The Hestia Project
@thehestiaproject.bsky.social
Non-profit in Alberta - join us on the journey to be kinder and gentler toward the most important person in your life
Love Shouldn't Hurt
Thehestiaproject.ca
Love Shouldn't Hurt
Thehestiaproject.ca
Day 10 - Restorative justice isn’t forgiving and forgetting. It includes naming the harm, understanding its impact, taking responsibility, repairing what can be repaired, and rebuilding trust when it's safe to do so.
Call to action: Share what you know about Restorative Justice.
Call to action: Share what you know about Restorative Justice.
December 4, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Day 10 - Restorative justice isn’t forgiving and forgetting. It includes naming the harm, understanding its impact, taking responsibility, repairing what can be repaired, and rebuilding trust when it's safe to do so.
Call to action: Share what you know about Restorative Justice.
Call to action: Share what you know about Restorative Justice.
Day 9 - Violence thrives in silence. When communities are built and people support each other, with compassion instead of judgment, people are less likely to fall through the cracks and we can end the harm they experience.
Call to action: Check on someone you're worried about today.
Call to action: Check on someone you're worried about today.
December 3, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Day 9 - Violence thrives in silence. When communities are built and people support each other, with compassion instead of judgment, people are less likely to fall through the cracks and we can end the harm they experience.
Call to action: Check on someone you're worried about today.
Call to action: Check on someone you're worried about today.
Vicarious trauma is real. You can't listen to the stories of abuse, loss, and violence every day, expecting to walk away untouched. This training shows you how to protect yourself while still showing up for others.
#VicariousTrauma #FrontlineWorkers #CompassionFatigue #BurnoutPrevention
#VicariousTrauma #FrontlineWorkers #CompassionFatigue #BurnoutPrevention
December 3, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Vicarious trauma is real. You can't listen to the stories of abuse, loss, and violence every day, expecting to walk away untouched. This training shows you how to protect yourself while still showing up for others.
#VicariousTrauma #FrontlineWorkers #CompassionFatigue #BurnoutPrevention
#VicariousTrauma #FrontlineWorkers #CompassionFatigue #BurnoutPrevention
Day 8 - Recognizing coercive control
Not all violence leaves bruises. Coercive control counts - this includes isolation, controlling behaviors, threats, and monitoring. These are often precursors to worse harm.
Call to action: Ask "are they making your world smaller?" If yes, reach out for support.
Not all violence leaves bruises. Coercive control counts - this includes isolation, controlling behaviors, threats, and monitoring. These are often precursors to worse harm.
Call to action: Ask "are they making your world smaller?" If yes, reach out for support.
December 2, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Day 8 - Recognizing coercive control
Not all violence leaves bruises. Coercive control counts - this includes isolation, controlling behaviors, threats, and monitoring. These are often precursors to worse harm.
Call to action: Ask "are they making your world smaller?" If yes, reach out for support.
Not all violence leaves bruises. Coercive control counts - this includes isolation, controlling behaviors, threats, and monitoring. These are often precursors to worse harm.
Call to action: Ask "are they making your world smaller?" If yes, reach out for support.
Restorative justice doesn't excuse abuse - it addresses the root causes. It's about ending harm, not ignoring it.
It takes courage to look at harm and choose to change instead of hide. Do you think people can learn to stop using abusive behaviours?
#ChangeIsPossible #EndTheCycle #RestorativeJustice
It takes courage to look at harm and choose to change instead of hide. Do you think people can learn to stop using abusive behaviours?
#ChangeIsPossible #EndTheCycle #RestorativeJustice
December 2, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Restorative justice doesn't excuse abuse - it addresses the root causes. It's about ending harm, not ignoring it.
It takes courage to look at harm and choose to change instead of hide. Do you think people can learn to stop using abusive behaviours?
#ChangeIsPossible #EndTheCycle #RestorativeJustice
It takes courage to look at harm and choose to change instead of hide. Do you think people can learn to stop using abusive behaviours?
