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How Childhood Trauma Impacts Mental Health (According to the ACEs)
The Best Psychotherapies to Heal from Trauma and Anxiety
Do you ever feel like your emotions overtake you? It’s as if anger, anxiety, panic, fear, sadness or numbness, hijacks your body. Many times when we’ve experienced something that is overwhelming, or traumatic, be it little t or big t trauma, the brain can get hijacked by stressors long after the trauma is over. Here’s what happens and how you can feel like you’re more in control of your emotions.
Are Suppressed Emotions Making You Anxious?
Feeling Angry? Beyond anger management tools
Anger can be an intense emotion making many individuals afraid of their anger or view it as inappropriate. When anger is misdirected, it can lead to poor decisions, interfere with relat
ionships and can do harm to others. However, like all emotions, anger has a purpose. It serves to protect us. When channeled correctly, anger is a natural and healthy response to anything that is a threat to our emotional, mental and physical security. read more…
Are you in a Codependent Relationship?
Are Feelings Uncomfortable for you? Try this.
Our inner experience is what we think, feel, remember, sense, decide, plan and predict. Our inner experiences are powerful and influence negative beliefs and feelings or reactions to the past. This can interfere with your current life. While avoiding inner experiences allows you to avoid the uncomfortable feelings, avoiding them does not give you the opportunity to shift them so that they no longer have control over you. If your avoidance is significant, you might have a phobia of your inner experiences, including your emotions and bodily sensations.How to Ease Seasonal Affective Disorder
The winter months can mean hibernation for many with the dark and drear
y days of winter here in Toronto. The lack of sunlight and colder weather can have a profound impact on our mood. It can leave us feeling depressed, tired, withdrawn and unmotivated. If you live in Toronto, you’ve probably heard about or may have experienced seasonal affective disorder (SAD).
What is Seasonal Affective Disorder
Seasonal affective disorder is a type of depression that typically occurs during the fall and winter months when the days get shorter, and there’s a decrease in daylight hours. It’s also referred to as the winter blues.
The Benefits of Self-Compassion & 6 Steps to Get Started
Why is it so difficult to show ourselves compassion? Perhaps you feel undeserving of it? Do you associate self-compassion with self-indulgence or self-pity? Self-compassion can be challenging, especially when criticism rather than compassion is or has been used to motivate and modify behaviour. While breaking free from the pattern of self-criticism can be difficult, self-compassion is one of the best things you can do for yourself. Research shows that self-compassion is a powerful medicine, with a positive and restorative influence upon our physical, mental and emotional well-being.
Are your Beliefs Sabotaging You?
Do you struggle with self-esteem or confidence? Or perhaps there are negative beliefs you have about yourself or the world. While it may seem that this is just how your life is and will be, I want to tell you that you do have the capability to shift the beliefs you have about yourself.
How Exercise Helps with Anxiety
The benefits of exercise have been long established. We know that sitting for extended periods of time is bad for many areas of our health. It reduces blood circulation, weakens your muscles, and increase the risk for diseases like obesity, heart disease and cancer. Inactivity is also detrimental to our mental health. Daily exercise is one of the most powerful ways to reduce your anxiety, panic attacks, stress, and depression. Research has shown the incredibly strong relationship between anxiety and inactivity.