Plum Counselling

05/01/2025

It is with much gratitude that Plum is sharing a free virtual Radical and Whole-Hearted Self-Compassion Hour tomorrow morning at 1030PST.

This is a free virtual gathering where we make space for radical and wholehearted self-compassion. Tomorrow we will offer support for those who are grieving and needing connection, for those who are feeling stuck, and for those who are hoping to invite a compassionate and gentle internal narrative.

Below is the zoom link for tomorrow’s gently guided meditation and invitation for offering kindness to oneself facilitated by Vanessa Key Craig BSW, MSW, RSW.

Topic: Radical and Whole-Hearted Self-Compassion Hour

Time: May 1, 2025 10:30 AM Vancouver

Join Zoom Meeting

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82065631509?pwd=jE1sEKkavUl7VhPyVBraXiN7vTFibk.1

Meeting ID: 820 6563 1509

03/19/2025

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✨ 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗖𝗹𝘂𝗯𝘀 𝗔𝗿𝗲 𝗕𝗮𝗰𝗸! ✨

Join us for 8 weeks to explore the science of how to cultivate 𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗲, 𝗖𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 in your child. Learn how working from a “Yes Brain” helps us to better at relationships and more flexible and resilient when it comes to handling adversity and big feelings.

𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗼𝗳 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴: The Yes Brain by Dr. Daniel J. Siegel and Dr. Tina Payne Bryson
⏰ Every Thursday, starting April 17, 2025 @ 12PM-1:30 PM
📍Online via Zoom
📝 𝗥𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲: www.parentsupportbc.ca/bookclub

03/19/2025

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03/19/2025

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🛤️ Why Talk Therapy Isn’t Always Enough for Trauma Healing

Trauma isn’t just a story in the mind—it’s an experience stored in the body. While traditional talk therapy helps with insight, it often doesn’t reach the nervous system, where trauma lives. That’s why many trauma survivors still feel stuck, even after years of therapy.

To truly heal, we need a mind-body approach that works with the nervous system, emotions, and trauma-driven parts. Here’s a roadmap therapists can use to guide clients toward lasting recovery:

🔹 Safety & Stabilization – Before deep work, clients need tools to regulate emotions & feel safe in the present.
🔹 Identifying Trauma-Driven Parts – Helping clients recognize & unblend from survival-based parts.
🔹 Rewiring Survival Responses – Teaching the nervous system to shift out of chronic fight, flight, freeze, or fawn.
🔹 Processing Trauma Memories Safely – Healing at a pace that prevents overwhelm & retraumatization.
🔹 Rebuilding a Stable Sense of Self – Helping clients reconnect with their Adult Self & strengthen self-trust.
🔹 Integration & Post-Traumatic Growth – Moving from survival to a life built on resilience & meaning.

Understanding these steps can help therapists offer trauma-informed care that truly supports healing. Want to learn how to stabilize trauma-driven parts before deep processing?

💡 Comment "training" below, and we’ll send you a link to Dr. Janina Fisher’s free webinar.

02/22/2025

02/14/2025

Thank you to everyone who joined the free Radical and Whole-Hearted Self-Compassion Hour today. And thank you to everyone who supports and shares community care and supports others with self-care. I’m feeling gratitude for Plum and for all the people who have supported Plum.

Sometimes, doing something different is the hardest thing to do. For many years, I felt restricted in practice. Feeling like ‘company policy’ spoke about being trauma-informed but really only allowed staff to practice through a trauma-aware lens. Taking a step away and doing something different was new. Ultimately, doing something different for me, was building a space that could always be equitable, accessible, honouring of others, anti-oppressive, decolonial, embracing integrative practice, and invite agency in the counselling journey.

I feel so grateful for making space for anti-oppressive practice and am so grateful to witness other practitioners also make space for anti-oppressive practice.

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02/14/2025

This is happening tomorrow :)

It is with much gratitude that Plum is offering another free Radical and Whole-Hearted Self-Compassion Hour

Friday, February 14, 2025
12:00 PM-1:00 PM MST
Plum Counselling is hosting a free virtual gathering where we make space for radical and whole-hearted self-compassion. A gently guided meditation hour and an invitation for offering kindness to oneself. To join, please email vkeycraig@plumcounselling.ca

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01/21/2025

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Thank you for creating greater awareness of our value in this world. Victims-survivors living through abusive relationships need to know that they are valuable and deserve to be valued. 🩵

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You are a sacred bank of energy, love, wisdom, kindness, and light, and you are not responsible for depleting your bank to fill the banks of others.

For years, I thought my worth came from giving away whatever I had from this bank. The truth is most of the people I was giving it away to didn’t have the capacity to receive it, hold onto it, or generate it and give it back. The times when I gave and gave, and then was left empty, left my sense of worth feeling fragile – and illuminated that the people I was giving to didn’t know how to give back. I learned that giving all of myself away in hopes that people will love me and stay with me is a one-way ticket to burnout and disappointment. The truth is, you need to find the people whose banks are full and who know how to replenish them.

Your energy, love, vulnerability, and light do not need to be given away. The more you allow yourself to be in the glow of your sacred bank, the more you will inspire people to learn to fill their own and radiate it. How are you protecting your sacred bank today?

01/21/2025

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