Mindfully Nursed

09/12/2026

For those local to Cornwall

🌿 HELP US SPREAD THE WORD ABOUT SPIRIT TREE! 🌿

We would love a little help from our beautiful community. 💚

If Spirit Tree Yoga has been a place where you’ve found movement, relaxation, connection, friendship or simply a little space to breathe, would you consider sharing our flyer?

Every share helps introduce someone new to our community. Maybe there’s a friend who has always wanted to try yoga, someone looking for a place to unwind, or someone who simply needs a welcoming space to reconnect with themselves.

At Spirit Tree, we’re creating more than a place to practise yoga. We’re growing a community rooted in movement, breath, wellness, connection and belonging.

🌳 Please share our flyer to your page, local groups, or with someone you think might love Spirit Tree.

Small businesses grow through community, and every share truly helps our little tree reach new people. 🌱

Thank you for helping us grow.

Spirit Tree Yoga
🌿 Come Grow With Us 🌿

09/09/2026

Getting ready to speak with a group of nursing students this afternoon about community health nursing, mental health, and a part of nursing that still surprises a lot of people: nurses can provide psychotherapy.

I was invited by a former nursing classmate who is now teaching at the University of Ottawa, which makes this feel especially full-circle.

I’ll also be talking a little about my own path into mental health nursing, and why I think it matters for students to pay attention to the parts of nursing they actually feel drawn to.

There are so many ways to be a nurse.

09/05/2026

ACT is my jam

09/04/2026

These babies are LONG overdue. Which, at this point, is pretty on brand for me.

I’ve spent hours putting together different cards, brochures and resources for Mindfully Nursed, and they’re finally making their way out into the world.

I’m really proud of them. Not because they’re pretty (although I mean… they are), but because they actually feel like the business I’ve built. They feel like me. Like the kind of care I want people to experience when they find their way to Mindfully Nursed.

This week, some of them landed at Boho Lash + Spa in Smiths Falls. Boho is a space shared by a group of local women running their own small businesses, and I really love that they’ve made a little room for mine too.

There’s also something pretty great about having people outside of the mental health world say, yes, this matters and we’ll make space for it here.

09/04/2026

September 15th, Kent Guindon, Owner and Pharmacist of Kent's Respect RX Pharmasave Cornwall will be on site at Centre 105 to provide a free Naloxone training session. This essential training will teach participants how to recognize the signs of an opioid overdose and safely administer Naloxone in an emergency. The session is free and open to everyone.

Date: September 15th
Time: 1:00 PM
Location: Centre 105, 105 Second Street West
Cost: Free and Open to All

Join us to learn a valuable, potentially life-saving skill and help make our community safer.

08/21/2026

A little note that I’ll be away from the office next week, August 24–28.

Online booking will still be open, and I may check messages here and there, but replies will likely be a little slower than usual.

I’ll be back to regular appointments the following week.

Thank you for your understanding, and I’ll see you again in September. 🤍

Warmly,
Tara

08/20/2026

Self-awareness can be incredibly useful.

It can help you notice patterns sooner, understand where a reaction is coming from, and make choices with more intention.

But it does not make you immune to being human.

You can understand yourself well and still repeat an old pattern. You can care deeply about a relationship and still avoid a hard conversation. You can know exactly why you feel overwhelmed and still feel overwhelmed. You can need reassurance and still be capable.

Insight and change are related, but they are not the same thing.

Sometimes knowing more helps. Sometimes what matters next is practice, support, acceptance, boundaries, rest, or trying something different in real life.

Therapy can be a place to explore that gap between “I understand this” and “I’m still struggling with it.”

If that’s a place you’ve been finding yourself lately, I offer a free 15-minute discovery call to see if working together might be a good fit.

In-person in Cornwall, with virtual appointments across Ontario, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland.

Warmly,
Tara

08/17/2026

There are a few things I’m less interested in as a therapist.

Whether you’re doing therapy “right.”
Whether every feeling can be neatly explained.
Whether we can find a silver lining.
Whether every hard thing needs to become a lesson.

I’m much more interested in what matters to you, what actually helps, and what fits your real life.

That might mean making room for something difficult instead of trying to get rid of it. It might mean looking more closely at a pattern. It might mean practical problem-solving. It might mean noticing that the way you’ve been coping made sense for a long time, and also that it may not be working quite as well anymore.

Therapy, for me, is less about performing insight and more about making space for honesty, curiosity, and choices that feel more aligned with the life you want to be living.

If that sounds like the kind of therapy you’ve been looking for, I offer a free 15-minute discovery call to see if we might be a good fit.

In-person in Cornwall, with virtual appointments across Ontario, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland.

Warmly,
Tara

08/14/2026

You don’t have to be good at therapy to benefit from it.

You don’t need to arrive with the right words or a tidy story. You can understand the problem and still feel stuck. You can want depth and practical help at the same time.

My job is to help us slow things down enough to understand what is actually happening, what matters to you, and what might be useful in your real life.

Sometimes that means deeper reflection. Sometimes it means practical problem-solving. Usually it’s a bit of both.

I bring nearly two decades of nursing experience into the room with me, along with a therapy approach that pays attention to your body, your context, your relationships, and the life you have to go back to after the session ends.

You can disagree with me. You can be unsure. You can laugh. You can know a lot about yourself and still need support.

Therapy does not need to feel clinical, performative, or disconnected from real life.

If you’ve been thinking about starting therapy and wondering what it might actually feel like to sit across from me, I offer a free 15-minute discovery call.

In-person therapy in Cornwall + virtual appointments across Ontario, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland.

05/23/2026

A lot of people who start therapy with me are the ones everyone else depends on.

They’re functioning. Working. Parenting. Showing up for everyone around them. And at the same time, they’re overwhelmed, exhausted, disconnected from themselves, carrying stress in their bodies, or quietly wondering how long they can keep operating like this.

Those are the people I kept thinking about while building the new website.

I wanted someone landing there to quickly get a sense of who’s on the other side of the screen and the kind of care they can expect. Thoughtful. Grounded. Human.

One of the lines on the website says:
“You’ve done the hardest part.”

Because honestly, reaching out can feel incredibly vulnerable.

I’m really proud of how this turned out and grateful for everyone who’s been following along with this launch. 🤍