Compassion Focused Psychotherapy:
Embrace your whole self.

The practice of self compassion supports us in letting go of shame and self criticism that keeps us from healing and engaging life. Using mindfulness based tools learn how self kindness and self trust is the foundation for deep and lasting growth

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Body Focused Psychotherapy:
Embrace your body wisdom.

Heal body shame and reclaim trust, peace and respect of your body. Discover practices like Intuitive Eating and Health at Every Size® that can help you heal your relationship with food and movement. Through understanding and working with our nervous system, the body plays an important role in emotional regulation.

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Spirit Focused Psychotherapy:
Embrace your shadow, live in the light.

Spiritual health includes a purposeful life and invites us to heal shadow wounds through intuitive exploration and energy healing. Spiritual health creates a balance between physical, psychological and social aspects of human life.

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Hello! I'm Sydney

Psychotherapist, Registered Social Worker
(Ontario and British Columbia)

I see my work as a therapist is to create a safe and non judgmental space where you can do the growth work you are called to do. I hold your work sacred, honour the bravery it takes to identify an inner challenge and take active steps toward growth and healing.

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Living Embodied:

Reclaiming Our Body as Safe, Sacred and Sovereign Space

What does it mean to experience embodiment, to live at home in our body? Mental and physical health is deeply tied to how we experience a mind-body-soul connection. Join Sydney Bell, registered social worker and practising psychotherapist in exploring what role healing shame and embracing our divine body plays in our wellbeing.

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From My Body Sovereignty Workbook

Body Sovereignty is bringing consciousness, and self -determination to how we experience our body.

The core idea of Health at Every Size® is to promote weight neutrality. Weight neutrality means we set an intention to release our habit of judging our health and wellbeing based on our weight.

“Reclaiming Body Sovereignty encourages taking steps for health and well-being that do not have a focus on changing the body. Instead, we work on fostering love and acceptance for ourselves and our bodies, just the way they are.

How we see ourselves and talk to ourselves affects us…just like we need kindness and affirmations from others, we need it first from ourselves.

We all, to some degree, engage with food on an emotional level. Emotional eating isn’t automatically a bad thing, and the goal as we reclaim our body sovereignty is not to banish emotional eating from our lives, instead we work to ensure food isn’t the only source of comfort we have when we are feeling stressed or emotionally vulnerable.

Self compassion provides us a space of safety to do deep personal work – the kind of work that is needed to feel comfortable in our skin, explore our wounds, understand our motivations…to reclaim our Body Sovereignty.

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The Reclaiming Body Sovereignty Workbook can be helpful for those who are just starting this journey of body acceptance in providing a framework and tools to support you on your journey.

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