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3 Emotional Challenges of Being a Stay-at-Home Mom — And How to Overcome Them!
Being a stay-at-home mom can be very rewarding, but also incredibly challenging. There’s the guilt about not bringing home a paycheck combined with, at times, significant loneliness. If you’ve ever felt joy when a salesman shows up unannounced at your front door, you...
5 Things To Remember When Your Are Grieving
It’s been a shocking week in Nova Scotia. The unexplainable actions that left so much devastation have been discussed in nearly every therapy session I’ve had. It seems that the old adage about ‘6 degrees of separation’ doesn’t hold up for Nova Scotians. As close...
4 Lies Anxiety Likes to Tell You
Our brains are just like giant problem solving machines, always on the look out for danger or problems that might be going on in our surroundings that requires our attention. From a biological perspective, responding to the cues our brain gives us about danger has...
Emotional Eating; How to Manage When You’re Stuck at Home
A recent Bloomberg report showed an interesting trend; sales were up — way up — for all types of comfort foods, including popcorn (48 per cent), pretzels (47 per cent) and potato chips (30 per cent) compared to a year ago. What is it about isolation, stress and the...
Coping with Working from Home During COVID-19
How many mornings have you shut off that alarm, wishing you could just work from home in your PJs? Well now many of us are getting our wish thanks to COVID-19. While in theory working from home may seem ideal, the reality for many of us is that it’s, well, kind of a...
10 INDEPENDENT ACTIVITIES FOR KIDS WHEN MOM NEEDS A BREAK
Life as a mom has always been busy, a bit chaotic and full of challenges, but now it feels like you are trapped on a hamster wheel, one day rolling into the next and you have a sense of restlessness you just can’t shake. You feel guilty for giving your kids so much...
How to Cope with the Stress and Anxiety Caused by COVID-19
If you’re like most people, you are doing your best to stay calm and cope effectively with anxiety during COVID-19 pandemic. But that can feel incredibly difficult at times. When you're not worrying about keeping everyone healthy, there’s also the stress of working...
3 STEPS TO PREPARE FOR A SUCCESSFUL ONLINE THERAPY SESSION
It's been quite the week in Nova Scotia, huh? The disruption to our lives due to the Coronavirus pandemic is unprecedented. Most businesses are closed. Parks and trails are out of bounds. People are physically distancing themselves from others. With the very real...
3 Helpful Tips For Relationship Stress During The Pandemic
Last week, my husband went shopping at the Superstore. Somehow while he was gone, I came across a video about wiping down produce and containers brought home from the grocery store. It was late when he got home, and I was already in bed, but I wasn’t too tired to...
5 Warning Signs It’s Time to Try Couples Counseling
When you first fell in love, you could never imagine that someday the sound of your partner chewing could make you want to scream. It’s inevitable that once we are out of our honeymoon phase and reality sets in, we realize that all relationships take work and...
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