Thoughts for a Balanced Life: A Counselling Blog
5 New Year’s Resolutions to Improve Your Mental Health
This year, avoid setting unrealistic goals or adopting a crash diet. Instead, try to choose an attainable goal that is sustainable throughout the year.
What Not to Say When Someone is Grieving
While we are usually well intentioned, it’s easy to say things that are unhelpful and even hurtful to our suffering loved ones. Here are five things not to say to someone who is grieving.
Navigating Divorce: Healing and Moving Forward
Whether you were married for decades and share a family or you were married for months and it just didn’t work out, the same question looms for everyone… what now?
How to Manage Anger by Practicing Mindfulness
In the modern day, growth never happened in a comfort zone. We have to learn to get comfortable taking risks, but it’s never an easy thing to do.
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.