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"Transform Mental Health Care in Canada, One Community at a Time"

01/12/2026

The Single Story Notion. If listening with your eyes open has you moving past this education; may you please close your eyes and listen then.

Our biases, resistance and disconnection most often comes from our perceptions or shame. Our collective effort might be to keep all of our perspectives open so we can understand without ignorance. And love without conditions. ♥️♥️♥️

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, one of the most influential contemporary writers, is globally known not just for her novels but for her powerful commentary on identity, feminism, and cultural narratives.

In her famous TED Talk “The Danger of a Single Story” (2009), she explains how stereotypes are born from hearing only one narrative about a people, place, or culture - and how this limits understanding. Adichie speaks openly about how African identities are often flattened into clichés, and how women’s experiences are reduced to rigid roles. Through works like Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists, she challenges these narrow frames with nuance, humor, and human complexity. Her voice is direct, bold, and deeply empathetic - urging the world to embrace multiplicity and resist simplistic definitions.

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01/10/2026

Carried by Love: A Collective Pause in Costa Rica 🇨🇷

This week, we didn’t come to escape life. We came to restore the conditions that make life livable.

We moved slowly and intentionally — aligning with circadian rhythms, the land, and the nervous system. Mornings began with sunrise walks, forest watching, and sound meditations through nature. We stretched, wrote, rested, and listened inward before any words were spoken.

Midday was devoted to trauma-integration work — not to fix or push, but to let the body complete what it has carried for too long. We honored grief and joy as two sides of the same memory, allowing what was unfelt to gently move through. We practiced remembering the self beneath survival — the one that existed before “should,” before adaptation.

Afternoons were for rest, play, and spaciousness. Evenings brought us back together for grounding, reflection, and quiet integration.

This was not a vacation. It was an intentional, trauma-responsive space rooted in safety, dignity, embodiment, and collective care — for women navigating trauma, burnout, grief, recovery, and systemic pressures.

We don’t believe healing should be rushed, commodified, or done alone. Here, we let the body lead. We let stillness do its work. We remembered what never left.

From survival to self-remembrance ♥️♥️

01/07/2026

Resource Sharing ♥️

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Inhale through the nose, arms rise overhead.
Exhale through the nose, arms open wide.
Inhale through the nose, arms lift again.

and then let the body roll forward with soft knees, the belly moving toward the thighs as the spine folds slowly, one vertebra at a time, letting the head be the last to drop.
And release the breath through the mouth with a soft “haaa”.

Repeat this sequence for about three minutes.

This combination of breath and movement helps the body shift out of holding into release.

Energy that was stuck begins to move, tension drains downward, and the nervous system receives a clear signal of safety.

Many people feel more grounded, present, and settled after just a few minutes.

Save this practice and come back to it whenever you feel overstimulated, tense, or disconnected from your body.

If you want to go deeper and learn how to work with deeper layers of suppressed material stored in the body, this is what I teach inside Breath Academy.

01/02/2026

Not a New Year. A New Season. 🫶🏾 ♥️

We’re not rushing into “new.”
We’re not declaring reinvention.
We’re not leaving parts of ourselves behind.

This moment—often called the New Year—arrives in the deep of winter. A season that asks for stillness, rooting, listening, and gentle integration.

At TEAO Canada, we honour what the body already knows:
✨ Winter is not for performance.
✨ It is for reflection, repair, and remembering.

2025 asked us to slow down and deepen.
Together, we held trauma-responsive spaces, trained care-holders, supported youth and families, strengthened governance, expanded community partnerships, and laid critical groundwork toward Canada’s first Trauma Health & Embodiment Centre. We grew—but not in a way that required us to abandon ourselves.

As we cross this threshold, we’re not “starting over.”
We’re bringing everything with us—the lessons, the pauses, the grief, the resilience, the wisdom earned in quiet moments.

This season is about tending the roots.
Listening to what wants to emerge.
Moving forward without urgency.
Letting our next steps be informed by nervous system safety, collective care, and embodied truth.

We enter this season together—softened, grounded, and aligned.
Not because the calendar changed,
but because we’re ready to move with intention.

