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    3 Tips for Calming Your Anxiety
    • Dec 21, 2020
    • 2 min

    3 Tips for Calming Your Anxiety

    By Guest Blogger John Roche, therapist and coach, at Transformation Counselling Anxiety sucks. It can weigh on you every moment of the...
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    Mindfulness
    • Feb 23, 2020
    • 1 min

    Mindfulness

    Mindfulness is a mental state achieved by focusing one’s awareness in the present moment. It is a powerful tool that can offset the...
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    Be Happier Now: An Evidence-based Approach
    • Jan 19, 2019
    • 5 min

    Be Happier Now: An Evidence-based Approach

    In the last few years, on-campus health services and teaching staff all across North America have observed a disturbing trend in...
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    The Work
    • Jan 10, 2019
    • 7 min

    The Work

    Do you want to learn something that can change your life powerfully, yet is simple? Something that is applicable to small or large...
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    How a Music Festival Reduces Stress – And How it Doesn’t
    • Jul 27, 2018
    • 4 min

    How a Music Festival Reduces Stress – And How it Doesn’t

    “Happy Hillside!” I heard this very specific well-wish ring out a thousand times last weekend. I was attending Hillside, the eclectic,...
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    How Can Stress Overload Lead to Disease?
    • Jun 7, 2018
    • 4 min

    How Can Stress Overload Lead to Disease?

    When I was a kid, I had a persistent case of eczema on both of my hands. Eczema is a common inflammatory skin condition that causes...
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    From Steve to Stevie: Transgender Health in Kitchener-Waterloo
    • Nov 2, 2017
    • 11 min

    From Steve to Stevie: Transgender Health in Kitchener-Waterloo

    I belong to a great running club at the uptown Waterloo Running Room. We run, we talk about running, we run some more, and then we go...
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    The Healing Power of Being in Nature
    • Apr 13, 2017
    • 4 min

    The Healing Power of Being in Nature

    One of the highlights of my year is a fall wilderness trip with friends to Algonquin Park or somewhere on the Canadian Shield. We paddle...
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    Telling Your Story
    • Jan 26, 2017
    • 4 min

    Telling Your Story

    I recently spent some time reflecting on my father’s childhood. His was a traumatic one, to say the least: physical and emotional abuse,...
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    RECIPE: PESTO
    • May 13, 2016
    • 1 min

    RECIPE: PESTO

    Although it should be just a few simple ingredients, store-bought pesto often has all sorts of additives. You can’t beat fresh, homemade...
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    Learn to Thrive as a Highly Sensitive Person (Part 3): Creativity
    • May 3, 2016
    • 3 min

    Learn to Thrive as a Highly Sensitive Person (Part 3): Creativity

    (see earlier articles: Learning to Thrive as an HSP Part 1, Part 2, The Impact of Stress on the Highly Sensitive Person) This is one of a...
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    Learn to Thrive as a Highly Sensitive Person (Part 2): Meditation
    • May 2, 2016
    • 3 min

    Learn to Thrive as a Highly Sensitive Person (Part 2): Meditation

    This is the third in a series of blog posts exploring my experience in working with the Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) in my naturopathic...
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    Learn to Thrive as a Highly Sensitive Person (Part 1)
    • Jun 25, 2015
    • 3 min

    Learn to Thrive as a Highly Sensitive Person (Part 1)

    As a naturopathic doctor, I see quite a number of patients who identify as Highly Sensitive (or HSP) – people who get easily overwhelmed...
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    Impacts of Stress on the Highly Sensitive Person
    • May 29, 2015
    • 4 min

    Impacts of Stress on the Highly Sensitive Person

    I’m not going out on a limb when I say that North American urban culture is a stressful one. Many of us are working longer hours than 20...
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    Viewing Photos of Baby Animals Increases Productivity
    • Mar 18, 2013
    • 2 min

    Viewing Photos of Baby Animals Increases Productivity

    As you may have heard, a new (awesome) study was released suggesting that viewing photos of adorable baby animals actually increases...
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    Laughter is the Best Medicine
    • Jan 25, 2013
    • 2 min

    Laughter is the Best Medicine

    According to psychologist Dr. Cliff Arnill, the most depressing day of the year is the third Monday of January. This year “Blue Monday”...
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    Meditation May Reduce Loneliness and Chronic Disease in Older Adults
    • Sep 5, 2012
    • 1 min

    Meditation May Reduce Loneliness and Chronic Disease in Older Adults

    All too often, older adults in our community suffer from loneliness. This not only affects their quality of life, but can increase risk...
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    Multitasking
    • Mar 21, 2009
    • 4 min

    Multitasking

    It’s 8:00 am. You’re making oatmeal, helping your son with his homework, getting lunches ready for the family, and the phone rings. ...
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    Attitude Isn’t Everything
    • Dec 21, 2008
    • 4 min

    Attitude Isn’t Everything

    A recent study published in the journal Cancer caught my eye. University of Pennsylvania researchers looked at the role of attitude in...
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    Horticultural Therapy: The Healing Power of Growing Things
    • Jun 21, 2008
    • 4 min

    Horticultural Therapy: The Healing Power of Growing Things

    “Gardening is fundamentally an act of enormous hope because everything you do in the garden is for the future.” Barbara Frum, 1937—1992,...
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