Nov 18, 2016 | Counselling, Depression & Anxiety
Our face-paced culture, coupled with digital over-stimulation, yield a recipe for processing information constantly – even in the middle of the night. We have both tools and resources at our fingertips to slow down our minds, but it takes practice, patience...
Nov 3, 2016 | Counselling
Learning Disabilities refer to a number of disorders which may affect the acquisition, organization, retention, understanding or use of verbal or nonverbal information. These disorders affect learning in individuals who otherwise demonstrate at least average abilities...
Oct 26, 2016 | Counselling
The term codependency has been around for decades. Although it originally applied to spouses of alcoholics, researchers revealed that the characteristics of codependents were much more prevalent in the general population than had previously imagined. In fact, they...
Oct 18, 2016 | Counselling
Most of us encounter unreasonable people in our lives. We may be “stuck” with a difficult individual at work or at home. It’s easy to let a challenging person affect us and ruin our day. Life is a web of relationships. Human beings are social creatures, deeply...
Sep 24, 2016 | Counselling
Depression and isolation are kind of like the mean girls of mental health. They are BFFs. And it’s decidedly not a healthy relationship. They spend most of their time with one another, often to the total exclusion of others, and they hate it when other influences...
Sep 16, 2016 | Counselling
A strong family is not just the sum of its parts. Like an orchestra, it has synergy when all work together. My three children all play a stringed instrument. They have spent countless hours practicing and performing with the community orchestra. The conductor centres...
