# @shield.performance on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DL9w0GLuBMF
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/32318263-shieldperformance-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/9492559262.jpg
- **Posted:** 2025-07-11T11:00:00.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** SHIELD ATHLETICS + SPORTS MEDICINE (@shield.performance) — https://gondola.cc/shield.performance

## Caption

🌟 Navigating Chronic Illness? You Don’t Have to Do It Alone 

From community development with the BlueJays to founding LyftCounselling, Caitlyn’s journey revealed the gaps in mental health care—especially for those battling chronic conditions like POTS (Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome). 🧠❤️🩹

Too often, fatigue, dizziness, and pain are dismissed as “just anxiety.” The fight for answers can be as exhausting as the symptoms themselves. That’s why we decided to partner with lyftcounselling, to offer specialized psychotherapy—because mental health care should be accessible, validating, and empowering.

Therapy helps you:
✅ Process the emotional weight of POTS/chronic illness
✅ Advocate for yourself in medical systems
✅ Rebuild confidence in your body & relationships

You deserve a space where your symptoms are believed, not debated. Let’s work together to heal + strengthen your resilience. 🌱

📲 DM or comment “SUPPORT” to start your journey.

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📧 info@shieldperformance.ca⁣
📞 905-319-9659⁣
💻Shieldathletics.ca

#POTS #POTSAwareness #ChronicIllness #MentalHealthMatters #TherapyForChronicIllness #shieldathletics #shieldperformance  #MentalHealthAdvocate #YouAreNotAlone

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youarenotalone, shieldathletics, therapyforchronicillness, pots, potsawareness, mentalhealthmatters, shieldperformance, chronicillness, mentalhealthadvocate

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