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Annastasia (Anna) Wells is a naturally calm presence. The human body has fascinated her since her youth, when she learned to express herself through such artistic forms as poetry, dance, and therapeutic healing modalities. Anna has lived experience with trauma, sexual violence, eating disorders, addictions, and both mental and physical health challenges. Recovery has been a hot topic throughout her adulthood. But it wasn't until she suffered a traumatic brain injury, and amputations to parts of both of her hands, that recovery became truly synonymous with living for Anna. She began to value and really work with meditation, 12 step fellowships, dialectical behaviour therapy, wellness recovery action plan, a lot of validation and affirmation, and her amazing supporters. She currently balances activities with her wife and daughter, providing individualized support as a full spectrum doula and cofacilitating groups as a peer facilitator, with (and as part of) her own recovery journey.