In light of Mental Health Week this week, the Canadian Mental Health Association Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge would like to encourage everyone to #GetReal about their mental health and how they are feeling and to be open to getting the support they need. As many community support services turn to a virtual care model due […]Continue readingVirtual Supports
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Not Only Is It Okay to Grieve, It’s Necessary: Pandemic Grief
“To spare oneself from grief at all costs can only be achieved at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness.” Erich Fromm3 “Everyone of us lost something to coronavirus, and it’s okay to grieve that.” Brandon Anderson4 The word grief can often, in itself, bring up pain in our hearts. […]Continue readingNot Only Is It Okay to Grieve, It’s Necessary: Pandemic Grief
Broadening your Awareness: An Experiential Exercise
If you’re at home right now, feeling overwhelmed, anxious, depressed, rushing from one thing to the next, checking your phone obsessively for updates, feeling frantic…take a moment to pause and notice. Come back to right now and engage your senses. Don’t just read the following, engage with it and notice the impact on how you […]Continue readingBroadening your Awareness: An Experiential Exercise