This week is Mental Illness Awareness Week. Did you know that 1 in 5 Canadians will experience a mental health problem or illness in a given year? No one should have to feel alone on the road to recovery. And let's face it, most roads are hard to find, without some kind of waymarker, … Continue reading Information, food, a wellness app, love: 11am – 3pm outside the Pemberton Valley Supermarket honours Mental Illness Awareness Week
Epiphanies come when I’m feeding out slack. Don’t tell my climbing partner. Because when he’s leading his way up a strenuous pitch of rock, he likes to know that I am watching with rapt attention, feeding out the rope in perfect increments, absolutely focused on his every micro-move, so that, should he fall, I will … Continue reading Permission to suck is like a Hall Pass to happiness. Here’s one, if you need it.
After a summer of relative inactivity, three hill repeats out of the suggested ten on the One Mile Lake circuit had my legs burning. On the fourth, I thought, maybe this is actually the fifth but immediately pounced on that lie and insisted-every time you try to trick yourself into doing less than what you … Continue reading Never be Ashamed of a Walk in the Woods
via Austin Kleon Words, by Laurie Anderson, who's Rules to Live By I have stolen. She's a smart one.
I’m sitting up until midnight to try and register my kid for the last remaining spot in pre-school swimming lessons at Meadow Park. I’m a non-resident, so I have to wait until all Whistler residents get their pick of the spring programs, and I’ve watched as the spots slowly filled up with a vague sense … Continue reading The meaner you get, the meaner you get
I’m going to drop a bomb on you all. So, just prepare yourselves.
When a friend shared this via Facebook, I realised she might have been sharing a little bit more than just a pretty picture... And I paid attention. Last week was a week during which several people I know opened up online and admitted to bigger struggles with their mental health. It made me think - … Continue reading 15 things you didn’t know about people with anxiety
As I listened to Kristi Gordon of Global News report that there was "point six of a degree standing in the way of fog formation," I was suddenly struck by the concept that prediction of fog could be that precise. Really? Is it that certain that fog will form? Apparently “fog forms when the difference … Continue reading In a Fog
In this short video, aptly timed given it's Bell's Let's Talk Mental Health week, Dr. Gabor Maté explains how mental distress and pathology exists in a continuum and are largely a result of a materialist culture that rigidly “idealize individuality and ignores emotional needs,” prioritizing objects over people and well being. In other words, we've … Continue reading Dr Gabor Maté on why “crazy”is a cultural construct
Anxiety. It seems to be the "new" mental health buzz word. Everywhere you look on social media there are articles and blogs about it. It is something I think we all deal with at one time or another in our lives. Most of the time we can just power through and get past it. Looking … Continue reading Oh, hello anxiety. You’re back, are you?
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