Nurtured Minds Wellness and Therapy Services

Nurtured Minds Wellness and Therapy Services We provide holistically-focused clinical wellness and therapy services in Leduc, Nisku, Calmar and online. Nature based therapy and retreats near Wizard Lake ✨🌲

Meet Jas, who helps people when their nervous system gets stuck replaying past memories that are no longer happening.You...
10/01/2025

Meet Jas, who helps people when their nervous system gets stuck replaying past memories that are no longer happening.

You know that feeling when someone slams a door and your body reacts like you’re in actual danger? When your nervous system treats your mother-in-law’s comment like a saber-tooth tiger attack?

That’s trauma living in your body. Your nervous system learned to protect you once, and it’s still doing the job - even when the original danger is long gone.

EMDR helps your nervous system update its threat detection system. Not by forgetting what happened, but by helping your body understand the difference between then and now.

Jas creates the safety needed for this deep recalibration work.

Comment “EMDR” if you’re curious about this type of nervous system healing

Let me be your guide to understanding trauma and the nervous system - follow for more .your.mind.therapy

Your nervous system isn't supposed to stay calm all the time.A client once asked "Wait, I can feel stressed AND regulate...
09/30/2025

Your nervous system isn't supposed to stay calm all the time.

A client once asked "Wait, I can feel stressed AND regulated?" Yes. Regulation isn't maintaining perfect calm while your kid melts down in Costco. It's your nervous system activating when needed and returning to calm when safe.

Flexible, not frozen. Responsive, not rigid.

Now our clients trust their body's wisdom instead of fighting their natural responses.

Save this if perfect calm has been exhausting you too.

Check out our content for all things nervous system wisdom and follow along for more

☀️ You don’t have to be grateful all the time.🚸 You don’t have to find the silver lining in everything.🙂 You don’t have ...
09/24/2025

☀️ You don’t have to be grateful all the time.
🚸 You don’t have to find the silver lining in everything.
🙂 You don’t have to smile through your exhaustion to make others comfortable.
🫩 You don’t have to pretend your struggles are “blessings in disguise.”
😵‍💫 You don’t have to perform positivity when your nervous system is begging for rest.

Real joy practice isn’t about being a beacon of light for everyone else. It’s about honoring what’s true for you.

Some days that looks like dancing in your kitchen.

Other days it looks like saying no to things that drain you.

Both are acts of self-love.

Joy without authenticity is just performance.

And you’ve been performing long enough.

What if the most radical thing you could do is stop pretending to be okay when you’re not?

Your real feelings aren’t inconvenient. They’re information.

Drop a 🎭 if you’re tired of performing happiness for other people.

09/24/2025

🌙 Perhaps you're here because part of your soul is calling for rest…

Something in you lingers on posts about slowing down.
You save content about honoring your energy.
You scroll past the “rise and grind” messaging because it doesn’t land in your body the same way anymore.

Maybe what we’ve been exploring in our practice is true:
💛 Rest isn’t weakness
💛 Downtime isn’t failure
💛 Saying “I can’t take on another thing today” might be deep wisdom, not a confession

Some of the most beautiful shifts happen when we stop fighting our need for rest and start honoring it.

Imagine a world where:
🌿 Being tired is met with compassion, not solutions
🌿 Rest is necessary medicine, not optional luxury
🌿 You can move at your own pace without endless explanations

What would unfold if you honored your need for rest as sacred, not something to overcome?

✨ Fall Into Hibernation Retreat ✨
📅 Oct 5 | 10am–4pm | $180
📍 Wizard Lake (30 min from Edmonton, 2.5 hrs from Calgary)
🌱 Give yourself permission to slow down
🍁 Learn how to rest without guilt
⛅ Walk away with practices that actually work
Therapy receipts provided

✨ We’re so excited to welcome Pat to the Nurtured Minds team! ✨Pat is a Master’s practicum student therapist in Leduc, A...
09/16/2025

✨ We’re so excited to welcome Pat to the Nurtured Minds team! ✨

Pat is a Master’s practicum student therapist in Leduc, Alberta, bringing a warm, compassionate, and nature-informed approach to counselling.

She creates a space where you can slow down, breathe, and explore your story without judgment.

Her passions include supporting clients through:
🌱 Grief and complicated loss
🌱 Trauma recovery
🌱 Burnout and overwhelm
🌱 Spiritual exploration and healing from religious trauma

With a background in expressive arts, community building, and body–spirit integration, Pat’s work is holistic, creative, and deeply supportive. 💛

If you’ve been thinking about starting therapy, Pat is now accepting new clients in our low cost therapy program — and she offers free 20-minute discovery calls so you can see if it feels like a fit.

Join us in giving Pat a warm welcome! 🌿

We’ve discovered that forest bathing offers something many haven’t yet experienced.It’s medicine for overwhelmed nervous...
09/15/2025

We’ve discovered that forest bathing offers something many haven’t yet experienced.

It’s medicine for overwhelmed nervous systems.

When we slow down among trees:
🍃Cortisol naturally drops
🍃Heart rate finds its rhythm
🍃Parasympathetic nervous system activates
🍃Your body remembers its capacity for rest

Trees have been offering their medicine to those who seek it for millennia.

