What is Mental Health?
Because of the salient challenges our society faces these days, including still living in a...
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Category: Mental Health
Caring for our Cars/Caring for Ourselves
March 2020. At the start of the pandemic, every single one of us was forced to adjust our daily...
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Suicide Loss Survivors: Who are they and what should we know?
The term suicide survivor has been a confusing term for many people. We need to continue to work...
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Healing Grief through Meaning Making
“When will I be over this?” Many people ask this question in therapy after experiencing a loss....
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The Many Voices of Eating Disorders
A client in an eating disorder group I worked with recently disclosed her feelings that living...
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The “S” Word
The “S” word – Why are so many people afraid to say it? A blog post for Suicide...
Read MoreYou Stress or Eustress?
People often say “I’m stressed” or “I have anxiety.” So what do you mean when you say you are stressed or anxious? There are actually two types of stress, distress and eustress. Distress refers to the type of stress that...
Read MoreParenting in the Age of Pressure
Pressure to succeed has taken on an entirely new meaning since we were kids: in school, in sports, in social settings. With competitive sports starting so young, our little ones are exposed to rejection at a much earlier age...
Read MoreSanta Claus and the Narcissistic Defense
Have you seen the film, A Miracle on 34th Street? It hinges upon whether people will accept Kris Kringle’s claim that he is in fact Santa Clause… But what a strange preoccupation! Why does it matter so much whether or not...
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From our Facebook Page
An extremely underrated piece from The Atlantic, with significant impact for mental health and psychotherapy. Going way beyond death and suicide, in a few pages, David Brooks proposes a major revision to the Western ideal of self-autonomy, self-importance, and self-care. Worth the read!![]()
Canada Legalized Assisted Suicide—And Exposed the Limits of Liberalism
www.theatlantic.com
What happens when a society takes individualism to its logical conclusion?