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Another Chapter Counselling 📚 Mental Health & Trauma Counselling
🏔️ Healing Isn’t Always Heavy
✨ Specialty: Healthcare Workers & Caregivers
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Nervous system regulation isn't about never getting stressed. It's about being able to come back.Think of it like a rubb...
06/18/2026

Nervous system regulation isn't about never getting stressed. It's about being able to come back.

Think of it like a rubber band. Regulation isn't about keeping it from stretching. it's about making sure it can return to its resting state rather than staying stretched, or snapping.

When we don't have tools for coming back, stress accumulates. The window gets smaller. Things that used to be manageable start to feel like too much.

The good news: the nervous system is plastic. It can learn. It responds to repetition. which means small, consistent practices actually change things over time.

This carousel breaks down three practices you can use to build your window of tolerance, one day at a time.

They don't require a lot. Just a little intention, done regularly.

Free 15-minute consultation at anotherchapter.ca

Got to work today and happily saw some gifts from Jane 😃I am a huge supporter of businesses who want to see their custom...
06/15/2026

Got to work today and happily saw some gifts from Jane 😃

I am a huge supporter of businesses who want to see their customers THRIVE ✨

Jane App is one of those companies 💕 Thank you for brightening my day!!

There's a voice a lot of us have. the one that says you shouldn't still be struggling. That you should be further along....
06/11/2026

There's a voice a lot of us have. the one that says you shouldn't still be struggling. That you should be further along. That other people handle harder things without falling apart, so what's your problem.

That voice is lying.

Overwhelm isn't a sign that you're weak or fragile. It's a sign that you're human, and that your nervous system is doing what nervous systems do when they've been running on too much for too long.

The first step. genuinely, not just as a platitude. is naming it. Not analyzing it. Not fixing it. Just: this is overwhelming, and that's real, and I'm allowed to say so.

If you've been white-knuckling it alone, you don't have to keep doing that.

Book a free 15-minute consultation with Paige at anotherchapter.ca. virtual throughout BC, in-person in Kelowna.

Depression doesn't always look like crying in bed.Sometimes it looks like going through the motions perfectly well. Show...
06/04/2026

Depression doesn't always look like crying in bed.

Sometimes it looks like going through the motions perfectly well. Showing up, doing the things, answering the emails. and feeling absolutely nothing underneath.

Sometimes it looks like numbness. Like the lights are on but you're not really home. Like you're watching your own life from a slight remove and can't figure out how to get back in.

Sometimes it looks like exhaustion that has nothing to do with how much you slept. Or irritability that doesn't match the situation. Or a flatness that you keep explaining away because it's not dramatic enough to count.

If you recognize any of this: it counts. You don't have to hit a particular low to be worthy of support.

Depression is treatable. And body-informed, trauma-sensitive therapy often reaches places that medication and talk therapy alone don't.

Free 15-minute consultation at anotherchapter.ca

05/28/2026

Shame has a particular texture. It's not just guilt about something you did. it's a belief about who you are.

And it thrives in exactly one condition: silence.

When we don't name shame, it grows. It shapes how we move through the world, who we let close, what we allow ourselves to want. It tells us we're the exception. that other people can be messy and imperfect and still okay, but we cannot.

Paige's training in shame-informed care shapes almost everything that happens in the therapy room. Because underneath so much of what brings people in. anxiety, burnout, difficulty asking for help. there is usually shame doing its quiet, corrosive work.

You don't have to be doing it wrong to deserve support. You just have to be human.

Free 15-minute consultation at anotherchapter.ca. in-person Kelowna, virtual across BC.

Most people know stress is mental. Fewer realize how much of it lives in the body.Tight jaw. Held breath. Shoulders brac...
05/21/2026

Most people know stress is mental. Fewer realize how much of it lives in the body.

Tight jaw. Held breath. Shoulders braced for impact even when nothing is happening. A restlessness you can't quite explain. A tiredness that sleep doesn't fix.

These are your body's stress responses. not personal flaws, not laziness, not overreacting. They're patterns that developed because at some point, staying alert and contracted kept you safe.

Somatic tools work by giving your nervous system a different experience. not by telling it to relax, but by gently, slowly showing it that it's okay to let go.

This carousel shares 4 body-based practices to help you start releasing what's been stored.

They're small. They're simple. And they're a lot more powerful than they look.

Book a free 15-minute consult with Paige at anotherchapter.ca

This one is for the people who measure their day by what they got done.Who feel a quiet guilt when they rest. Who have a...
05/14/2026

This one is for the people who measure their day by what they got done.

Who feel a quiet guilt when they rest. Who have a hard time sitting still without justifying it. Who find it easier to help everyone else than to ask for a single thing.

Your worth was never in your output. It was never in how efficient you are, how much you hold together, how rarely you need anything.

You are allowed to take up space simply by being here.

That's not a productivity tip. It's not a mindset hack. It's something that needs to be felt in the body. and that's work. Real work. The kind therapy is actually for.

If self-compassion feels harder than it should, you're not alone. And you don't have to figure it out by yourself.

Free 15-minute consultation with Paige at anotherchapter.ca. virtual sessions available across BC.

Grief doesn't follow a script.Sometimes it shows up as tears. Sometimes as anger that feels bigger than the situation. S...
05/07/2026

Grief doesn't follow a script.

Sometimes it shows up as tears. Sometimes as anger that feels bigger than the situation. Sometimes as a completely inappropriate laugh at a funeral. Sometimes as nothing at all. a numbness that worries you more than the sadness would.

All of it is grief. All of it is normal. And none of it has a timeline.

One of the things that complicates grief is the pressure to do it right. to be sad but not too sad, to move on but not too quickly, to feel whatever you're supposed to feel in the order you're supposed to feel it.

But grief doesn't work that way. It works in waves, in spirals, in silences. It comes back when you thought you were done with it. It asks to be felt, not managed.

If you're in a complicated season of loss and not sure what you're feeling or why. that's okay. You don't have to have it figured out to reach out.

Free 15-minute consultation at anotherchapter.ca

04/30/2026

There's a reason you can know, intellectually, that you're safe. and still feel terrified.

Trauma doesn't live where logic does. It lives in the body. In the part of your brain that was shaped by survival, not reason. When something in your environment echoes what happened before, that part of your brain doesn't wait for you to think it through. it acts.

That's not you being dramatic. That's not weakness. That's your nervous system doing exactly what it was built to do.

Understanding this changed how I work with trauma. and it changes how clients experience themselves. When you know that your reaction is a biological response, not a character flaw, something shifts.

If you've been hard on yourself for the way your body responds to things, this one's for you.

Free 15-minute consultation at anotherchapter.ca. in-person in Kelowna, virtual throughout BC.

Talk therapy is powerful. But some of what we carry doesn't live in our thoughts. it lives in the tension in our shoulde...
04/23/2026

Talk therapy is powerful. But some of what we carry doesn't live in our thoughts. it lives in the tension in our shoulders, the tightness in our chest, the way we brace before walking into a room.

Somatic experiencing works with the body, not just the mind. It helps your nervous system complete what it started. so instead of endlessly processing the same stories, you begin to actually feel different.

This carousel walks through 4 body-based practices you can use right now to resource your nervous system and create a little more room to breathe.

Start where you are. That's always enough.

Book a free 15-minute consultation with Paige at anotherchapter.ca

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