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Another Chapter Counselling 📚 Mental Health & Trauma Counselling
🏔️ Healing Isn’t Always Heavy
✨ Specialty: Healthcare Workers & Caregivers
📖 Joy Community Founder

By the end of the day, some people have spent more energy looking organized than actually getting anything done.Masking ...
10/15/2026

By the end of the day, some people have spent more energy looking organized than actually getting anything done.

Masking is the effort many ADHD adults put into appearing put-together, on time, and in control, even when the internal experience feels like scrambling the whole time. It's exhausting precisely because it's invisible work, nobody sees the effort, just the result. Over time, that gap between how capable you look and how depleted you feel can wear on a person in ways that are hard to explain to people who haven't lived it.

If this sounds familiar, you're not imagining the exhaustion.

You clock out, but your nervous system doesn't always get the memo.For healthcare workers and first responders, hypervig...
10/08/2026

You clock out, but your nervous system doesn't always get the memo.

For healthcare workers and first responders, hypervigilance isn't a personality trait, it's an occupational skill your body built to keep you safe on shift. The problem is that skill doesn't come with an off switch. It keeps scanning for the next emergency long after the emergency has passed, which is why rest can feel harder to access than it should.

Understanding this is the first step toward teaching your body it's actually safe to stand down.

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10/06/2026

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If you know me, you know my life has been one long collection of random side quests that somehow led me here…

😂 Stand-up comedian
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🏥 Psychiatric nursing background
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My pillars have always been Humour, Humanity & Hope. I believe there is so much magic in getting past the polished versions of ourselves and talking about the messy, hilarious, heartbreaking, deeply human stuff underneath.

Healing is hard, but it doesn’t have to be joyless.

I want to create a space where people can open their hearts, laugh loudly, feel deeply and have those beautiful little “ME TOO!” moments that remind us we’re not alone.

Basically… I want to find the glitter in the grit. ✨

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Humming isn't just something you do when a song gets stuck in your head.It's actually one of the simplest ways to reach ...
10/01/2026

Humming isn't just something you do when a song gets stuck in your head.

It's actually one of the simplest ways to reach your vagus nerve, the main highway between your brain and your body's calm state. The vibration from humming activates the same nerve pathways involved in slowing your heart rate and signalling safety to your nervous system. It's not a trick or a hack, it's basic anatomy your body has had access to the whole time.

Try humming for thirty seconds today, low and steady, and notice what shifts.

For a lot of people, rest doesn't feel restful. It feels like something to justify. 🎯The guilt that shows up during rest...
09/24/2026

For a lot of people, rest doesn't feel restful. It feels like something to justify. 🎯

The guilt that shows up during rest often has nothing to do with laziness. It usually comes from a long-standing belief that your worth is tied to output, and that stopping means falling behind.

Rest that comes with guilt still counts as rest, but untangling that guilt is often where the real work happens.

What's your relationship with rest like? Tell us in the comments.

One small thing goes wrong, and suddenly it feels like everything is wrong.That's emotional flooding. It happens when yo...
09/17/2026

One small thing goes wrong, and suddenly it feels like everything is wrong.

That's emotional flooding. It happens when your nervous system gets overwhelmed past its capacity and stops being able to sort a small stressor from a big one. In that state, a spilled coffee and a genuine crisis can feel identical in your body.

It's not an overreaction. It's a nervous system that's already near its limit before the small thing even happens.

Understanding this changes how you respond to yourself in those moments, and it's often the first step toward feeling less at the mercy of them.

If this sounds familiar, I'd love to help you understand what's happening and find your way back to steadier ground.

Free 15-minute consultation at anotherchapter.ca.

Sometimes the fastest way to calm down starts with your eyes, not your thoughts.Orienting is a simple somatic tool where...
09/10/2026

Sometimes the fastest way to calm down starts with your eyes, not your thoughts.

Orienting is a simple somatic tool where you slowly look around the room, letting your eyes take in real details in your environment. It signals to your nervous system that the present moment is safe, which is often more convincing to your body than any reassuring thought.

Try it right now and tell us how it felt.

Numbing out wasn't weakness. It was a skill that got you through something. ✨Shutting down emotionally when things felt ...
09/03/2026

Numbing out wasn't weakness. It was a skill that got you through something. ✨

Shutting down emotionally when things felt like too much wasn't a failure of character. It was your nervous system finding a way to survive an experience that had no other exit available at the time.

The skill that protected you then doesn't have to be the only tool you have now.

Reach out if you'd like support finding ways to cope.

Sometimes the hardest part isn't the event itself. It's the days leading up to it. 🎯Anticipatory anxiety is the dread th...
08/27/2026

Sometimes the hardest part isn't the event itself. It's the days leading up to it. 🎯

Anticipatory anxiety is the dread that builds before something happens, whether it's a hard conversation, an appointment, or simply an ordinary day that feels uncertain. Your body can respond to the anticipation as strongly as it would to the event.

That dread is real, even when the thing you're dreading turns out fine.

What's one thing that triggers this kind of dread for you? Tell us below.

People often come in thinking their problem is anxiety. Or burnout. Or that they're just not sleeping well.And sometimes...
08/20/2026

People often come in thinking their problem is anxiety. Or burnout. Or that they're just not sleeping well.

And sometimes, over time, it becomes clear that underneath the sleep disruption and the low energy and the difficulty concentrating and the way relationships feel like work, there's trauma doing its long, quiet work.

Trauma doesn't announce itself. It doesn't always look like flashbacks or obvious distress. Sometimes it looks like ordinary exhaustion that won't lift. A flatness you can't explain. A nervous system that was asked to work overtime for too long and hasn't yet had the chance to fully rest.

This isn't weakness. It's a physiological reality, and it responds to physiological care, which is part of why body-based therapy can reach what talk therapy alone sometimes doesn't.

If any of this resonates, I'd gently encourage you to book a free consultation.

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

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