06/24/2026
You do not have to hate yourself into healing. Change does not have to be all-or-nothing. 🦋
Introducing Meeting Yourself: A Harm Reduction Approach to Coping — a compassionate, non-judgmental two-part workshop exploring the coping behaviors we use to survive stress, trauma, overwhelm, and emotional pain.
Moving beyond abstinence-based approaches, this space centers self-awareness, dignity, and realistic change that honors your current capacity.
Topics include shame-free self-reflection, safer alternatives, boundary setting, self-compassion practices, and sustainable goal setting.
🗓️ Part 1: Monday, July 20th, 7:00–9:00 PM
🗓️ Part 2: Monday, July 27th, 7:00–9:00 PM
For women and gender-diverse individuals navigating stress, trauma, emotional overwhelm, or substance use concerns.
Trauma-informed, non-abstinence-based, skills-based.
Facilitated by Dina Yacoub, counselling student.
Spots are limited — email [email protected] or call 604-736-5262 to register.
Serving the DTES community since 1971.
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Promotional poster for the Vancouver Women's Health Collective's free workshop series, titled "Meeting Yourself: A Harm Reduction Approach to Coping." The background is a soft beige collage style featuring pressed dried flowers, a vintage butterfly illustration, an open cassette tape, and faint handwritten script. The VWHC rainbow logo appears at the top with the text "Since 1971."
A quote at the top reads: "You do not have to hate yourself into healing. Change does not have to be all-or-nothing."
The poster describes the workshop as a compassionate, non-judgmental space to explore coping behaviors used to survive stress, trauma, overwhelm, and emotional pain, moving beyond abstinence-based approaches toward self-awareness, dignity, and realistic change.
A list titled "Topics we'll explore" includes: what harm reduction really means, the function of coping behaviors, shame-free self-reflection, safer alternatives and practical tools, boundary setting and incremental change, self-compassion practices, and sustainable goal setting.
Schedule details list two sessions: Part 1 on Monday, July 20th, 7:00–9:00 PM, and Part 2 on Monday, July 27th, 7:00–9:00 PM.
A section titled "Who this is for" states the workshop is for women and gender-diverse individuals navigating stress, trauma, emotional overwhelm, or substance use concerns, describing it as trauma-informed, non-abstinence-based, and skills-based.
The facilitator is introduced as Dina Yacoub, a counselling student based in Port Moody, BC. Her bio describes her passion for supporting women in navigating relationships, healing from harm, and strengthening wellbeing, grounded in trauma-informed, anti-oppressive, and harm reduction principles. As a future couple's therapist, she facilitates conversations about relationships, boundaries, safety, and self-worth in a warm, collaborative, non-judgmental way.
A circular badge reads "Limited Spots."
Contact details at the bottom list an email ([email protected]) and phone number
(604-736-5262) to register, along with the organization's website (womenshealthcollective.ca), social handle (), and the note "Serving the DTES community since 1971." A small illustration of a heart made from collaged paper appears near the bottom.