Modern science is just beginning to understand what indigenous wisdom has always known.

Sometimes the most profound healing happens when we step outside conventional spaces.

Sometimes restoration looks like breathing with the forest and remembering we’re part of something vast and ancient.

Fall Into Hibernation Retreat - Oct 5, 10am-4pm - $180

Wizard Lake (30 mins from Edmonton, 2.5 hrs from Calgary).

𖠰 An invitation to give yourself permission to slow down.
𖠰 Learn how to rest without the weight of guilt.
𖠰 Walk away with practices that work when life gets overwhelming.

Therapy receipts provided.


Perhaps your body is whispering things about the season ahead.Some of us feel more tired as September arrives. We crave ...
09/12/2025

Perhaps your body is whispering things about the season ahead.

Some of us feel more tired as September arrives. We crave comfort foods, want to rest more, feel drawn to slower rhythms. These aren't flaws - they are ancient wisdoms.

Our ancestors moved with the seasons. They rested more as days grew shorter, gathered resources, and prepared for the experience of winter.

Yet we live in a world that often asks for summer energy year-round.
🌙 Constant productivity.
🌙 Always-on availability.
🌙 Perhaps this explains some of the weariness many of us carry.

What if we gently honored what our bodies craves?
What if we let ourselves need more rest as fall arrives?
What if slowing down wasn't something to resist?

In our work, we explore what it means to move with your natural rhythms instead of against them. We create space to discover what rest actually means for your nervous system.

Your body might be asking permission to turn inward a little.
Perhaps it's time to listen to that quiet knowing.

Fall Into Hibernation Retreat
📅 Oct 5, 10am–4pm | $180
📍 Wizard Lake (30 mins from Edmonton, 2.5 hrs from Calgary)
🌱 Give yourself permission to slow down
🍁 Learn how to rest without the weight of guilt
⛅ Walk away with practices that work when life gets overwhelming

Therapy receipts provided.

REGISTER HERE: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/fall-into-hibernation-a-one-day-forest-retreat-registration-1207916152729?aff=ebdsoporgprofile

✨ Do you ever find yourself standing in front of the fridge in the evening, wondering what on earth to make for dinner—a...
09/12/2025

✨ Do you ever find yourself standing in front of the fridge in the evening, wondering what on earth to make for dinner—and feeling like even that seemingly simple choice is suddenly overwhelming?

It's not our fault, it’s decision fatigue. 🧠

📊 Researchers at Cornell University estimate that we make around 35,000 decisions a day—while our hunter-gatherer ancestors only made a few hundred. Our nervous systems haven’t evolved much since then, but the pace of the world has. No wonder we’re exhausted.

In our latest blog, we dive into:
🌿 How constant decision-making impacts the nervous system
🌿 Why your brain isn’t designed for modern choice overload
🌿 Practical ways to reduce decision fatigue and nurture your wellbeing

👉 Read more and learn how to give your nervous system the care it deserves. Link in bio.

Ever wonder why you feel more tired in September? It's because your nervous system has seasons too.As days get shorter, ...
09/09/2025

Ever wonder why you feel more tired in September? It's because your nervous system has seasons too.

As days get shorter, your body starts preparing for winter. It's not depression. It's not laziness. It's biology.

Our ancestors slowed down when the seasons changed. They rested more, gathered resources, prepared for cold months ahead.

And these days we live in a world that demands summer energy year-round. Constant productivity. Always-on hustle. No wonder you're exhausted.

What if you listened to your body instead of fighting it?

What if you let yourself need more rest in fall and winter?

What if slowing down wasn't a character flaw but ancient wisdom?

In therapy, we help people work WITH their natural rhythms instead of against them. We explore what rest actually means and how to get it without guilt.

Your nervous system is asking permission to hibernate a little. Maybe it's time to listen.

🍃 Fall Into Hibernation Retreat - Oct 5, 10am-4pm - $180
🐌 Finally give yourself permission to slow down.
😴 Learn how to rest without feeling guilty.
🕒 Walk away with tools that work when life gets overwhelming.

Therapy receipts provided.

The number of times we’ve held space for things like “I can’t even handle basic stuff like meal prep and bedtime routine...
09/08/2025

The number of times we’ve held space for things like “I can’t even handle basic stuff like meal prep and bedtime routines” truly touches our hearts.

Because what we know: You’re not struggling because something is wrong with you.

Many people are just sharing their highlight reel while privately working through their own challenges.

The person with the gorgeous morning routine posts? They might have had several hard moments before creating that beautiful image.

In 1:1 therapy, we never try to force you into someone else’s blueprint.

We compassionately explore what actually nurtures and supports how YOUR wonderful brain works.

Maybe you need more gentle flexibility. Maybe you thrive with loving structure. Maybe you need permission to honor your own unique way of being.

All of that is absolutely perfect. All of that is completely workable with care.

DM us “ROUTINE” if you’re ready to stop feeling like you’re walking this path alone

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4810 50th Avenue, Suite 110
Leduc, AB
T9E6X9

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