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Should You Date If You Have Depression?
Dating is challenging for everyone. But when you suffer with depression, dating can feel scary and overwhelming. Not only do you feel particularly raw and vulnerable to possible rejection, but should a connection be made, you have the added burden of figuring out how...
Grief Series Part 3: Grief and Relationships
4 Ways Relationships Might Change When Facing Grief Experiencing the death of a loved one is often the biggest challenge a person faces. Grieving can feel overwhelming and consume every facet of your life. It is during this time that you need the comfort of others the...
Grief Series Part 2: The Impact of Grief on Relationships
Experiencing the death of a loved one is one of the most painful things a person faces The shock of your beloved friend or family member having passed away, along with the finality of their death is difficult to deal with. Everyone Mourns Differently The process of...
Grief Series Part 1: Coping With Grief Through Meditation
Losing someone we love can cause us to feel angry, anxious or depressed. When coping with grief, it may feel like you can’t move forward, or you don’t know how you can continue living in a world without your loved one in it. To help deal with these intense and...
Do New Moms Struggle with Low Self-Esteem?
Having a child is incredible - it also comes with mood swings and psychological changes If you’re a new mother who has been experiencing low self-esteem, you’re not alone. A group of researchers recently took a look at why new moms and low self-esteem are common,...
4 Ways a Healthy Sex Life Supports Good Mental Health
A healthy sex life is important to create a full and happy life Every person has essential human needs. When we don’t get those needs met, our mental and sometimes physical health can suffer as a result. When we think of fundamental human needs, food, shelter, and...
How to Heal After a Loss
You're not grieving wrong! Experiencing the death of a loved one is the hardest thing we can go through in this life. What can make grieving even more challenging is the feeling that we’re somehow doing it wrong. But grieving is a unique experience and there is...
3 Emotional Challenges of Being a Stay-at-Home Mom — And How to Overcome Them!
Being a stay-at-home mom can be very rewarding, but also incredibly challenging. There’s the guilt about not bringing home a paycheck combined with, at times, significant loneliness. If you’ve ever felt joy when a salesman shows up unannounced at your front door, you...
5 Things To Remember When Your Are Grieving
It’s been a shocking week in Nova Scotia. The unexplainable actions that left so much devastation have been discussed in nearly every therapy session I’ve had. It seems that the old adage about ‘6 degrees of separation’ doesn’t hold up for Nova Scotians. As close...
4 Lies Anxiety Likes to Tell You
Our brains are just like giant problem solving machines, always on the look out for danger or problems that might be going on in our surroundings that requires our attention. From a biological perspective, responding to the cues our brain gives us about danger has...
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