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Dee wearing a toque

Being involved with Heart & Hands has helped me to feel less alone with my own health challenges and continues to help me with perspective

We all deserve to be supported without judgement. What I love and have come to rely on about Heart & Hands is the feeling that it is OK to be who you are, wherever you are and with whatever you’re dealing with. Heart & Hands staff are compassionate, patient and amazingly skilled. They model the…

Arie is hugging her German Shepherd.

I finally found the space for healing I needed…

Heart & Hands Health Collective has helped me in such a profound way. I have struggled with mental health issues for many years, and finally took a friend’s advice to get acupuncture when I was truly at the end of my rope. I had tried every conventional therapy — and nearly every medication. I started…

Allison and her cat, Arthur in the sun

My experience at H&H has helped to restore a sense of connection to my body and to community here in Victoria.

As an East Coaster living in BC, my loved ones are scattered across time zones. This winter, lacking the distraction and de facto social group that came with being a student, life here began to feel a little lonely. My counsellor, a body-centered therapist, suggested I check out Heart & Hands and see about volunteering….

Aviva is next to a red rose, wearing a black baseball cap

So grateful to work in a space that strongly supports a vision of the world I want to live in.

Each time I enter Heart & Hands my shoulders begin to drop and I can feel myself taking a deep breath, and I smile. All the thoughtful intention and magic that unfolds within those walls facilitates a sense of safety and a feeling of coming home. When I first moved to the island five years…