Each person is valuable here and now, just as they are. Period. We often struggle with feeling valuable or lovable based on things from the past. Mistakes and bad choices,…
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Feelings come and go like waves. They are emotional responses to what we are thinking about, believing and experiencing. Emotions are neither right or wrong. For example, there is no…
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Although this is known to be a joyous season it doesn't mean that it is. The Holidays can cause a sore spot to fester even more. Perhaps you are experiencing…
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On June 1st, Fresh Hope Counsellors and staff will be participating in the 3rd Defeat Depression Walk in Edmonton. I am actually getting quite excited about this campaign. Not just…
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Putting boundaries in place can feel like you are being rude but they are actually a self-protective, defensive move. Sometimes we need to putĀ a boundary or limit into place in…
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Change is a great idea but sometimes that's as far as it goes. Alcoholic's Anonymous is believed to be the source of a great quote "The definition of insanity is…
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The concept of recovery from an eating disorder is vast and at times, controversial. It ranges from the idea of learning to manage the eating disorder, all the way to…
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So much talk about physical fitness! We have a culture that is obsessed with food, fitness and thinness. Hardly a conversation goes by where somebody doesn't bring up their weight,…
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Have you ever heard someone be very gracious towards a friend but turn around and be intolerant and condemning towards herself? Self-judgment is no less problematic than judging others, in…
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