Wounds 2 Wings Psychotherapy Services

Wounds 2 Wings Psychotherapy Services Wounds 2 Wings Trauma Yoga and Psychotherapy Services

Nicole Brown Faulknor, founder of Wounds 2 Wings;
Registered Psychotherapist CRPO ( #007596), CAPT;
Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga Facilitator (TCTSY-F);
CEO of non-profit organization Wounds 2 Wings Trauma and Embodiment Association of Ontario (TEAO).

We Gathered to Remember Who We AreThis week I had the honour of standing in spaces that reminded me why this work matter...
02/24/2026

We Gathered to Remember Who We Are

This week I had the honour of standing in spaces that reminded me why this work matters — from the Black Leadership Summit to gathering in prayer with Afro community leaders and families and Black Brilliance through the Waterloo Region School Board. What I witnessed was not just dialogue, but embodied leadership. Rooms where strategy met spirit. Where truth met tenderness. Where love was not a soft afterthought, but the infrastructure.

We cannot talk about wellness without talking about community. We cannot talk about healing without naming joy as medicine. When we gather — to lead, to pray, to remember our ancestors and pour into the next generation — we regulate one another. We interrupt isolation. We restore dignity. This is the work. Not just policies and panels, but presence, laughter, tears, culture, music, prayer, and collective breath. Love is not separate from systems change. It is the foundation of it.





Food for Thought: Character (a look within) 💙🙏🏾!Character is who you are when no one is watching, when there is nothing ...
02/23/2026

Food for Thought: Character (a look within) 💙🙏🏾!

Character is who you are when no one is watching, when there is nothing to gain, and when your choices cost you something.

Reputation lives in other people’s perception — fragile, shifting, and often incomplete — but character is rooted in your integrity, your consistency, and the quiet alignment between your values and your actions.

When you worry more about your character than your reputation, you stop performing and start embodying who you truly are.






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Sunday Self Reflection: The Quiet Wealth of Being Held 💙🙏🏾!A privilege we don’t name enough is being surrounded by genu...
02/22/2026

Sunday Self Reflection: The Quiet Wealth of Being Held 💙🙏🏾!

A privilege we don’t name enough is being surrounded by genuine friends — people who see you, hold you, and stay. That kind of love is a quiet wealth; it regulates your nervous system, restores your faith in humanity, and reminds you that you don’t have to carry the world alone. As I witness TEAO’s growing volunteer team — passionate hearts bridging love and care within a mental health system that often feels clinical and disconnected — I’m reminded that community itself is medicine.

Reflection: Who are the people that make you rich in love — and how are you investing back into the communities that hold you?





In love, with this embodied awareness education. The trauma of not being believed is an invisible injury — it fractures ...
02/21/2026

In love, with this embodied awareness education.

The trauma of not being believed is an invisible injury — it fractures self-trust, silences the voice, and teaches the nervous system that truth is unsafe.

When disbelief is repeated, it becomes internalized; doubt turns inward, confidence erodes, and we begin to question our own reality before anyone else does.

Healing begins when your experience is witnessed, validated, and returned to you as real. 💙🙏🏾!







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Unlearning.There’s a tender kind of grief in realizingthat not everything we givecomes back to us.Sometimes what keeps r...
02/19/2026

Unlearning.

There’s a tender kind of grief in realizing
that not everything we give
comes back to us.

Sometimes what keeps reaching
isn’t just the heart —

it’s the body…
an old injury
trying to resolve itself
through relationships,
through people,
through the quiet hope
that this time it will land differently.

Unlearning may be the moment we gently notice:
we were not too much —
we were patterned.
Adaptive.
Human.

And the grief softens
when awareness arrives.

[It doesn’t change us. It changes who we chose]

Food for Thought: ⬇️Sometimes the hardest truth is this: we hide inside information because it feels safer than action. ...
02/18/2026

Food for Thought: ⬇️

Sometimes the hardest truth is this: we hide inside information because it feels safer than action. We read the posts, save the quotes, sign up for the webinars, and tell ourselves we’re “working on it,” when really we’re soothing our anxiety with more knowledge instead of taking the one uncomfortable step that could actually change our lives.

Growth rarely comes from another podcast episode or self-help thread—it comes from the awkward conversation, the boundary you’ve been avoiding, the application you haven’t sent, the rest you keep postponing, or the healing work you’re afraid to start. Information can guide us, but it cannot live our lives for us. At some point, the nervous system needs movement, not more input.

✔️ The truth is: clarity often comes after action, not before it.

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Save This Or—> the last one by Connor Beaton. As a child, I felt embarrassed about……Hope you find these affirming though...
02/16/2026

Save This Or—> the last one by Connor Beaton.

As a child, I felt embarrassed about……

Hope you find these affirming thoughts reflections useful 💙🙏🏾!

02/15/2026

Love • Community Partnerships • Collective Voices (tomorrow)

There is something powerful about when community comes together—not as experts above others, but as voices beside one another. 💙🙏🏾!

Tomorrow, I’ll be joining a circle of recovery leaders for Warm Hearts, Fresh Starts at The Gatehouse in partnership with , sharing a workshop called: “The Missing Link in Recovery: The Body’s Role in Addiction Recovery.”

