damn good isn’t it?
Photo of my dog, Marlin who brings so much joy into my life 🔅
Online booking available through the link in the bio. You’ll be glad you did!

04/27/2025

☀️I really thrive in the shoulder seasons of spring and fall. This added sunshine lately really gives me a boost. ☀️
Marlin and I stopped into the clinic after our Cobble Hill hike yesterday to take some measurements for a new cabinet.
I hope to find the perfect one soon!
I am accepting new clients. Head over to www.trishagilks.ca to book in.
☀️ I work with individuals of all ages from infants and young children to adolescents and seniors. I love sharing the incredible benefits Osteopathy can bring into your life. 🌱

04/23/2025

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Osteopathy allows a rhythm, a stillness and a vibration that feels like deep peace.
Allowing this feeling to settle in my body helps me breathe and enjoy the world around me a little more.

If you need help regulating your nervous system or struggle with feelings of overwhelm, Osteopathy can help you too.

Book online today:
www.trishagilks.ca

03/19/2025

*****These people are my clients*****

Be the reason…
Our world needs more like you.

03/15/2025

One way I continue to be active is by doing something most days of the week.

For me it could be Qi Gong, lifting weights, walking Marlin or just lying on the floor to stretch and move my body.
My non-negotiables however are a weekend hike with my husband + a weekday solo swim.
I don’t time myself with either of these activities. I stop when I feel like I’ve done enough.
Moving my body regularly keeps me out of my head and in my body. It also helps me process the day, the week or whatever got stuck in my mental.
I don’t think it matters what we do or how long we do it for. I think what matters that it’s something we generally enjoy and benefit from and that we do it regularly.

I am currently accepting new clients and Id love to see you in the clinic or out on the trails: http://trishagilks.janeapp.com

Photo credit: my husband

03/14/2025

03/14/2025

People ask me everyday if I have kids.

“Well yes I do”
Slight hesitation.
“Well no human ones, he has 4 paws”.

I mean it’s the truth 🐾

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I am currently accepting new clients! If you know someone who needs a different set of eyes to assess their chronic pain or injury, is recovering from a concussion or complains of back pain that exercise doesnt “fix”

👐 I specialize in working with young to older adults with chronic lower back or neck pain

🤝 I also help women prepare their body for fertility

🤝 I also provide humans with space to breathe and a full hour to self-regulate.

A Mobile Body Is A Happy Body.
Happy bodies = happy people.
Book here now:
https://trishagilks.janeapp.com

03/13/2025

… and dreams bigger because you told them they could ♥️

I love thinking about this.

You may not always see it, but your presence in this world has left ripples far beyond what you know.
Someone still smiles at a memory you created together, still feels comforted by the kindness you once showed, and still finds courage in the words you spoke.

Someone hums a song that reminds them of you, sees beauty in the world because you pointed it out, and carries your wisdom in their heart.
Someone stands a little taller because you believed in them, walks a little lighter because you were there, and dreams bigger because you told them they could.
You matter more than you realize ..

( ✍️ Writer’s Blossoms )

Art : Irene Marino

03/12/2025

I’m writing my next book, and I’ve been spending hours studying indigenous cultures and how they looked at “mental illness.”

Before we had a modern psychology industrial complex, people looked at symptoms as imbalances. In mind, body, and soul. No one was sent away or institutionalized into isolation, like today. And if they ever were sent away, it was for brief periods with a shaman who would guide them through the integration of their trauma. Someone who would hold up a mirror and believe in their ability that we all have to self heal.

Imbalances in the brain and body begin with attachment. Even the way our brain develops comes from the first attachment we have to human beings. If that attachment is unsafe, full of stress, or is emotionally neglectful— we have an overactive amygdala (or fear center of the brain.) And, and an underdeveloped frontal lobe.

This means issues with executive dysfunction, impulse control, and relational connection.

This means more than anything we need: safe connection, emotional regulation, and co-regulation to heal.

Indigenous cultures knew this. They knew nature itself could heal. They knew community could heal. They knew food could heal. They knew people were resilient, and never victims.

Maybe we’re the primitive ones