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As a mental health professional with twenty years’ experience, Pamela has worked in some of the largest Canadian institutions specializing in mental health and addiction, including the Centre for [...]

The start to school is just around the corner and we are all full of questions. Will we have effective protocols to send our kids to school? Will most of the staff be vaccinated by the time [...]

It’s the night before you are headed back into your office to work for the first time in a year and a half… what are you supposed to wear? Or bring with you? You feel nervous and unsure. Does [...]

There is a pungent smell coming from your fridge, and your boss has left a few urgent voice messages about the August report that is due. Your mind feels soggy as you sigh with dreams about [...]

No matter who you are, change can bring on stress, anxiety, and negative thinking. The only problem is that life is full of change. Nothing is fixed, and we will have more change in our lives [...]

The past 18 months have tested not only our emotional health but also the health of our friendships, as we have seen them evolve. The pandemic stretched and changed the social web that has [...]

Many of us can struggle with body image issues; we feel too big, too small, too old, generally not enough. The ever-cycling social media feed does nothing to help our insecurities. But we all [...]

Anyone who’s been over the Riverside Bridge in Toronto has seen the inscription over the half-bridge-half-art-installation by Eldon Garnet that says “The river that I step in is not the river [...]

Dating before COVID was scary enough. It brings up all our issues and insecurities as well as our inability to see and break our dysfunctional relationship patterns and choices. Ones that we are [...]

If you are a manager, you might be feeling the stress of re-integrating your team back to the office from the work-from-home model that we have been used to for the past 18 months. The working [...]