#ChangeIsPossible #EndTheCycle #RestorativeJustice
Celebrate your next event with something unforgettable - a private murder mystery event that turns guests into characters and secrets into clues.
Where would your dream mystery be set: haunted mansion, luxury yacht, or small-town diner?
#MurderMystery #PrivateEvent #YYCEvents
Where would your dream mystery be set: haunted mansion, luxury yacht, or small-town diner?
#MurderMystery #PrivateEvent #YYCEvents
December 1, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Celebrate your next event with something unforgettable - a private murder mystery event that turns guests into characters and secrets into clues.
Where would your dream mystery be set: haunted mansion, luxury yacht, or small-town diner?
#MurderMystery #PrivateEvent #YYCEvents
Where would your dream mystery be set: haunted mansion, luxury yacht, or small-town diner?
#MurderMystery #PrivateEvent #YYCEvents
Day 7 - Violence in the home
Home is meant to be safe, yet most gendered violence happens behind closed doors. Normalizing conversations about harm in families is one of the strongest prevention tools we have.
Call to action: Share resources for domestic violence services in your community.
Home is meant to be safe, yet most gendered violence happens behind closed doors. Normalizing conversations about harm in families is one of the strongest prevention tools we have.
Call to action: Share resources for domestic violence services in your community.
December 1, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Day 7 - Violence in the home
Home is meant to be safe, yet most gendered violence happens behind closed doors. Normalizing conversations about harm in families is one of the strongest prevention tools we have.
Call to action: Share resources for domestic violence services in your community.
Home is meant to be safe, yet most gendered violence happens behind closed doors. Normalizing conversations about harm in families is one of the strongest prevention tools we have.
Call to action: Share resources for domestic violence services in your community.
Day 6 - Preventing gendered violence includes holding spaces for men to unlearn harmful patterns and step into healthier versions of themselves. We don't prevent violence by demonizing it. We prevent it by transforming. Encourage men in your life to talk openly about emotions, conflict, and respect.
November 30, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Day 6 - Preventing gendered violence includes holding spaces for men to unlearn harmful patterns and step into healthier versions of themselves. We don't prevent violence by demonizing it. We prevent it by transforming. Encourage men in your life to talk openly about emotions, conflict, and respect.
Day 5 - Young people are absorbing everything - how adults talk, fight, apologize, or avoid. They're watching the world model what "love" looks like, and it sticks for them.
Kids don't just "grow out of it". They grow from what they see.
Model the kind of care you want them to show others.
Kids don't just "grow out of it". They grow from what they see.
Model the kind of care you want them to show others.
November 29, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Day 5 - Young people are absorbing everything - how adults talk, fight, apologize, or avoid. They're watching the world model what "love" looks like, and it sticks for them.
Kids don't just "grow out of it". They grow from what they see.
Model the kind of care you want them to show others.
Kids don't just "grow out of it". They grow from what they see.
Model the kind of care you want them to show others.
Remember that you don't have to be "on" all the time.
What's one small thing you do on low-energy days that actually helps you keep going?
If you're in need of more ideas for your self-care, check out our 6 month calendar on our website to kick start your journey.
#SelfCare #Journey
What's one small thing you do on low-energy days that actually helps you keep going?
If you're in need of more ideas for your self-care, check out our 6 month calendar on our website to kick start your journey.
#SelfCare #Journey
November 28, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Day 4 - Healthy relationships are learned
Nobody is born knowing own to communicate, set boundaries, or repair from conflict. Building these skills makes communities safer and prevents domestic violence.
Call to action: Share one relationship skill you wish you were taught earlier.
Nobody is born knowing own to communicate, set boundaries, or repair from conflict. Building these skills makes communities safer and prevents domestic violence.
Call to action: Share one relationship skill you wish you were taught earlier.
