Wisemind Wellness

09/22/2026

Have you experienced an intimate partner violence-caused brain injury? Are you looking to make connections and get support?

Together We Thrive is a free, monthly online peer support group for survivors of IPV-caused brain injury.

A trained facilitator helps guide each group, creating space for survivors to connect, learn, share, and grow.

Registration is now open for four nationwide groups, launching this October. Head to soarproject.ca/together-we-thrive to learn more.

Together We Thrive is made possible through funding from Women and Gender Equality Canada / Femmes et Égalité des genres Canada (WAGE/FEGC).

08/30/2026

08/01/2026

Staying present with boys’ emotions as they grow is an important part of parenting them.

07/19/2026

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07/19/2026

Anger is a justified response to abuse and feeling anger is a healthy part of the healing journey for trauma survivors.

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07/14/2026

Life After Impact is a program that supports adults who have experienced brain injuries, including concussions, and gender-based violence.

05/19/2026

The ACE Study followed over seventeen thousand people and found something the medical world could no longer ignore. Childhood trauma is not just a mental health issue. It is a public health crisis hiding in plain sight inside every doctor’s office, emergency room, classroom, and prison in the country.

The study measured ten categories of adverse childhood experiences including abuse, neglect, and household dysfunction. What researchers found was staggering. The more adverse experiences a child had, the higher their risk for heart disease, cancer, diabetes, depression, addiction, su***de, and early death. Not slightly higher. Dramatically higher.

Two thirds of participants reported at least one adverse childhood experience. One in five reported three or more. These are not rare edge cases. This is the quiet background of millions of ordinary lives.

And yet childhood trauma remains one of the least funded, least discussed, and least addressed areas in mainstream healthcare. People are treated for the symptoms while the root cause goes unnamed, unacknowledged, and unhealed.

Every statistic in that study is a person. Possibly someone you know. Possibly you.

The first step toward changing a crisis is naming it. This community exists because naming it matters. 💙

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05/13/2026

This is very true. Healing is about recognizing your pattern of survival response and learning how to support yourself to live your best life. It’s lifelong. Often developing a community of others on that same path can give strength when the going gets tough.

04/19/2026

We can support you in your healing path from childhood trauma.

04/15/2026

Dissociation can be easily overlooked in children and is one of the ways we survive traumatic experiences when escape or fight aren’t possible. Our bodies release endogenous opioids which numb and distance us from pain and fear. With kids who have experienced trauma, this lack of focus can interfere with learning.

When your client glances away mid-session, is it distraction—or something more?

According to Harvard-trained psychiatrist and trauma expert Frank Anderson, dissociation is one of the most underrecognized phenomena in clinical work—not because it's rare, but because most of us are trained to be on the lookout for the dramatic version and missing everything else. The subtle glance away. The client who's always in their head. The shutdown that gets labeled depression.

These are all points on a spectrum we're only beginning to understand.

In this conversation with the Networker's editor in chief Livia Kent, Anderson demystifies dissociation, challenges some of the field's assumptions about IFS and parts work, and offers a bottom-up, body-first approach to helping clients come back to the present. He also makes a compelling case that "dissociation" itself might need a new name—one that honors the survival intelligence behind it rather than pathologizing it.

🔗 Read the full interview here: https://bit.ly/4sEgMVY