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- Engagement 0.17%
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About Nicole Brown Faulknor
Nicole Brown Faulknor (@wounds2wings) is a Medical & health creator on Instagram, also filed under Healthcare. The account has 47,391 followers and 3,423 published posts. Recent posts average 75 likes and 13 comments, an engagement rate of 0.17%.
With 47.4K followers, Nicole Brown Faulknor is a micro creator by the common 10,000 to 100,000 definition. Nicole Brown Faulknor follows 2,582 accounts, so the audience is roughly 18 times the size of the list followed. Nicole Brown Faulknor carries Instagram's verified badge and is set up as an Instagram business account. Flinque files Nicole Brown Faulknor under Medical & health, with Healthcare as a secondary category.
The Instagram bio for Nicole Brown Faulknor runs to 19 words across 5 lines. The bio tags #therapy, #ptsd, #cptsd and #trauma. The bio mentions @teao_canada. The latest activity Flinque has on record for Nicole Brown Faulknor dates from April 2026.
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3,423 Posts
Of the 10 most recent posts shown for Nicole Brown Faulknor, 5 are carousels, 3 are single images and 2 are videos. No single format accounts for most of them. With 3,423 posts published, Nicole Brown Faulknor's archive runs well past the 2,000 mark. Against the audience, that is roughly 14 followers for each post published. Nicole Brown Faulknor also keeps 7 story highlights on the profile. All 10 carry captions, averaging 178 words each. The captions are written mainly in English. Words that recur across them include trauma, work, embodiment, systemic and collective. The captions tag #collectivecare, #traumaresponsivecare, #embodiedhealing, #mentalhealthawareness and #teaocanada.
A space where people can exhale.
A space where conversations become connection.
A space where embodiment becomes action through body movements.
Our Collective Care Series: Special Offering is not just about learning trauma-informed language — it’s about experiencing what care feels like in the body, in relationship, and in community.
Through guided conversation, embodied education, reflection, and gentle movement, we explore how healing is not only personal — it is systemic.
Because movements are not created through information alone.
They are created when people feel safe enough to connect, reflect, and imagine something different together.
At TEAO Canada, we are committed to creating embedded support within existing systems — supporting people before crisis, not only after it. We work within the gaps of the mental health care system to increase accessibility for those who continue to face barriers to care, belonging, and support.
This is what embodied care can look like:
💭 Community instead of isolation
💭 Prevention instead of crisis-only intervention
💭 Relationship instead of transaction
💭 Accessibility instead of exclusion
Join us as we create a space that feels less like a program and more like coming home to yourself and others.
📍 The Branches, Kitchener
🗓️ Friday, June 12, 2026
🕠 5:45 PM – 7:00 PM
🫶🏾 $10 Community Contribution
Register Here: 🔗link in bio
#TEAOCanada #CollectiveCare #TraumaResponsiveCare #EmbodiedHealing #MentalHealthAccessibility
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Your life slowly forms around what you repeatedly choose, tolerate, and return to. Small decisions become patterns, and patterns become direction. Whatever holds your attention gains power over you, while the things you avoid quietly continue shaping your life from the background. Your standards are revealed through what you keep excusing, what you continue investing in without return, and what you allow to stay unresolved. Unfinished decisions drain more energy than clear endings ever do. What you carry without releasing begins to affect how you move, think, and respond. Change starts when you recognize that every repeated choice is building your normal. Growth happens when your actions begin aligning with what you already know, when you redirect your focus intentionally, and when you stop feeding what no longer belongs in the life you actually want to create.
#NervousSystemHealing #TraumaResponsive #EmbodiedHealing #MentalHealthAwareness
What’s your fav? ⬇️
#FindYourInspiration
#PersonalGrowthJourney
#MindsetShift
#HealingInCommunity
“Wow... that must hurt.”
Not because of what they said to you, but because of what it reveals about how they may speak to themselves.
The way we treat others is often an extension of our relationship with ourselves.
A person at peace rarely needs to diminish another person.
A person who feels worthy rarely needs to prove their worth through someone else’s suffering.
A person who has learned compassion often extends it naturally.
This doesn’t excuse harmful behaviour. Boundaries still matter.
But sometimes the most powerful realization is this:
Not everyone is fighting you. Some people are fighting themselves, and you’re simply standing close enough to hear the battle.
How people treat you may tell you very little about your value and a great deal about their inner world.
