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I live and work on the lands of the lək̓ʷəŋən peoples, today comprising of the Songhees and Esquimalt nations, as well as the W̱SÁNEĆ peoples, the W̱JOȽEȽP (Tsartlip), W̱SIKEM (Tseycum), and SȾÁUTW̱ (Tsawout), MÁLEXEȽ (Malahat), and BOḰEĆEN (Pauquachin) nations.

Come on in, the water's great!

After 5 years in practice I'm so excited to be taking this step at Selkie. Some of you may know that throughout my counselling degree, I was also working as a volunteer coordinator and trainer for our local sexual assa

Sometimes talking about self-worth in session feels bizarre 😵

Oppressive systems have worked so hard to divorce us from our inherent belonging and worthiness.

I don't believe in building self-worth in the therapy room because I don't believe it's

more context 👇🏻

Growing up with emotional neglect makes us see ourselves like we're looking into a fun house mirror.

Children understand who we are by having ourselves reflected back to us from the adults around us. When our caregivers are emoti

Thank you to everyone who came to my live Q&A on Wednesday!

We had a great conversation about:
🙃 what anti-fatness/diet-culture steals from our relationship to caring for ourselves
🦭 how to support clients while also gently calling out discrim

Last call to join us on Wednesday!

Anti-fat bias is a tricky subject - it continues to be so disregarded in education and the social norms of fatphobia run incredibly deep.

This is your chance to have a full hour Q&A with me to ask all your cl

It's almost here!

I've been so happy to support the Queer & Trans Farmers' Market since their first year, and it's been incredible to see community come together to keep it going for it's third year now 🥰🌈

Details:
11am until 6pm, August 22nd

Wh*teness consumes, erases, assimilates, suppresses, destroys.

In place of real culture that's rooted in people and place, wh*teness creates a new culture, one based on it's foundational tenant of supremacy: diet-culture and anti-fatness.

We're n

Moralizing food without context looks like normal social expectations. With context, it looks like ongoing colonization.

(This quote is from "My Grandmother's Hands" by @resmaamenakem - a.k.a. a foundational text for everyone in helping pr

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