What is Care❔ You can’t support mental health if your nervous system is unchecked. 🧠 Care is not just what we say. It’s how we enter a room. How we respond under pressure. How we hold power. How we regulate ourselves before trying to hold someone else. When we are rushed, reactive, or avoiding discomfort, harm can happen - even with good intentions. DO BETTER means slowing down enough to be safe to receive. Because regulated bodies create safer conversations. And safer conversations create safer communities. When you purchase DO BETTER, you’re helping fund trauma-responsive, peer-led care that prioritizes embodiment, consent, and relational safety. 🫶🏾 Support community-rooted care 🫶🏾 Wear the message 🫶🏾 Share with intention Shop here: https://www.teaocanada.com/shopteao or link in bio. #DoBetter #EmbodiedCare #TraumaResponsive #CollectiveCare

Reminder: Somatic Peer Support - This Evening (Online) A gentle reminder that our Somatic Peer Support space is happening this evening. A peer-led space. Offered biweekly on Wednesdays. When? Wednesday, February 11 6:45 PM EST and every other Wednesdays. Where? Online This is a trauma-responsive, non-clinical peer support space grounded in embodiment, choice, and nervous-system-aware care. There is no expectation to share, perform, or arrive feeling “ready.” You are welcome as you are. If you’ve been feeling stretched, overwhelmed, or simply needing a place to slow down with others, this space is here for you. Register here: https://linktr.ee/TEAOCanada #PeerSupportSpaces #SomaticSupport #TraumaResponsiveCare #CommunityCare #TEAOCanada

🫶🏾👏🏾🙌🏾 We’re grateful to Little Mushroom for hosting TEAO Canada to support our community care initiatives. This evening is about: • Joy and connection • Grassroots fundraising • Sustaining trauma-responsive programs ♥️♥️♥️ — come join us! Repost from @littlemushroomdininglounge • Lots of exciting events in the Lounge this month! 💘🍷 To make a reservation go to the link in our bio or email lounge@littlemushroomcatering.com. #funactivities #community #trivia #love #collectivehealing

Trauma Informed Circles: Peer Support Spaces Our Trauma-Informed Care Circles are not support groups, therapy sessions, or spaces for fixing. They are collective nervous-system spaces—designed for people who are tired of performing wellness and are longing to simply arrive. In these circles, embodiment means we slow the pace enough for the body to catch up. We center consent, choice, and non-urgency so participants can notice what it feels like to be with others without pressure to speak, explain, or heal on demand. Presence is the practice. Witnessing is the medicine. As a collective space, the circle reminds us that healing does not only happen in isolation or in clinical rooms—it also happens when our bodies experience safety together. When we sit in shared humanity, our nervous systems learn something new: I don’t have to carry this alone. This is why the circle exists. 
For community members across Cambridge, KW, and beyond—anyone who feels aligned to travel—this space offers a return to self through community. A place where rest is allowed, silence is respected, and belonging is not earned. You are welcome exactly as you are. Reminder: Trauma-Informed Care Circle – Tonight in Cambridge and every other Wednesday’s! 
📍 Cambridge Public Library – Hespeler Branch
🕕 Wednesday, February 4 | 6:45–8:00 PM
♥️ Free • Community-based • Non-clinical Registration is stays open: https://linktr.ee/TEAOCanada or LINK IN BIO or drop in! #TraumaInformedCare #CommunityCare #PeerSupport #CollectiveHealing #EmbodiedCare

Learn Black History so We Can Unlearn the History You Were Taught ♥️🫶🏾: Collective Healing Edition TEAO Canada Educational Corner: If you were raised inside systems shaped by whiteness, the history you were taught was never neutral. It centered comfort over truth, omission over honesty, and control over humanity. To learn Black history is to unlearn the distortions that quietly shaped unconscious bias, stereotypes, and the narrow lens many of us inherited. Embodied Learnings: Unlearning matters because Black History Month was never meant to be a single chapter of pain or a 28-day pause. It exists because Black life has always been full, expansive, and alive—celebrated 365 days a year. When we unlearn, we stop relating to Blackness only through trauma and begin to feel the truth of Black joy, creativity, intelligence, wisdom, love, brilliance, dignity, resilience, and legacy. This is not about guilt. It’s about responsibility. And relationship. And becoming honest about what was kept from us. As shared and taught by Terence Lester (@imterencelester ): Black History Month is about Black joy, Black intelligence, Black wisdom, Black strength, Black creativity, Black love, Black excellence, Black hope, Black dignity, Black determination, Black perseverance, Black resilience, Black brilliance, and Black legacy. And no matter how much people try to erase it—this seems to remain true. Embodied Equity: Unlearning is not a loss. It’s a return to truth. ⬇️ #DecolonizeTheMind #EmbodiedEquity #SystemicTruth #CollectiveHealing #DoBetter

You are the Community. Community Care Happens Because People Show Up. ♥️ At TEAO Canada, our work is sustained by volunteers, peer support personnel, facilitators, and community members who believe that healing and care should be accessible, relational, and rooted in dignity. Each month, we continue to grow a network of individuals choosing to support others through trauma-responsive, community-based care. From peer support spaces to workshops and circles, this work is shaped by lived experience and collective responsibility. If you’ve been looking for a way to contribute meaningfully to your community, we invite you to explore volunteering with us or learning more about our peer support pathways. • Volunteer with TEAO Canada • Learn about Peer Support & Training • Complete an Peer Support Matching Intake Form to be matched for support to one of our Trauma Responsive Care Personnel (Free) *all link to register and find more information about in our bio https://linktr.ee/TEAOCanada ⬆️ This work is made possible through community trust and the support of our funders Waterloo Region Community Foundation; City of Kitchener and partners Cambridge Public Library who continue to invest in care that centers safety, choice, and compassion Together, we are expanding what community care can look like. #CommunityCare #PeerSupport #VolunteerWithUs #TraumaResponsive #CollectiveHealing TEAOCanada

DO BETTER isn’t merch. It’s a mirror. 🪞 A reminder that healing is a practice. Accountability is embodied. And doing better starts with us — every day, in how we show up for ourselves and each other. When you wear DO BETTER, you’re not claiming perfection. You’re choosing awareness. Repair. Responsibility. Community. 🖤 Purchase from our shop 🖤 Tag us wearing your DO BETTER piece 🖤 Share the message — let it ripple SHOP PAGE (teaocanada.com): https://www.teaocanada.com/shopteao or link in bio. Every purchase supports trauma-responsive, community-rooted care through TEAO Canada. Because doing better isn’t loud. It’s lived. #DoBetter #EmbodiedAccountability #TraumaResponsiveCare #CollectiveHealing #CommunityCare WearTheMessage TEAOCanada

Strengthening Community Care Through Peer Support Training We’re nearly sold out for this weekend’s Peer Support Certification Training, and we want to take a moment to say thank you. 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾 To the leaders, practitioners, parents, caregivers, and community members who have chosen to step into this work — your commitment to learning, unlearning, and practicing care with intention matters.♥️ This training is about more than acquiring skills. It’s about building the capacity to support others ethically, safely, and responsively, while understanding the responsibility that comes with holding space in community. We are grateful to the Waterloo Region Community Fund @wrcommfdn for supporting this sliding-scale, online offering, helping to increase access to trauma-responsive, embodied peer support training across Waterloo Region. To everyone joining us this weekend: we’re honoured to learn alongside you as we continue strengthening community-rooted care together. #WaterlooRegion #NonprofitLeadership #MentalHealthTraining #CollectiveCare #CapacityBuilding