What We Do
This is where understanding becomes action.
You may already understand why you are the way you are.
You know your childhood affected you.
You recognize your triggers.
You can name the patterns.
You may even catch yourself shutting down, overthinking, people pleasing, avoiding or trying to control everything.
But understanding the pattern doesn’t always mean you know how to change it while it’s happening.
That is the work we do at Fire Poppy Healing.
We help you understand what is happening in your brain, body and nervous system—and give you practical tools to work with it.
Not just while you’re sitting in a session.
In the conversation you’re afraid to have.
When your body begins to react.
When you feel yourself shutting down.
When an old pattern starts making decisions for you.
When you know what you want to do differently—but don’t know how.
Because awareness is where healing begins.
It was never meant to be where you stay.
You are not broken.
Your nervous system has learned how to protect you.
It learned to scan for danger.
To brace for what might happen.
To keep the peace.
To shut down.
To avoid.
To overthink.
To push through.
To disconnect from what you need.
These responses may have helped you survive difficult, overwhelming or uncertain experiences.
But the patterns that once protected you can eventually become the very patterns keeping you stuck.
At Fire Poppy Healing, we don’t shame those patterns or force them away.
We get curious about them.
We learn what they are protecting.
We notice what happens before the reaction.
We build safety and capacity within the body.
We practise new responses while honouring what your system has lived through.
Your patterns explain where you have been.
They do not get to decide where you go next.
Who We Support
Fire Poppy Healing supports adults and youth who are navigating:
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Trauma and chronic stress
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Functional Neurological Disorder
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Anxiety, fear and overwhelm
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Nervous-system dysregulation
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Chronic illness and life-changing diagnoses
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People pleasing and difficulty setting boundaries
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Shutdown, avoidance and emotional disconnection
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Patterns that continue even after you understand them
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Loss of identity, confidence or trust in yourself
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Major transitions and the desire to live differently
You do not need the perfect words for what you are experiencing.
You only need somewhere safe enough to begin.
How We Work
Our work brings together nervous-system education, somatic awareness, practical coaching and lived experience.
You will learn how to:
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Recognize what your body is communicating
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Understand your triggers and automatic responses
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Identify the loops keeping you stuck
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Notice what happens before a reaction takes over
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Reduce fear and shame surrounding your symptoms
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Build regulation, grounding and self-support skills
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Create boundaries without abandoning yourself
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Challenge old beliefs without fighting your body
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Make choices based on who you are now—not only what you have survived
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Follow through with what you know
This work is not about becoming calm all the time.
It is about building the ability to stay with yourself when life feels uncomfortable, uncertain or overwhelming.
Ways to Work With Us
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One-to-One Support
Individual coaching offers a personalized space to understand your patterns, explore what your nervous system is responding to and build tools that fit your actual life.
Sessions may include nervous-system education, somatic practices, grounding, pattern work, emotional regulation, boundaries, self-trust and practical next steps.
There is no one-size-fits-all plan. We begin with where you are.
​The Journey Home
A ten-week women’s program for those who are ready to move beyond understanding why they are stuck and begin practising what comes next.
Together, we explore the nervous system, triggers, protective patterns, fear, inner safety, emotional regulation, boundaries, self-support and reconnecting with life beyond survival.
This is not about becoming someone new.
It is about coming home to the woman your nervous system has been protecting.
Thrive for FND
Thrive is designed specifically for people living with Functional Neurological Disorder.
It combines FND and nervous-system education with practical tools for understanding symptoms, recognizing triggers, reducing fear, working with patterns and building greater confidence in daily life.
Your symptoms are real.
Your body is not betraying you.
And you deserve support that understands the complexity of living with FND.
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Youth Support
Growing up can be difficult enough without also trying to understand anxiety, overwhelming emotions, chronic illness, FND or a body that seems to react before you know what is happening.
Youth support at Fire Poppy Healing offers a safe, age-appropriate space for young people to better understand themselves without being made to feel like they are the problem.
Through one-to-one support and youth programs, we help young people:
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Understand their brain, body and nervous system
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Recognize triggers and early body clues
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Make sense of shutdown, avoidance and overwhelm
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Build tools for anxiety, fear and emotional regulation
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Develop confidence, boundaries and self-trust
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Communicate what they need
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Feel less afraid of their symptoms and reactions
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Learn how to stay connected to themselves during difficult moments
This work is not about telling young people to calm down, try harder or simply think positively.
It is about helping them understand what is happening inside them—and giving them practical tools they can use at school, at home, in relationships and during the moments they need them most.
When appropriate, parents and caregivers are supported in understanding their child’s nervous system and learning how to respond with greater connection, consistency and compassion.
Your child is not difficult.
They may be overwhelmed, protecting themselves or doing the best they can with the tools they currently have.
Together, we help them build more.
Groups, Workshops and Community Support
Healing does not always happen alone.
Fire Poppy Healing offers group programs, workshops and learning spaces where people can gain practical tools, share experiences and feel less alone in what they are navigating. These spaces are grounded in honesty, compassion, education and real-life application.
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What Makes This Work Different?
We are not here to give you another list of coping skills you forget the moment you become overwhelmed.
We slow things down enough to understand what is happening beneath the behaviour.
What happened inside you before you shut down?
What did your body anticipate before you said yes?
What did you fear before you started controlling?
What were you trying not to feel when you disconnected?
Because when we understand the moments before the pattern, we create space for something different.
That space becomes awareness.
Awareness becomes choice.
And choice, practised again and again, becomes change.
You Came Up for Air. Now What?
You do not need to spend the rest of your life becoming better at surviving.
You can learn to hear your body without fearing it.
To honour your needs without explaining them away.
To use your voice.
To trust yourself.
To stop abandoning yourself to keep everyone else comfortable.
To choose what happens next.
You have already survived so much.
Now let’s see what you are capable of.
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