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TEAO - Trauma and Embodiment Association of Ontario

A nonprofit organization aiming to
"Transform Mental Health Care in Canada, One Community at a Time"

07/29/2025

Educational Corner 🫶🏾♥️♥️

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Community isn’t just your workplace or your group chat.
It’s your friend circle. Your book club. That retreat you paid for.
That “safe space” someone swears by.

These are all the spaces I’m no longer shrinking in to keep the peace.

07/25/2025

🔔 Call for Board Members – Join TEAO 📢
~ Canada’s Growth Journey ~

Reclaiming Healing. Reshaping Systems. Rooted in Community.

As TEAO Canada enters an exciting new growth stage as a federally incorporated not-for-profit, we are expanding our Board of Directors. We are calling in values-aligned individuals with a heart for collective healing, systemic transformation, and radical care. This is a critical moment in our journey—and your voice could be the one we’ve been waiting for.

We are not a traditional trauma and mental health organization.

We are a movement grounded in embodied healing, cultural safety, and liberation-focused care. Our work centers racialized, Indigenous, and marginalized communities—often unseen in mainstream systems—and we operate with a shared accountability to the communities we serve.

🪴 What Makes TEAO Canada Different?

We work at the intersection of trauma, justice, and embodiment.
We believe trauma is political, relational, and systemic—not just individual.

We centre the wisdom of lived experience.
Our programs, trainings, and healing circles are co-created with those most impacted by systemic harm.

We embody care as culture.

TEAO Canada doesn’t “do” trauma work—we live it. We show up in our own bodies to hold space for collective healing, grief, joy, and transformation.

We disrupt the “them vs. us” binary.
Our approach is relational, not hierarchical. Everyone involved—whether staff, board, volunteer, or participant—is part of the circle of healing.

🎯 As a Board Member, You Will:

* Govern with shared accountability.
* Support the mission and strategic direction of TEAO while co-stewarding community trust, resources, and growth.
* Champion anti-oppressive and trauma-informed values.
* Engage in critical conversations around systemic inequity and support TEAO’s commitment to decolonial and community-rooted practices.
* Support financial oversight and fundraising.

🔔 This Is More Than a Seat at the Table…
This is a circle of change.

➡️ To Express Interest:
Please email info@teaocanada.com

➡️ with resume & short statement about why you’re interested in joining our Board

07/20/2025

Checking Biases, Collectively. ‼️🫶🏾

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07/18/2025

Resilient Voices Weekly: We love creators — the artists, musicians, writers, and makers who pour their hearts into expression. And we love you — the ones who show up, rise up, and keep going, even when the world doesn’t see the battles you’ve fought.

We don’t talk about childhood trauma enough. Too often, people are quick to judge, never knowing the storms someone has endured.

These images (powerfully and deeply artistic by Takisha Brown ) are dedicated to you — whoever you are — may you find healing, hope, and reminders that you are never alone. ❤️‍🩹
We see you. We are so glad you keep pushing.
And we are so proud of you.

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07/16/2025

🌿 Our Peer Support Team Grew!

We’re thrilled to welcome 8 newly upcoming certified peer support volunteers to the TEAO community! These dedicated folks completed our 2 day Peer Certification: Trauma-Responsive Care & Systemic Impact last week and will now be supporting communities across the GTA + Waterloo Region starting this Fall. .

This isn’t about fixing others—it’s about showing up with presence, offering embodied support, and creating culturally safe spaces for healing.

They’ve committed to:
🌀 3 hours of community service
🌀 3 hours of collective care in our outreach p
🌀 Holding space for crisis without judgment

Thank you for choosing to support others with compassion, courage, and care. We see you.

📍Ontario | TEAO Canada | Trauma-Informed Peer Support

07/10/2025

Amplifying Voices: This message is deeply resonant for Black & Indigenous women who have been conditioned—by family, culture, and systems—to wear strength like armor, even when it’s crushing them inside.

