Taryn Smith, She/Her, CCC, MC, BCYC
@amethystisland.bsky.social
🏳️🌈🇨🇦🥄Clinical counsellor providing trauma-informed, strengths-based, person-centered care to clients across 🇨🇦. On Bsky, I am up for networking, knowledge-sharing, discussions, staring at art and nature photos, advocacy and humour. Email or 📲 to book therapy.
Reposted by Taryn Smith, She/Her, CCC, MC, BCYC
🧠 These small steps can make a big difference in your well-being!
#MentalHealthMatters #SelfCare #DefeatDepression #Mindfulness #MentalHealthAwareness #MoodDisorders #Depression #AnxietyDisorders #MIAW #MentalIllnessAwarenessWeek #MIAW2025
#MentalHealthMatters #SelfCare #DefeatDepression #Mindfulness #MentalHealthAwareness #MoodDisorders #Depression #AnxietyDisorders #MIAW #MentalIllnessAwarenessWeek #MIAW2025
October 9, 2025 at 8:02 PM
🧠 These small steps can make a big difference in your well-being!
#MentalHealthMatters #SelfCare #DefeatDepression #Mindfulness #MentalHealthAwareness #MoodDisorders #Depression #AnxietyDisorders #MIAW #MentalIllnessAwarenessWeek #MIAW2025
#MentalHealthMatters #SelfCare #DefeatDepression #Mindfulness #MentalHealthAwareness #MoodDisorders #Depression #AnxietyDisorders #MIAW #MentalIllnessAwarenessWeek #MIAW2025
Reposted by Taryn Smith, She/Her, CCC, MC, BCYC
Welp, I guess it's time to relaunch our 2018 "Reproduction Causes Autism" t-shirt campaign—because anyone claiming otherwise is selling something, and/or holding a major US government position. Proceeds to benefit @autisticadvocacy.org.
www.bonfire.com/reproduction...
#autism #neurodiversity
www.bonfire.com/reproduction...
#autism #neurodiversity
Reproduction Causes Autism | Bonfire
You know what causes autism? Reproduction! Now you can help spread the word.. "NOS Magazine is one of the most exciting new initiatives of the neurodiversity and self-advocacy...
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September 24, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Welp, I guess it's time to relaunch our 2018 "Reproduction Causes Autism" t-shirt campaign—because anyone claiming otherwise is selling something, and/or holding a major US government position. Proceeds to benefit @autisticadvocacy.org.
www.bonfire.com/reproduction...
#autism #neurodiversity
www.bonfire.com/reproduction...
#autism #neurodiversity
Well my fellow #neurodivergent pals, check out this exciting gem! I am absolutely subscribing, I just wanted to spread the word. #autism #mentalhealth #neurodivergence #nd
Want to get our intrepid science editor @ejwillingham.bsky.social's wryly unamused take on today's absurd HHS Autism Announcement?
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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism Newsletter
Weekly email with autism news and resources: from autistic people, professionals, and parents, written and curated by scientist and journalist Dr. Emily Willingham. Emily, a 2022 MIT Knight Science Pr...
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September 23, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Well my fellow #neurodivergent pals, check out this exciting gem! I am absolutely subscribing, I just wanted to spread the word. #autism #mentalhealth #neurodivergence #nd
Accidentally bumped into some pro-eating disorder stuff on my feed yesterday. Curious as to if this has happened to anyone else and to how it hit you, psychologically (it can be triggering). #eatingdisorder #mentalhealth #mentalhealthmatters #eatingdisorderrecovery #edrecovery
September 22, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Accidentally bumped into some pro-eating disorder stuff on my feed yesterday. Curious as to if this has happened to anyone else and to how it hit you, psychologically (it can be triggering). #eatingdisorder #mentalhealth #mentalhealthmatters #eatingdisorderrecovery #edrecovery
Never forget how strong you are and never be afraid to reach out for support. This is not a battle you need to fight alone. ❤️🩹
💙 1 in 4 people live with a #MentalIllness.
If that’s you, please remember: you are not weak.
Fighting a war inside your head 24/7 takes real strength.
Never forget how strong you truly are. 🌿✨
If that’s you, please remember: you are not weak.
Fighting a war inside your head 24/7 takes real strength.
Never forget how strong you truly are. 🌿✨
September 22, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Never forget how strong you are and never be afraid to reach out for support. This is not a battle you need to fight alone. ❤️🩹
Wishing everyone a safe and happy Pride. This is a time where we remember the battles queer people have fought and continue to fight and provide safe spaces for queer people to express themselves as they are. Please respect that. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈#transrightsarehumanrights #loveislove
June 13, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Wishing everyone a safe and happy Pride. This is a time where we remember the battles queer people have fought and continue to fight and provide safe spaces for queer people to express themselves as they are. Please respect that. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈#transrightsarehumanrights #loveislove
Having trouble sleeping due to pain? Let’s talk coping mechanisms. Two of my favourites are poetry and mindfulness. Here they are together in a poem I wrote last night on my other account while I dealt with a migraine.
