Whole Self Wellness

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We built Whole Self Wellness to be the kind of place we wish more people had access to. 💙A space where you do not have t...
09/03/2026

We built Whole Self Wellness to be the kind of place we wish more people had access to. 💙

A space where you do not have to separate your mental health from your spiritual life. Where your complexity is welcome. Where warmth and clinical expertise exist in the same room. Where healing can look like EMDR with one of our therapists on a Tuesday, and Reiki with Tara on a Thursday, and you bring all of yourself to both. This is the vision behind everything we do. We are here when you are ready.

Book a free no-fee consultation and take the first step. wholeselfwellness.ca.

What is DBT, and who is it designed for? 💡Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is a skills-based approach developed origin...
08/27/2026

What is DBT, and who is it designed for? 💡

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is a skills-based approach developed originally for people experiencing intense emotional distress. It teaches four core skill sets: mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotional regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness. DBT is particularly helpful for people who feel emotions very intensely, struggle with self-destructive patterns, or find relationships difficult to navigate. It has also shown strong results for people dealing with trauma, eating disorders, and depression.

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Healing can feel harder before it feels easier. Here is why that is actually a sign you are doing the work. 💙When you be...
08/20/2026

Healing can feel harder before it feels easier. Here is why that is actually a sign you are doing the work. 💙

When you begin processing trauma, old wounds that were buried become visible. When you start setting boundaries, relationships shift. When you practice new patterns, the old ones pull harder for a while. This is not therapy making things worse. It is therapy making things true. The discomfort of healing is different from the pain that brought you there. And it moves.

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The version of you that started therapy and the version of you right now are not the same person. That is the whole poin...
07/23/2026

The version of you that started therapy and the version of you right now are not the same person. That is the whole point.

Sometimes it is only when we look back that we can see how far we have come. The fears that used to stop you in your tracks. The relationships you stayed in because you didn't know you could leave. The way you used to speak to yourself in the hard moments. Healing does not announce itself. It just slowly, quietly makes you more like yourself.

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Acupuncture is a practice rooted in the understanding that the body holds its own intelligence for healing. By placing f...
07/16/2026

Acupuncture is a practice rooted in the understanding that the body holds its own intelligence for healing. By placing fine needles at specific points along the body's meridian pathways, acupuncture helps regulate the nervous system, reduce inflammation, improve circulation, and release the physical patterns that chronic stress, anxiety, and trauma leave behind in the tissue.

For people who carry their experiences in the body — whose nervous systems rarely feel safe enough to fully settle, who notice tension, pain, or physical dysregulation alongside emotional distress — acupuncture offers something distinct. It is a somatic entry point into regulation and rest that does not require words, conscious processing, or revisiting what is difficult. It simply works at the level the body is ready for.

At Whole Self Wellness, acupuncture is offered as part of an integrative, whole-person approach to care — alongside therapy, EMDR, reflexology, and Reiki — because healing rarely happens in one dimension alone.

Book a no-fee consultation at wholeselfwellness.ca to learn more.

Reiki is a Japanese energy healing practice rooted in the understanding that the body carries its own innate capacity to...
07/09/2026

Reiki is a Japanese energy healing practice rooted in the understanding that the body carries its own innate capacity to heal — and that when energy flow becomes blocked or disrupted, physical, emotional, and spiritual wellbeing can all be affected.

A Reiki session involves a practitioner gently placing or hovering their hands over specific areas of the body, working to support the release of energetic blockages and restore a sense of balance and ease. Sessions are non-invasive, fully clothed, and guided entirely by what the body is ready to receive. Many clients describe a deep sense of calm during and after a session — a settling that is difficult to name but unmistakable in how it feels.

For clients who carry stress, trauma, or emotional weight that talk-based therapy has not yet been able to fully reach, energy healing offers a different kind of entry point into the healing process.

It is not separate from the therapeutic work happening at Whole Self Wellness. It is part of it.

Book a no-fee consultation at wholeselfwellness.ca to learn more.

What conditions does EMDR treat? More than most people know. 🎯EMDR is best known as a trauma treatment, and it is highly...
07/02/2026

What conditions does EMDR treat? More than most people know. 🎯

EMDR is best known as a trauma treatment, and it is highly effective for PTSD and complex trauma. But EMDR has also been shown to be effective for anxiety, depression, phobias, grief and loss, disordered eating, and addiction. The common thread is that these conditions often involve memories, associations, or nervous system patterns that are stuck in a distressing state. EMDR helps the brain reprocess those stuck points.

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Whole Self Wellness welcomes Miyang Lee, Acupuncturist, to the clinic. From Miyang Lee: I'm a Registered Acupuncturist (...
07/01/2026

Whole Self Wellness welcomes Miyang Lee, Acupuncturist, to the clinic.

From Miyang Lee: I'm a Registered Acupuncturist (R.Ac) focused on supporting clients with pain management, stress reduction, and overall well-being through holistic care.

My interest in health and wellness began in South Korea, where I studied Food and Nutrition and worked in education, teaching and supporting students.

After moving to Canada, I spent several years as a restaurant owner and currently work as a barber in Winnipeg. Through these experiences, I developed firsthand understanding of how physical work, long hours, and repetitive movement can lead to chronic pain and stress in the body, including neck and shoulder tension, low back pain, and headaches. My personal experience with acupuncture also helped me find relief from these symptoms, which deepened my understanding of how acupuncture can support recovery and balance.

Acupressure is included in all acupuncture treatments, and cupping therapy or gua sha may be added depending on each client’s condition.

For inquiries or to book an appointment, please contact:

Email: [email protected]

Text: 204-881-0500

Some days in therapy you will leave feeling lighter. Some days you will leave feeling like you opened something you didn...
06/25/2026

Some days in therapy you will leave feeling lighter. Some days you will leave feeling like you opened something you didn't know was there. Both are healing.

The path through grief, trauma, anxiety, and loss is rarely a straight line forward. Progress can look like tears during a session that finally let something through, or a week where old patterns come back and you have to choose again. We do not measure healing in milestones alone. We measure it in the moments you choose to keep going.

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Whole Self Wellness is pleased to now offer Acupuncture! Please email alanna@wholeselfwellness.ca for more information.
06/18/2026

Whole Self Wellness is pleased to now offer Acupuncture!
Please email [email protected] for more information.

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