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).

Sunday Self-Reflection: Spring Cleaning; 20 Self-Inquiries for the Next 20 Days Repost from •Your life slowly forms arou...
05/31/2026

Sunday Self-Reflection: Spring Cleaning; 20 Self-Inquiries for the Next 20 Days

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Your life slowly forms around what you repeatedly choose, tolerate, and return to. Small decisions become patterns, and patterns become direction. Whatever holds your attention gains power over you, while the things you avoid quietly continue shaping your life from the background. Your standards are revealed through what you keep excusing, what you continue investing in without return, and what you allow to stay unresolved. Unfinished decisions drain more energy than clear endings ever do. What you carry without releasing begins to affect how you move, think, and respond. Change starts when you recognize that every repeated choice is building your normal. Growth happens when your actions begin aligning with what you already know, when you redirect your focus intentionally, and when you stop feeding what no longer belongs in the life you actually want to create.

Favs of the WEEK! 💙🙏🏾!What’s your fav? ⬇️
05/30/2026

Favs of the WEEK! 💙🙏🏾!

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Have you ever watched someone speak to you with such criticism, judgment, or cruelty that your first thought was:“Wow......
05/29/2026

Have you ever watched someone speak to you with such criticism, judgment, or cruelty that your first thought was:

“Wow... that must hurt.”

Not because of what they said to you, but because of what it reveals about how they may speak to themselves.

The way we treat others is often an extension of our relationship with ourselves.

A person at peace rarely needs to diminish another person.
A person who feels worthy rarely needs to prove their worth through someone else’s suffering.
A person who has learned compassion often extends it naturally.

This doesn’t excuse harmful behaviour. Boundaries still matter.
But sometimes the most powerful realization is this:
Not everyone is fighting you. Some people are fighting themselves, and you’re simply standing close enough to hear the battle.

How people treat you may tell you very little about your value and a great deal about their inner world.

The question becomes:

When someone shows you how they treat themselves through the way they treat others, can you recognize that without making it your burden to carry?

05/28/2026

Unpacking Education to Unlearn from the Voices: “We don’t need more reconciliation, we need more liberation” is a statement that challenges the idea that healing and justice can happen simply by “making peace” with systems, institutions, or histories that still continue to cause harm.

It points to the difference between:

Reconciliation = repairing relationships, acknowledging harm, improving dialogue, creating inclusion within existing systems.

Liberation = transforming the conditions that created the harm in the first place so people can actually live, breathe, exist, and belong freely.

For many people, especially communities impacted by racism, colonization, poverty, violence, displacement, or systemic trauma — reconciliation can sometimes feel incomplete if the system itself has not changed.

Liberation speaks to:
•freedom from survival mode
•freedom from constant over-explaining or proving humanity
•freedom from systemic punishment for existing differently
•freedom to rest, feel safe, belong, and be fully human
reclaiming body, culture, voice, land, identity, and dignity

From a trauma and embodiment lens, liberation is also deeply nervous-system based.

A reconciled system may say:
“You are allowed at the table now.”

A liberatory system asks:
“Why was the table built in a way that harmed people to begin with?”

Healing may not only be about coping better within harmful systems, but transforming the systems and internalized beliefs that keep people disconnected from safety, agency, and humanity.



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Mental Health Education: Unlearning. To Learn—> How does uncontrollable fear manifest into symptoms like ocd and other c...
05/27/2026

Mental Health Education: Unlearning. To Learn—> How does uncontrollable fear manifest into symptoms like ocd and other compulsions or fixations?

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The tidiness is not the point. The fear underneath it is.
OCD is an anxiety disorder built around a misfiring threat response. The brain detects danger where none exists, generates an intrusive thought to match, and the compulsion becomes the only available relief. Checking, cleaning, repeating, avoiding. None of it is about preference. All of it is about fear management.

The thoughts target whatever matters most to the person. That is not an accident. That is how OCD works. The distress is the point. And the person having the thoughts is almost always the last person who would ever act on them.
Your brain is not broken. It is stuck in a loop it never asked to be in.

Follow .co for content that finally explains what is actually happening in your brain.

05/26/2026

Stay Humble in the Wind.

Everything and everyone is a messenger - listen, observe, breathe to hear your messages, if you can.

I was today years old when I learned If you feel it in your chest it’s fear
If you feel it in your stomach it’s intuition
If you feel it in your head it’s anger
If you feel it in your muscles it’s anxiety If you feel it in your mouth it’s disgust, If you feel it in your throät it’s sadness If you feel it in your face it’s shame If you feel it throughout your body it’s happiness

Affirming Thoughts: 💭🤔Sometimes people read posts like this and unknowingly collapse into self-pity instead of connectio...
05/25/2026

Affirming Thoughts: 💭🤔

Sometimes people read posts like this and unknowingly collapse into self-pity instead of connection.

