Thoughts for a Balanced Life: A Counselling Blog
Embracing the Unknown: Learning to Cope with Change
If you’re feeling anxious about change, here are a few ways you can prepare yourself and embrace new things in life.
5 Ways to Manage Stress During the Busy School Semester
If you are a student struggling with your mental health, remember that you are not alone. Reaching out to a mental health professional can be the first step to returning to a healthy, balanced life.
Identifying and Resolving Destructive Behaviour in Your Relationship
If you find yourself looking to start a fight, trying to find issues with your partner or being over-sensitive about things that normally wouldn’t upset you, you may be engaging in a destructive behaviour.
How to Manage Grief
How we grieve is a result of several factors such as our individual personalities, cultural norms, the circumstances of the grief, and the support system we have to help us through.
Does Social Media Affect Mental Health for Teens?
For decades, researchers have been studying the effect of mainstream media on youth. Today, teenagers called “digital natives”—those who were born with technology at arms reach—are experiencing mental health challenges stemming from their time spent online.
Mental Health in the LGBTQ+ Community
As a society, we have always recognized that individuals who experience hardships in life such as oppression, bullying and abuse are more prone to mental health challenges. For the LGBTQ+ community, this hardship is often the norm.
5 Helpful Tips for Becoming a Step Parent
There is no ‘how-to’ guide for becoming the best step parent. Each family is unique and over time, you and your partner will develop a step-parenting technique that works for your family dynamic.
Understanding Your Partner’s Love Language
Have you ever found yourself feeling disconnected or unappreciated in a romantic relationship? It’s possible that you and your partner have different love languages—the ways in which we speak and understand emotional love.
How Childhood Trauma Affects Mental Health in Adulthood
Research shows that experiencing trauma as a child can lead to significant mental health challenges in our adult years.
Understanding Eating Disorders
Eating disorders occur when we adopt harmful eating habits and are often linked to other mental health issues including anxiety and depression.