From my 3am battle royale with a migraine this morning:
Passing through my brain
Like stabbing knives and ice picks
Overwhelming pain
Building my immunity
With mindfulness strategies
#dailyhaikuprompt passing
#vss365 immunity
#tanka
#tankathursday
#micropoetry
#blueskypoetry
#chronichealth
Passing through my brain
Like stabbing knives and ice picks
Overwhelming pain
Building my immunity
With mindfulness strategies
#dailyhaikuprompt passing
#vss365 immunity
#tanka
#tankathursday
#micropoetry
#blueskypoetry
#chronichealth
May 15, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Having trouble sleeping due to pain? Let’s talk coping mechanisms. Two of my favourites are poetry and mindfulness. Here they are together in a poem I wrote last night on my other account while I dealt with a migraine.
Reposted by Taryn Smith, She/Her, CCC, MC, BCYC
You haven’t “learned to live with COVID” if you don’t understand that wearing a mask in public means not only protecting yourself, but ALSO immunocompromised / disabled / chronically ill people
COVID also disproportionately affects marginalized groups including people of low / no income & BIPOC ppl
COVID also disproportionately affects marginalized groups including people of low / no income & BIPOC ppl
April 5, 2025 at 3:51 PM
You haven’t “learned to live with COVID” if you don’t understand that wearing a mask in public means not only protecting yourself, but ALSO immunocompromised / disabled / chronically ill people
COVID also disproportionately affects marginalized groups including people of low / no income & BIPOC ppl
COVID also disproportionately affects marginalized groups including people of low / no income & BIPOC ppl
Wear purple tomorrow for International Purple Day, a global grassroots effort to raise awareness for epilepsy. Purple Day was founded by a Canadian nine year old with epilepsy named Cassidy Megan. Now in her 20s, Cassidy continues to be a strong voice for epilepsy awareness.
March 25, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Wear purple tomorrow for International Purple Day, a global grassroots effort to raise awareness for epilepsy. Purple Day was founded by a Canadian nine year old with epilepsy named Cassidy Megan. Now in her 20s, Cassidy continues to be a strong voice for epilepsy awareness.
Reposted by Taryn Smith, She/Her, CCC, MC, BCYC
Gender-affirming care is used most often by cisgender people. Cis folks can seek & have gender affirming care without being demonized or scrutinized. Yet cis care is seen as more important & more accessible when it can be life saving for trans folks.
#translivesmatter #protecttransyouth
#translivesmatter #protecttransyouth
March 17, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Gender-affirming care is used most often by cisgender people. Cis folks can seek & have gender affirming care without being demonized or scrutinized. Yet cis care is seen as more important & more accessible when it can be life saving for trans folks.
#translivesmatter #protecttransyouth
#translivesmatter #protecttransyouth
How is everyone doing this Epilepsy Awareness Month?💜
I’m doing a withdrawal from #clobazam and looking forward to less fatigue. Currently experiencing lots of #migraines so I’m taking some time off work. What’s your epilepsy story this month?
I’m doing a withdrawal from #clobazam and looking forward to less fatigue. Currently experiencing lots of #migraines so I’m taking some time off work. What’s your epilepsy story this month?
March 14, 2025 at 1:47 AM
How is everyone doing this Epilepsy Awareness Month?💜
I’m doing a withdrawal from #clobazam and looking forward to less fatigue. Currently experiencing lots of #migraines so I’m taking some time off work. What’s your epilepsy story this month?
I’m doing a withdrawal from #clobazam and looking forward to less fatigue. Currently experiencing lots of #migraines so I’m taking some time off work. What’s your epilepsy story this month?
Want to show someone with a disability or a chronic health concern that you care? Take them seriously when they say they’re not feeling well. Ask questions if you don’t understand what they’re going through. Keep inviting them to hang out even though they can’t make it sometimes. We appreciate it❤️🩹🥄
A plea amid Apple Cider Vinegar: PLEASE remember people with invisible disabilities and chronic illnesses are NOT faking it:
powerd.media/article/a-pl...
powerd.media/article/a-pl...
