It is important to recognize that all humans experience a range of emotions, just like how weather varies day to day. Happiness is not the ‘default’ emotion, just like sunny …
Quick & Easy Grounding Skills
Here is a video by our director Lindsay Faas with some quick & easy grounding skills for anxiety and trauma/stress responses.
When talking doesn’t work.
Alternative Approaches to Helping.
The post that follows is taken from an episode of the Behind the Line podcast. Find this episode of Behind the Line (Season 3, Episode 1) here. Behind the Line …
Counselling for ALL
When I first started in my career as a counsellor, I was working in a non-profit setting. I offered specialized trauma therapy services to domestic violence and sexual abuse survivors. …
Helping Your Child Cope With Stress
Did you know that researchers have been able to distinguish between two kinds of stress? There’s EUSTRESS and DISTRESS. Let’s explore these, shall we? EUSTRESS is good for us. It …
The Dishwasher Dilemma:
How to Better Communicate With our Partner to Lessen Conflict and Increase Connection
Many of us have had the experience of opening the dishwasher, only to see that we have a partner who thinks that cups go on the bottom and pots and …
It’s Just Stress…” or Is It?
When mental health impacts physical health
Often when people reflect or take inventory on their health status, they typically only consider physical health and discount their mental health struggles, chalking it up as “just stress”. In …
5 Things Parents can do to
Help Prepare Their Anxious Kids for School
If you are parenting an anxious child, you probably saw the title of this blog post and thought, “Crap, how is it August already”, and “are you really gonna make …
Healthy Bodies are Not a One-Size-Fits-All
In a culture and society that values thinness, low calorie, fat-free, gluten-free, macro counting, fad diets, and limited clothing sizes, the definition of ‘healthy’ has become synonymous with the appearance …
Feeling “Out of It”
What is Dissociation?
We are seeing the term “dissociation” used more and more online, but what exactly does it mean? Dissociation is a term that is used to describe of a variety …