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: Just back from our collective pause retreat in Costa Rica and this reflection below and througho...
01/11/2026

Sunday Self-Reflection: Just back from our collective pause retreat in Costa Rica and this reflection below and throughout this post could not speak any louder. Sometimes the best awakening is through the lived experiences and stories of others.

What reflection towards Self does this bring you too, today? 💙🙏🏾!

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For years, I thought I was choosing my reactions in my marriage.

I wasn’t.

Every time I felt dismissed, disrespected, or unloved, it wasn’t the adult me who showed up. It was the traumatized little boy inside me, still trying to survive the way he once had to.

My Wounded Child was getting triggered, and my Adaptive Child (the part of me that learned to cope as an unskilled but determined eight-year-old) was grabbing the wheel.

These days, when that younger part of me kicks up, I do something different.

In my mind’s eye, I pull little Terry close. I show him compassion and reassure him that I’m here now. He no longer belongs in the driver’s seat.

That’s the essence of reparenting: Love the child inside you, soothe and protect them, and then gently take their sticky hands off the steering wheel.

Today, you are capable of far more skill and conscious decision-making than that young, hurt, reactive child within you.

It means saying goodbye to your parents’ patterns and giving yourself what you never received but always needed – unconditional love, firm limits, and loving guidance.

This is how generational patterns end, and healing begins.

Free Your Thoughts: Saturday MotivationTrust who you are becoming.You are not the same person you were a year ago —and y...
01/10/2026

Free Your Thoughts: Saturday Motivation

Trust who you are becoming.

You are not the same person you were a year ago —
and you’re not meant to be.

What’s unfolding now is quieter, deeper, more embodied.
Strength that doesn’t harden.
Beauty that doesn’t perform.
Wisdom that lives in the body, not the mask.

Let yourself keep evolving.
Let the soul lead.

You are not losing yourself —
you are remembering her.

💙🙏🏾!





Affirming Thoughts 💭:Why do we care so much if someone doesn’t want to get married, have kids, buy a house, or get drunk...
01/09/2026

Affirming Thoughts 💭:

Why do we care so much if someone doesn’t want to get married, have kids, buy a house, or get drunk? It’s as if we need other people to comply with our way of living to justify our own choices. There is no universal rule for joy, purpose, or fulfilment. The pressure to live identically is an old story that no longer fits our evolution.

Sometimes, people become oddly aggressive when you don’t follow the script they memorized. Suddenly, you’re lost, selfish, boring, or making a mistake. But in reality, they’re uncomfortable because you’re proving there are other ways to live and be content. Your freedom makes their formula look optional, and that unsettles them.

Your way will always be wrong according to someone else’s belief system. That doesn’t make it wrong. It just means there is no universal way to live. Nothing unsettles the crowd more than choosing your own direction.
— Vex King

01/08/2026

For Clients (listen to the end) for Psychotherapist and/or Clinicians (listen midday way) for Racialized Bodies (listen) 💙🙏🏾!

Therapy only works when safety is real — not performed.

💙 For therapists & clinicians:
Clients don’t need us to play a role.
They need us to be human, attuned, accountable.
We hold an obligation to create safety — especially knowing that therapy has not always been a safe space for everyone. Authentic presence isn’t optional; it’s the foundation.

💙 For clients:
This is about believing in your future enough to tolerate discomfort.
Healing doesn’t mean staying comfortable — it means being supported while doing the hard, unfamiliar things that move you toward the life you imagine. Therapy exists to walk with you toward that future, not to contain you in the past.

💙 For racialized bodies:
Your hesitation makes sense.
Safety must be built, not assumed.
Your healing deserves spaces that honour your lived experience — not ask you to shrink or translate it.

Therapy is not about fixing who you are.
It’s about supporting who you are becoming — even when growth feels uncomfortable. 🙏🏾

embodiedhealing racializedhealing keepgoing

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Adjust your Narratives. Adjust the narrative. Your body is not a problem to solve.It is a keeper of truth.When you slow ...
01/07/2026

Adjust your Narratives.

Adjust the narrative.

Your body is not a problem to solve.
It is a keeper of truth.

When you slow down, place a hand where you worked the hardest to endure,
and another where ease still lives,
you’re not trying to change anything—
you’re listening.

And when you don’t know what to do next,
return here.
To the wisdom that existed before adaptation.
To the knowing that never left, even when it went quiet.
Your body remembers the way home.





This MomLife Resource! And for us “understanding how we learned to hide” ⬇️ Everyone seems to be trying to heal - ...
01/06/2026

This MomLife Resource! And for us “understanding how we learned to hide” ⬇️

Everyone seems to be trying to heal - what if healing was “ego work” and learning how to become self aware (was the real healing to empower our journey) so we can interact with our past (unconscious patterns of behaviour) differently in the present moment as opposed to trying to be safe, dodge punishment/rejection and / or earn worth through each interaction, situation or events.

What if it’s about returning towards ourselves with compassion & understanding. That way in the softness we learn how to meet our own needs. 💙🙏🏾!

Some of the Many. We are a retreat of 8 women who have come to reflect and rest as medicine, here in Costa Rica, Jan 3-1...
01/05/2026

Some of the Many.

