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Lessons on Forgiveness - Letting Go of Energy That No Longer Serves You | A Chat on Mental Wellness   In life, we retain the energy that both our positive and negative experiences bring to our lives.  Forgiveness, I've learned, through trial and error, is the process of releasing the energy which no longer serves you. Not for anyone's benefit but your own.  It is also important to note tha...

The Art of Making Restoration as a Lifestyle Choice | Let's Chat Mental Wellness + A Hip Flexor Stretching Routine Contrary to popular belief, restoration isn't only when we are feeling burnt out. In fact, in order for a speedy(-ier) recovery, when it is that we do burn out, it's important that we cue our body for restoration on a daily, weekly, and even monthly, cadence. In order to a...

A Discussion on the Relationship Between Mental Health & Self-Acceptance | Building Your Foundation for Growth Let's talk about how self-acceptance is much of the foundation that each of us needs in order to start, or continue, or journey towards feeling and being mentally healthy!   There are many ways that we might frame self-acceptance, and by it's million and one definitions, so lo...

Mental Health: A Discussion About Rejection | Adopting Healthy Attitudes When We Hear the Word "No" We are going to be addressing a hot topic: how we cope with rejection in ways that are healthy for us.   Rejection can feel as though someone is cutting into our sense of inner worth and value - this couldn't be further from the truth.  It's important that we frame rejection in a w...

Addressing Modern Education: Examining the Relationship Between Curiosity & Learning | Why We Protect It I'd like to address our society's general attitude towards curiosity.   More specifically, this discussion focuses on how we preserve our children's sense of curiosity, and an exploration on how school curriculums have missed the mark.   Nurturing a child's relationship with...

Addressing Blindspots: A Chat on Academic Bureaucracy & How it Impacts an Educator's Role in Class In this segment, I'll be asking questions rather than providing answers.   The last few episodes on education gave me a lot to think about. I've reflected very deeply on how I can foster an inclusive environment where every voice has the power to influence the way we look at, and orie...

5 Types of People to Keep at a Distance, Limiting Access for your Well-being | A Chat on Mental Wellness I'll be sharing my views on the 5 types of people to keep at a distance, to better support your well-being.   One of the first of life's many lessons is that not everyone you meet has the best of intentions, and it's always best to rise above the situation. That said, sometimes, we...

5 Tips on How to Manage Through Burnout (Physical, Mental or Emotional) | A Chat on Mental Wellness I'll be sharing 5 Tips on how I get back to feeling like yourself again, if it is the case that I'm feeling mental, emotional or physical burnout.   Even for those of us who are conscientious of our wellbeing, life can get ahead of us, and we still need to take a moment to catch our breath o...

Managing Your Mental Health - 4 Attitudes and Mindsets That Enable You To Make Peace With Stillness I'll be sharing 4 attitudes and mindsets that enable you to make peace with stillness. More specifically, the period of time between action and reaction.   We too often are stricken with anxiety after having completed an action, unsure of what the response will be. Here are different values of m...

5 Ways to Manage the Ego & Stay Connected to Your Higher Selves - A Chat on Mental Health This video focuses on how to manage our ego, in order to stay connected to our higher selves.   I kick off this segment with an apology, because I believe my ego got ahead of me in our last video.  Then of course, we segue into 5 of the ways that we sometimes allow the ego to get in our own way, even with...

Navigating Conversations Concerning Your Child's Mental Health with Educators and Practitioners This discussion is a focus on navigating conversations, with both educators and mental health practitioners, concerning your children 's mental health and well-being.   It's important that each of us cultivate the tools to effectively communicate on behalf of children, whose mental health mi...

A Critique on the Juxtaposition Between Mental Health and Our Modern Education System | Why Reform? We are going to open up a broader discussion on the relationship that has developed between our Educational System and Mental Health.   More specifically, how the majority of mental health issues develop or are pinpointed within a classroom setting.  Even more specifically, how children as young as...

How to Be Comfortable With Not Being Okay & How To Support Others Who Are Not Okay - A focus on Mental Wellness We love to tell people that, "It's okay to not be okay," but often we fail to provide people the space and the permission to not be okay in our presence.   While the pain and suffering of others can be uncomfortable and unsettling, it really isn't about us. If peopl...

