When You Get Off Track Get Back to Basics

Dec 10, 2015 4 Comments
When You Get Off Track Get Back to Basics

Maybe you’ve had a few sleepless nights, or job layoffs all around you are stressing you out, or your work-family-rest balance has evaporated into thin air, and you find yourself cranky, anxious or tired out. You are not feeling how you want to but this isn’t the time for a dig-deep life overhaul. Get back to basics. Sometimes all we need is to return to a set of tried-and-true ‘rules’ that support us in feeling clearer, emotionally calmer, and more energized. But we also need to track these behaviours for a time […]

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When Your Brain isn’t Working Properly and How to Eat Your Way Out of the Fog

Oct 18, 2015 Leave a Comment
When Your Brain isn’t Working Properly and How to Eat Your Way Out of the Fog

My third pregnancy was challenging in many ways- I knew I was depleted nutritionally and emotionally. About two months following the birth of our youngest daughter I crashed. My pregnancy weight wouldn’t shift, I was forgetting to pay bills (unheard of for me) and often I would think one thing but a totally different word would come out of my mouth; it became quite frightening. I had zero energy and felt like I was living in a deep fog. I was also doing a lot of crying and yelling and my hands were […]

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I Wanted to Die: An Exploration of my Journey Through Depression

Oct 4, 2015 19 Comments
I Wanted to Die: An Exploration of my Journey Through Depression

I tried to kill myself three times between the ages of fourteen and eighteen. Nothing horrible had happened to me. My parents loved me and I was safe and provided for. But I didn’t want to exist – I didn’t feel like I was cut out for this world and wanted to escape. One way or another. Suicide is the third leading cause of death among 10-24-year-olds in the United States and in 2009 ranked as the second leading cause of death among 15 to 34-year-old Canadians.   Despite these staggering statistics, it […]

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10 Calming Strategies for When Tension Mounts

Sep 21, 2015 2 Comments
10 Calming Strategies for When Tension Mounts

You create your menu plans and a weekly rhythm and have a half-decent system for managing your finances. You work to stay organized and even have a strategy in place for self-care. But life throws you a couple of curve-balls and you miss some sleep and someone dies and Revenue Canada audits you. And the tension mounts. Here are 10 CALMING strategies I use to keep focused on WHO and HOW I want to be in the world *this post contains referral links 1. I aim to get quality sleep When […]

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