Month: March 2022
New online mental health platform
Nova Scotia Health has now opened up its online mental health platform to anyone in the province over 16 years of age. Here is an article on the service. Feel welcome to use this free service to reach out and get help. The service is called Togetherall and can be accessed directly from this link.
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Dealing with grief
The New York Times just wrote a new article on the prolonged effects of grief. If you want to read the article, you can sign up for free to the New York Times to read some of their articles per month. You don’t have to pay a subscription fee for reading a few articles.
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Help your kids perform tasks
Just read a new article on helping your kids persist at tasks they resist. Good reading for parents.
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Communication skills
Communication is a skill we need every day, yet many of us wrestle with how to do it well. It’s worth the time it takes to learn more about how to use it. See this article for tips.
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Go easy on yourself
Although it shouldn’t be the case, sometimes it is easier to be hard on ourselves than to be easy on ourselves. We can all be our worst critics, but that can be debilitating, and counter-productive. See this article giving some good advice on how to break yourself into good habits.
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How Conflict Avoidance Can Impact a Relationship
Avoiding conflict is often a way couples deal with conflicting emotions and arguments, but it can lead to its own problems. Here is a good article on what it does and how to deal with it. The article is good, but one of the first questions I asked when I saw it, was, “Why is […]
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How much sleep do you need?
Most people know they need to eat right and exercise to be healthy. But what about sleep? We spend about one-third of our lives asleep, and sleep is essential to better health. But many of us are struggling with sleep. Four out of five people say that they suffer from sleep problems at least once […]
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Coping with anxiety over the War in Ukraine
I would like to recommend an article written about the increasing level of stress we are all feeling about the war in Ukraine. This article is from the US, but is still very helpful and enlightening on the situation we are all dealing with
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5 tips to help families talk about war in Ukraine
Ukraine is on everyone’s mind right now, and families are dealing with anxiety and depression because of it. Take a look at this story giving tips on how to discuss it.
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COVID-19 and anxiety
Many of us have waited long for the COVID-19, restrictions to end, even while we saw the benefits and understood why we needed to do it. Now that restrictions are easing, some people are feeling very anxious about what that will look like. It’s understandable if you are unsure what to expect these days and […]
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