North Wind Wellness Centre

North Wind Wellness Centre The Centre implements a Bio-Psycho-Social affective-based treatment program to help participants healing from the heart. The Program length is 45 days.

Trauma is the rotating edge component of treatment around which all other components, cultural/spiritual, life-skills, and bio-psychosocial, provides a synergy that makes possible to treat the root of addictions. The intergenerational effects of Residential School are treated under this category, as well as other Mental Health Issues, diagnosed or non-diagnosed. Cultural/Spiritual is the main appr

oach to treatment where ceremonies and traditions serve as vehicles to deal with individual issues. The basis for this approach includes the reclamation of culture through traditional pre-contact values, ceremonies and spirituality, among others. The Medicine Wheel is used to share traditional teachings, oral history, pre-contact values, ancient and conventional healing practices, circle processing, art therapy, stress reduction and many other gifts and talents. The Medicine Wheel is also utilized to assemble a toolkit for recovery and build a balanced foundation to lives impacted by trauma. Life-skills equips the participants with cutting edge habits to develop new patterns in communication with self and others and to replace old destructive behaviours. This component is also crucial in helping participants to focus and effectively develop coping mechanisms for aversive life situations. Participants also gain better coping skills and understanding of what life is all about as a productive member of society. The Mental Health component provides appropriate therapeutic screening for participants struggling with undiagnosed Mental Health problems and addictions. The Centre recommends to referral workers further assessment for those participants who seemed to display the characteristics of one or more Mental Health issues. Over the 2010-2011 fiscal year 525 issues were identified and dealt with to some extent. However, the continuing of care relays with the referral worker to whom the centre’s counsellors case conference with and to whom recommendations are made for follow up. Services included individual and group counselling, individual aftercare planning, relapse prevention, crisis intervention, advocacy, cooperation with probation/parole services, assessment and referral, community prevention and education, and cultural awareness. Career development and pre-training services are incorporated as needed to equip participants who are ready for the next step to further their education and/or start a job search. Even though our target group is co-ed adults, we have been targeting youth at risk as well, through our networking with the School Districts and Friendship Centres along with respective surroundings work very close with our staff to assist Youth at risk.

05/01/2026

📣 May Flowers Are (Finally) Here! 📣
Longer days, a little more sunshine, and lots of great ways to stay connected this month ☀️🌱
Check out what’s happening in May!

📣 This month we’ve got something fun lined up every Thursday!!
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📣 Bingo, Games, Arts & Crafts!
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📣 Starting this May, join us every Wednesday from 2:30–3:30 PM for Basic Cree lessons with our in-house Elder — everyone is welcome to learn and connect
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📣 We’re also excited to begin social and recreational activities every Friday starting this May — a great way to have fun and build community!
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📣 NOTE: Saturday All-Pathways will be held at North Wind Wellness Centre (dates listed on calendar)
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📣 Please note: Any schedule changes or cancellations will be posted ahead of time
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📣 Please call (250) 806-1900 to register for YOGA, EQUINE, PARENTING, AND ALL SUNDAY PROGRAMMING until further notice
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📣 To find our room, come to the south side of the Networks Ministries Building, look for our Junction logo to the left and ring the doorbell to be let in
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📣 Curious about substance use recovery? Or supporting someone who is? You’re not alone—we’re here for you every step of the way
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📣 We are non-judgemental, inclusive, and here for the long run. Recovery is a journey, and everyone is welcome 💛
Let’s make May a month of growth, connection, and support 🌼

04/25/2026

Forgiving

Joy to forgive and joy to be forgiven hang level in the balances of love.
~Richard Garnett

If we are unable or unwilling to forgive others for whatever they do, we won't be able to forgive ourselves for our actions. The agony of resentment, guilt, remorse, and shame will overpower us. These emotions will halt our progress toward the comfortable and rewarding living we are promised in recovery.

Early in recovery, we often were told to pray for those whom we thought had wronged us. This philosophy is as old as civilization. Forgiveness will always triumph over guilt and shame. Recovery is one-third love and two-thirds forgiveness.

We've been our own worst enemies during most of our lives. We've often hurt ourselves over what we thought was justifiable anger and resentment.

Self-forgiveness is strength not weakness. Gaining the strength is simple. I need only remind myself that "God has forgiven me. Why not forgive myself?

04/11/2026

A "no" uttered from the deepest conviction is better and greater than a "yes" merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
~Mahatma Gandhi

We don't like to make anyone unhappy with us. We don't like to hurt anyone's feelings. We feel best when others tell us they like what we do. And we have the idea that we are strong enough to put aside our own wishes and feelings when others have strong desires. In our denial, we tell ourselves, "I can handle it." We have even violated our sense of what is right because someone else insisted.

Many a man has gotten himself into serious problems because he didn't muster the courage to say no at critical times. In sexual situations, we said, "I couldn't hurt her feelings." In work situations, we said, "I'm only doing it the way everyone else does it." Within our families, we said, "I don't want to cause an uproar." But now, with our good values and our good intuition, we can find the strength to stand up for what we believe. We have our honour and our self-respect for staying honest.

Today, I will speak my honest truth, not to be right but to be true to myself.

01/31/2026

They may not deserve forgiveness, but I do.
~Anne P.

Forgiveness is an act, not a feeling. Though it may generate feelings, forgiveness is an exercise of the will. When we forgive, we refuse to be further harmed by others' wrongdoing.

A refusal to forgive is called resentment. And the victim of resentment is always the one who carries it. The people we refuse to forgive may neither know nor care about our resentment.

