by Your Counselling | Jan 6, 2020 | Counselling Blog
As we ring in a new decade, many of us feel an opportunity to start our lives anew. Kicking bad habits and setting goals for the year ahead is an exhilarating feeling – we can imagine ourselves becoming the people we most aspire to be. Although new year’s resolutions...
by Your Counselling | Dec 23, 2019 | Counselling Blog
When our friends or loved ones are suffering a loss, it’s easy to feel helpless in consoling them. Often, we find ourselves tiptoeing around conversation in an awkward attempt to be there for them without making the situation even more difficult. While we are usually...
by Your Counselling | Dec 9, 2019 | Counselling Blog
You have been through a lot this year. You’ve signed the divorce papers, found a new place to live, and the relationship you once had so much hope in has officially ended. Maybe this sounds like your story, or maybe it’s much different – everyone’s divorce story is....
by Your Counselling | Nov 25, 2019 | Counselling Blog
Like any emotion, anger is a normal human reaction to an upsetting situation. But when it begins to become part of our character and gets out of control, it is often triggered by perceived wrongs that don’t warrant an angry action. In moments where anger takes...
by Your Counselling | Nov 11, 2019 | Counselling Blog
The place we feel safe, we hate to leave and we love to cling to—the comfort zone. We all have one, and it’s a scary thing having to step outside of it. It turns out that the fear of leaving our comfort zone isn’t just an irrational emotion we’ve developed...
by Your Counselling | Oct 28, 2019 | Counselling Blog
Between midterm papers, final exams, a part-time job and social life, the pressures of being a student add up quickly. All too often, juggling those priorities becomes a balancing act that causes our stress levels to rise, having a serious toll on our mental and...
