How to Raise Healthy Children (And 5 Ways Parenting Can Improve Mental Health) Growing up, I’d always imagined myself as a husband and father. It was probably the foremost dream of my life, and I’ve never exactly been sure why. I had every reason to [...]
The following is a basic guide to holistic trauma therapy. Like most mental health and therapy lingo, the word “trauma” gets thrown around a lot. I first heard it about 10 years ago when I was seeing a therapist for major anxiety and depression. She [...]
Does therapy work? Can you actually solve problems just by talking to someone? It's not uncommon for strange or awkward things to happen when I tell someone I'm a therapist. It is uncommon for someone to come right out and question whether or not my [...]
Does couples therapy work? Research says so. Here are 4 basic ways it could improve your relationship. Like most, there was a time when I didn’t really think that couples therapy could improve my relationship much. My wife and I actually did some couples counselling [...]
Learn how to build a morning routine that works for you and optimizes mental health. Few things are as easily overlooked and yet essential for health and well-being as a morning routine. Routines provide necessary structure to our days. They minimize decision making, which saves [...]
Is being a lone wolf all it's cracked up to be? They’re independent, strong, and have control over their lives with few others around to take up their time. Some like the stoic aura that the archetype carries. Lone wolves are, well, like wolves. Sly, [...]
Moving is full of challenges, but often forgotten is the social upheaval that occurs when we leave friends and/or family behind. What do we do when we find ourselves alone in a new place? We live in a highly mobile world. And I’m not referring [...]
How do we get the most out of therapy in the short and long term? How do we make sure our time and money is well spent? A few years ago I heard a co-worker, much older and wiser than me, say that for her, [...]
Despite attempts to destigmatize mental health and therapy, a few terms still confuse people. What is psychotherapy? How is it different than counselling? I want to quickly clear up some language so you know what your getting yourself into (or at least who you’re getting [...]
While mental health is so mainstream these days, there’s a lot we still don’t know about the state of our ever-changing emotional landscape. One of those areas is about how men and women differ in their health. Yes, we’re learning a lot, but there are [...]
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