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Paula Smith

@mindfuladventure.bsky.social
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Alignment coach specializing in inner child wounds and toxic relationship recovery. Amateur photographer, nature lover and Blue’s mom 🐾 Vancouver Island 🇨🇦 mindfuladventurecoaching.com instagram.com/mindfuladventurecoach…

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Paula Smith @mindfuladventure.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
The real work isn’t becoming someone new. It’s unlearning who the world told you to be. You were never broken— just buried under layers that were never yours to carry.
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Paula Smith @mindfuladventure.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Healing isn’t just about the trauma. It’s about the shame, the disbelief, and the silence that followed. When you weren’t protected. When you weren’t believed. If that’s been your story—I see you. You deserved better. #traumahealing #believevictims #nervoussystemhealing
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Armand Sarlangue @armandsarlangue.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Alaskan layers… Juneau ice field captured from helicopter during sunset, with smoky atmosphere from distant wildfires. #photography #nature #wilderness #art #landscape
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Paula Smith @mindfuladventure.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
The ocean gives and it humbles 🌊🏄‍♂️ One moment, you’re riding high, feeling like you’ve mastered it. The next, you’re reminded who’s really in control. And whether you’re standing on the shore or riding the wave, it always leaves you feeling something.
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Paula Smith @mindfuladventure.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
One of those places where, as you walk the trail in, the closer you get to the beach, the more everything spills out of your mind. The noise, the busyness, the weight of the day… gone. Replaced by misty waves, salt air, and the pull of the tide. 🌊 Sombrio Beach
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Paula Smith @mindfuladventure.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
This little spot in Goldstream Provincial Park is tucked right off the highway. Some say the traffic noise takes away from the experience but for me once I’m lost in the greens, the moss, and the light filtering through the trees, the rest of the world fades away.
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Paula Smith @mindfuladventure.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Walking back after a gorgeous sunset on Dallas Road, I turned around and caught this view.
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Keith Boone Photography 🇨🇦 @keithboone.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
One more for the #BlueSkyArtShow #windows theme. This is late afternoon at the Inner Harbour with the sun reflecting on the windows of the buildings and the city reflected back on the calm water. #Photography #reflections #EastCoastKin #Landscape #VictoriaBC #VancouverIsland #fujifilm
A photo of the waterfront buildings in Victoria with sunlight reflecting off the windows and the city reflected back from the calm water.
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Paula Smith @mindfuladventure.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Those first golden evenings of the season, the kind that pull people outside, eager to soak in that warm light. Still a cold breeze, but the warm colors of the sunset balance it out. The calm, shared presence of strangers, all taking it in. #sunsetlovers #seasideviews #landscapephotography
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Paula Smith @mindfuladventure.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
A quiet conversation, framed by stone and sky. Who else loves watching silhouettes tell a story? #victoriabc #vancouverisland #sunsetphotography #sunsetlovers #sunsetsilhouette #silhouettephotography #goldenhour #landscapephotography #naturephotography #photooftheday #ourplanetdaily
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Paula Smith @mindfuladventure.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Some beauty can’t be tamed. A tangled silhouette, a horizon set on fire, and the ocean reflecting it all back. Nature’s perfect kind of chaos.
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Paula Smith @mindfuladventure.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Through the streets of the oldest Chinatown in Canada, history woven into every corner, stories in every shadow. #victoriabc #chinatown #streetphotography
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JBC @johnbcaddell.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
it's #scape day, so here's some #scenic #scenery #landscapes from my favorite place on the planet, Yosemite National Park #nature #outdoors
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Paula Smith @mindfuladventure.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
There was an amazing sunset last night in Victoria, Vancouver Island 🇨🇦
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Nature Art by Gibson @azgibsonz.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
“Only you can take inner freedom away from yourself, or give it to yourself. Nobody else can.” ~Michael A. Singer 🕉️ #Raptors #BirdsOfPrey #BirdPhotography #Birding #Birds 🪶
A male Cooper's Hawk faces into the morning light in close-up profile.
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Paula Smith @mindfuladventure.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
The fleeting beauty of cherry blossoms always brings me back to my childhood trip to Japan. ‘Hanami’ the cherished tradition of flower viewing, reminds us to embrace each moment. #Hanami #CherryBlossom #FlowerViewing #Sakura #naturephotography
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Keith Boone Photography 🇨🇦 @keithboone.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
This is Mt Rundle in Banff National Park during the forest fires of 2018. Fires are getting worse every year. If you want to visit, come early in the season. I say May or June. #photography #Banff #smoke #ForestFires #Alberta #Canada #EastCoastKin #LandscapePhotography
Mt Rundle in Banff National Park shrouded by smoke during the forest fires of 2018.
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Soul Inquiries @soulinquiries.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
What happens when we experience trauma, PART 3 Did you know other mammals shake/tremor to release the energy from trauma? Humans are not the *only* ones who experience trauma. #partswork #shadowwork #skyifs #trauma #traumaenergy

What happens when we experience trauma, PART 3

Did you know other mammals shake/tremor to release the energy from trauma?