A Chat on Body Positivity, Loving the Skin You're In + A Quick Hip Flexor Stretch for Mental Wellness This week we are covering Mental Wellness, and I wanted to kick off this beautiful spring weather by talking about body positivity.   This Spring/Summer season, let's be kind to ourselves when we look in the mirror. This discussion reflects on how the beauty standard makes it hard for anyo...

Managing Mental Health - Letting Go of the Superhero Complex & Living Your Best Life We are going to talk about why it's important to claim your humanity and not feel pressured to live up to "Superhero status."   We are human, so it's okay to be more human in the way you set and met expectations for yourself and those around you. While a certain degree of self-sacrifice is so...

Managing Your Mental Health: 3 Attitudes to Help You Overcome Stress and Anxiety I'll be sharing three attitudes that have helped me overcome the ill-effects of stress and anxiety.   Based on CAMH, 1 in 5 Canadians will experience a Mental Health issue and 1 in 2 Canadians will experience a Mental Health issue before they reach the age of 40. While there are many factors that play into these s...

A Discussion Of The Ill-Effects On Students When Teachers Humiliate & Shame - An Educator's Toolkit We do a deeper dive into the disciplinary mechanisms that teachers use to maintain order and control in the classroom.   More notably, how despite the removal of corporal punishment in classrooms, its alternative, is no better. Too many teachers engage in humiliation and shaming tactics in o...

Exploring the History of Discipline in Modern Education: Examining Punitive Measures in Schooling How comfortable are you with the idea of allowing individuals outside of your immediate family to discipline your child?   More specifically, how do you qualify and define discipline within your household?   Join in as we explore the history of discipline and education, clarifying the demarcation betw...

5 Ways to Effectively Communicate and Enforce Your Personal Boundaries - Maintaining Mental Wellness I'm thrilled that there are more conversations being had around the importance of establishing boundaries.   A lot of us have a sense of what our boundaries are, but are still developing our toolkit to enable ourselves to effectively communicate and enforce those boundaries with the people arou...

A Discussion On How to Embrace Your "Fatal" Flaws + A Deep Hip Flexor Stretching Routine This segment is my tribute to the beautiful imperfection that each of us embody!   It's hard to embrace ourselves when so much of the language that we use on a day-to-day basis involves hiding in plain sight.   This video is my tribute to embracing self, all aspects of self - the good, the bad an...

3 Attitudes that Foster Resilience - Adopting Values and Beliefs that Help You When Times Are Tough Welcome to video 2, and otherwise podcast 2 this week on Mental Health!   I'd like to share different mental models that I've incorporated in the way I interact and view the world around me, that have bolstered my resilience.   We'll be discussing 3 core attitudes that help you create a...

5 Ways You're Hurting Your Mental Health Without Realizing It - Changing Habits & Thought Patterns This week we our focus is on Mental Health!   While there are many things we can take on in order to positively impact our mental health, sometimes the path towards an aligned inner self involves getting rid of old habits and thought patterns that no longer serves us.   In this video, we will...

The Psychology of Storytelling: Getting Back to Stories that Instil Grit and Resilience in Children We are discussing the importance of storytelling for children, especially during their formative years (0-8).   More specifically, we are critiquing the history of storytelling for children at the turn of the 20th century. Modern day children stories continuously fail to provide children with object...

How the Schooling System is Limiting Your Child's Literacy - Whole Word vs. Phonetic Reading Method We are discussing education this week and highlighting a specific deficiency within our education system: The Whole Word Method.   In order for your child to learn to read, they need to learn how to identify the sounds that stem from each letter of the alphabet. Learning to read is learning to b...

5 Strategies to Help You to Protect your Peace & Learning to Stay Clear from Toxic Situations I'm going to share five strategies that will help you to protect your peace and recognize when you're in a toxic situation.  Our culture feeds off of drama and chaos, so it's easy to allow drama and chaos into our lives, often overlooking how depleting and energy draining these people and...