I’ll explore where the body holds trauma, what it was trying to regulate through substance use, and how healing can begin through gentle, embodied release—not shame.

This gathering is a reminder that recovery is not a solo journey.
It’s built through community partnerships, collective voices, and spaces where love leads the way.

If you or someone you love is on a recovery journey, come feel the warmth of community tomorrow.

A whole team of recovery voices will be coming together for Warm Hearts, Fresh Starts this Monday, Feb 16 at The Gatehouse (Kipling & Lakeshore).

Grateful to be part of this circle and to stand alongside so many committed hearts doing this work.:

Join Sean McBride, Nicole Brown-Faulknor, Josh Martin, Julie Hinton-Green, Pamela Lopez, Mark Somerville, Loreta Doga, Les Williams, Stewart Thompson, Emily Sauer, Joe Growe, William Meneses, Brandon W. Hahn, and Viviane Silva as they share about trauma, the nervous system, body‑based and spiritual healing, relapse, shame, courage, and what is truly possible in recovery.

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02/15/2026

Sunday Self-Reflection: What Is Your Title Outside the Wound?

I’ll go first…

Title: Unchained, Still Blooming 🕊️

A life shaped by storms, carried by chains that were never mine to hold—yet here I stand, rooted in love, breaking cycles, and blooming toward the light.

✔️Close your eyes.
✔️Take three slow, gentle breaths.
✔️Imagine you are a portrait in a museum.
✔️The plaque beneath the painting has a title.
✔️Not your diagnosis.
✔️Not your trauma.
✔️Not the role you were forced into.
✔️But the truth of who you are becoming.

Journal Questions: ⬇️

What title would describe me if my wound no longer defined me?

What qualities in me have nothing to do with my trauma?

When do I feel most like my true self?

What parts of me have quietly grown, even in hard seasons?

If my life were a painting, what would the light in it represent?

Write your new title at the top of your journal page:
My Life, Untitled by the Wound: __________________

Let it be simple.
Let it be honest.
Let it be yours.






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6 years ago. Six years ago, this photo came up on my feed—a monument to a version of my life that once felt permanent in...
02/14/2026

6 years ago.

Six years ago, this photo came up on my feed—a monument to a version of my life that once felt permanent in 2018. At that time, I was still standing inside a lifelong career, following the path that made sense on paper, but not always in my body or my spirit. I didn’t know yet that I would walk away from what was familiar to follow a vision that didn’t have a map, which started with this recognition after only one test of leaving my career.

Leaving that career wasn’t just a professional decision. It was an act of love. Love for the people I serve. Love for the communities I come from. Love for the parts of myself that needed space to heal, grow, and lead differently. It was the moment I chose humanity over comfort, purpose over predictability.

Six years later, that leap has become a legacy in motion —building trauma-responsive spaces, creating peer-led communities, and dreaming up what mental health care in Canada can look like when it is rooted in embodiment, equity, and collective care. None of it has been easy. But it has been honest. And it has been love.

Valentine’s Day often gets reduced to flowers, chocolates, and romantic gestures (thank you Cathy Chadwick for this reminder). But real love is bigger than that. It is love for nature. Love for justice. Love for humanity. Love that asks us to make harder choices, to slow down, to listen, and to build something that lasts beyond a single day.

Six years ago, I chose that kind of love.
And every day since, I’ve been building from it.
Sometimes the greatest love story is the one where you choose your calling—and trust that it will lead you home.

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About Nicole Brown Faulknor

Nicole is a Yoga Instructor, Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) and Child and Youth Counsellor as well as a member of both the Colleges of Registered Psychotherapist in Ontario and the Canadian Association for Psychodynamic Therapy with over 18 years of professional experience working with marginalized, vulnerable and oppressed communities, individuals, families and children. She has worked extensively with individuals and communities suffering from mental health, addictions, systemic poverty and profiling in order to therapeutically improve relationships with government programs and services.

In 1998, she graduated from Mohawk College with a Diploma in Child and Youth Counselling, received her Bachelor degree from the University of Waterloo in 2001 in Social Development Studies with two certificates, General Social Work and General Social Work (Child Abuse) and a 5 year Master's equivalency diploma from the Ontario Psychotherapy and Counselling Program in 2018 where she is currently at part-time instructor.

Using a psychodynamic approach that is rooted in the therapeutic relationship built between client and therapist with individuals, adolescents and group, this model of psychodynamic psychotherapy, seeks to reveal the unconscious, dynamic content of the mind, in an effort to alleviate mental tension which can manifest in a variety of symptoms that distort and disrupt our sense of self and well-being. By uncovering the hidden roots of our unwanted thoughts, emotions and behaviours, we can consciously change how they experience the world and ourselves. In addition, Nicole uses a body-centered approach, which may be known as somatization. With this approach it may be possible to recognize the intimate relationship between the physical body and the psychological well-being of a person. This practice maintains the view that the body is a resource for self-discovery and psychological healing. Bodily awareness and movements are used to explore and treat psychological symptoms and issues. This work can be both very subtle, involving only awareness of bodily sensation, or utilize physical movement and manipulation.