Educational Corner 🫶🏾♥️♥️ Repost from @nikeaurea • Community isn’t just your workplace or your group chat. It’s your friend circle. Your book club. That retreat you paid for. That “safe space” someone swears by. These are all the spaces I’m no longer shrinking in to keep the peace. #community #inclusion #leadershipskills #communitysupport

🔔 Call for Board Members – Join TEAO ~ Canada’s Growth Journey ~ Reclaiming Healing. Reshaping Systems. Rooted in Community. 📢 As TEAO Canada enters an exciting new growth stage as a federally incorporated not-for-profit, we are expanding our Board of Directors. We are calling in values-aligned individuals with a heart for collective healing, systemic transformation, and radical care. This is a critical moment in our journey—and your voice could be the one we’ve been waiting for. We are not a traditional trauma and mental health organization. We are a movement grounded in embodied healing, cultural safety, and liberation-focused care. Our work centers racialized, Indigenous, and marginalized communities—often unseen in mainstream systems—and we operate with a shared accountability to the communities we serve. 🪴 What Makes TEAO Canada Different? We work at the intersection of trauma, justice, and embodiment. We believe trauma is political, relational, and systemic—not just individual. We centre the wisdom of lived experience. Our programs, trainings, and healing circles are co-created with those most impacted by systemic harm. We embody care as culture. TEAO Canada doesn’t “do” trauma work—we live it. We show up in our own bodies to hold space for collective healing, grief, joy, and transformation. We disrupt the “them vs. us” binary. Our approach is relational, not hierarchical. Everyone involved—whether staff, board, volunteer, or participant—is part of the circle of healing. 🎯 As a Board Member, You Will: * Govern with shared accountability. * Support the mission and strategic direction of TEAO while co-stewarding community trust, resources, and growth. * Champion anti-oppressive and trauma-informed values. * Engage in critical conversations around systemic inequity and support TEAO’s commitment to decolonial and community-rooted practices. * Support financial oversight and fundraising. 🔔 This Is More Than a Seat at the Table… This is a circle of change. ➡️ To Express Interest: Please email info@teaocanada.com ➡️ with resume & short statement about why you’re interested in joining our Board #boardofdirectors #teaocanada

Us in Community. ♥️ There’s nothing like being in community with people who care! Last night at the Grows Lang Community @growcommunitycentre @langscommunity Picnic, we felt the LOVE—from our growing TEAO volunteer team (shoutout to Apurva and our growing team!) to the vibrant energy of our local partners and neighbours. Gratitude to everyone who stopped by our booth, shared stories, and reminded us why building with community is the heart of what we do. Much love to @rhythmandbluescambridge, @foodbankwatreg, and all the incredible organizations who showed up in spirit and service. Healing happens here. In connection. In collaboration. In care. #TEAOCanada #CommunityCare #TraumaInformed #HealingInCommunity #VolunteerLove #RootedInResilience

Educational Corner: Checking Biases, Collectively. ‼️🫶🏾 reposted from @youth_mental_health #bias #discrimination #sterotypes #prejudice #intersectionalitymatters #socialjustice #humanrights #youthmentalhealth #childmentalhealth #studentmentalhealth #socialdeterminantsofhealth Credit: @cartoon.called.life Cartoon Called Life

Resilient Voices Weekly: We love creators — the artists, musicians, writers, and makers who pour their hearts into expression. And we love you — the ones who show up, rise up, and keep going, even when the world doesn’t see the battles you’ve fought. #shareyourstory #shareforshare We don’t talk about childhood trauma enough. Too often, people are quick to judge, never knowing the storms someone has endured. These images (powerfully and deeply artistic by Takisha Brown @kishaa__ ) are dedicated to you — whoever you are — may you find healing, hope, and reminders that you are never alone. ❤️‍🩹 We see you. We are so glad you keep pushing. And we are so proud of you. #CommunityCare #WeSeeYou #KeepGoing #ChildhoodTraumaAwareness #HealingJourney #ProudOfYou Repost images from @kishaa__

🌿 Our Peer Support Team Grew! We’re thrilled to welcome 8 newly upcoming certified peer support volunteers to the TEAO community! These dedicated folks completed our 2 day Peer Certification: Mental Health First Aid Training& Trauma-Responsive Care & Systemic Impact Awareness last week and will now be supporting communities across the GTA + Waterloo Region starting this Fall. #staytuned. This isn’t about fixing others—it’s about showing up with presence, offering embodied support, and creating culturally safe spaces for healing. They’ve committed to: 🌀 3 hours of community service 🌀 3 hours of collective care in our outreach 🌀 Holding space for crisis without judgment Thank you for choosing to support others with compassion, courage, and care. We see you. 📍Ontario | TEAO Canada | Trauma-Informed Peer Support #PeerSupport #CommunityCare #TEAOCanada #TraumaResponsive #GTA #WaterlooRegion #HealingTogether #MentalHealthAwareness #SupportNotStigma #SomaticHealing #VolunteerLove

Amplifying Voices: This message is deeply resonant for Black & Indigenous women who have been conditioned—by family, culture, and systems—to wear strength like armor, even when it’s crushing them inside. ♥️ Repost from @violadavis • They praised our strength but never asked if it was hurting us. If no one told you lately: You are allowed to choose softness. You are allowed to fall apart and rebuild slowly. You are allowed to stop being everything for everyone. And still be worth loving. Still be enough. Your softness is not a weakness. It’s your birthright. Your resistance. Your power. We’re unlearning the myth. We’re reclaiming our softness. And we’re finally choosing ourselves. Read the full piece: The Myth of the Strong Black Woman And the Softness She Deserves. blackartmatters.substack.com 🔁blackartmatterss #writersofinstagram #writer #explorepage #fypシ #relatable #reels #igdaily #pain #mentalhealth #abandoned #child #truth #inspire #explore #identity

Educational Corner: Reposted by @blackandbrownparenting 🫶🏾♥️ #resourcesharing When parenting mimics colonization, we raise our children with the very tools that harm us. 🧠 With a degree in South Asian & African colonial history and years of parent coaching and speaking, I help Black and Brown communities connect the dots between colonization, cultural programming, and how we raise our children. I speak on 📣 ● Why conscious parenting is urgent for communities shaped by colonization. -● Empowering marginalized voices to lead and thrive. ● Unlearning cultural programming and reclaiming who you are as a black or brown woman. Link in bio to book me as your speaker! Let’s GOOOO #culturalconversations #breakthecycle #generationalpatterns #generationaltraumahealing #consciousparenting #parentingwithlove #culturalcompetency #culturalconsultant #ididntturnoutfine

🪴 “We need to be weapons of mass construction, weapons of mass love. It’s not enough just to change the system. We need to change ourselves.” – Assata Shakur 🪴 At TEAO Canada, we believe true healing and liberation are rooted in this wisdom. Transforming oppressive systems is essential — but so is transforming our own hearts, bodies, and minds. 👉🏾 Weapons of mass construction means we actively build, repair, and restore — in ourselves, our families, and our communities. 👉🏾 Weapons of mass love means we move from a place of care, compassion, and connection, not just rage or resistance. 👉🏾 System change without personal change can leave us repeating harmful cycles. As we dismantle what no longer serves us, we must also embody the futures we wish to create — rooted in love, justice, and collective care. ♥️ Let’s be builders of belonging. Let’s be healers of inherited wounds. Let’s be powerful agents of mass love. #AssataShakur #CollectiveHealing #Liberation #TraumaInformed #CommunityCare #MassConstruction #MassLove #SomaticJustice #TEAOCanada #EmbodiedHealing