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Nurturing Roots Therapy, Coaching & Wellness

A place to rest, restore, and grow.

We offer psychotherapy, osteopathy, Reiki, somatic embodiment, and retreats to help you feel grounded, nourished, and alive. 🌱

New clients are warmly welcome!

✨Begin your journey: https://nurturingroots.janeapp.com

02/02/2026

You’re not behind.
You’re not failing.
You’re not lacking discipline or motivation.

You’re functioning on a depleted nervous system and that changes everything. So many people we meet are doing all the right things: showing up, caring deeply, holding families and businesses and responsibilities together…all while their system has been in survival mode for far too long.

When your nervous system is overextended, even rest can feel ineffective. Even small tasks can feel heavy. Even “doing enough” never quite feels like enough.

This isn’t a mindset issue.
It’s a capacity issue.

And capacity isn’t restored by pushing harder,
it’s rebuilt through safety, attunement, and support over time. Healing doesn’t mean fixing yourself. It means having a place where your system can soften, settle, and begin to trust again.

If this landed in your body as you read it, you’re not alone 🤍. And you don’t have to carry it by yourself.

✨ If this post feels like something you’d want to come back to, save it. If someone you love feels chronically overextended, share it with them.

And if you’re curious what gentle, nervous-system-informed support could look like for you, a discovery call is simply a place to explore - no pressure, no fixing, just conversation.

01/29/2026

Practitioner Spotlight…Meet Amelia 🌱

If you’ve ever spent time with Amelia, you know there’s a steadiness to her presence that makes things feel a little less overwhelming. She’s one of our Psychotherapists here at Nurturing Roots - the kind of person who helps you feel understood without needing to rush or fix anything right away.

Amelia offers a thoughtful, nervous-system-informed approach to psychotherapy, supporting people to gently untangle anxiety, stress, and emotional overwhelm while staying connected to what’s happening in the body. Her sessions are a place where you can slow down, make sense of what you’re carrying, and build tools that actually feel usable in real life.

She works especially well with people who feel burnt out, stuck, or unsure why they’re feeling the way they do, helping them reconnect with themselves, strengthen emotional regulation, and move forward with more clarity and self-trust.

Amelia believes healing happens in relationship when you feel safe enough to be honest, curious, and compassionate with yourself. Therapy with her isn’t about pushing through; it’s about creating enough steadiness for insight and change to unfold naturally.

When she’s not in session, Amelia enjoys quieter moments, being outdoors, and finding simple ways to recharge - the same grounded energy she brings into the therapy room.

Curious what working with Amelia might feel like? Book a session or a discovery call and see why so many people leave feeling more settled, supported, and a little more themselves.

01/26/2026

If slowing down feels uncomfortable, you’re not alone and you’re not doing it wrong.

Many people expect rest to feel instantly calming. But when a nervous system has spent years staying alert, productive, or braced, stillness can feel unfamiliar at first.

That discomfort isn’t a sign of failure. It’s information.

It can be your body saying, this is new, not this is wrong.

In our latest blog, we explore why slowing down can feel so hard and why growth often begins long before things feel peaceful in the body.

There’s no need to push yourself into rest or make it feel a certain way. Noticing what shows up, at your own pace, is already part of the process.

If this resonates, let it be a gentle reminder today: you’re allowed to move slowly, and nothing about you needs fixing. 🌱

01/22/2026

Practitioner Spotlight…Meet Pamela 🌿

If you’ve ever spent time with Pamela, you’ll notice it right away - a grounded, steady presence that makes your body exhale before your mind even catches up.

Pamela offers Integrated Reiki & Somatic Sessions here at Nurturing Roots, blending gentle energy work with breath, awareness, and body-led movement. Her work is subtle, intuitive, and deeply respectful of your nervous system’s pace.

These sessions are especially supportive when:

🌱 words feel hard to find

🌱 your body feels tense, shut down, or overstimulated

🌱 stress or past experiences are living more in your body than in your thoughts

Pamela has a beautiful way of listening, not just to what you say, but to what your body is communicating underneath it all. She helps create the conditions for your system to soften, release, and reconnect, without pushing or forcing anything to change.

She often describes this work as inviting safety back into the body, so regulation can come first and clarity can follow in its own time.

When she’s not supporting clients, Pamela is usually drawn to quiet moments, reflective practices, and the kind of slowing down she also invites others into. Her presence reminds us that healing doesn’t have to be loud or effortful to be powerful.

Curious if Integrated Reiki & Somatic care might be right for you? You’re warmly welcome to book a session or a discovery call and experience what it’s like to be met gently, fully, and without needing to explain everything 🤍

01/19/2026

Real change doesn’t come from pushing harder or doing more.

It comes from steady, predictable experiences that help the nervous system feel safe enough to respond differently over time.

Your body isn’t something to fix or override. It’s been adapting, protecting, and carrying you through a lot.

Consistency - being met again and again in small, supportive ways - creates the conditions for change to unfold naturally.

Not through intensity.
Not through pressure.

But through rhythm, relationship, and trust in the body’s wisdom.

If you’re drawn to support that works with your nervous system, at your pace, you’re welcome to explore what feels right for you 🤍

01/15/2026

So many parents, caregivers, and high-functioning professionals are praised for their strength while quietly running on empty.