Humans are not the only ones who experience trauma. 
 
#partswork #shadowwork #skyifs #trauma #traumaenergy
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Suzanne Lapointe @suemetal.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Waterfall in Killarney National Park in Ireland #WaterfallWednesday #EastCoastKin
Petite cascade et rivière entourées de verdure. Parc national de Killarney, Irlande (mai 2014).
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Breezie @breeze420.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
I've posted this before in a different color. But oh well I like it.😉
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Melissa D Jones @rouxroamer.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
The best day of the week or maybe it's just my favorite subject to shoot... This was a tough one to access. Enjoy! #waterfallwednesday #photography #Blueskyphotography #landscapephotography #EastCoastKin #PhotographersofBluesky #PhotographersUnited #longexposure #art #nature #humpday
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Susan @underglass.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
After Yesterday; Today is going to be a day of deep breathing. Hugging a dog. Digging deep, spiritually…and Owls.
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Armand Sarlangue @armandsarlangue.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Mountain waves from Alaska wilderness… Shot from helicopter while flying above Juneau ice field. #bluesky #photography #nature #art #aerial #landscape #sunset #mountains
Snow covered mountains emerging from the the Juneau ice fields, as seen from an helicopter, at sunset. 
The mountains shapes creates some sort of curvy wave effect.
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Peter Thoeny @peterthoeny.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Pink whispers caught in dreamy light -- CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, © 2025 Peter Thoeny, QualityHDR.com #photography #art #FineArt #bokeh #DreamLens #garden #Japanese #JapaneseGarden #dreamy #magnolia #flower #Saratoga #SanJose #SiliconValley #SFBay #California @bskyphotos.bsky.social
Pink whispers caught in dreamy light

I'm drawn to Hakone Gardens, a Japanese sanctuary nestled in Saratoga, within Silicon Valley's core in California. The garden transforms monthly thanks to its diverse plant life. A Saucer Magnolia tree is currently in bloom, here taken with the Dream Lens.