March 14, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Want to show someone with a disability or a chronic health concern that you care? Take them seriously when they say they’re not feeling well. Ask questions if you don’t understand what they’re going through. Keep inviting them to hang out even though they can’t make it sometimes. We appreciate it❤️🩹🥄
Hey 👋. Clinical Counsellor from 🇨🇦 here, still trying to get to know my way around Bsky. I’m thinking of creating a new feed, dependent on need. Perhaps Canada Mental Health Sky or Canada Counsellors Sky? Other ideas? #psychscisky #clinicalcounsellor #canadamentalhealth
March 11, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Hey 👋. Clinical Counsellor from 🇨🇦 here, still trying to get to know my way around Bsky. I’m thinking of creating a new feed, dependent on need. Perhaps Canada Mental Health Sky or Canada Counsellors Sky? Other ideas? #psychscisky #clinicalcounsellor #canadamentalhealth
Stuck feeling like all your relationships are going wrong because of your “attachment style?” What if you weren’t so attached to attachment theory? What or who is making you believe that it is true for you and that you can’t change?
"The pathology is not in the child who cannot attach; it is in the world that makes such attachment dangerous. The disorder is not in the community that resists assimilation; it is in the empire that demands it."
#TherapistsConnect
ayoto.substack.com/p/attachment...
#TherapistsConnect
ayoto.substack.com/p/attachment...
Attachment Theory is White Supremacy in a Lab Coat
How the Empire Pathologized Survival and Sold It Back as Healing
ayoto.substack.com
March 11, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Stuck feeling like all your relationships are going wrong because of your “attachment style?” What if you weren’t so attached to attachment theory? What or who is making you believe that it is true for you and that you can’t change?
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Interested in learning more about disabilities and chronic health? This one’s for you. go.bsky.app/FdXKQsn
March 4, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Interested in learning more about disabilities and chronic health? This one’s for you. go.bsky.app/FdXKQsn
Link to the disability advocacy and community starter pack from yesterday: go.bsky.app/Q5dPZwY
March 4, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Link to the disability advocacy and community starter pack from yesterday: go.bsky.app/Q5dPZwY
In honour of International #Wheelchair Day, Day of Zero #Discrimination, Disability Day of #Mourning and #DevelopmentalDisabilities Awareness Month, I will be putting out some new disability-related starter packs for connection and information. Please let me know if you don’t want to be included.
March 3, 2025 at 9:34 PM
In honour of International #Wheelchair Day, Day of Zero #Discrimination, Disability Day of #Mourning and #DevelopmentalDisabilities Awareness Month, I will be putting out some new disability-related starter packs for connection and information. Please let me know if you don’t want to be included.
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Today on the #Disability Daily #Podcast we observe International #Wheelchair Day, Day of Zero #Discrimination, & Disability Day of #Mourning, & kick off Developmental Disabilities #Awareness Month!
disabilitydaily.podbean.com/e/episode61/
#DevelopmentalDisabilities #IDD #EduSky #a11y #inclusion
disabilitydaily.podbean.com/e/episode61/
#DevelopmentalDisabilities #IDD #EduSky #a11y #inclusion
March 3, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Today on the #Disability Daily #Podcast we observe International #Wheelchair Day, Day of Zero #Discrimination, & Disability Day of #Mourning, & kick off Developmental Disabilities #Awareness Month!
disabilitydaily.podbean.com/e/episode61/
#DevelopmentalDisabilities #IDD #EduSky #a11y #inclusion
disabilitydaily.podbean.com/e/episode61/
#DevelopmentalDisabilities #IDD #EduSky #a11y #inclusion
Reposted by Taryn Smith, She/Her, CCC, MC, BCYC
Reposted by Taryn Smith, She/Her, CCC, MC, BCYC
Happy Valentine's Day, especially to anyone who might identify with one of the letters in LGBTQ, particularly the day after someone Trumpy stripped the letter T and then the letter Q from the National Park Service website for Stonewall in New York City.
February 14, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Happy Valentine's Day, especially to anyone who might identify with one of the letters in LGBTQ, particularly the day after someone Trumpy stripped the letter T and then the letter Q from the National Park Service website for Stonewall in New York City.
In these difficult times, remember to pause. Breathe. In and out. Mindfully take time for some self-care when you’re feeling overwhelmed. Give yourself a squeeze or snuggle something or someone you care about it.
February 14, 2025 at 11:52 PM
In these difficult times, remember to pause. Breathe. In and out. Mindfully take time for some self-care when you’re feeling overwhelmed. Give yourself a squeeze or snuggle something or someone you care about it.
Reposted by Taryn Smith, She/Her, CCC, MC, BCYC
Today is Pink Triangle Day. We need to remember the history of the pink triangle especially in these times.
February 14, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Today is Pink Triangle Day. We need to remember the history of the pink triangle especially in these times.