Category: Addiction

My Nervous Breakdown | All that I am, all that I ever was…

My Nervous Breakdown | All that I am, all that I ever was…. My Nervous Breakdown I’ve skirted, danced, bogled and boogeyed around it and kinda explained why it happened but never really gone into much “depth” as to – what happened, how it happened, how it felt – so I’m bored, have a few hours, am tired […] more

Returning to work after mental health issues – Mental health – Live Well

Returning to work after mental health issues – Mental health – Live Well. Returning to work after mental health issues Share: Save: Subscribe: Print: View all 115 topics Popular topics Alcohol Allergies Contraception Couch to 5K Fitness Healthy eating Lose weight Sexual health Stop smoking Strength and Flex Stress, anxiety and depression Summer health […] more

15 Things I Learned from My Nervous Breakdown…

very good list of things to meditate on . . . Rory 15 Things I Learned from My Nervous Breakdown… and How They Can Help You Live Your Best Life – Calgary’s Child Magazine. 15 Things I Learned from My Nervous Breakdown… and How They Can Help You Live Your Best Life Written […] more

PTSD: Moral Injury and War

What’s Really Happened to America’s Soldiers? » CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names. JUNE 28, 2012 SHARE ON FACEBOOKSHARE ON TWITTERSHARE ON GOOGLEMORE SHARING SERVICES14 Moral Injury and American War What’s Really Happened to America’s Soldiers? by NAN LEVINSON “PTSD is going to color everything you write,” came the warning from a stepmother of […] more

Top 50 health apps: Body&Soul

Top 50 health apps – body+soul. These are pretty good start . . . good ratings. for PMS, meditation, relaxation, exercise, and more. Rory ************************************************** By Charmaine Yabsley & Maureen Shelley Maintaining your health, fitness and happiness goals is only a click away… We review 50 of the best health and fitness apps you need […] more

Screening Tools: eMentalHealth.ca

click here for : Screening Tools Wondering if you or a loved one might have a mental health concern? Use our free, anonymous, clinically validated screening questionnaires to see whether or not there may be a mental health issue. Remember: these self-assessments are for screening only […] more

Meditation: lasting effects on brain functioning

Meditation may have lasting positive effects on brain functioning – Syracuse natural health | Examiner.com. Video: Meditation Techniques: How Long and How Often to Practice Meditation The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine writes thatmeditation is recognized as a mind-body practice in complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). There are various types of meditation, most of which originated […] more

Drug and Alcohol Helpline

As a trained therapist, with experience in the addictions field, I help people with substance abuse and addiction issues in one-on-one counselling. Sometimes individuals want (or require) intensive treatment or detox assistance. Here is the contact information for Addictions Services in Ottawa. Rory ************************************* Addiction Services of Ottawa This bilingual organization is funded by the Ontario Ministry of Health and […] more

Emotional Abuse – YouTube

Emotional Abuse – YouTube. www.abusoemocional.com Stop Emotional Abuse, You Deserve Better.We all know about Sexual Abuse. We all know about Physical Abuse. But, we know very little about Emotional Abuse.Emotional Abuse occurs when one person emotionally and psychologically abuses another person who is in need of sincere affection. This kind of abuse takes many […] more

Mindfulness: Attention and Attunement

Joe Loizzo, M.D., Ph.D.: Reliable Methods: The Future of Self-Transcendence. The three decades since mindfulness meditation was first found to help with anxiety, chronic pain and depression have seen the reversal of a trend that goes back over a century. When Freud founded psychotherapy as “a middle way between philosophy and medicine,” he took pains […] more

Stress Relief 5 Easy Resolutions

Ashley Davis Bush, LCSW: Stress Relief For 2012: 5 Easy Resolutions That Will Stick!. The new year is up on the calendar. Will this be another year that you vow to start exercising only to drop your gym membership by Valentine’s Day? Remember the year you were determined to start flossing? Take vitamins? Give up […] more

Money making you crazy? Therapy the answer?

If your relationship with money is making you crazy, therapy might be the answer – Winnipeg Free Press. If your relationship with money is making you crazy, therapy — not the retail variety — might be the answer By: Carolin Vesely Enlarge Image Dr. Moira Somers helps people to wake up to their financial reality. […] more

Myths of Psychotherapy: Mental Health

Myths of Psychotherapy: #2 « Mental Health. By Thomas L. Schwartz, MD Psychotherapy, talk therapy, and counseling are all terms used when treatment revolves around a patient talking to a therapist every week. This series of blogs aims to evaluate some common myths about getting therapy for one’s mental or emotional symptoms. The first post […] more

Social Anxiety: Cognitive or Interpersonal Therapy?

Social Anxiety Disorder: Cognitive Therapy or Interpersonal Therapy? By John M. Grohol, PsyD Founder & Editor-in-Chief If all you did was watch TV, you might think social anxiety disorder was as prevalent as depression — or as big a problem. Also called social phobia, social anxiety disorder is often treated first with medications, such […] more

EFT Tapping: How To !

http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/n4UWb-KGm0?fs=1&hl=en_US This is a very good set of videos on Tapping. I have trained since 1999 in EFT and my main teachers used it extensively. Rory ***** EMOTIONAL FREEDOM TECHNIQUE (“EFT”) excerpted from piece written by Sandra Lewis, MA Emotional Freedom Technique is an energy healing […] more

Mindfulness Meditation: Effective as antidepressants for depression relapse

Mindfulness meditation found to be as effective as antidepressant medication in prevention of depression relapse. TORONTO, Dec. 7 /PRNewswire/ A new study from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) has found that mindfulness-based cognitive therapy — using meditation — provides equivalent protection against depressive relapse as traditional antidepressant medication. The study published in […] more

Letting Go of What You Can’t Control

Mary Darling Montero, LCSW: Letting Go of What You Can’t Control. Based on popular topics on the BounceBack.com message boards and in my psychotherapy practice, it’s clear that one of the reasons we become stuck in suffering after a relationship ends (and in many other areas of life) is this: We’re trying to change things […] more

Sufferers of anxiety: You are not alone

A message to sufferers of anxiety disorders: you are not alone This article talks about anxiety and its treatment. I have facilitated the 14 week group put on be the Ontario Anxiety Disorders Assoc. (ADAO). Rory ***** The Ottawa Citizen, The Ottawa Citizen Kelly Egan, When they struck hardest, Maria Connell says she feared she was about […] more

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