This week was a bit crazy. It gave me an "opportunity" to see how I experienced anxiety and stress, and how I... teacher of Mental Health and psychotherapist... navigated it. I…
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I took my 2yr old to see the beloved children's musician Raffi on the weekend. It was a much looked forward to event for both of us, and it was a joy to…
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Feeling angry seems taboo in our culture. We're told to let go of it, to control it, manage it. The underlying message is "don't be angry". So we're stuck with having a very uncomfortable feeling that…
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Ah, guilt. So insidious. The insidious bit to me is the blurring of the border between a real and imaginedsense of remorse. For guilt is actually a useful feeling for we social humans to have.…
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Easter Day comes around again and if you're like me you wonder... why do we do what we do on Easter? Chocolate eggs, rabbits? And how again does this link…
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Throughout the day yesterday I felt a gnawing anxiety in my body. Mostly it sat in my chest as agitated tight heaviness. Like the too-much-caffeine feeling, but with stuckness and…
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Since we arrived in Hamilton 1 month ago the outside temperature has oscillated between a balmy -5 and a frigid -23 (colder with wind chill). Most days have loitered around…
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http://www.ted.com/talks/nadine_burke_harris_how_childhood_trauma_affects_health_across_a_lifetime#t-711125 In this TED talk Dr Nadine Burke Harris explores the effects of childhood adversity on health and wellbeing across a lifetime. "Adverse childhood experiences are the single greatest unaddressed public…
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