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).

💫 Saturday Inspirations: “Dance first. Think later.It’s the natural order.” - Samuel Beckett>Why this order?Movement cha...
09/13/2025

💫 Saturday Inspirations:
“Dance first. Think later.
It’s the natural order.” - Samuel Beckett

>Why this order?
Movement changes how we think and how we think changes how we move

When we’ve been patterned by fear or past trauma, the body often forgets what joy feels like. But reclaiming joy isn’t only about thinking differently—it’s about moving differently.

💙 Joy becomes less of a thought to chase—and more of a rhythm we live into.

Let today’s movement be your medicine.
💃🏾🕺🏽 Move first. Think later. 🙏🏾!

09/12/2025

Oooooo ⬆️ 👂🏾in!

So much stigmas and so much labelling at the best of times - may be all sit and listen to the educational awareness in these two stigmatized or misunderstood symptoms —

thank you for this educational awareness you bring to this Kina ! 💙🙏🏾!

Self-Permission Nugget: ✅ “We gave them everything — our heart, our time, our peace. Even when they were inconsistent. E...
09/11/2025

Self-Permission Nugget: ✅
“We gave them everything — our heart, our time, our peace. Even when they were inconsistent. Even when they confused
our nervous system. Even when we knew they were wrong for us.” ‼️

Which carousel awakens you? Or speaks to you on this side of your healing journey?



✔️ Self-Permission Nuggets posts are small, encouraging 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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Excited & Honoured! 💙🙏🏾! 
I’m thrilled to be joining an incredible lineup of speakers for the Cup of Care: Recovery Comm...
09/10/2025

Excited & Honoured! 💙🙏🏾!

I’m thrilled to be joining an incredible lineup of speakers for the Cup of Care: Recovery Community Celebration on Fri, Sept 12 (1 PM – 8 PM).

Together, we’ll share stories, tools, and hope for recovery:

💛 Nicole Brown-Faulknor – Trauma-informed embodiment for recovery (that’s me!)

💛 Bryan White – Get Selfish: Filling your own bucket first

💛 Allen Kharlip – Creating healing spaces & healthy environments

💛 Dr. Harry Henshaw – Holistic transformation counseling

💛 Nolisha Fairfax-Gaskin – Faith & storytelling in recovery

💛 David Herpers – Understanding work addiction & workaholism

💛 Lee Murphy – Solution-focused therapy for lasting change

✨ Can’t wait to connect, learn, and celebrate recovery together!

🔗 Register via link in bio 
📞 1-833-313-7848

09/09/2025

Interesting! - Coping Mechanism(s)
Adaptive strategies (behaviours) created by the nervous system to survive/tolerate feelings of helplessness, shame, guilt, hurt, fear, etc. with people, in situations or events.

⬇️

When a child grows up in an environment that feels unsafe, neglectful, or overwhelming, the body and mind adapt to survive even though the child may have already adapted to their life and the things happening as ‘normal’ because for a child, it IS their normal.

These adaptations—people-pleasing, emotional numbness, perfectionism, dissociation, hyper-vigilance—become our armour. They protect us then, but they follow us into adulthood.

The cost? A nervous system that stays locked in survival mode.

Over time, what once shielded us can manifest as chronic stress, anxiety, depression, autoimmune conditions, and difficulty trusting or connecting with others.

Healing asks us to slowly lay down the armour.
To grieve what we didn’t receive.
To teach our body that it’s safe now—to rest, to feel, and to live in a way that isn’t just surviving.

How? Some asks…



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What if….What if we imprinted ourselves differently around on inner whispers? What if we validated what we needed and d...
09/08/2025

What if….

What if we imprinted ourselves differently around on inner whispers? What if we validated what we needed and didn’t get instead? What if we spoke to ourselves the way we wanted to feel in our childhood?

Because how can our bodies regulate itself when we tend to go back to treat & speaking to ourselves in the way we felt growing up, therefore returning the body to the past, the scarcity, the anxiety, the fear, the urgency, etc

Sunday Reflections: Which resonates most with you on your healing journey? Do you notice that healing work boundaries an...
09/07/2025

Sunday Reflections: Which resonates most with you on your healing journey?

Do you notice that healing work boundaries and asserting ourselves feel soft, unlike our adaptive strategies that can be guarded, closed, harsh, mean, etc. Healing work comes with compassion - and this turn inward compassion creates the assertiveness and boundaries exactly that. With out unconscious projections so to speak.

To the people in my life, who make me smile, love me, support me, and bring me joy,
Thank You 💙🙏🏾!

09/06/2025

Interesting!

Shame Silently Drives So Many of Our Struggles

It’s sneaky. Shame hides underneath things like perfectionism, people-pleasing, self-sabotage, procrastination, anger, addiction, disordered eating, and chronic anxiety.

It says:
“I’m not good enough.”
“I don’t deserve love.”
“If people really knew me, they’d leave.”

Repost vid from TikTok

Thursday Motivation: We may need to process what’s in the body to regulate the brain. Pay attention to yourself. W...
09/04/2025

Thursday Motivation: We may need to process what’s in the body to regulate the brain.

Pay attention to yourself. When your body asks for better fuel, more sleep, a slower pace-respect that.
When your intuition urges you to pull away from certain people and move closer to those who bring you peace-trust it. When your heart sparks at the thought of a new adventure, a bold move, or quiet time in nature-follow it. Your higher self is always sending you signs. It knows what you need before your mind catches up.

Your Body’s Language: Understanding Nervous System Signals ⬇️Your body speaks through sensations and behaviors. Numbnes...
09/03/2025

Your Body’s Language: Understanding Nervous System Signals ⬇️

Your body speaks through sensations and behaviors. Numbness, tears, isolation, or hopelessness aren’t weaknesses—they’re protective responses from your nervous system. When we understand these signals, we can meet ourselves with compassion instead of judgment

🚩 Red flags in families can hide under “love,” “tradition,” or “respect.” If home feels unsafe, controlling, or conditio...
09/02/2025

🚩 Red flags in families can hide under “love,” “tradition,” or “respect.” If home feels unsafe, controlling, or conditional, it’s not love—it’s dysfunction. You’re not overreacting, ungrateful, or wrong for noticing the truth.

Thoughts?

Thank you for this educational resource. 💙🙏🏾!

09/01/2025

Monday Labour Day: A Day of Solidarity

We ALL have a story.

Here’s a sliver of mine 💙🙏🏾 (thank you for allowing me to share).

What’s your sliver—no matter how big or small?

Today, as we honour Labour Day, I’m reflecting on the collective strength of community—how we show up for one another in visible and unseen ways. This page was born in June 2018, the morning after I resigned from everything I had known at the time. I was brand new to social media, unsure of what would grow here.

Since then, I’ve been gifted with a community that I love as deeply as any love in my life. This space has held stories of transition, resilience, and survival—from friends navigating homelessness in the shadow of a system that too often shames and judges, to those living with symptoms of trauma and isolation, to someone whose only companion is a pet rat, yet still connects with us behind the scenes. And to those who simply share because sharing is what keeps them connected—you matter here.

I tend to this space 24/7. I review comments to make sure voices are heard without harm, that we witness one another without projection, and that we can “just be” as we emerge from where we’ve learned to hide.

To each of you—whether we’ve met, spoken, or simply shared space here—I see you. 💙🙏🏾
This page is for YOU.

Today, on Labour Day, let’s remember that solidarity isn’t just about work—it’s about community, care, and the ongoing labour of love we invest in one another.

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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.