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Healing spaces provides a warm and welcoming place with our main focus on supporting you move towards the life you dream for yourself!

We focus on counselling support for anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, chronic pain, and chronic illness. Healing Spaces believes strongly in transparency and ensuring you growth and healing is the priority.

10/30/2026

We’re often very quick to turn difficulty into a motivation problem.

So we reach for discipline.

Push harder. Set the timer. Make the list. Hold yourself accountable.

And sometimes that works.

But if you've been trying to force yourself through the same barrier over and over, I’m much more interested in the barrier.

"𝗜 𝗰𝗮𝗻'𝘁 𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝗺𝘆𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳 𝘁𝗼 𝗱𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀” 𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻.

Just information worth getting curious about.

10/29/2026

One of the most frustrating experiences is knowing exactly what would probably help you — and still being unable to do it.

It can look ridiculous from the outside.

Sometimes it feels ridiculous from the inside.

𝘑𝘜𝘚𝘛 𝘚𝘌𝘕𝘋 𝘛𝘏𝘌 𝘌𝘔𝘈𝘐𝘓.

Except the problem often isn’t knowing that the email needs to be sent.

There may be uncertainty about the response. Six invisible steps involved. A demand attached to it. Decision fatigue. Executive functioning barriers. Perfectionism. Fear. Sensory overload. Or simply no capacity left.

Understanding the barrier changes the intervention.

Because if the problem isn’t knowledge, 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗱𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗯𝗹𝘆 𝗶𝘀𝗻’𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝘀𝘄𝗲𝗿.

And shame definitely isn't.

10/27/2026

Slow is allowed. 🤍

Healing doesn't come with a deadline. Your nervous system moves at the pace it needs to feel safe, and that pace is worth honouring.

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10/23/2026

One reason neurodivergent people can go unidentified for years (particularly people whose presentations don't match outdated stereotypes) is masking.

We often mistake someone's ability to 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝗲𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗼𝘂𝗿 for evidence that the behaviour comes naturally or without cost.

Those aren't the same thing.

And sometimes the person masking doesn't even recognize they're doing it.

When you've spent years monitoring yourself, suppressing needs and adjusting to the people around you, it can simply feel like:

𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘴.

Until it doesn't.

Until exhaustion, burnout or changing life demands make that level of adaptation harder to maintain.

Which is why the question isn't simply whether someone 𝘤𝘢𝘯 appear socially capable.

We need to be curious about what's happening underneath.

🌱 We are here.

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10/22/2026

We need to retire the idea that appearing capable tells us how much support someone needs.

A person can appear articulate, employed, academically successful, socially engaged, parenting, running a business or doing all the things we're taught to associate with “functioning"....
and still be struggling significantly.

This is part of why functioning labels have been so harmful.

They describe what 𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗼𝗯𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗲.

They don't tell us about effort.
Recovery time.
Sensory overwhelm.
Executive functioning.
Internal distress.
Or how much of someone's capacity is being spent appearing okay.

𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀?
𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗱𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁?
𝗔𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘄𝗮𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗳𝘂𝗻𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺?

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10/20/2026

We don't always get to know all the parts of who we are!

Isn't that magical?

What about you will you reveal next?

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10/20/2026

Even the heaviest moments move. You don't have to stay stuck in this one, and you don't have to move through it alone. 💚

We're here, at Healing Spaces (Kamloops + North Van + virtual across BC)

10/16/2026

Our team of counsellors has knowledge and training and experience.

However, none of that makes us omniscient and none of that makes us the expert on you!

You (the other person on the sofa) have spent a lifetime living inside yourself. You know what it’s like for you more than anyone else.

Sometimes we notice something our clients haven't noticed yet.

Sometimes our clients tell us we missed something or correct us.

We aren’t prescriptive, we are collaborative. We bring experience and theories and you bring yourself. Together we find our way to support you to getting where you hope to be.

💚 You got this

🌱 We are here.

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10/15/2026

October 10 was World Mental Health Day, and the 2026 theme centres lived experience: “𝗟𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗱 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗱: 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝘃𝗼𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀, 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲.”

Clinical training gives us frameworks and research gives us information.

However, experience gives us perspective.

We don't have to choose between professional knowledge and lived experience.

The best work happens when both are allowed into the room.

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10/13/2026

Rest isn't a reward. It's regulation. 🤍

Your nervous system isn't built to run on empty. Taking a pause isn't laziness, it's how your body finds its way back to steady.

At Healing Spaces (Kamloops + North Van + virtual across BC), we take a 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘂𝗺𝗮-𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗲𝗱, 𝗻𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗮𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗿𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 approach that makes room for nervous system awareness—without pathologising.

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Kamloops, BC
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http://healingspaces.center/

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