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I provide counselling, trauma-informed yoga therapy, and training for yoga & healthcare professionals.

As a registered clinical counsellor I provide trauma counselling & yoga therapy for helping & healing professionals and those in crisis response roles online and in person in Vancouver, BC.

10/29/2026

Halloween is the one night we’re encouraged to wear a mask. But many helping professionals wear one every day: the calm face on a hard shift, the “I’m fine” between back-to-back clients, the steady presence everyone else leans on.

That mask can be protective. It helps you get through. But wearing it constantly, without a place to set it down, is exhausting.

Therapy can be that place, somewhere you don’t have to be the capable one. You can arrive tired, uncertain, or overwhelmed, and that’s welcome.

As we move into November, I have space for new clients. If this month’s posts resonated with you, I’d be glad to hear from you. Reach out through nicolemarciatherapy.ca.

10/27/2026

This month, I’ve been exploring what it means to care for others without losing yourself in the process:

Boundaries: honest information about your capacity
Rest: maintenance, not a reward you have to earn
Guilt: a feeling, not a verdict on who you are
Over-functioning: what happens when “doing it all well” becomes the trap

These threads are closely connected. When boundaries feel impossible, rest gets pushed aside. When you finally say no, guilt shows up. And underneath it all is often the belief that you have to hold everything together.

You don’t need to work on all of these at once. Which one stood out most for you this month?

10/22/2026

If you tend to over-function, letting something be “good enough” can feel almost unbearable. Your nervous system may read imperfection as danger.

So start small and practise on purpose:

- Send the email without rereading it a third time
- Let someone else load the dishwasher their way
- Leave one thing on your to-do list until tomorrow
- Notice the urge to step in, and pause before you act on it

Then notice what happens. Usually nothing falls apart, and you get back a bit of energy that was going into holding everything together.

Perfectionism and over-functioning often have deep roots, and they’re not something you have to untangle on your own. If this feels familiar, I’d love to help. Reach out through nicolemarciatherapy.ca.

10/20/2026

You’re the one who catches the details. You remember the birthdays and the medication changes, and you have a backup plan for the backup plan. At work and at home, people count on you because you never drop the ball.

From the outside, it looks like competence. On the inside, it can feel like you’re never allowed to set anything down.

Over-functioning often starts as a strength. Many helping professionals learned early that being capable kept things steady, or kept them safe. But when doing it all well turns into the only acceptable option, there’s no room left for rest, mistakes, or simply being human.

What’s one thing you’re holding to a standard no one else has asked of you?

10/15/2026

When guilt shows up after you say no, the urge is to fix it right away. You over-explain, apologize, or take back your no and say yes after all.

Instead, try staying with it for a moment.

Notice where you feel it in your body: your chest, your stomach, your throat
Name it: “This is guilt. It’s uncomfortable, and I’m okay.”
Ask what it’s protecting: often it’s fear of disappointing someone, or of being seen as selfish
Remind yourself why you said no in the first place

Guilt tends to fade when you don’t treat it like an emergency. Each time you hold a boundary through the discomfort, your nervous system learns that you’re still safe and still connected.

If saying no feels impossible, that’s something I can help you explore. Reach out through nicolemarciatherapy.ca.

10/14/2026

You said no to the extra shift. You skipped one gathering this Thanksgiving weekend. You told a friend you couldn’t help this time.

And then the guilt arrived, sometimes within seconds.

For helping professionals, saying no can feel like you’re breaking a rule about who you’re supposed to be. You’re the reliable one, the one who shows up. So when you protect your capacity, part of you sounds the alarm.

But guilt isn’t always a sign that you’ve done harm. Often it’s just the discomfort of doing something new, of choosing yourself in a way you haven’t practised yet.

The guilt can be there, and the boundary can still be right.

What’s a no you said recently that you’re still feeling guilty about?

If this is something you struggle with I'm here to help. Book a free consult—link in bio.

10/08/2026

In a culture that treats exhaustion like a badge of honour, choosing to rest can feel radical.

If you've spent years caring for others, surviving trauma, or working in systems that ask more than you have to give, rest may feel unfamiliar, inconvenient, or even unsafe. But constantly overriding your nervous system isn't sustainable. Over time it leads to burnout, shutdown, and disconnection from yourself.

In my latest blog post, I explore what happens in your body when you pause, and gentle ways to weave rest into a full life:

- micro-pauses throughout the day
- grounding practices
- tech-free spaces
- permission to do less

Rest is not the reward. Rest is the way back home.

Read the full post at the link in my bio.

10/06/2026

Many of us learned a simple rule early: finish everything, then you can rest.

For helping professionals, "everything" is never finished. There's always another chart, another client, another shift, another person who needs you. So rest keeps getting pushed to some future point that never quite arrives.

What if rest isn't the prize at the end of the work, but part of what makes the work possible?

This week, I'm exploring rest as maintenance. It's the regular, unglamorous care that keeps you going, like sleep, food, or putting fuel in the car.

When did you last rest without feeling like you had to earn it?

10/01/2026

You can hold a boundary and still be a caring person. Those aren't in conflict—even though it can feel that way when your job is built around being available.

A boundary in a busy fall season might sound like: "I can help with that next week" instead of tonight. "I need to leave on time today." "I don't have it in me to take this one on."

None of those make you less dedicated. They make your care sustainable.

Want support figuring out where your boundaries actually need to be? Book a free consult—link in bio.

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Opening Hours

Tuesday	8:30am - 6:45pm
Wednesday	11:30am - 6:45pm
Thursday	8:30am - 6:45pm
Friday	8:30am - 2:45pm

Telephone

604 725 7287

Website

http://www.finebalanceyoga.ca/

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