Nadia Houle DAC, Indigenous Birthworker, Lactation Counsellor & Mentor

07/18/2025

The goal work my space is this…. Creating safety where people can relax fully to allow healing to take place…..

Drop your favourite part of the treatment session 👇🏽

Heat lamp?
Quiet?
Talking?
Music?
Smudge?

07/15/2025

This.

Let's address the basics while keeping an eye on things before we get too overboard with a diagnosis.

Let's get her meals, opportunity for rest, emotional support and anything else identified as basics..... And then address the PPMD

⭐️

07/13/2025

Mmmm Catnip

06/30/2025

Post Traumatic growth….. it’s a thing

We are meant to experience challenges.
We are meant to how and adapt.

We are not meant to endure trauma over na so we and over without a chance to shift in a healthy way.

Find your circle

Figure out healthy coping mechanisms.

Things change only when things change.

We are not meant to stay wounded. We are supposed to move through our tragedies and challenges and to help each other move through the many painful episodes of our lives. By remaining stuck in the power of our wounds, we block our own transformation. We overlook the greater gifts inherent in our wounds - the strength to overcome them and the lessons that we are meant to receive through them. Wounds are the means through which we enter the hearts of other people. They are meant to teach us to become compassionate and wise.
- Caroline Myss

Image by Eloy Bida

06/28/2025

So often we start our healing journey and think we have to do all the things.
I sometimes think we are actually avoiding the quiet. It is the quiet where our thoughts are the loudest and our pain most prevalent.

Slowing down is a skill…. Mindful slowing down, not the shutting down and introvert style of avoidance, but the slow moving, slow talking, slowing down racing thoughts to make space for mistakes, for rest, for opportunities we would otherwise miss because we have no space for stillness.

Slow your roll ✨✨💫💫

06/15/2025

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Happy Father’s Day 💕✨💫

06/15/2025

The Window of Tolerance.
Credit : Lindsay Brahman.

Addicts in Recovery always stand a much better chance of staying on course if they pay close attention to their nervous system.

This is especially true for those with a history of trauma.

Learning about fight, flight, fawn, and freeze can be helpful, but learning how these responses manifest in our bodies is where the magic really starts.

When we understand how fight, flight, freeze, or fawn show up for us, we can develop an internal template to refer back to in moments where we are feeling a lot of (or beginning to shut down and feeling no emotion at all) that alerts us when it’s time take steps to soothe our and return to our window of tolerance.

No one has an innate ability to pause during a conflict and reflect “Gosh, I think I might be moving into a freeze response.”

Instead, this realization tends to be something we recognize as we reflect on an experience later.

Growing the capacity to check in with ourselves and notice, in the moment, when we are slipping into a response is one key to learning how to self-soothe, expand our , grow emotionally, and build .

That’s where my new comes in: it’s a tool specifically for helping us recognize when we are moving out of our window of tolerance (where we can listen, learn, and respond thoughtfully) and into a reaction state.

Like the Emotion Sensation Wheel, the Fight, Flight, & Freeze Embodied Wheel is a tool to prompt conversations and build awareness by showing how each of these responses *tends* to show up through physical sensations.

It's not prescriptive- it's a conversation starter. It's meant to teach, to stir, and to prompt conversations that build awareness, connection, and experience through awareness.

Download a digital copy of this art via patreon.com/lindsaybraman or through my website.