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Real Stories. Wholehearted Healing.
Welcome to Wholehearted, a space for education, expert insights and community building designed to help you feel informed, encouraged, and fully seen.
Emotional Intelligence: What It Is and How You Can Enhance It
Emotional intelligence underlies many of the skills we use in our daily lives, such as emotional awareness, applying emotions to certain tasks and situations, and interacting with other people...
Brainspotting recognizes the deep connection between body and brain in trauma recovery. It goes beyond symptoms relief and focuses on deep nervous system healing...
Turning Chaos into Clarity: A Checklist for Navigating Life Transitions
Whether it's a new job opportunity, unexpected loss, or a lifestyle change, life transitions can be stressful and can come without warning. Studies have shown that unexpected, negative, and...
When we see negative press in our feed, we are more likely to feel stressed, overwhelmed, and generally emotionally distressed [1]. World events that impact our daily lives...
Stress can become so much a part of our daily life that we habitually tune it out. One step towards combatting stress, then, is simply noticing its presence....
The Transformative Power of Vision Boards: A Wholetherapy Perspective
At Wholetherapy, we understand the profound impact of creativity on healing and personal growth. Vision boards are much more than collages of images and words...
Embracing the Holidays: The Power of Savouring and Glimmers in Challenging Times
As December rolls in, the holiday season often brings a mix of emotions. For many, it’s a time of joy, celebration, and connection. But for others, this time of year...
Navigating Holiday Triggers: Understanding the Challenges and Finding Hope
The holiday season often brings images of joy, togetherness, and celebration. But for many of us, this time of year can also stir stress, overwhelm, and emotional pain...
Boost Your Mood: Lifestyle Hacks for Beating Depression from a Trauma Therapist
For those who've faced trauma, the journey can seem even tougher. But there’s hope! As a trauma therapist, I’ve seen how specific lifestyle changes can dramatically improve...
Keeping Love Alive: Essentials for a Healthy, Strong Relationship.
Falling in love happens through bonding experiences shared with someone who seems to “get us.” The bond deepens with focused attention and building trust...
Unpacking "Triggered": A Journey Through Trauma Therapy
Consider your brain an intricate alarm system, with the amygdala, hippocampus, and prefrontal cortex at the helm. These parts aren't just biological components...
Couple relationships are the most beautiful relationships in the world. When life gets hard, one of the best things we have to hold onto is each other...
Feeling depressed? Here’s 4 tips on how to cope with depression:
If you, or someone you love has ever experienced depression you are probably already aware of the detrimental effects it can have on one’s life. Depressive symptoms...
Navigating the world of counselling therapy, psychotherapy and group support can be challenging. If you’d like to join a group but don’t know where to begin or what to expect...
What is self-care? 5 tips to taking care of yourself
As many of us experience, life often gets away from us and we forget to take care of ourselves. We spend our time juggling work, social activities, children’s activities, family...
Post Traumatic Stress or Post Traumatic Growth? What Do You Choose? How to Start Healing
Post traumatic growth is described as the positive mental shift that occurs with time because of adversity. Richard Tedeschi and Lawrence Calhoun described that after a trauma...
What is summertime sadness? Tips for coping effectively with change in seasons.
Although summer is often associated with having fun, hanging out with friends and family, and spending more time outdoors, we can also experience an increase in negative...
Where should I seek therapy? 6 questions to ask yourself...
If you’ve been experiencing suicidal ideation and feel like you might act on those thoughts, reach out to local crisis supports right away. Calling the Nova Scotia mental health...
3 Tips on Using Self Compassion to Increase Well Being
Compassion is our motivation to relieve the suffering of others. This inclination to help others during times of suffering and distress comes naturally to us as human beings...
At Wholetherapy, our clients’ health and wellness is our top priority. In order to live in accordance with our values, Denise and I have decided to respond to our surroundings by offering...
For a long time, these essential questions have been asked and studied by a variety of people from many schools of thought – from spiritual practitioners, to emotional and physical...
Positive Feeling: Where does it come from? Can we increase it?
Freud’s understanding of anxiety as the core of psychological distress is partially responsible for the focus on negative emotions of affect researchers. Fear/anxiety, sadness/depression...
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