November 28, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Day 4 - Healthy relationships are learned
Nobody is born knowing own to communicate, set boundaries, or repair from conflict. Building these skills makes communities safer and prevents domestic violence.
Call to action: Share one relationship skill you wish you were taught earlier.
Nobody is born knowing own to communicate, set boundaries, or repair from conflict. Building these skills makes communities safer and prevents domestic violence.
Call to action: Share one relationship skill you wish you were taught earlier.
Day 3 - Listening is free. Believing someone can literally change their lives. Survivors don't need you to be perfect in what you say to them, they need you to care and take them seriously to make space for healing.
Practice saying "I hear you. I believe you. What do you need right now?"
Practice saying "I hear you. I believe you. What do you need right now?"
November 27, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Day 3 - Listening is free. Believing someone can literally change their lives. Survivors don't need you to be perfect in what you say to them, they need you to care and take them seriously to make space for healing.
Practice saying "I hear you. I believe you. What do you need right now?"
Practice saying "I hear you. I believe you. What do you need right now?"
Day 2 - Naming roots of harm
Gendered violence doesn't come out of nowhere. It's shaped by power and inequality. Prevention is about dismantling the systems that taught these behaviours as "normal".
Ask yourself: what beliefs or jokes do I excuse that actually reinforce harm?
Gendered violence doesn't come out of nowhere. It's shaped by power and inequality. Prevention is about dismantling the systems that taught these behaviours as "normal".
Ask yourself: what beliefs or jokes do I excuse that actually reinforce harm?
November 26, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Day 2 - Naming roots of harm
Gendered violence doesn't come out of nowhere. It's shaped by power and inequality. Prevention is about dismantling the systems that taught these behaviours as "normal".
Ask yourself: what beliefs or jokes do I excuse that actually reinforce harm?
Gendered violence doesn't come out of nowhere. It's shaped by power and inequality. Prevention is about dismantling the systems that taught these behaviours as "normal".
Ask yourself: what beliefs or jokes do I excuse that actually reinforce harm?
Join our training, Emotional Rescue, where we unpack the truth about emotions, emotional regulation, and why labeling every mood as a disorder is doing more harm than good.
🔗 thehestiaproject.ca
#FeelingsArentFlaws #EmotionalRegulation #MentalHealthReframe #Pathology
🔗 thehestiaproject.ca
#FeelingsArentFlaws #EmotionalRegulation #MentalHealthReframe #Pathology
November 26, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Join our training, Emotional Rescue, where we unpack the truth about emotions, emotional regulation, and why labeling every mood as a disorder is doing more harm than good.
🔗 thehestiaproject.ca
#FeelingsArentFlaws #EmotionalRegulation #MentalHealthReframe #Pathology
🔗 thehestiaproject.ca
#FeelingsArentFlaws #EmotionalRegulation #MentalHealthReframe #Pathology
The 16 days of activism against gendered violence starts today and calls out the violence people face because of gender, identity, and power imbalances.
Here are our calls to action: Learn the signs of harm; Believe survivors; Challenge harmful norms; Advocate for systemic change.
Here are our calls to action: Learn the signs of harm; Believe survivors; Challenge harmful norms; Advocate for systemic change.
November 25, 2025 at 1:05 PM
The 16 days of activism against gendered violence starts today and calls out the violence people face because of gender, identity, and power imbalances.
Here are our calls to action: Learn the signs of harm; Believe survivors; Challenge harmful norms; Advocate for systemic change.
Here are our calls to action: Learn the signs of harm; Believe survivors; Challenge harmful norms; Advocate for systemic change.
Our upcoming training gives you the practical strategies to help. Join us for Protecting The Protector to learn more about child to parent violence and how to help those in need.
#DomesticViolence #FrontLineTraining #ChildToParentViolence #Protection #Family #SafetyFirst
#DomesticViolence #FrontLineTraining #ChildToParentViolence #Protection #Family #SafetyFirst
November 25, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Our upcoming training gives you the practical strategies to help. Join us for Protecting The Protector to learn more about child to parent violence and how to help those in need.