With gratitude for this community, and trust in what’s unfolding.
— TEAO Canada

12/29/2025

Educational Awareness: We love this ♥️

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Research shows that tribal music can increase immune markers, natural killer cells, oxytocin, endorphins, and lower cortisol.

And when tribes sang together, their hearts and brains synced together creating coherence — meaning they literally became one.

Every civilization had tribal music to connect and heal them…so what happened to it that we barely have any today?

12/26/2025

We LOVE This! ♥️♥️♥️

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“I hope you make it”. Amen! ❤️❤️

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12/23/2025

We Love This 🫶🏾🫶🏾🫶🏾 (for those that need to hear this )

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Words for those who need them 🙏🏾

12/21/2025

We Looooove This! ♥️♥️♥️

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Every stranger has a story, let’s start listening

12/18/2025

We love this at TEAO Canada as a healing centred initiative throughout communities. ♥️♥️♥️

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What our most vulnerable and most marginalized, oppressed, and disinvested students need.

What our public school system will never want nor be able to provide.
Healing-centered spaces aren’t about staying positive - they’re about telling the truth.

At Vocal Justice, healing means naming the harm young people face, validating their anger, and building community so they don’t carry it alone.
A healing-centered classroom doesn’t avoid hard topics - it trusts youth to confront injustice, protect their rights, and turn pain into collective power.

Thank you to Dr. Shawn Ginwright, who developed the healing-centered framework we implement throughout the Vocal Justice curriculum.

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12/14/2025

We didn’t build an organization - we built a movement.
Not from bureaucracy.
Not from legacy wealth.
Not from political comfort.
But from lived experience, community trust, and a refusal to wait for permission.

Two weeks ago, TEAO (Trauma & Embodiment Association of Ontario) held its first public Annual General Meeting, and it felt like a landmark moment in a story that began with Nicole Brown Faulknor a lone ranger, working against the grain, fighting to create something that didn’t exist in Canada: a trauma-responsive collective born from community, not compliance.

Because trauma healing deserves more than documentation.
It deserves embodiment, relationship, and humanity.

12/08/2025

Unlearning. Educational Awareness Post ♥️♥️

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The mythologization of Black women within systems of care—through narratives of inherent strength, endurance, and emotional self-sufficiency—has directly shaped how distress is perceived, treated, and often minimized in clinical, social service, and institutional settings. These stereotypes contribute to delayed care, misdiagnosis, compassion fatigue toward Black women’s suffering, and the normalization of overexposure to adversity.

In trauma-responsive practice like the offerings through TEAO trainings & certifications, unlearning these projections is essential to restoring full humanity, supporting accurate assessment, and ensuring that care is grounded in safety, relational attunement, and equitable clinical response rather than myth-based expectation.

12/04/2025

Sponsorship Offering: As shared by our CEO & Founder of TEAO Canada, she’s learned that healing is not an individual act — it’s a collective investment in our shared humanity And she shares this from lived experience: https://www.teaocanada.com/about-nicole-1 (read about Nicole’s story on website our teaocanada.com)

She states today, that she will forever credit the community for giving her a normal childhood. “This region raised me and supported me. I don’t remember Christmas without an abundance of donations and food. A monthly cheque from the Region that supported my mother with groceries and rent. I don’t remember a summer without a camp program sponsored by the region.”

“Community care saved my life — long before I had language for trauma, embodiment, or systemic barriers.”

This holiday season, you can do more than give a gift.

🎁 You can sponsor a woman’s healing journey.

Through TEAO Canada’s Costa Rica Healing Retreat (Jan 3–10, 2026), we are creating a restorative and trauma-responsive space for women navigating burnout, grief, systemic barriers, and the weight of carrying so much for so long.

A space where nervous systems can soften.
Where breath returns.
Where women remember themselves again.

Sponsorship options begin at $500 and go directly toward funding a woman’s participation in this life-restoring experience.

When one woman receives support, the ripple is undeniable — families shift, workplaces shift, and entire communities feel the impact.

If you or your organization would like to sponsor a woman, or learn more, connect with us at:

📩 info@teaocanada.com
Healing is a gift we give together.

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