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Written by Simone Usselman-Tod

Creativity isn’t necessary to reset the nervous system, but it is one of the most effective ways to do so. There’s a common belief that creativity is something we do after everything else is taken care of. Once the work is done. Once things settle down. Once there’s more time. But what I see, again and again, is that for many people, things don’t settle down.

Written by Stephanie Orphanacos

I love getting older. 
I know that’s not something you hear very often, but I truly do. The perspective that comes from having lived on this earth for more than sixty years feels like a gift. Experience has a way of softening my reactions and widening my view of the world. And as we move toward the season of spring it feels like the perfect moment to reflect on that. Many of us are looking at the months ahead and contemplating the significant shifts unfolding around us. We see it on the geopolitical stage, but we also feel it here at home as our country begins to reconsider long-standing dependencies on our closest neighbour. Change is certainly in the air, my friends. And, as is often the case, my own little world is shifting too.

Written by Simone Usselman-Tod.

At Wild About Wellness, we do not gather to fix ourselves. We gather to regulate. We reconnect. We slow down enough to hear ourselves again. We call this neurowellness. Not from a clinical perspective or because it’s complicated, but because it is practical, human, and something we can practice every day.

Neurowellness simply means learning how to care for your nervous system so your brain, body, and life feel more steady, clear, and resilient. In many ways, it is also a form of radical self care.

It is the quiet and courageous choice to say that your wellbeing matters enough to pause and your nervous system matters enough to tend to. In a world that rewards pushing and productivity, slowing down can feel radical. And yet it is exactly what our biology needs.

Written by Simone Usselman-Tod

January carries a quiet invitation, one that is easy to miss if we are rushing to feel “ready.”

There is often an unspoken pressure to feel clear, energized, and eager to move forward. And yet, like the land in mid-winter, many of us are still integrating what we released at the end of the year. I see this as wisdom rather than a problem.

In nature, growth doesn’t begin with movement. It begins beneath the surface with rest, repair, and the slow rebuilding of strength. Roots deepen long before any change seems to happen, and new life breaks through the soil.

Written by Simone Usselman-Tod.

I completed my 2026 vision board just before the New Year. Not because I was rushing or trying to get ahead, but because it felt aligned. I wanted to enter this new cycle already connected to how I want the year to feel, not just what I want to accomplish.

As I step into 2026, my vision is simple, clear, and deeply intentional: freedom, fun, and fantastic health. These aren’t goals I’m chasing. They are qualities I am choosing to orient my days around –  how I want to live, work, move, and show up.

Today is January 1, 2026, the first day of the first month of a 1 year cycle. That alone makes it a natural reset point. A moment to pause. To slow down. To listen inward before moving forward.

From both experience and neuroscience, I know this matters. We don’t create meaningful change from pressure, urgency, or overwhelm. We create it from steadiness. When our nervous systems are regulated and our emotions are grounded, clarity rises naturally. Intuition becomes easier to hear. Decisions feel less forced. The next step feels lighter.

Written by Francine Houston

The end of autumn and the beginning of winter is upon us. This is the time of year, as the trees go dormant, the days get shorter, and the nights are longer, and in the Northern hemisphere, the snow begins to blanket the ground. For many of us, this is a time for reflection: looking at where we’ve been, what we’ve done, and where we would like to go. It is the time of the year that people look toward what they would like to do. Who they would like to become and the resolutions that they are about to make going into 2026…

Written by Alison Bastarache

I took on the challenge of an online university course to learn Spanish. Speed Spanish, twelve lessons in 6 weeks. I have not studied anything academic for over 30 years. In fact, I have never done a university course as I went to college to become a Medical Laboratory Technologist in my 20’s.

I was always a straight A student, that did her homework and handed it in on time. I was very academically successful in high school and college. Languages were never my strength, I was a math and sciences type of gal. So, this course was a challenge to say the least and it brought up a lot of internal introspection. From my depths, came the perfectionism, the fear of failure, that inkling of self-doubt, that little voice that says “what if I am not good enough”. What have I got myself into?…