-- ƒ/0.95, 50 mm, 1/8000 sec, ISO 200, Sony A7 II, Canon 50mm f0.95 "Dream Lens", HDR, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, © 2025 Peter Thoeny, @Quality HDR Photography
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JBC @johnbcaddell.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
after picking up the Navigator from school, I noticed the #storm #clouds calling for a #LemaRanch visit, so I obliged. here's some #scenic #scenery stuff from 30 minutes ago. #nature #outdoors #reflections #cloudscapes #landscapes #waterscapes
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Islander @dhiislander.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
#50 #Maldives #visitMaldives #sunset #sunrise #goldenhour #island #photography #travel #LumixS9 #LUMIX #LUMIXJAPAN
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Paula Smith @mindfuladventure.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
The Kind of Silence That Says Everything A still moment on a restless shore. The kind of beauty that doesn’t ask for attention, but keeps you looking anyway. Another shot from last weeks trip to Sombrio Beach 🌊 #VancouverIsland #SombrioBeach #Moody #WestCoastVibes #OceanMist #CoastalWanderer
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Paula Smith @mindfuladventure.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Ferns reach for the light and swayed. The bridge stood steady leading somewhere I didn’t need to go. Funny how sometimes the best moments happen when we aren’t trying to fill the space, just letting it be. Nature doesn’t rush, but everything still finds its way. Maybe we’re meant to do the sam
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skinskin @skinskintainan.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
神子一体 #art #photo #photography #nightphotography #temple ©️skinskin
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GJPhoto @glyn71.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Buttermere trees
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Photography by Alfie Goodrich @alfie.photography · 02/03/2025
Good morning to you, from a very rainy, grey Tokyo. Getting prepped today for a shoot in Nagano-ken tomorrow. It'll be a very early start out from Tokyo tomorrow morning. So this little Alfie will be getting in to bed by 10pm at the very latest. Have a great day ALT for image details Luv&peace ❤️🙏
A line of sea birds sit on a breakwater just out from shore in Rausu, in the Shiretoko area of Hokkaido. That land you see behind them? That's Kunashiri-to (Kunashir Island or Кунаши́р). It's Russia. And just 22kms away. An old Japanese gentleman stands next to a wooden house on the beach near Rausu, Shiretoko, Japan. I photographed this lovely gent up in Rausu in 2019, during the ten days I was there making and presenting a tv programme for NHKWorld. This was where he lived as a child. The hut is called a "banya" and is the traditional type of fisherman's hut in Shiretoko. This chap now runs a boat tour company.
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Paula Smith @mindfuladventure.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
The majestic Mt Baker as seen from Vancouver Island
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Paula Smith @mindfuladventure.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
The raw beauty of the west coast of Vancouver Island. This is 📍Sandcut Beach a place where waterfalls meet the sea, where time slows, and nature speaks in waves and falling water. I captured a moment in time to share with you. #vancouverisland #landscapephotography #waterfallwonders #coastalbeauty
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Soul Inquiries @soulinquiries.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
How does TRAUMA affect us? Whether "Big T" or "Little T" we have *all* have had these experiences. Here's what happens (part 1) #partswork #shadowwork #skyifs #trauma #traumarecovery
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Soul Inquiries @soulinquiries.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
🧩 We ALL have parts 🧩 Those with trauma histories have much more than average. 🧩Un-integrated Parts = Feeling unwell 🤕😔 🧩Integrated Parts = Feeling better 😁😊 An IFS Practitioner (Internal Family Systems) can help with integration. Self-love ❤️ is helping your parts 🧩 integrate #partswork
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Paula Smith @mindfuladventure.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
I was hoping to find this view today on my hike but wasn’t sure if I could. A very pleasant surprise 🏔️ #hikingadventures #landscapephotography #naturephotography #beautifulbc #vancouverislandphotography #nikonphotography #naturetherapy #islandlife #explorebc #wandermore #naturelover
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Paula Smith @mindfuladventure.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
I went for a hike in the new neighbourhood today. #hikingadventures #landscapephotography #naturephotography #woodland #throughthelens #beautifulbc #vancouverislandphotography #nikonphotography #naturetherapy #islandlife #explorebc #explorevancouverisland #wandermore #naturelover
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Paula Smith @mindfuladventure.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
A forest trail leading to salt air and solitude. The sound of waves rolling over smooth stones, the rhythm of the tide echoing through the trees as you approach A waterfall spilling into the ocean, carving its place in the landscape. 📍Sandcut Beach #WestCoastMagic #VancouverIsland
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Keith Boone Photography 🇨🇦 @keithboone.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
What do you do when you live in a #scape? Hanging out with friends on the pier during sunset is top of my list! Photo taken in #SidneyBC with #MtBaker catching some #alpenglow in the background. #photography #landscape #Sunset #VancouverIsland #EastCoastKin #PNW #WestCoastBestCoast #Cascadia
This photo shows four young people enjoying the sunset on a wooden pier.  The sky is pink and the water is picking up some reflected colour.  In the background are the San Juan islands. Mount Baker, WA is on the horizon capped with snow.  A bulk carrier ship in the middle distance is sailing along the international boundary.
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Paula Smith @mindfuladventure.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Check out my #westcoast #vancouverisland series from a day trip to #sombriobeach yesterday 3/3 from series #WestCoastMagic #NatureTherapy #CoastalVibes #VanIsleAdventures#landscapephotography #naturephotography #mood #throughthelens #seascape #beautifulbc #nikonphotographer #islandlife
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Paula Smith @mindfuladventure.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Check out my #westcoast #vancouverisland series from a day trip to #sombriobeach yesterday 2/3 series #WestCoastMagic #NatureTherapy #CoastalVibes #VanIsleAdventures #landscapephotography #naturephotography #mood #throughthelens #seascape #beautifulbc #nikonphotographer #islandlife
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Paula Smith @mindfuladventure.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Check out my #westcoast #vancouverisland series from a day trip to #sombriobeach yesterday #WestCoastMagic #NatureTherapy #CoastalVibes #VanIsleAdventures #SaltwaterSoul #landscapephotography #naturephotography #mood #throughthelens #seascape #beautifulbc #nikonphotographer #islandlife
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Paula Smith @mindfuladventure.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Standing at the edge of something vast 🌊 #sombriobeach #WestCoastVibes #MoodyOceans #WestCoastWilderness #IntoTheMistyBlue #vancouverisland
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Paula Smith @mindfuladventure.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Showing some appreciation for the simple things 🫶🏽 Ferns and moss 🌿💚 🌱Goldstream Provincial Campground
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Paula Smith @mindfuladventure.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Life’s most beautiful paths aren’t straight, they twist, curve, and challenge us. It’s in those bends that we learn, grow and find depth. In their own odd way, every detour, every unexpected turn is guiding us exactly where we need to be. Trust the path, even when you can’t see the destination.
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Paula Smith @mindfuladventure.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Vancouver Island, Canada 🍁 #woodland #mood #throughthelens #beautifulbc #foresttherapy #forestphotography #forestbathing #woodlandphotography #pnwphotographer
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Graham @graham1906.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
City Of Blinding Lights (1). youtu.be/ziOZCSBy4YE?...
Birmingham Light Festival, 21/2/25 - Mycelium Network by Stevie Thompson.
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Paula Smith @mindfuladventure.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
“Forest Portal” A quiet invitation to walk into the wall of mist, stepping from the known to unknown 🌲 #forestportal #mistymorning #veilofmist #intothewoods #foggyforest #enchantedforest #naturemystery #wanderthroughthefog #woodlandmagic #traildreams #moodynature #naturelover #forestphotography
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Paula Smith @mindfuladventure.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
This mornings foggy hike before the rain came!
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