The question becomes:
When someone shows you how they treat themselves through the way they treat others, can you recognize that without making it your burden to carry?
#HealingJourney #TraumaAwareness #SelfCompassion #EmotionalWellbeing #MentalHealthMatters
It points to the difference between:
Reconciliation = repairing relationships, acknowledging harm, improving dialogue, creating inclusion within existing systems.
Liberation = transforming the conditions that created the harm in the first place so people can actually live, breathe, exist, and belong freely.
For many people, especially communities impacted by racism, colonization, poverty, violence, displacement, or systemic trauma — reconciliation can sometimes feel incomplete if the system itself has not changed.
Liberation speaks to:
•freedom from survival mode
•freedom from constant over-explaining or proving humanity
•freedom from systemic punishment for existing differently
•freedom to rest, feel safe, belong, and be fully human
reclaiming body, culture, voice, land, identity, and dignity
From a trauma and embodiment lens, liberation is also deeply nervous-system based.
A reconciled system may say:
“You are allowed at the table now.”
A liberatory system asks:
“Why was the table built in a way that harmed people to begin with?”
Healing may not only be about coping better within harmful systems, but transforming the systems and internalized beliefs that keep people disconnected from safety, agency, and humanity.
#LiberationOverReconciliation #TraumaResponsiveCare #CollectiveHealing #EmbodiedJustice #SystemicChange
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The tidiness is not the point. The fear underneath it is.
OCD is an anxiety disorder built around a misfiring threat response. The brain detects danger where none exists, generates an intrusive thought to match, and the compulsion becomes the only available relief. Checking, cleaning, repeating, avoiding. None of it is about preference. All of it is about fear management.
The thoughts target whatever matters most to the person. That is not an accident. That is how OCD works. The distress is the point. And the person having the thoughts is almost always the last person who would ever act on them.
Your brain is not broken. It is stuck in a loop it never asked to be in.
Follow for content that finally explains what is actually happening in your brain.
#OCD #OCDawareness #mentalhealthawareness #intrusivethoughts #anxietydisorder
Everything and everyone is a messenger - listen, observe, breathe to hear your messages, if you can.
I was today years old when I learned If you feel it in your chest it’s fear
If you feel it in your stomach it’s intuition
If you feel it in your head it’s anger
If you feel it in your muscles it’s anxiety If you feel it in your mouth it’s disgust, If you feel it in your throät it’s sadness If you feel it in your face it’s shame If you feel it throughout your body it’s happiness 💭🤔
Do you like our ‘do better’ merch check out our shop page here or 🔗 in bio.
#leadership #success #happiness #life #quotes
Honoured to share that I’ve been named the recipient of the Health & Wellness Award at the Black Excellence Awards 2026 For exceptional contributions to health, healing and well-being.
Due to an unexpected early departure, I had to leave about 45 minutes before the evening ended and later learned of this recognition. (I also didn’t expect to win with such a room full and list of nominees.).
My sincere thanks to Tonia for accepting the award on my behalf, I had left her a note—just in case—holding my words of appreciation, my love for community, and acknowledgments:
Gratitude to Uzma Bhutto for your leadership and vision, the organization behind this powerful night, and to the individual who nominated me—this acknowledgment is not something I take lightly. Thank you for seeing me.
To be recognized among leaders committed to advancing health, wellness, and collective healing is truly meaningful.
As shared:
“Nicole Brown Faulknor: CEO of, pioneering community-rooted trauma consultancy to help our communities heal and thrive.”
This work… has never been about recognition, for me.
It has always been about listening when community said:
something is missing.
And building it—together.
This work continues to be rooted in community—listening, responding, and building what is needed, together.
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The Health & Wellness Award pays tribute to a Black individual who promotes mental, physical or spiritual well-being in culturally grounded and community-based ways.
As your Member of Provincial Parliament, I am pleased to recognize your outstanding contributions to health and wellness in our community. Your work has helped individuals, families, and children navigate complex challenges, from mental health and addictions to systemic poverty and profiling. Your commitment to fostering healing, resilience, and empowerment is truly commendable. Wishing you continued
success in your vital work
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So Humbled. 💙🙏🏾! Thank you.
#kmfwawards2026 #blackexcellencegala2026 #CommunityHealing #HealthAndWellness #CollectiveCare
I’m honoured to share that I’ve been invited to join the Canadian Association for Psychodynamic Therapy (CAPT Association) as one of the new Group Supervision Facilitators for the upcoming 2025 cohorts.