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They praised our strength but never asked if it was hurting us.

If no one told you lately:

You are allowed to choose softness.

You are allowed to fall apart and rebuild slowly.

You are allowed to stop being everything for everyone.

And still be worth loving. Still be enough.

Your softness is not a weakness.

It’s your birthright. Your resistance. Your power.

We’re unlearning the myth.

We’re reclaiming our softness.

And we’re finally choosing ourselves.

Read the full piece: The Myth of the Strong Black Woman And the Softness She Deserves.

blackartmatters.substack.com

🔁blackartmatterss

07/06/2025

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When parenting mimics colonization, we raise our children with the very tools that harm us.

🧠 With a degree in South Asian & African colonial history and years of parent coaching and speaking, I help Black and Brown communities connect the dots between colonization, cultural programming, and how we raise our children.

I speak on 📣

● Why conscious parenting is urgent for communities shaped by colonization.
-● Empowering marginalized voices to lead and thrive.
● Unlearning cultural programming and reclaiming who you are as a black or brown woman.

Link in bio to book me as your speaker! Let’s GOOOO

07/01/2025

🪴 “We need to be weapons of mass construction, weapons of mass love. It’s not enough just to change the system. We need to change ourselves.” – Assata Shakur 🪴

At TEAO Canada, we believe true healing and liberation are rooted in this wisdom. Transforming oppressive systems is essential — but so is transforming our own hearts, bodies, and minds.

👉🏾 Weapons of mass construction means we actively build, repair, and restore — in ourselves, our families, and our communities.

👉🏾 Weapons of mass love means we move from a place of care, compassion, and connection, not just rage or resistance.

👉🏾 System change without personal change can leave us repeating harmful cycles.

As we dismantle what no longer serves us, we must also embody the futures we wish to create — rooted in love, justice, and collective care.

♥️ Let’s be builders of belonging. Let’s be healers of inherited wounds. Let’s be powerful agents of mass love.

06/28/2025

♥️🌈 “Don’t stay where you are merely tolerated. Go where you are celebrated “….Thank you 👉🏾 wheretrueloveis.com

“Don’t stay where you are merely tolerated. Go where you are celebrated “— loved, affirmed, and seen in the fullness of who you are. Pride is not just a month; it is a lifelong act of courage, resistance, and self-love. Find your people, stand in your truth, and let your light shine.” 🌈

06/26/2025

Presence over Perfection

Things are moving fast. We’re deep in community, on the road, in meetings, holding space. And still—we breathe. We pause.

How are you grounding today when things move quickly?

Drop an emoji or word in the comments that reflects how your nervous system is feeling right now 💬

06/14/2025

A Collective Prayer of Love.
For when the world feels heavy, cruel, and loud.

Breathe with us.

Place one hand on your heart,
and the other on your belly.
Feel the rhythm of life still moving inside you.
You are here.
We are here.

Even as the world aches,
Even as violence echoes louder than kindness some days,
Even as grief thickens the air we breathe—
Let this be our quiet revolution:

We choose love.

Not the soft, distant kind of love,
But the fierce, embodied kind—
The love that listens. The love that weeps.
The love that stays when staying is hard.

We choose love as resistance.
Love as remembering.
Love as breath, as pulse, as action.

Because hate is loud.
But love—
Love is rooted.
Love is patient.
Love transforms.

Let this body remember:
We are not powerless.
We can soften, without surrender.
We can open, without forgetting.
We can grieve and still believe.

So today, we pray not to escape the pain,
But to stay grounded in our truth:
That love still lives here.
In us.
With us.
Through us.

And no matter the storm—
We return to love.

Again.
And again.
And again.

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Release Fear (20 sec)
**On each exhale, invite any tension, judgment, or news-feed overwhelm to drain into the earth.

Affirm: “I can witness pain without becoming it.”

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https://www.teaocanada.com/

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