When you’re seen as “the strong one,” support often stops coming. People assume you’ve got it handled. Your nervous system knows the truth.

Your body doesn’t measure success by productivity.
It measures safety, support, and sustainability.

Chronic tension, fatigue, irritability, pain, or shutdown
aren’t personal failures - they’re signs of a system that’s been carrying too much for too long.

You don’t have to stop being capable.
You don’t have to give everything up.

You just don’t have to do it alone anymore 🤍

01/12/2026

If you’ve ever wondered “w am I reacting like this?”
or “wdoes my body feel so tight all the time?”

There’s nothing wrong with you.

Emotions are not abstract experiences, they’re physiological. They move through muscles, breath, posture, and the nervous system.

When emotions don’t have space to be felt, named, or expressed, the body does what it knows how to do…it holds.

Over time, that holding can look like…

🌱 Chronic tension or pain
🌱 Irritability or short fuse
🌱 Shutting down or feeling numb
🌱 Pushing through exhaustion
🌱 Reacting in ways that don’t feel like “you”

This isn’t weakness or lack of self-control. It’s your nervous system trying to protect you.

Understanding this connection changes everything. It replaces self-blame with compassion. It invites curiosity instead of judgment. And it opens the door to gentler, more sustainable healing.

At Nurturing Roots, we support the whole picture -
mind, body, and nervous system - because lasting change doesn’t come from forcing behaviour,
it comes from listening to what the body has been holding.

01/08/2026

Slowing down doesn’t always mean stopping.

Sometimes it looks like adjusting the load instead of abandoning the path. Listening sooner instead of pushing longer. Choosing enough instead of chasing more.

For nervous systems moving through full lives - work, parenting, caregiving, pain, responsibility - slowing down has to be gentle, realistic, and doable to last.

It can look like shortening your to-do list instead of pushing through it. Creating systems that reduce thinking, not add to it. Choosing the pace that matches your energy, not your expectations.

This is what we practice at Nurturing Roots…not perfection, not withdrawal, not “doing less” for the sake of it but learning how to move through life with more awareness, support, and self-trust.

That shift matters.
Your body feels it.
Your nervous system responds to it.

And yes - that counts. 🤍

Save this for the days you need permission to do things differently.

📍 Midland & online
🌱 Nervous-system-informed care for stress, pain, and overwhelm

01/05/2026

Feeling so grateful for these incredible people we get to work alongside each day and also call our friends.

Humans I care about deeply.

People who show up with so much heart, who get down on our girl’s level, and who will teach her about kindness and care.

It meant so much to finally slow down, connect, and celebrate the year and the season together. I’m so beyond grateful for this community we’re building together.

Amelia, you were so deeply missed and are such an important part of this team and our family 🤍

12/31/2025

December 31 doesn’t always feel like closure. Sometimes it feels like a pause mid-sentence.

For some, this day is full of celebration, reflection, and relief. For others, the heaviness didn’t lift just because the calendar is changing. Both can be true.

Instead of resolutions, I’m choosing a word to carry into 2026. Not as a goal but as a way of meeting myself.

For me, that word is gentleness.

🤍 Gentleness in how I speak to myself when things feel unfinished.

🤍 Gentleness in how I move through days that still feel tender.

🤍Gentleness in remembering that healing doesn’t need a clean slate to begin.

If it feels supportive, you might choose a word too,
not to fix yourself, but to guide how you want to be this year. And if you’d like, you’re welcome to share it here.

If you’re walking into the new year tired, unsure, or still holding a lot…you’re not behind.

You’re human. And you’re still becoming 🤍

12/29/2025

As the year closes, it’s easy to focus on what didn’t happen.

The goals that stayed ideas.
The habits that didn’t stick.
The energy we thought we’d have but didn’t.

If you’re carrying quiet disappointment about the version of yourself you hoped to be by now, you’re not alone.

We see this not as a lack of effort, but as a nervous system that was responding to real life.

Sometimes what didn’t get done tells a truer story than what did…a body that needed rest, a season that asked for survival, or priorities that quietly shifted.

You don’t have to rewrite the year to move forward.
You can honour it exactly as it was.

And when you’re ready, growth can begin from a place of compassion, not pressure. 🤍

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12/23/2025

This season can hold many things at once.

Connection and exhaustion.

Joy and tenderness.

Moments that feel full and moments that feel heavy.

As the year winds down, we want you to know how grateful we are to be part of your world. Whether you’ve walked through our doors regularly, quietly followed along, or found us during a tender chapter; your presence here matters.

If the holidays feel nourishing, we hope you savour that.

If they feel complicated, we hope you move through them gently.

There is no right way to do this season.

May you find small pockets of ease, moments of grounding, and reminders that you don’t have to carry everything alone. However you’re arriving here, we’re holding space for you.

Warmest wishes from all of us at Nurturing Roots 🤍

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267 King Street
Midland, ON
L4R3M4

Opening Hours

Monday	11am - 6pm
Tuesday	11am - 6pm
Wednesday	9:30am - 7pm
Thursday	9:30am - 7pm
Friday	10am - 6pm

Telephone

+17055289240

Website

http://nurturingrootstherapy.ca/

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