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How To Turn Anxiety Into Your Superpower
Finding hidden strengths inside of anxious behaviours. Our responses to stress (heart pounding, breathing quickening, muscles tensing) evolved as a survival mechanism, enabling us to react quickly to life-threatening situations. With a perceived danger, our...
Tips for Making Assertive Requests
Have you ever been given a work assignment late on a Friday with a Monday morning deadline? Maybe you spent the whole weekend working yourself up to address the issue only to lose your nerve Monday morning. Standing up for ourselves can be very scary, especially in...
Tips for Recognizing & Managing Stress
Stress is a silent killer. It is more complex than that headache you feel after a long day at work or the aches and pains in your joints. It is more than the general body fatigue you experience when you wake up in the morning, and you feel at you have not had enough...
The Power of a Simple Text for Mental Wellness
We’re over a year into the pandemic, and I see more stress building in my clients, friends, co-workers, and family as the days go by. Of course, right? Isolation prevents holidays with family, hanging out with friends, or just interacting with strangers at a café or...
Double Dose On SELF-LOVE This Spring!
This year has been hard, it’s time to choose you!! Take the chance to commit to yourself. It doesn’t matter what your relationship status is – you can double dose on self-love. I’m not talking ego-driven, narcissistic, self-aggrandizing stuff here. This is real,...
Getting Better Sleep
Many of us think of sleep as a luxury or indulgence — something that we give to ourselves sparingly or even as a reward. But sleep is a vital, often neglected, component of every person's overall health and well-being. It’s important because it enables the body to...
The Truth About Self-Care – What You Can’t Find On The Internet
Self-care has become a really popular concept in the last couple of years. With a quick google and hashtag search, you can find hundreds of self-care activities like exploring a hike, drawing a bubble bath, aromatherapy, meditating, #spaday, etc…. It’s inspiring that...
Understanding Perfectionism
What is perfectionism? Perfectionism is NOT the same thing as being goal-oriented or motivated to grow and better yourself. Perfectionism is this idea that one must be perfect in the way they act, look, communicate, and appear. It is an intangible standard, one that...
Renegotiating Relationship Terms
Is it time to renegotiate the terms of your relationship? Both your partner(s) and yourself will inevitably change and evolve throughout your relationship. You can expect that some of this growth will occur between you, and you can also expect to grow as individuals....
The Purpose of Emotions
Every one of us experiences a number of different emotions throughout the day. Experiences, circumstances, thoughts, relationships, and our physical health play a major role in influencing the emotions we may experience at a given time. While some emotions may get a...
A Quick Guide: Checking In With Your Partner
It is no secret that establishing and maintaining on-going communication will help promote the health and longevity of a relationship. Throughout the last few months, you might have found that you are spending more time with your partner and feeling like you are...
Why It’s SO Important to Connect, Even While Distancing
You’re not alone in feeling alone. With the increase of isolation and social distancing due to the global pandemic, many individuals are experiencing heightened feelings of stress, anxiety, and loneliness. Though stress and anxiety have been receiving much attention,...
International Women’s Day
International Women’s Day is a global day of recognition that celebrates the economic, cultural, social and political achievements of women and the work that still needs to be done. That’s a lot to celebrate and consider in just one day, especially during a time in...
Tips for Recognizing & Managing Stress
Stress is a silent killer. It is more complex than that headache you feel after a long day at work or the aches and pains in your joints. It is more than the general body fatigue you experience when you wake up in the morning, and you feel at you have not had enough...
How to Cope with Socio-Political Unrest
Over the last several months, I imagine you have been experiencing a cascade of emotions, in response to what can be described as, on-going sociopolitical unrest, to say the least. This theme of unrest has been a result of an evolving global pandemic, a growing...
4 Reasons Why Family Dinners Can Improve Your Child’s Quality of Life
Did you know that having dinner together as a family can improve your child’s quality of life? Research shows that these benefits continue from childhood well into adulthood. The Covid-19 pandemic is not only an epidemiological crisis but a psychological one too,...
5 Ways To Make The Most Of Your On-Demand Therapy Session
Most people regularly schedule their therapy much like they do hair appointments. But are your mental health needs as consistent as your hair growth? In this case, one size does not fit all. Good thing there are other approaches that deliver results! Shift is proud to...
Keeping Ergonomics in Mind When Working From Home
With so many students having to work and study from home, we’ve been thinking about our best coping tips for working from home, managing COVID-19 related anxiety and panic and taking care of yourself and your loved ones during this uncertain time. Whether you are...
Loneliness and How Can We Overcome It
Is social isolation a recipe for loneliness? We don’t think so. Sometimes we find ourselves feeling alone in a dark place. Sometimes it shows up with thoughts suggesting that no one loves us or cares about us, our experiences or our feelings. Other times, we feel an...
A Mindful Moment for Conscious Breathing
Throughout the day our attention is often scattered among countless responsibilities and tasks. At times this can leave us feeling stressed and overwhelmed. Taking a mindful moment within your day can help to combat stress and bring a greater sense of calm so feel...
Dealing with Today’s Election Anxiety
Today marks the 2020 US election. 😱 Okay, take a deep breath. Now, as a Canadian company, you may think… well, why are you thinking/writing/worried about the US election? A couple reasons. First, we deliver a ton of mental health training in the US and have a...
What Can You Address in a Single Therapy Session?
Life’s challenges don’t always follow your schedule. Now you don’t have to try to squeeze them in. Many of life’s challenges can be resolved in as little as one timely therapy session. Shift and Maple have partnered to make that as simple as possible to access with...
How to Make New Friends
Unlike our family, we can choose our friends. So in a way friends are our "chosen family". It's important that we choose wisely and surround ourselves with supporting and loving people. Happy International Friendship Day! Are you hoping to make new friends but don't...
What to do about Burnout?
Ever wondered if there’s anything you can actually do about burnout? It can feel hopeless but there are a number of ways to address it. Here we’re going to explore one possible approach to overcoming burnout. Wait, what’s burnout again? That can be tricky to answer....
3 Steps to Goal Setting Success
The Benefits of a Digital Detox
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