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).

Sometimes. Anyone else?
11/08/2025

Sometimes.

Anyone else?

Self Permission Nuggets ✅: Behind a girl who says,“everything happens for a reason” or “it is what it is”…Why is this? ⬇...
11/06/2025

Self Permission Nuggets ✅: Behind a girl who says,
“everything happens for a reason” or “it is what it is”…

Why is this? ⬇️
Because sometimes “everything happens for a reason” isn’t acceptance — it’s survival.

It’s what a girl says when the world has handed her more than her body or spirit ever deserved, and she needed a story that made chaos feel less like cruelty.
“It is what it is” is not wisdom—it’s armor.

It’s what she learned to say when no one came to apologize, when no one was held accountable, when the pain didn’t stop just because she was already hurting.

Behind those words is a girl who has tried to make meaning out of wounds she never asked for.

She is trying to live in a world that never explained itself to her,
and learned early that sometimes the only way to keep going

✔️ Self-Permission Nuggets posts are small, encouraging reposted messages designed to help people in a state of learned helplessness — that is, people who feel stuck, powerless, or unable to act on their own behalf because past experiences have conditioned them to believe they have no control.

These posts offer reminders and gentle affirmations that:

✅ It is safe to make choices for yourself.
✅ You have the right to say yes or no.
✅ Your body and your life belong to you.
✅ Small decisions are valid steps toward reclaiming your agency.

For folks who have lived in environments where choices were taken away — through abuse, oppression, or chronic disempowerment — Self-Permission Nuggets serve as bite-sized permission slips to rebuild trust in their own inner wisdom.

They’re meant to break through the freeze or stuckness of learned helplessness by:

🫶🏾 planting seeds of possibility
🫶🏾 validating even the smallest acts of self-care or self-advocacy
🫶🏾 normalizing the right to choose, act, and decide for oneself



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Reclamation. 💙🙏🏾!How does the tone we use with ourselves — harsh, scared, or kind — affect whether our brain stays in ol...
11/04/2025

Reclamation. 💙🙏🏾!

How does the tone we use with ourselves — harsh, scared, or kind — affect whether our brain stays in old patterns or learns something new?

Our brain changes when our body and thoughts feel safe.

We don’t just “think” thoughts—we feel them.
If we want the brain to stop replaying fear, we have to create safety on the inside.

Educational Learnings: ⬇️

Sometimes your brain repeats the same thoughts over and over — not because they help you, but because they feel familiar.

When your brain notices something that reminds it of a past experience — a tone of voice, a long pause, or something left unfinished — it can “fill in the blanks” and react like the old situation is happening again.
This is called pattern completion.

Your brain, your body, and even your posture can jump into the same stress mode as before.

Trying to “think your way out” doesn’t always work, because your body still feels unsafe.

Real change happens when you shift your state, not just your thoughts.

Breathing slowly, moving your body, or focusing on your senses can send your brain a new message:
“I’m safe. This moment is different.”

Doing this again and again teaches your brain a new pattern — one that doesn’t live in fear.

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Couldn’t be Shared any Better! 💙🙏🏾!Reposted Education for Awareness from: Here‘s how it‘s done in 3 steps👇🏼1️⃣ Tension ...
11/03/2025

Couldn’t be Shared any Better! 💙🙏🏾!

Reposted Education for Awareness from:

Here‘s how it‘s done in 3 steps👇🏼

1️⃣ Tension in your body is the storage of emotions. Get in touch with the tension through noticing. There‘s no way around developing a relationship with the tensions if you want to do this work.

2️⃣ Emotions are energy in motion. Tension means the motion got stopped. Put some of your favorite music on, feel the tension and your body. Ask yourself: if this tension/emotion could move right now, how would it move? And let it take the wheel.

3️⃣ Let your body & the music guide you. This is not about dancing - it’s not going to look pretty. Your body does weird things when it takes over - let it be weird.

After 5 minutes, stop and notice what has changed.

