Last updated: November 1, 2025 Panic attacks are often misunderstood as signs that the body or mind is malfunctioning. In reality, they reflect a nervous system that is responding as it was shaped to do over thousands of years of human evolution. This article explains how panic attacks arise from survival responses that were well-suited […]
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Don’t Let Poor Customer Service Impact You Negatively
My brother a bad experience travelling on Christmas Day. He had a flight booked to Mexico. He hadn’t looked at an email that arrived the week before from the airline. Unbeknownst to him, his departure time had been moved forward from 1.30 pm to 7.00 am.
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Get Over Your Fear of Cats
Psychologists are taught to help their clients get over a fear of snakes during their first year of graduate school. This topic of taught in undergrad psychology classes, too, because the theory is pretty straight forward. Few of us get the opportunity to help people get over their fears of snakes, or cats or dogs, […]
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Good self-care is important at Christmas
Whether you plan to take from December 24 until January 4 off, or will only step away from your desk for Christmas Day and Boxing Day, I encourage people to embrace the holiday season as an opportunity to take better care of themselves.
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Expats must constantly accommodate to live in Canada
I have seen a number of expats in my practice as a psychologist. Expats (or expatriates) are people that have left their own country of origin to live and work in a foreign country. In my practice, my expat clients have left their country of origin to come to Canada.
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Give yourself time and patience when facing tough problems
Some problems are tougher to solve than others. Knowing when you’re up against a difficult one is helpful because you can be more patient with yourself as you look for a solution. Knowing you have a tough problem on your hands lets you adopt a more forgiving philosophy that centres on the knowledge that “this is going […]
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You have a better chance of winning the lottery than dying in a plane crash
I can understand why some people are afraid to fly. I personally don’t like turbulence when I’m in an airplane. It’s easy to let my imagination run wild and think that the plane will somehow fall out of the sky. But here’s the thing. Planes don’t crash. Not statistically.
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Not everyone enjoys Christmas
I have had several clients tell me that they do not enjoy Christmas. Sure, they like having the holiday time off from work or school and the fact that everything comes to a halt for several days. But they don’t enjoy Christmas, or the days leading up to Christmas. Why is that?
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Should you use medication to help manage anxiety?
Benzodiazepines are a class of pharmaceutical drugs that are commonly prescribed to people suffering from anxiety. Commonly prescribed benzodiazepines include Xanax (Alprazolam), Valium (Diazepam), Klonopin (Clonazepam), and Ativan (Lorazepam).
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Achieving flow can help you unwind
I am asked by many of my clients for tips on how to unwind. They come to me for counselling in my psychology practice because they are overworked and often exhausted. Many of my clients share that they sit down in front of the television at the end of a long day in order to […]
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