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Taking Care of Your Mental Health
The Canadian Mental Health Association's Health Meter describes how understanding the characteristics that make up good mental health will help you determine how mentally fit you are. Try their other mental health activities: Work-Life Balance Quiz What’s Your Stress...
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Helpful Wellness Modules
The Here to Help website contains very useful wellness modules. Here to Help is a project of the BC Partners for Mental Health and Addictions Information. Ups and downs are a normal part of life. We all feel a bit stressed out or struggle to cope with a problem from...
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The Trap of Paradigm Paralysis
Paradigm paralysis can be defined as the inability or refusal to move beyond current models of thinking. I learned recently from my network that a middle school principal had decided not to continue with the transition program. Why would this happen when student...
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We Matter
We Matter I Matter. You Matter. We Matter. Hope. Culture. Strength. We Matter is an Indigenous-led and nationally registered non-profit organization that is committed to Indigenous youth empowerment, hope and life promotion. The key project is the We Matter Campaign –...
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Loneliness epidemic is harming the workplace
A new article in the Harvard Business Review says that despite our increasing connectedness, society is seeing rising levels of loneliness. This epidemic is not only harming people’s health, it’s also making workers less productive and engaged at work. To improve the...
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Letting Go
If you blame other people for how you feel and think, you are out of control and your moods and feelings are dependent upon something or someone other than you. - www.drmartincollis.com The poet Francis described looking at some aspen trees as they surrendered their...
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The 8 Health Habits Experts Say You Need in Your 20s
In the article The 8 Health Habits Experts Say You Need in Your 20s, experts in nutrition, obesity, cardiology and other health disciplines give their top health tips to young people starting to develop their eating and exercise routines. Staying healthy in your 20s...
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The Truth About Teens and Alcohol
In The truth about teens and alcohol: Parents, researchers and students weigh in on drinking, Erin Anderssen talks to parents, researchers and high-school students across Canada about alcohol consumption. Peer pressure is different than it used to be, she finds, and...
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How we’ve become dependent on our digital devices
The Great Disconnect Can we ever kick our smartphone addiction? was a discussion in January and February by phone and email. (Globe and Mail, February 17, 2018) The participants were: Norman Doidge, MD, a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, author. He is on the Research...
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Becoming the Kind Father: A Son’s Journey
In his book Becoming the Kind Father: A Son’s Journey author Calvin Sandborn learns that difficulties need not lead him only to anger, isolation and contempt but can be lessons in opening the heart and connecting with others. “Like most men I was ashamed of speaking...
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