#DomesticViolence #FrontLineTraining #ChildToParentViolence #Protection #Family #SafetyFirst
#DomesticViolence #FrontLineTraining #ChildToParentViolence #Protection #Family #SafetyFirst
Murder mysteries: the only place where it's socially acceptable to be dramatic and accusatory for two hours straight.
If you had to pick your character archetype, which one are you playing: villain, victim, or investigator?
#MurderMystery #DramaAndDeception #YYCEvents #CorporateTeamBuilding
If you had to pick your character archetype, which one are you playing: villain, victim, or investigator?
#MurderMystery #DramaAndDeception #YYCEvents #CorporateTeamBuilding
November 24, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Murder mysteries: the only place where it's socially acceptable to be dramatic and accusatory for two hours straight.
If you had to pick your character archetype, which one are you playing: villain, victim, or investigator?
#MurderMystery #DramaAndDeception #YYCEvents #CorporateTeamBuilding
If you had to pick your character archetype, which one are you playing: villain, victim, or investigator?
#MurderMystery #DramaAndDeception #YYCEvents #CorporateTeamBuilding
Saying "no" to extra tasks still gives me a mini heart attack, but at least I'm doing it with confidence (sometimes).
What's one thing you're learning to say no to guilt-free?
#SelfCareSeason #ProtectYourPeace #SelfCare #WorkInProgress
What's one thing you're learning to say no to guilt-free?
#SelfCareSeason #ProtectYourPeace #SelfCare #WorkInProgress
November 21, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Saying "no" to extra tasks still gives me a mini heart attack, but at least I'm doing it with confidence (sometimes).
What's one thing you're learning to say no to guilt-free?
#SelfCareSeason #ProtectYourPeace #SelfCare #WorkInProgress
What's one thing you're learning to say no to guilt-free?
#SelfCareSeason #ProtectYourPeace #SelfCare #WorkInProgress
Family conflict isn't always loud - sometimes it's silence, tension, or walking on eggshells. Our training, Identifying Conflict, helps you recognize the signs and respond safely.
What's one sign you think people often miss when families are experiencing harm?
#FamilyConflict #DomesticViolence
What's one sign you think people often miss when families are experiencing harm?
#FamilyConflict #DomesticViolence
November 19, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Family conflict isn't always loud - sometimes it's silence, tension, or walking on eggshells. Our training, Identifying Conflict, helps you recognize the signs and respond safely.
What's one sign you think people often miss when families are experiencing harm?
#FamilyConflict #DomesticViolence
What's one sign you think people often miss when families are experiencing harm?
#FamilyConflict #DomesticViolence
A mother says: "My son smashed my phone so I couldn't call for help".
This is abuse. Our upcoming training, Protecting the Pritector, helps you recognize it, respond to it, and protect not only the parent but the whole family.
#DomesticViolence #ChildToParentAbuse #Training #FrontLine
This is abuse. Our upcoming training, Protecting the Pritector, helps you recognize it, respond to it, and protect not only the parent but the whole family.
#DomesticViolence #ChildToParentAbuse #Training #FrontLine
November 18, 2025 at 1:02 PM
A mother says: "My son smashed my phone so I couldn't call for help".
This is abuse. Our upcoming training, Protecting the Pritector, helps you recognize it, respond to it, and protect not only the parent but the whole family.
#DomesticViolence #ChildToParentAbuse #Training #FrontLine
This is abuse. Our upcoming training, Protecting the Pritector, helps you recognize it, respond to it, and protect not only the parent but the whole family.
#DomesticViolence #ChildToParentAbuse #Training #FrontLine
Murder Mysteries: the only place it's socially acceptable to be dramatic and accusatory for two hours straight. Finally, a safe space for your inner drama queen 👸
Which character archetype are you picking: villain, victim, or investigator?
