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Can Talk Therapy Help Anxiety?

Counselling and psychotherapy, or talk therapy, is when a therapist listens to how someone feels, helps them work through their experiences, and gives them an optimistic approach towards life and mental well-being. To treat, evaluate, and support various mental health conditions, counsellors and psychologists use talk therapy to discuss the...

Dealing With A Draining Job

5 Ways to Deal With A Draining Job

When we talk about mental health and self-care, I think it’s sometimes helpful to think of our bodies as machines. Like any complex machine with a lot of moving parts, we break down over time if we don’t take care of them and provide some routine maintenance. Our bodies and...

Attachment Trauma In Adults

Signs of Attachment Trauma In Adults 

We have this idea as adults that our patterns and behaviours are personal failings—things we should just be able to correct. As a result, we end up feeling ashamed. Some people go Jekyll & Hyde once they’re in a relationship, while others struggle with low self-esteem even when they’re rock stars...

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The problem with self-care, and how to fix it

Self-care has become a hot word in what we could call “insta-therapy” and is often an excuse to sell indulgence as healing. Are videos of people using seven types of serum showing up in your scrolling, too? Self-care is an important concept, but it’s being twisted and used against people...

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Anxiety, Depression, or FOMO: Gen Z and Mental Illness

Could the reason for high rates of anxiety and depression in our youth be attributed to FOMO, or is there something else going on?...
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Why We Fight: Comments on Esther Perel’s Video

Some of our most hurtful moments can come at the hand of someone we love. According to Esther Perel and her YouTube presentation, Fight Smarter: Put Escalating Fights on Ice, Esther claims that the reason we fight is because one of three needs....
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Men, Women, and Emotional Processing

You’ve heard the phrase, men are from Mars, women are from Venus. The term became popular after the publication of John Gray’s famous self-help book for relationship success. And as true as the sky is blue, men and women process emotion differently...
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Why Is Dating So Dang Hard

Gone are the good ol’ days, when you meet someone at a local event, at work, or even at the grocery store. You get their number and wait a few days to make an actual phone call. ...
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Why You Want Your Ex Back: Especially When you Know It Won’t Work:

You were with someone that you thought was pretty wonderful. You had some good times, and then, some not so good times. For whatever reason, you decided to part ways. ...
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The First Steps of Conscious Manifestation: What Ekhart Tolle is Missing

Just 3 days ago, a new YouTube video appeared in my news feed. The First Step of Conscious Manifestation | Conscious Manifestation 2020, by Ekhart Tolle. In the video, Mr. Tolle instructs us on how to handle negative experiences....
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The Teenage Brain: What you need to know

Sound familiar? Would you be surprised if I told you that quote was written by Socrates over 2000 years ago? Needless to say, what you are experiencing with your teen is nothing new. If you have a teenager, you probably have been met with disrespect, talking back, risky behaviour, defiance,...

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Alone vs Loneliness: The path to self-love

A few years back, I made a comment to my mother about feeling alone. I had been single for a number of years. And even though I was actively engaged in raising my two children alone, completing my Master’s degree, and then starting my private practice, I still had moments...

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