Considering a New Year’s resolution? Let us invite you to rethink the “resolution” idea. Exact statistics aside, it is common knowledge that the vast majority of New Year’s resolutions end in perceived failure and disappointment. That is not the way to start your year on a positive note around the goals you wish to [...]
It’s okay to not be okay. These words are repeated often in our society, but what do they mean in real life? Many of us live busy lives, filled with huge responsibilities – whether it’s work, kids, partners, aging parents, bills, pets, or friends, life rarely seems to slow down. Sometimes, even the thought [...]
Climate change-induced disasters, such as the recent wildfires in British Columbia (BC), have cast a long shadow of grief and stress over communities worldwide. These cataclysmic events, fueled by rising temperatures and erratic weather patterns, bring a heavy emotional burden that extends beyond the immediate devastation. It's a mournful recognition of the shifting baseline of [...]
Brain fog is that tired, distracted, forgetful state that can make most of our everyday functioning a little bit harder and slower. It can feel more challenging to remain engaged in social interactions, harder to retain the details of a set of instructions or to process information. It’s like the world keeps rushing by while [...]
We live in a society where there is a normalization and glorification of being busy, stressed, and highly productive. Many people feel the pressure of competing demands from a high pressure job, caring for a family, maintaining a social life, and trying to find some time for self-care. It can start to feel impossible [...]
As spring arrives and the warm weather returns, parents may be looking forward to seeing their child or teen start venturing into the outdoors for some sunshine, exercise, and non-screen-based fun. However, many parents are finding it increasingly difficult to mediate how much time their kids spend on their phones, computers, tablets, and gaming consoles. [...]
What is self-esteem? And why is it important? Self-esteem is your overall opinion of yourself — how you feel about your abilities and limitations. When you have healthy self-esteem, you feel good about yourself and see yourself as deserving the respect of others. When you have low self-esteem, you put little value on your opinions [...]
What comes to mind for you when you consider being more self-compassionate? If you’re like most people, you have mixed feelings about it. On the one hand, you want to treat yourself a bit better, a little less name-calling or mean-spiritedness, but on the other hand, you may wonder if you deserve it or worry [...]
“I want to be happier” is probably the most common counselling goal we hear as therapists. But how do we define, picture, and even measure happiness? What makes us happy? We thought we’d invite you to spend a few minutes contemplating what happiness means to you and share a couple of views on this very [...]
At this time; especially, over the last couple of months, some of you may be thinking about abortion, birth, pregnancy, or fertility and parenting. At Synergy, we are delighted to accompany many people through the experience of deciding when, if and how one or multiple people become parents. This is a landscape of life rich [...]