#DramaAndDeception #YYCEvents #SuspiciousBehaviour
Which character archetype are you picking: villain, victim, or investigator?
#DramaAndDeception #YYCEvents #SuspiciousBehaviour
November 17, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Murder Mysteries: the only place it's socially acceptable to be dramatic and accusatory for two hours straight. Finally, a safe space for your inner drama queen 👸
Which character archetype are you picking: villain, victim, or investigator?
#DramaAndDeception #YYCEvents #SuspiciousBehaviour
Which character archetype are you picking: villain, victim, or investigator?
#DramaAndDeception #YYCEvents #SuspiciousBehaviour
Future me: thriving. Current me: staring at that task for the third week in a row like it's a horror movie.
What's your "I swear I'll get to it" thing?
If you're in need of more self-care strategies, check out our 6 month calendar on our website.
#DoTheThing #FutureYouThanksYou #SelfCareGoals
What's your "I swear I'll get to it" thing?
If you're in need of more self-care strategies, check out our 6 month calendar on our website.
#DoTheThing #FutureYouThanksYou #SelfCareGoals
November 14, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Future me: thriving. Current me: staring at that task for the third week in a row like it's a horror movie.
What's your "I swear I'll get to it" thing?
If you're in need of more self-care strategies, check out our 6 month calendar on our website.
#DoTheThing #FutureYouThanksYou #SelfCareGoals
What's your "I swear I'll get to it" thing?
If you're in need of more self-care strategies, check out our 6 month calendar on our website.
#DoTheThing #FutureYouThanksYou #SelfCareGoals
Taking care of yourself isn't just bubble baths and "treat yourself" moments.
Our training is all about building practical real-life strategies you can actually keep up with.
What's one thing your body tells you when you're starting to get overwhelmed?
Our training is all about building practical real-life strategies you can actually keep up with.
What's one thing your body tells you when you're starting to get overwhelmed?
November 12, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Taking care of yourself isn't just bubble baths and "treat yourself" moments.
Our training is all about building practical real-life strategies you can actually keep up with.
What's one thing your body tells you when you're starting to get overwhelmed?
Our training is all about building practical real-life strategies you can actually keep up with.
What's one thing your body tells you when you're starting to get overwhelmed?
Remembrance day isn't about glorifying war. It's about acknowledging the costs of conflict on real humans and committing to doing better.
We remember the lives given, the families changed, and the futures reshaped.
#RemembranceDay #LestWeForget #HonourAndRemember
We remember the lives given, the families changed, and the futures reshaped.
#RemembranceDay #LestWeForget #HonourAndRemember
November 11, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Remembrance day isn't about glorifying war. It's about acknowledging the costs of conflict on real humans and committing to doing better.
We remember the lives given, the families changed, and the futures reshaped.
#RemembranceDay #LestWeForget #HonourAndRemember
We remember the lives given, the families changed, and the futures reshaped.
#RemembranceDay #LestWeForget #HonourAndRemember
You're trapped in a room with clues and a killer among you... time's ticking. We promise to not actually lock you in a room - we're looking for HR trouble, not OSHA trouble.
Would you rather be the detective, the mastermind, or the plot twist?
#YYCEvents #MurderMystery #CorporateTeamBuilding
Would you rather be the detective, the mastermind, or the plot twist?
#YYCEvents #MurderMystery #CorporateTeamBuilding
November 10, 2025 at 1:02 PM
You're trapped in a room with clues and a killer among you... time's ticking. We promise to not actually lock you in a room - we're looking for HR trouble, not OSHA trouble.
Would you rather be the detective, the mastermind, or the plot twist?
#YYCEvents #MurderMystery #CorporateTeamBuilding
Would you rather be the detective, the mastermind, or the plot twist?
#YYCEvents #MurderMystery #CorporateTeamBuilding