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Hi everyone,

Welcome! My name is Diandra Lewis, registered psychologist in Mohkinstsis (Calgary, Alberta). Please feel free to visit and follow my instagram page to learn more about Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy. If you live in Alberta or Nunavut please feel free to contact me for an appointment or free 15 minute phone consultation.

I recently went on a mural tour hosted by @yycbump. Calgary is full of beautiful murals and I would highly recommend checking them out. It’s a great way to explore the city and see some amazing murals. They all have an interesting story behind
Speaking of joy, this picture of my mom’s new pup is too cute not to share! I laugh every time I see it. Moose 🫎 just got a haircut and they gave him a little tie 😍 He’s a standard poodle so he’ll be big but for now he’s jus
Reminder - this Thursday 😍 I’m so grateful for all who have been attending and the new faces I meet each month #BIPOC #community #therapy
It’s been awhile since I thought about my word of the year - joy. I loved that I was reminded of joy when I saw this heart shaped rock on my walk to work at @riverwesttherapycollectiveyyc . I instantly smiled and remembered the word joy. I like
We live in a world that primarily focuses on logic and cognition. It’s an interesting practice to build relationship with our bodies. What are they trying to communicate? Where do we feel our parts in our bodies? How do we attend to our bodies?
I love discussing this as homework with people who struggle with perfection and noticing the parts that come up. A small example could be sending a text without proofreading 10 times. For many folks that would elicit panic, fear, shame, maybe even th
So many of us grow up in environments (family of origin, societal pressures, religion etc) that foster perfection. I love this Pete Walker quote that challenges this idea! What if we didn’t have to be perfect to be loved? What if we could embra
I’m currently reading “The Book of Forgiving”. This is how they define forgiveness and I love it. It fits so well with the internal family systems concept of healing wounded parts. IFS has a concept called a u-turn. When a situation
As black history month comes to an end, I find myself reflecting! On black joy, black creativity, black strength, black wisdom! I always try to find a book to read in February and started reading Decolonizing Therapy. It’s full of helpful infor
Grateful for good conversations with @kccounselling and @fiveriverscounselling! We watched and discussed Steven Porges’ polyvagal theory training. A few nuggets from the training: -when our nervous system feels safe we interpret stimulus diff

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