To hang on to a resentment is to harbour a thief in the heart. By the minute and the hour, resentment steals the joy we could treasure now and remember forever. It pilfers our energy to celebrate life - to face others as messengers of grace rather than ambassadors of doom. We victimize ourselves when we withhold forgiveness.

Today, I will remember that forgiveness is a giver and resentment is a taker. Because I deserve it, I will forgive old hurts. I will see forgiveness as a gift to myself.

12/20/2025

Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves
~Friedrich Nietzche

As we work on a recovery program, we regain and experience freedom. Freedom from craving. Freedom from shame. Freedom from our self-centred desires. Freedom to choose what type of people we will be.

But with freedom and new choices comes responsibility. We are responsible for our sobriety. We need to get ourselves to meetings. We need to work the Steps, not just talk about them in meetings. We call our sponsors and others from meetings who may need encouragement. We do our service work.

Our program also tells us that we are responsible for those who still suffer, for those who will come after us. We are to conduct ourselves in a manner that would attract people to recovery.

Prayer for the Day

Higher Power, thank you for setting me free. Help me to fulfill my responsibilities, as a person and as a recovering person.

Today's Action

Today, I will be grateful for the new freedom I have been given. I will spend fifteen minutes thinking about and writing down my recovery responsibilities.

12/19/2025

They may not deserve forgiveness, but I do.
~Anne P.

Forgiveness is an act, not a feeling. Although it may evoke emotions, forgiveness is an exercise of the will. When we forgive, we refuse to be further damaged by the wrongdoing of others.

A refusal to forgive is often referred to as resentment. And the victim of resentment is always the one who carries it. The people we refuse to forgive may neither know nor care about our resentment.

To hang on to a resentment is to harbour a thief in the heart. By the minute and the hour, resentment steals the joy we could treasure now and remember forever. It pilfers our energy to celebrate life - to face others as messengers of grace rather than ambassadors of doom. We victimize ourselves when we withhold forgiveness.

Today, I will remember that forgiveness is a giver and resentment is a taker. Because I deserve it, I will forgive old hurts. I will see forgiveness as a gift to myself.

12/17/2025

We are not responsible for someone else's journey.

We have assumed responsibility for or made excuses for other people's actions throughout much of our lives. Maybe we did children's overdue homework or called in sick for a hungover spouse. As children, we may have pretended a passed-out parent was ill or away rather than admit the truth. We were far too concerned that others' behaviour somehow reflected on who we were. Being responsible for much more than just ourselves came easily.

Now, learning to let others be responsible for themselves sometimes troubles us. It feels as if we are letting them down. In reality, we are letting them grow up. From this fellowship we are learning that for everyone there is a path, for everyone there is a purpose. We must let others make their own journeys so that we may stay focused on ours.

I sometimes still want to take responsibility for someone else. However, wanting to and actually doing it are two different things.

11/23/2025

Happiness in the older years of life, like happiness in every year of life, is a matter of choice - your choice for yourself.
~Harold Azine

We empower ourselves every time we accept responsibility for choosing the thoughts and feelings we act on. Choosing behaviour that encourages happiness is often as easy as any other choice, and the rewards are certainly greater than when we act out of fear or resentment. Events we had expected to be troubling, and relationships where we had predicted conflict, are more likely to turn out surprisingly smooth when we come to them with a happy attitude. We will feel better about ourselves when we are able to respond to other people with encouragement and hope.

We complicate our lives unnecessarily when we choose to act out of meanness, self-centeredness, or self-pity. Actions arising from negative attitudes eventually lower our self-esteem and block our connection to God. Happiness is often as simple as making the decision to take charge of who we are now, as we rely on God's will for us.

I will choose happiness today as I rely on God's will for me.

09/22/2025

This Ends Here

We are the cycle breakers, you and I. It might not be the role we thought we would end up in, but here we are. We are breaking the cycle of addiction or some other dysfunction. If we are parents, our children will not have to witness or experience some of the things that we did. We do a lot of what we do for those we love, as well as for those who will come after us. They're worthy. This ends here.

Parent or not, you are a model for all the people you encounter in your life, even people you do not know. You don't even have to say anything; people will see and experience you as a person who makes good choices for yourself and your life. Of course, not everyone will appreciate the changes you have made or the boundaries you set as you change. Some may see you, your health, and your recovery as a threat to their own position in the cycle of dysfunction. Some may not see you at all, because they can't or won't. And still, this ends here.

Unhealthy patterns end with us, for us and for those who follow.

08/09/2025

If you were going to die soon and had only one call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?
~Stephen Levine

When we were in the depths of our addiction, we could not be truly present in our relationships. We could not do the work of being caring and responsible. We were too focused on using alcohol or drugs to change our own feelings.

Now that we are sober, we can change. We clean up our messes when we work Steps Eight and Nine. We list the people we have harmed, think about it, and then we make amends to them.

Cleaning up our old messes makes us free to start over. We keep a better eye on our own behaviour as we take our inventory every day in Step Ten, and we become decent, real human beings. We make real friends. Family members begin to trust us with their love. Our new sober life gradually fills up with people.

Prayer for the Day

Higher Power, help me be a real human being today. Help me understand my importance to others and treat my relationships with the respect they deserve.

Today's Action

I will imagine that I don't have long to live and have only one call I can make. Who will I call, and what will I say? And why am I waiting? I will make that call today. If I need support, I will get it from a friend.

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5524 Graham Road (235 Rd. )
Dawson Creek, BC
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Tuesday 9am - 4:30pm
Wednesday 9am - 4:30pm
Thursday 9am - 4:30pm
Friday 9am - 4:30pm

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