MindWise Counselling & Consulting

09/03/2025

No need to run. Or hide... Unless you are running to your session, then running is okay. 😂

Want to have a session with one of the team:
📩 letstalk@mindwisecounsellor.com
📲 236-565-5336

Thanks for being here ✨

08/27/2025

This isn't just a post about Billie and her favourite resources....
It is also about the seeds of community and connection cultivated through sharing resources.

Consider "sharing resources" as a broad concept: How does it foster collaboration, promote connection, and create safety?

"Sharing resources" enhances a sense of community, encourages giving AND receiving, focuses on cooperation, and builds relationships through opportunities to feel seen and witness others. It builds safety by breaking down walls of individualism and promoting the very thing we are hardwired to seek out to feel safe - connection with others.

On a broad level, sharing resources = belonging to something bigger than ourselves.

Start where you are.
Create some ripples.
How might you "share resources" in your group of friends? Family?

To start, we share this post about Billie's favourite resources with the intention to create some community discussion, promote connection, and to create safety by breaking down walls about struggle that makes people walk alone.

So, what are your fave mental health resources? Someone in our community is struggling with the very things you have struggled with and your share could make a big difference to them.

Hmmm... maybe our next step is a book exchange event! Thoughts?

Billie's faves:
📚 No Bad Parts - Richard Schwartz (book)
🎙 We Can Do Hard Things (podcast)
📲FINCH (app)

Thanks for being here ✨

08/22/2025

You can show up just as you are. We’ll take the next steps together.
To feel better.
To have connection.
To be with discomfort.
To breathe.
To have safety.
Break patterns. Create new pathways.

📩 letstalk@mindwisecounsellor.com
📲 236-565-5336

07/08/2025

07/08/2025

Some clients live as if trauma could strike again at any moment.

That’s not just fear — it’s a body stuck in survival mode.

How to Target the Limbic System to Reverse Trauma’s Physiological Imprint offers tools to help shift those patterns, deep in the nervous system.

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07/08/2025

I’ve found that what a person usually needs when fear is intense is to “be accompanied”—an experience of another person’s caring, accepting presence. If a child is hurt or frightened, showing that we understand and care about her feelings is more important than looking for a Band-Aid or explaining why everything will be all right. The core of vulnerability is feeling alone in one’s pain; connection with another person eases fear and increases the sense of safety. TR, Ch. 9, P. 140

06/05/2025

When life feels overwhelming, it’s easy to get swept up in the noise. But what if the most powerful shift isn’t changing the situation—it’s changing how we meet ourselves in the midst of it?

Self-compassion invites us to listen inward, and to respond with kindness instead of criticism. This calming presence can transform even the hardest moments.

05/20/2025

Old Happy culture taught you that, if you can just find a way to be perfect, then everything will be okay.

Then you’ll be happy.
Then you’ll feel like you belong.
Then you’ll be able to make a difference in the world.

It doesn’t work that way. In fact, it’s the opposite: the sooner that you realize that you’re acceptable right now, exactly as you are, the sooner you will be able to be happy, to discover your sense of belonging, and to make a positive impact on others.

Start saying to yourself, “I’m acceptable right now, exactly as I am.” Then watch what happens—how your self-acceptance helps you to grow.

Get this post as a wallpaper pack for light and dark mode at thenewhappy.com/wallpaper-accept! And you can learn more about how to free yourself from Old Happy in our bestselling book, New Happy, available at newhappybook.com

05/15/2025

I really like this question Dr. Lisa shares, "Is this uncomfortable or unmanageable?" because it asks teens to pause and reflect. The pause is super important for them to identify what they actually need: emotional validation or solutions. Watch to the end: I love Dr. Lisa's favourite question to ask.

05/15/2025

More needs to be said and done in this area for women.

Women and health professionals need to be more aware of how this life stage can affect mood, anxiety, depression, and more.

05/15/2025

I love the simplicity of this.

Let the doing come out of being!

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05/12/2025

"No recovery from trauma is possible without attending to issues of safety, care for the self, reparative connections to others, and a renewed faith in the universe.”

As trauma therapists, our role isn’t just to witness – it’s to teach our clients how to build safety from the inside out. That means helping them listen to their bodies, care for exiled parts, and explore connection in ways that feel manageable and real.

Recovery isn’t something we do to clients. It’s something we co-create, moment by moment, through presence, attunement, and gentle guidance back to what was lost: trust, connection, and self-compassion.