Have you ever wondered how your cultural background and family history affect your wellbeing and mental health? While therapy, mindfulness, or self-care can go a long way to helping us stay mentally healthy, reconnecting with our roots is often an overlooked yet powerful tool for emotional resilience and overall wellbeing. By exploring where we come
Water is essential to the survival of almost every species on the planet. Our bodies use water in every cell and organ to regulate temperature and maintain other bodily functions. A hydrated body is less prone to complications in the joints, brain, digestion and spinal cord. While most people understand the importance of water is
Over the past several months, I have begun providing therapy outdoors for my clients. Several have taken me up on the offer. We get out on trails and walk and talk, bike, and with a young client who is an avid baseball player, we even play catch.Therapy outdoors combines physical activity with the therapeutic effects
When an employee begins to suffer from burnout, it can lead employees down a dangerous path reducing productivity, affecting mood, increasing sick time, financial worry and fear of unemployment.Shay, a program coordinator for a non-profit organization I met with recently coordinates events, manages a museum and writes grant proposals. She works under a new manager
Avoid Burnout With Self CompassionDo you know the difference between self-care and self-compassion? Self-care practices are those things we do to take care of ourselves after work, social or community events that take great energy, or after stressful life circumstances. Self-care activities might include: going for a massagevisiting a spataking a walk or hike in naturespending
Have you ever been faced with problem that seemed far too overwhelming to solve? When Jadav Payeng was 16, he found a large number of snakes that had died due to extreme heat. Floods had washed them up on a sandbar near his home in the Jorhart District in India. At the time, powerful waters from the
Over the last few months, new evidence has emerged reminding us of the horrific treatment of thousands of indigenous children in residential schools across Canada. The remains of many hundreds of children have been found in unmarked graves around former residential schools. More are sure to be discovered. This is a time of grief and loss
One phone call cost Vivien Zheng and her family their entire life savings. When she received a call from the Chinese Consulate Vancouver and a police investigator, demanding she cooperate or end up in jail, she did what any good citizen would, she cooperated. After all, they even produced an arrest warrant and a copy of
