by Jeff Packer | Mar 5, 2024 | Conflict, Crisis, Love & Relationships, Mental Health
Relationships can be pretty scary! Sometimes the thoughts, feelings, and recurring arguments for change in our relationships can feel very unsettling, like a never-ending roller coaster. The experience is sometimes thrilling and exciting and other times daunting and...
by Jeff Packer | Mar 3, 2024 | Change, Crisis, Family, Friendship, Mental Health
Obsessive Thoughts Can Float Away For more than ten years, all I’ve known or been accustomed to is my routine of counting everything in sight. It has impacted my life greatly. I’m usually late for appointments or dates with friends because my routine had become so...
by Jeff Packer | Feb 28, 2024 | Anxiety, Crisis, Mental Health, Stress, Trauma - PTS Reaction
Appreciating Fear Snakes-Spiders-Heights-Flying-Being Alone-Social Settings-Failure-Conflict-Rejection-Low Blood Sugars-Success-Failure Can you imagine how you would drive with no fear or too much fear? A healthy level of fear gives us guidance; puts some caution...
by Jeff Packer | Feb 27, 2024 | Change, Children & Adolescence, Cooperative Parenting, Diabetes, Family, Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Parenting, Separation & Divorce, Teens
Sometimes a new diagnosis for your child may release certain feelings: guilt, shame, embarrassment, or regret. We might tend to push these feelings aside and focus on the “main concern,” that being our child. Getting counselling or therapy help for our...
by Jeff Packer | Feb 26, 2024 | Anxiety, Family, Mental Health, Problem-Solving, Stress
“Bernice’s OCD began shortly after the death of her father. Since then, it had waxed and waned and currently, was as severe as it had ever been. Bernice was obsessed with a fear of contamination, a fear she vaguely linked to her father’s death from...
by Jeff Packer | Feb 25, 2024 | Change, Diabetes, Eating Disorder, Family, Mental Health, Parenting, Stress, Teens
Help For Eating Disorders Saves Lives – Durham Region In a “sweeping” analysis of 77 studies, involving more than 15,000 subjects, University of Wisconsin researchers post-doctoral student Shelley Grabe and psychology professor Janet Hyde found that...
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