Wellness Through Connection

05/12/2026

☺️ Things that are making life a lil’ easier …

✉️ Mail from friends

🏳️‍⚧️ Seeing local restaurants support our trans community

🍃 Botanical gardens! The sights! The smells!

🐾 Spending time with pet pals

🌹 Making art

🌅 Sunsets

🫶🏻Eating Persian food

☁️Watching clouds go by

🎥Looking through old photos

🎂Buying an icecream cake because it is somebody’s birthday somewhere

💐Fresh flowers at your coffee spot .wpg

👡👔Thrifting

🎭 Local theatre

🪐 Signs from the universe

📸 WTC

05/08/2026

🌈 Try Therapy 🌈

I would trust friends and family with any of these skilled and compassionate practitioners. Follow or connect with .perspectives.wpg and/or for more details.

03/27/2026

Positive Perspectives and Wellness Through Connection birthed a new student consult group today called ✨Wellness Through Perspectives✨

The Graduate Students from both practices came together to connect about all aspects practicum related.

It can be commonly heard that private practice can feel isolating and so we wanted to foster community that brings together the triumphs and challenges of our work.

Student lead peer groups are a beautiful way to combine experience in the field with wisdom and fresh insights✨
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Shoutout to .perinatalwellness for the space and for the wonderful creations 🍩

03/17/2026

hope in uncertainty by -jennae cecelia-

let the questions breathe.
the ones that keep circling your mind. while you wash dishes or sit at red lights. you don’t have to have the answers yet. some things are meant to unfold slow and out of order.
maybe the job doesn’t call back. or the plan changes again. but your favorite song finds you in the grocery store.
someone texts you out of nowhere just to say they were thinking of you. you realize this is what hope looks like. not clarity, but comfort in the in-between. not certainty, but noticing that light hits the floor even when you’re unsure where to step next.
-jennae cecelia-

03/04/2026

Story time about my lil’ dream…

You know that feeling when you wake up from a dream that feels so intense and meaningful that you want to tell somebody about it right away?

That was my experience last night. I dreamt that a New World order was put in place.

Leaders from opposing ideologies who wanted to go to war would first have to enter an art room and create something together.

It could be a painting, a quilt, a dance, a mural, a play, a poem, etc. The instructions were clear. Create something beautiful without ego & without using any words.

I woke up feeling hopeful and excited to share this dream. It seemed to open up a world of possibility and another way of navigating conflict.

Imagine this is what we had to do with the people in our lives when interpersonal volcanoes erupted?

Instead of harming with bombs and words, we would depart the interaction with something beautiful. Time together and an art piece combining different perspectives, different possibilities.

Did you know that research shows that the opposite of creativity is maladaptive and harmful behaviour?

Makes you think, if we don’t create for the sake of it, the consequences can be dire. Art is medicine and a tonic for desperate times.

Thank you for attending story-time!

🎨WTC

02/05/2026

Traveler, There Is No Road
Machado, “Caminante, no hay camino/
Antonio Machado

Traveler, there is no path.
The path is made by walking.

Traveller, the path is your tracks
And nothing more.

Traveller, there is no path
The path is made by walking.

By walking you make a path
And turning, you look back
At a way you will never tread again

Traveller, there is no road
Only wakes in the sea.

Caminante, son tus huellas
el camino y nada más;
Caminante, no hay camino,
se hace camino al andar.
Al andar se hace el camino,
y al volver la vista atrás
se ve la senda que nunca
se ha de volver a pisar.
Caminante, no hay camino
sino estelas en la mar.

📷 taken on Treaty 1 Territory at The Leaf for the Fleurs de Villes exhibit. These lands are the traditional territory of the Anishinaabeg, Cree, Oji-Cree, Dakota, and Dene peoples, and homeland of the Métis Nation.

01/26/2026

01/23/2026

🌀Today’s letter is brought to you by the letter F🌀

As in how Fun is this donut created by where 100% of the purchase proceeds go directly to the Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization of Manitoba!

F as in F**k Ice.

Go get one and support a beautiful cause in a chaotic time 🍩

Thankyou so much for the sweet message and delicious donut!

01/15/2026

🎂 We are 6 Years Old! 🎂

It has been 10.5 years social working and 6 years of Wellness Through Connection for Lana & every beautiful soul involved!

Big gratitude to the following who have made the work that we do possible:

✨Our clients who trust us with their hearts & stories. Healing is done in community and we wouldn’t exist without your beautiful courage and inspiring authenticity

✨Breanne Jones- Founder of Cedar Mountain Wellness who we rent from and who is so wonderful to work alongside. Your leadership is inspiring and we so appreciate all that you are and all that you have supported and are building for community! You are awesome! .perinatalwellness

✨All of our students whose warmth, perspectives, wisdom, lived experiences and skill have helped Lana improve her own supervisory skill set. Big shout out to: Jessica, Sobiyah, Autumn, Finn, Breanne, Gabby, Sidney, Jessica D, Shadé, and Brooke!

✨Vicki Verge, Clinical Supervisor to Lana who always ensures that Lana is leading with a lens that is self reflexive, ethical & consistently centres client wellbeing and safety

✨Adolfo DaCosta, WTC Admin Assistant who keeps Lana on track with the business, financial + logistical aspects of running a private practice

✨🐾 Beez and Marsha fur bb’s and WTC mascots along with the great big loving community of friends, family and chosen family who embrace this work and Lana in all of her wacky, weird + wonderful wildness. Thank you for reminding Lana to take care of basic needs first and foremost so that she can show up as a hydrated, fed, and overall regulated human for herself and for clients!

More thanks in the comments ⬇️

🎂THANK YOU!🎂

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01/14/2026

Sipping on this reminder today! Thanks

Realized the placement is hard to read but whatever. It says “your worth is not measured by your productivity.” 😌

12/18/2025

🎉 Welcome Brooke 🥳

✨Looking for affordable therapy? This is your sign. Welcoming Brooke Van Ryssel! ✨

WTC warmly welcomes our Graduate Student as she embarks on her 8 month practicum placement with us in the New Year!

✨Graduate Student Therapist Offerings✨

• $70 per 50-minute session with options to go lower upon request

• Virtual & In-person availabilities including evenings and weekends

• FREE 15 minute consultations with no obligation

📣 If you or someone you know could benefit from this service, feel free to connect directly with Brooke who is an eager, compassionate and a very skilled individual looking forward to meeting you!

✨ A little more from Brooke ✨

Hi, I’m Brooke (she/her). I’m a Master’s in Counselling Psychology student and will begin offering therapy in January 2026, practicing under supervision at Wellness Through Connection. Being a human is complex and moving through the world isn’t always easy. Whether you are navigating chronic stress, old hurt that still lingers, identity exploration, or simply trying to make sense of the world around you, you deserve a space where you feel safe, respected, and understood. You are the expert on your own life; I’m here to hold space and support you in reconnecting with the wisdom and strength you already carry.

As a bi/queer person who lives with chronic pain, I show up with a deep commitment to accessibility, authenticity, and honouring the many forms resilience can take. My approach is collaborative, anti-oppressive, and trauma-informed, drawing largely from humanistic, person-centred, emotion-focused, narrative, and strength-based therapies.
Entering therapy is a brave and meaningful step. You deserve support that honours your lived experience, centres your humanity, and meets you where you are. If you’re curious about working together, I’d be honoured to connect and explore whether this space feels right for you.

📧 therapybybrooke@gmail.com
📱 431-600-7640
💻

✨WTC