Center for Greater Healing

05/07/2026

Big news, friends! Equality Toledo is moving!
Our office and Equality Toledo Community Pantry will be relocating from
📍 1301 Jefferson Ave, Toledo, OH 43604
to our new temporary home at
📍 125 S Superior St, Toledo, OH 43604
While this may not be our forever home, we are incredibly grateful to everyone involved in helping make this transition possible and for welcoming us into the space. Community support like this means everything to us.
As we prepare for the move, our pantry program will temporarily pause Monday hours until we are fully settled into the new location.
Our remaining pantry days at the current location will be:
🗓 Wednesday, May 6
🗓 Saturday, May 9
🗓 Wednesday, May 13
Our next open pantry day at the new location will be Saturday, May 23rd.
Please note: Wednesday pantry hours will also be changing from 5:30–7:30 PM to 6:00–8:00 PM moving forward.
Youth Group will still meet every 2nd and 4th Tuesday — now in our new space!
Good news for pantry guests: the new location includes a free parking lot available while accessing pantry services.
Thank you all for your patience, support, and continued belief in the work we do. We’re excited for this next chapter and can’t wait to welcome you into the new space soon!

05/06/2026

Mental health is deeply shaped by connection, safety, and care.

During Mental Health Awareness Month in May, we’re reminded that healing is supported through relationship—with ourselves and with others. 💜

05/04/2026

05/01/2026

TOMORROW!!
Hope to see you at the CAC tomorrow at 11am!

Trans support group meets next week!
Saturday, May 2nd at 11am in the Pride Room at Collingwood Arts Center!
Coffee and snacks provided. Opportunities to gather, support one another, and maybe play some board games.

When you enter the CAC, go through the double doors and turn right to go down the hallway! You will pass a gymnastics/aerial studio area, the Pride Room is the third(ish? I think 😅) door on the left!

04/30/2026

Many survival responses get mislabeled as personality.

“Too reactive.”
“Avoidant.”
“Lazy.”
“People pleaser.”

Sometimes those are nervous system patterns shaped by trauma, chronic stress, or environments that didn’t feel safe.

Fight. Flight. Freeze. Fawn.

Not flaws.
Adaptations.

04/24/2026

Trans support group meets next week!
Saturday, May 2nd at 11am in the Pride Room at Collingwood Arts Center!
Coffee and snacks provided. Opportunities to gather, support one another, and maybe play some board games.

When you enter the CAC, go through the double doors and turn right to go down the hallway! You will pass a gymnastics/aerial studio area, the Pride Room is the third(ish? I think 😅) door on the left!

04/21/2026

Sometimes it’s hard to tell what’s “sensory” and what’s “trauma.”

For many people, it’s not one or the other.

A nervous system that processes input more intensely + a nervous system shaped by stress or threat can overlap in real ways—like overwhelm, shutdown, or needing more control over your environment.

That doesn’t make you “too sensitive.”

It means your system is doing its best to keep you safe.

You don’t have to push through discomfort to prove anything.
You’re allowed to listen to your body and build safety from there.

04/18/2026

Job fair in Michigan, dedicated to hiring trans folx! April 30th in Ferndale!

Transgender Michigan April Newsletter - https://mailchi.mp/transgendermichigan/apr2026news
Spring Trans Job Fair

04/13/2026

Neuro-affirming therapy isn’t about helping you act more “typical.”
It’s about creating a space where your brain is understood—not corrected.

Too many people have had therapy experiences where they felt pressured to mask, perform, or override their needs.

Therapy can be flexible.
Collaborative.
Sensory-aware.
And grounded in the belief that your ways of coping, communicating, and existing make sense.

04/08/2026

Trauma is held in the body.
In the nervous system.
In the protective patterns that helped you survive.

Integrative trauma therapy works with all of that—not just your thoughts.

We don’t see your responses as “maladaptive” or something to fix.
We understand them as adaptations—ways your system learned to survive.

Instead of correcting thoughts or pushing change, we get curious about:
• what your body is holding
• how your nervous system responds
• the parts of you working to protect you

Using approaches like IFS, EMDR, somatics, ACT, and Compassionate Inquiry, this work is:
✨ experiential—not just cognitive
✨ affirming—not pathologizing
✨ collaborative—not corrective

You don’t have to override yourself to heal.
Your system adapted for a reason—and healing can honor that.

04/02/2026

Autism Acceptance Month invites us to move beyond awareness and toward respect, understanding, and listening to autistic voices.

Neurodiversity-affirming care recognizes autism as a valid neurotype — not something to fix or erase.

From a trauma-informed perspective, many autistic people have had to navigate environments that misunderstood their needs, from sensory overwhelm to pressure to mask or appear “typical.” These experiences can take a real toll on the nervous system.

Acceptance means creating spaces where people don’t have to hide who they are in order to be supported.