I’ll be offering reflective, psychodynamic, and trauma-informed supervision beginning in September 2025, with weekly sessions held on Thursdays from 9:30–11:30 AM (EST) over 10 weeks.
I’ll be joining Caroline Mardon and Trevor Birrell, who has been holding this space with care and integrity. I’m deeply grateful to be alongside such thoughtful practitioners.
A bit about my approach:
My supervision style is rooted in relational depth, cultural humility, embodiment, and ethical transparency. I aim to co-create a reflective space where clinicians can explore their work—and themselves—with honesty, safety, and integrity.
I integrate psychodynamic theory, trauma-responsive care, and somatic practices to support not just clinical skill—but personal and systemic awareness. Supervision, for me, is not about correction—it’s about connection, complexity, and collective learning.
📥 Applications open in July 2025
I’d love to hold space for those looking to deepen their therapeutic presence and navigate this work with care, courage, and clarity.
Thank you to CAPT Association for the invitation to guide and witness the next generation of therapists.
Very warmly,
Nicole
#ClinicalSupervision #PsychodynamicTherapy #TraumaInformedCare #CAPT #ReflectivePractice
Wounds 2 Wings Trauma & Psychotherapy Services
MEET THE FOUNDER & CEO of:
NICOLE BROWN FAULKNOR
Nicole is also the Founder of Wounds 2 Wings Trauma + Psychotherapy Services, a Registered
Psychotherapist, Yoga Instructor, and Trauma Consultant. She also a Child and Youth Counsellor Author and Trauma Survivor. Nicole has received two awards for her work at the People’s Choice Awards, for ‘Best Youth and Family Services’ and ‘Best Counsellor. she is the Founder & CEO of the Trauma and Embodiment Association of Ontario (TEAO Canada ®). Additionally, she serves as a proud board member for another recognized foundation and is Immersed & actively involved in her community.
SERVICES:
COMMUNITY OUTREACH • THERAPY SERVICES
EMBODIMENT COACHING • TRAUMA SENSITIVE YOGA
Learn More: *link in bio,,
Community Images: (collective grieving & public mourning facilitation with, (movement for life recovery outreach),
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#intergenerationaltrauma #complextrauma #trauma #traumainformed #traumahealing
Nicole Brown Faulknor's engagement
Nicole Brown Faulknor's engagement rate on Instagram is 0.17%, under 1%, fewer than 1 like or comment per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 588 followers. Comments stay close to likes on Nicole Brown Faulknor's posts, at 75 likes and 13 comments on average, about 5.8 likes per comment.
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0.17%
- Avg likes
- 75
- Avg comments
- 13
- Interactions : followers
- 1 : 588
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Who is Nicole Brown Faulknor?
Nicole Brown Faulknor (@wounds2wings) is a Medical & health creator on Instagram, also filed under Healthcare. Nicole Brown Faulknor carries Instagram's verified badge and is set up as an Instagram business account. The Instagram bio for Nicole Brown Faulknor runs to 19 words across 5 lines.
How many followers does Nicole Brown Faulknor have?
Nicole Brown Faulknor has 47,391 followers on Instagram (47.4K). Nicole Brown Faulknor follows 2,582 accounts, so the audience is roughly 18 times the size of the list followed. With 3,423 posts published, Nicole Brown Faulknor's archive runs well past the 2,000 mark.
What is Nicole Brown Faulknor's engagement rate?
Nicole Brown Faulknor's engagement rate on Instagram is 0.17%, under 1%, fewer than 1 like or comment per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 588 followers. Comments stay close to likes on Nicole Brown Faulknor's posts, at 75 likes and 13 comments on average, about 5.8 likes per comment.
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Flinque files Nicole Brown Faulknor under Medical & health, with Healthcare as a secondary category. Of the 10 most recent posts shown for Nicole Brown Faulknor, 5 are carousels, 3 are single images and 2 are videos. The 10 recent Instagram captions Flinque holds for Nicole Brown Faulknor repeatedly use the words trauma, work, embodiment, systemic and collective. Nicole Brown Faulknor's captions carry hashtags such as #collectivecare, #traumaresponsivecare and #embodiedhealing. Nicole Brown Faulknor writes those captions mainly in English. The bio tags #therapy, #ptsd, #cptsd and #trauma. Nicole Brown Faulknor keeps 7 story highlights, which open with a free Flinque account.
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