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Things change… Of this, I am certain.

Four Winds of Healing

Welcome to the Four Winds of Healing (clinic) of the Northern Shire (farm).  We are a holistic mental health, neurodivergent and trauma recovery provider using ever expanding healing modalities. Four Winds of Healing offers individual treatment sessions at Spruce Grove Acupuncture or in a cozy gypsy vardo at the Northern Shire farm located forty minutes west of Edmonton and five minutes from Alberta Beach. We are pleased to serve Lac Ste Anne and Parkland County including Stony Plain, Spruce Grove, Onoway, Alberta Beach, Alexis First Nation, Darwell, and Gunn.

We have to fundraising initiatives over the next 12 months. The Bloom Gala on November 8th, 2025 and the Trauma Healing Summit on June 18-19, 2026.

The Trauma Healing Summit is our first major fundraiser in support of Roots & Branches—a family-centered trauma and addiction healing community that will offer intensive treatment grounded in both modern science and traditional wisdom. Our initiative seeks to improve outcomes for individuals and families facing mental health challenges and nervous system dysregulation by integrating the medicine wheel’s holistic framework—mind, body, spirit, and emotions—into systems of care. By bringing this balanced, culturally rooted model forward, we aim to address the root causes of family dysfunction and addiction: unresolved trauma.

Our Vision

Reimagining Care: A Call to Heal, Not Just Manage

For too long, our systems—education, child welfare, healthcare, and mental health—have been built on rigid, standardized frameworks that don’t reflect the complexity of human lives. But healing, growth, and trauma recovery are not one-size-fits-all.

Raising children with unique needs while living through the challenges of poverty gave me a front-row seat to how deeply these systems can fail those they are meant to serve. Often, they weren’t built with healing in mind—they were created to control risk, enforce compliance, and manage behavior. And while many compassionate professionals work within these systems, their hands are often tied by policies that prioritize structure over support, efficiency over empathy.

Rather than supporting people in times of crisis, these systems tend to respond only when symptoms become unmanageable. We wait until people are drowning before we throw them a line—if one is available at all. Instead of addressing the roots of trauma, we focus on short-term fixes. Instead of investing in real healing, we spend billions managing dysfunction.

The rigidity that defines these institutions makes them incapable of responding to the real needs of the people they’re supposed to serve. These policy- and procedure-based systems often leave professionals burned out, overwhelmed by the powerlessness they feel working within structures that don’t allow for real change. In order to survive the system themselves, many lose their capacity to care—not because they don’t want to, but because the system doesn’t make space for it. Over time, this creates a more inhumane society—one where systemic harm is perpetuated not just by design, but by the exhaustion and disconnection of those within it. The system itself becomes part of the trauma story.

Our prisons, hospitals, and social services are filled not because people are inherently broken, but because they were never given the right support to thrive in the first place. And while there are many programs in our society that do good work, they are also fragmented, full of gaps, and insufficient for some of the most vulnerable people.

We believe that regulated people build stronger communities. When people feel safe, supported, and empowered, they engage in their communities, build connections, and create meaningful contributions. I believe that at our core, humans are good. It is only when we are in a desperate fight for survival that dysfunction—whether in the form of harming others, self-destruction, or greed—takes hold. People who feel secure do not need to manipulate or take from others. But when basic needs—safety, connection, dignity—are unmet, we see the worst of what humanity is capable of.

A New Approach: Roots & Branches Family Healing Community

Roots & Branches was created to do what the system does not: to heal instead of manage, to build instead of break, and to restore instead of control. Through lived experience, research, and hands-on practice, we have built a model that is flexible, diverse, and fills the gaps left by traditional systems.

Our approach sees the whole person, the whole family, and the whole community as part of the healing process. We work outside the constraints of standardized, ineffective systems to provide trauma-informed, individualized care that meets people where they are.

Healing can only come from within. By meeting people where they are—rather than forcing them into a mold—we can build them up and change the trajectory of their future. True healing happens when we honor the uniqueness of each person’s journey, not when we ask them to conform to a broken model.

This isn’t just about addressing trauma—it’s about changing the way we support families, empower individuals, and create lasting change. It’s about shifting from a crisis-based system to one that gets to the root of suffering and offers real solutions.

Join Us in the Movement to Help Heal Families

Trauma, anxiety and depression do not have to be a life sentence. The system has failed too many for too long. It’s time for something different.

  • Donate to help fund holistic trauma healing.
  • Partner with us to create real systemic change.
  • Share our mission and be part of the movement.

Every action counts. Together, we can rewrite the story—for this generation and the next.

I believe there is ALWAYS Hope.
I believe in Empowerment.
I believe in Grace.
I believe in Integrity.
I believe there is Purpose.
I believe EVERYTHING is an Opportunity.
I believe in HEALING!!!

In the end, I am only a facilitator.  Healing here is always guided by your inner wisdom and at your own pace.  I hope I will have the privilege to hold space for you as you begin or continue your journey into the beautiful world of the body, mind, emotions and spirit. Things change. Of this I am certain.

I invite you to explore the website to see what we are all about. Let me, Lianne White R.Ac, know if you have any specific areas of interest, I’m always looking for ways to better meet the mental, emotional and spiritual needs of the communities I serve. I love to support my clients through the many transitions of life, both past and present. I encourage you to follow and share my Facebook Page for updates. Or Subscribe to our newsletter. In a society where we are constantly bombarded with information, I promise to be considerate of your mental health by not overwhelming your inbox.

“Trust the wait. Embrace the uncertainty. Enjoy the beauty of becoming. When nothing is certain, anything is possible.”

Gold In the Shadows

There is a space where mind body and spirit meet. In this vast space is a beautiful landscape, always in flux, never still but full of stillness.  A land of mystery lost in symbols waiting to be discovered.  Where time stands still, where yesterday and today are one, and both can be unwoven.  For in this place the dreams of tomorrow are found.  It is a place of total silence where every particle longs to be heard, and will speak to any brave enough to enter.  It is a land of pure truth and pure dilution twisted together as one.  It speaks of battles lost, of courage found and the hope of a rebuild.  It speaks of despair and hope, of chaos and total purpose misunderstood,  of betrayal and trust, of confusion and clarity yet to come.  This land is now the playground of an explorer and curious wonderer too weary for the journey.  The heaviness of ions weights down, my feet drag through a sludge so thick but we cannot stop.  I am not alone, for in me is the strength generations. The call of thousands pushes me on.  So once again I enter this land of shadows, wondering what gold is to be found this time? – Lianne White

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