Journal about it.

Sunday Self-Reflections: “We Only Make Sense After the Unlearning.”Not because of time, but because of awareness.Ego dea...
11/02/2025

Sunday Self-Reflections: “We Only Make Sense After the Unlearning.”

Not because of time, but because of awareness.

Ego death isn’t about losing who we are — it’s about releasing the stories that once kept us safe. The masks. The defenses. The ways we performed belonging while feeling unseen.

When those parts begin to fall away, we finally meet people — and ourselves — from a place of truth rather than survival.

That’s when connection deepens. That’s when healing communities form.

If you’ve ever felt misunderstood by those who met you before your awakening, remember:
~ they were never meant to understand the version of you that didn’t yet exist.

This week, notice who you’re meeting after your own unlearning.

Maybe they’re not new — maybe you both just finally arrived.

Raising Young Men & Boys: Food for Thought. We may create spaces for men to heal when we stop equating vulnerability wit...
10/30/2025

Raising Young Men & Boys: Food for Thought.

We may create spaces for men to heal when we stop equating vulnerability with weakness as their socialization, so to speak.

When we make room for their humanness — not just their heroism.

When we remind them that strength and softness are not opposites, but partners.

Because the world doesn’t need more men who “handle it.” It may need more men who feel it, heal it, and still choose love anyway.

Self Permission Nuggets ✅: Closure Doesn’t Always Come Back to You. Through complex, chaotic and at times confusing situ...
10/29/2025

Self Permission Nuggets ✅: Closure Doesn’t Always Come Back to You.

Through complex, chaotic and at times confusing situations and people..
Sometimes your only closure
is knowing that you had good intentions
and a good heart.

👉🏾Give yourself permission to let that be enough.
👉🏾Let your peace come from within, not from their understanding.
👉🏾Healing isn’t about who closed the door—it’s about how you choose to walk away.

Your integrity may be your closure.
Your heart still beating with softness—that may be your power.
✔️ Self-Permission Nuggets posts are small, encouraging reposted messages designed to help people in a state of learned helplessness — that is, people who feel stuck, powerless, or unable to act on their own behalf because past experiences have conditioned them to believe they have no control.

These posts offer reminders and gentle affirmations that:

✅ It is safe to make choices for yourself.
✅ You have the right to say yes or no.
✅ Your body and your life belong to you.
✅ Small decisions are valid steps toward reclaiming your agency.

For folks who have lived in environments where choices were taken away — through abuse, oppression, or chronic disempowerment — Self-Permission Nuggets serve as bite-sized permission slips to rebuild trust in their own inner wisdom.

They’re meant to break through the freeze or stuckness of learned helplessness by:

🫶🏾 planting seeds of possibility
🫶🏾 validating even the smallest acts of self-care or self-advocacy
🫶🏾 normalizing the right to choose, act, and decide for oneself



———

👥 When Caring Doesn’t Mean Carrying. ⬇️In a world unconsciously conditioned around pain, fear, and suffering, fol...
10/27/2025

👥 When Caring Doesn’t Mean Carrying. ⬇️

In a world unconsciously conditioned around pain, fear, and suffering, following what uplifts and inspires is an act of reclamation. We are constantly bombarded by narratives that normalize burnout, comparison, and emotional numbing — shaping us to seek validation through struggle rather than authenticity.

Choosing to follow yourself and accounts that nurture your soul is a radical form of resistance. It’s how we begin to retrain the nervous system toward safety, joy, and connection instead of survival. It reminds us that healing isn’t found in perfection or productivity, but in presence — in the small, intentional choices that return us to our wholeness.

When we surround ourselves with content rooted in curiosity, compassion, and creativity, we begin to rewrite the internalized story that says pain must be our teacher. We remember that pleasure, peace, and purpose are also powerful sources of wisdom.