Not because the words are wrong — but because trauma can teach the nervous system to identify with abandonment so deeply that pain begins to feel like identity instead of information.

The purpose of messages like this is not:
“Look how alone I am.”

The deeper invitation is:
“If so many people feel unseen… maybe we were never meant to survive alone in the first place.”

Community becomes healing when we stop consuming pain as proof that we are broken and begin using awareness as a bridge toward each other.

Some people never had families that checked in.
Some people became their own safety, their own witness, their own comfort.

But healing is not only learning how to survive alone.
Healing is slowly learning that safe connection may still exist.

This is why spaces of community matter.
Why rooms of care matter.
Why collective healing matters.

Not to stay identified with suffering —
but to remember we can build what we never received.

Sometimes chosen family is built through:
a text message,
a support group,
a neighbour,
a shared meal,
a room that says:
“You don’t have to carry this alone anymore.”

The goal is not to become smaller around our pain.
The goal is to let awareness deepen our compassion, soften our judgment, and expand our capacity to create the kind of community we once needed ourselves.





05/24/2026

Sunday Self-Reflection: Isn’t it funny how we all wanted to be professionals with degrees and high paying jobs but now we just want slow mornings, good coffee and a regulated nervous system. 💙🙏🏾

Maybe it’s about no longer abandoning ourselves just to survive it.

Self-Inquiry Question:
What did success teach you to sacrifice that your nervous system is now asking you to reclaim?

A Community Invitation: As a Community Leader we’re now able to offer our family & friends promo code — TEAOFAM25 — for ...
05/23/2026

A Community Invitation:

As a Community Leader we’re now able to offer our family & friends promo code — TEAOFAM25 — for 25% OFF ticket prices to this year’s TEAO Gala until June 1st 💙🙏🏾.

You can support in simple ways:
👉🏾 Use the promo code for yourself or loved ones
👉🏾 Tag someone you want to bring
👉🏾 Tap the repost 🔁 button
👉🏾 Share this to your story

Help us fill the room with community, connection, fun, and celebration.

This year feels especially meaningful because we are bringing the TEAO Gala home to Cambridge on Saturday, June 20— and I truly hope you, and anyone and everyone you’d love to bring, can join us. We would truly love to have you there.

This is not your traditional gala.
It is a living, breathing experience of community.

The Celebration of Hearts & Spirit Gala through music, art, fashion, laughter, embodied experiences, and community storytelling, we are intentionally creating a space where people can come together not just to attend an event — but to feel connected.

TEAO Canada (Trauma and Embodiment Association of Ontario) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to transforming mental health care through trauma-responsive, community-based approaches. Our work supports individuals, youth, and marginalized communities through peer support programs, training, healing spaces, and accessible community care rooted in relational connection and embodiment.

Guests can expect:
• Live comedians
• Singers and spoken word artists
• Brazilian dancers
• A fashion show
• A DJ and dancing
• Community storytelling and connection
• A vibrant silent auction
• Curated swag bags featuring local businesses and community supporters

📍 
408 Queen St W., Cambridge
Doors Open: 5:30 PM
Event Begins: 6:30 PM
Use promo code: TEAOFAM25
🎟 Tickets: http://teaogala2026.eventbrite.ca

Hotel accommodations are already arranged for those joining us from out of town, option.

🌿 Learn more about TEAO Canada:
https://www.teaocanada.com

Looking forward to connecting with you all — and hopefully seeing many familiar faces there.

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A Flow of Creative Regulation: Why Slowing Down Matters“Rest Is a Form of Protest”A conversation exploring how generatio...
05/22/2026

A Flow of Creative Regulation:

Why Slowing Down Matters
“Rest Is a Form of Protest”

A conversation exploring how generations of system-impacted bodies learned survival through urgency, over-functioning, emotional suppression, and chronic exhaustion — and why reclaiming rest, softness, and nervous system restoration can feel uncomfortable, unfamiliar, or even unsafe.
Because many people were never taught to rest.
They were taught to survive.

Today’s 45-minute virtual lunchtime workshop will explore:

• inherited survival patterns
• productivity and self-worth
• nervous system exhaustion
• rest as repair, not laziness
• reclaiming humanity beyond performance

Sometimes slowing down is not weakness.
Sometimes it is the first time a body has felt safe enough to breathe.

Grateful to continue building trauma-responsive, embodied, and community-rooted spaces that help bridge the gaps many people experience within traditional systems of care.

🔗 link in bio — Foundational Care Series (Virtual)





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