“Faith is unseen but felt, faith is strength when we feel we have none, faith is hope when all seems lost.” – Catherine Pulsifer People often tell us to have more faith, but how do you...
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We Change As Seasons Change
“One thing that feeds into the way you experience the social world is your mood – and one thing that affects your mood is the weather.” Leonard Mlodinow When the seasons shift...
Read moreFinding Strength In A Pandemic
To be isolated is to be separate, segregated or removed from others. We are in the second week of our second province-wide lockdown. We are in month ten of a worldwide pandemic that doesn’t seem...
Read moreStress management 2021
This year started with what felt like the longest January in history, followed by a worldwide pandemic, which put us on an emotional rollercoaster for the remainder of the year. To say 2020 was an...
Read moreSelf-Criticism: It’s Time To Fight Back!
When we hear the term Self-Criticism, it’s often associated with words like self-doubt, fear, low self-esteem, and the list can go on. And I have learned over the years that how we speak to...
Read moreWho Are You Anyway?
Why are we no longer inclined to be ourselves complete with flaws, quirks and the unmentionable? At what point have we as individuals lost sight of who we are? And when did being ourselves become...
Read moreEmotional Intelligence. Do You Have What It Takes?
Emotional Intelligence, a phrase we hear often and are most adamant we possess but do we? Do we know what it encompasses? Do we have what it takes? According to Daniel Goleman, Emotional...
Read more7 ways to Identify and Cope with your triggers
Your emotional scars are those that are invisible, easily ignored or suppressed and are susceptible to triggers that may ignite the fire within us, bringing those emotions to the...
Read moreHow to Navigate Fatherhood & Depression
“My father didn’t tell me how to live. He lived and let me watch him do it.” At the age of 28, my life changed for the better, I was no longer just a man diagnosed with depression, trying to...
Read moreDiagnosis, Relationships & Repair
It’s a proven fact that healthy relationships are beneficial both to our physical and mental health. You may be thinking, why are we discussing relationships again, and the simple answer is...
Read moreWhen FOMO (fear of missing out) Takes Over
I would love to say that I have never experience the Fear of Missing out (F.O.M.O), I would like to smile and shrug it off as something that happens to other people, but has never happened to me...
Read moreThe Power of Forgiveness
A friend of mine and I were having a discussion last week and the topic of forgiveness came up. She suggested that maybe there was a link between forgiveness and our mental health. She challenged...
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