It’s not about turning away from the world’s pain — it’s about learning to face it without becoming consumed by it. Many of us were conditioned to believe that to care means to carry everything. But when we only approach suffering from a place of exhaustion, reactivity, or unhealed pain, our actions can unintentionally replicate the very harm we wish to dismantle.

*Creating spaces — even online ones — that center joy, rest, and embodiment isn’t about avoidance; it’s about replenishment. It’s how we stay resourced enough to engage in justice work with clarity, compassion, and sustainability. Facing war, injustice, or suffering requires nervous systems that can stay present without shutting down or lashing out.

*So this post isn’t a call to disengage — it’s a call to remember that tending to your inner world is part of tending to the collective one. When we learn to hold both — the beauty and the brokenness — we become more capable of responding to the world’s pain from love, not from fear. 💙🙏🏾!

Sunday Self-Reflection: Do it from love, not FOR love. When we shift from “for” to “from,” we stop trying to earn love a...
10/26/2025

Sunday Self-Reflection: Do it from love, not FOR love.

When we shift from “for” to “from,” we stop trying to earn love and start embodying it. We move from control to connection, from scarcity to trust.

Doing something from love means your actions flow from wholeness — from a deep inner knowing that you are already enough.

Doing something for love means striving, performing, chasing validation — hoping to finally be seen as enough.

Why It’s So Hard?

When we’re unlearning who they told us to be — parents, systems, partners, culture — we’re essentially grieving the version of ourselves that earned love through performance, approval, or survival.

That version learned to:
Please others to stay safe.
Achieve to feel seen.
Shrink to avoid rejection.
Help everyone else to feel worthy.

Unlearning those patterns feels like losing identity, because those patterns once protected us. Our nervous system reads that loss as danger — so doing things from love, not for love, feels foreign, even unsafe at first.

Ask yourself:
“If I wasn’t trying to prove I’m lovable, what would I still choose to do?”

Let that question guide your unlearning.

Unpacked Educational Awareness. ⬇️When people ask why I don’t recreate the binary of “them vs. us” in activism, my ans...
10/25/2025

Unpacked Educational Awareness. ⬇️

When people ask why I don’t recreate the binary of “them vs. us” in activism, my answer is simple but layered: because the goal is liberation, not replication.

The systems we’re challenging were built on separation — on domination and dehumanization. If our response mirrors that same energy, we’ve already lost the essence of what we’re fighting for. To embody change, we must interrupt the pattern, not perform it in reverse.

This quote captures that truth beautifully:
“The bravest act isn’t to retaliate, but to interrupt the cycle, to say: this ends with me. I will not pass this pain on.”

Activism rooted in healing asks us to become conscious of the inheritance of pain — the unhealed grief, anger, and fear that move through generations and systems alike. Cruelty rarely begins with the one who delivers it. It’s learned. It’s modeled. It’s passed down.

So in my facilitation, I don’t seek to punish or divide. I seek to pause the transmission — to create spaces where we can witness pain without recycling it, where accountability and compassion can coexist.

Healing-centered activism isn’t passive. It’s the deepest form of disruption — because it refuses to replicate what caused harm in the first place.

That is how we embody “this ends with me.” 💙
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📸 -them 💙

For Us & Those in the 🗣️Back: Note for the Awakening SoulDon’t be the healer — be the healing.The need to heal others o...
10/24/2025

For Us & Those in the 🗣️Back: Note for the Awakening Soul

Don’t be the healer — be the healing.
The need to heal others often comes from an unhealed part within.

You are not here to fix or carry anyone’s pain — only to embody your own wholeness.

When you walk in your truth, your very presence becomes medicine.

Healing isn’t something you do — it’s what you are.
And when others meet that energy, they will heal if they are ready.

So no, you’re not selfish for choosing yourself first —
you’re wise.

🗣️Love These: We forget sometimes that life was never meant to be understood. It was meant to be felt.
10/23/2025

🗣️Love These: We forget sometimes that life was never meant to be understood. It was meant to be felt.

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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.