A Wellness Journey
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A happy October to all of my readers! In honour of mental health awareness month, I am really excited to announce and start our new Wellness series here on the blog.Reflecting on how the act of self-care has recently impacted me, I wanted to start a series that would allow me to embark on a […]
Self-care Hacks
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When I started my blog, long ago in January, I promised myself that I would hold myself accountable to write and publish one post every week. One of my main goals for the year is to post one blog post for every week this year, a total of 52 posts. Creating this goal has honestly […]
A Masterpiece
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When deciding on what source of motivation I wanted myself and my readers to focus on this month, the verse Psalm 139:14 kept popping up. Psalm 139 has been a chapter that has seen me through some really dark times. It has always been a source of encouragement, an ultimate reminder of God’s promises and […]
Timing
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I don’t know about you, but time is beginning to feel as if it’s passing us by at high speed lately. This is why I really felt the need to briefly speak about timing, for the last week of August. I feel as if we live in what we can call a ‘microwave society’. We […]
Misconceptions about Counselling
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Mental Health Series Part 4 I aim to use this blog as a way to provide a platform for myself and my readers to openly talk about mental health. I therefore thought it would be a good idea to continue our ‘mental health series’ and discuss 10 common misconceptions about the counsellor and the counselling […]
Your go-to Counsellor Guide
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Mental Health Series Part 3 As a former psychology student, current mental health professional and user of psychological services, I have come to notice that there tends to be confusion surrounding the different psychological professionals and their scopes of practice. I have come to notice that there seems to be a basic unawareness regarding the […]
Seasons
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“This is the season for letting go. Making room for what is new, and opportunities to grow.” – Morgan Harper Nichols With Winter coming to an end this month, it’s hard not to look out of our windows to admire just how wonderful the changing of the seasons can be. It’s hard for us not […]
Intention
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I wanted to end off the month of July talking about a topic that I find pretty enlightening – intention. The question we can begin asking ourselves is what would life look like if we lived in every moment intentionally? I came across a quote that said “show up in every single moment like you’re […]
Me First
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The blog post for this week will be celebrating the publication of 30 posts on my blog! Writing has always been one of my favourite things to do, but I never imagined I would be sharing a piece of my heart, through my words, for everybody to see on a weekly basis. Every week when […]
Funky Town
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Let us be honest and real with each other for a second. We have all, at some point in our lives, dealt with really bad ‘funks’. ‘Funks’ as in random phases we may find ourselves in where we deal with many different feelings and emotions, usually ones that aren’t so positive, that can feel consuming, […]