We are a retreat of 8 women who have come to reflect and rest as medicine, here in Costa Rica, Jan 3-10. I’ve been humbled the honour to facilitate this retreat alongside our host with .

Here in Costa Rica, we’re not escaping life — we’re restoring the conditions that make clarity possible.

When the body feels safe:
• the vagus nerve engages
• heart rate variability improves
• cortisol drops
• the amygdala quiets
• the prefrontal cortex comes back online

And with that:
logic returns.
choice returns.
discipline becomes natural — not forced.

This is why somatic work isn’t “alternative.”
It’s biological.
It’s neurological.
It’s the doorway back to rationality.

Once the body is calm, psychology finally works.
This is the work we’re doing here — restoring safety so people can think, choose, and live from truth rather than survival.

FromSurvivalToSafety TraumaEducation

Sunday Self-Reflection: Take “new year” out and Exchange with Daily or Weekly Meditative Practices. 12 POWERFUL QUESTION...
01/04/2026

Sunday Self-Reflection: Take “new year” out and Exchange with Daily or Weekly Meditative Practices.

12 POWERFUL QUESTIONS.



So helpful! Thank you 💙🙏🏾!

01/03/2026

Saturday Soul-Talk: Unlearning is as Fun as Learning. ⬇️

Always thought I was the anomaly (especially in leadership roles) until I read this, “Highly intuitive people often appear irrational to those who depend on structure, logic, and external validation before trusting what they sense. To people who need explanations, intuition looks like disorder rather than an internal system already working. The beauty is how little energy intuitive people give to being misunderstood.
Their internal sense of direction consistently outweighs outside opinions and interpretations.” ⬇️ read below

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Highly intuitive people aren’t operating without logic—they’re operating with a different kind of information first.

Where some people rely on external data, step-by-step reasoning, or social consensus to decide what’s true, intuitive people gather information internally: through pattern recognition, felt sense, emotional attunement, and lived experience stored in the body. That process often happens before words arrive.

To someone who needs linear explanations to trust a decision, intuition can look chaotic or irrational. But what’s actually happening is that the intuitive person’s nervous system has already synthesized the data. The conclusion arrives fully formed, even if the person can’t immediately show the math.

This is why intuitive people are often misunderstood—not because they lack reasoning, but because their reasoning doesn’t always translate neatly into language on demand.
What looks like disorder from the outside is often an internal system that’s already resolved the question.

And the quiet strength of intuitive people is this: they don’t spend much energy trying to prove themselves. Their internal sense of direction tends to be reliable enough that outside opinions carry less weight. Not out of arrogance—but out of trust in a system that has kept them oriented, safe, and aligned over time.

Intuition isn’t the absence of structure.
It’s structure that lives inside, rather than being borrowed from the outside.

WisdomWithin

01/02/2026

Affirming Thoughts Series: Entering a New Inner Season

‘Self-forgiveness is not spiritual bypassing.
It is a biological kindness.
When I forgive myself, my nervous system loosens its grip on survival.’

One of the most medicinal things we can do for trauma held in the body—especially wounds from childhood and unmet emotional needs—might be radical self-forgiveness.
Not because the past didn’t matter, but because our bodies are tired of carrying it as punishment.

So this new inner season, I’m choosing to be rather than survive.

To soften the invisible patterns that once kept me safe.
To let my nervous system learn something new:
that presence is allowed.

This is may be the real life hack.
No calendar required.





Debunking Sesh. 💙🙏🏾! ⬇️ Your nervous system is an animal, and animals do not start new cycles in the darkest months of t...
12/31/2025

Debunking Sesh. 💙🙏🏾! ⬇️

Your nervous system is an animal, and animals do not start new cycles in the darkest months of the year.

January 1 was chosen by the Roman Empire to honor the god Janus, a symbol of taxes, transitions, and government control. It marked the moment officials renewed contracts and collected debts. It was never designed for human biology or mental well-being. It was designed to keep society productive on command.

Your body is still wired to the length of the day. Winter reduces dopamine, lowers metabolism, and shifts the nervous system into conservation mode. Every species on Earth slows down now. Bears. Birds. Plants. Humans. The only difference is that other animals are allowed to follow the light.

The real New Year begins when sunlight finally defeats darkness at the spring equinox. This is when hormones rise. This is when motivation returns. This is when circadian biology wakes the entire system back up. Aries marks the biological ignition point for life on the planet.

If you cannot push right now, that is not a lack of discipline. That is ancient intelligence refusing to follow a calendar invented for profit and control. Nature still sets the real schedule. And your nervous system is loyal to the sun.

Honor the animal in you. Your rise begins when the light returns.

Quotes that Speak Life. ✨I hope you make it—not just to the milestones, but to the moments that soften you, stretch you,...
12/30/2025

Quotes that Speak Life. ✨

I hope you make it—not just to the milestones, but to the moments that soften you, stretch you, and remind you why you’re here. May 2026 meet you with gentleness, courage, and breath in your body.

These quotes carousel are offered as a blessing: may you arrive whole, even as you’re becoming. 💙🙏🏾!

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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.