stress | Cortney Pasternak, Counsellor

First Year Away at College or University? Managing Stress and Anxiety

As teenagers transition into their first year of college or university, they face an exciting yet challenging new journey filled[…]

Solitude is an important and often neglected and misunderstood area of self-care —an area of self-care, like others, that help[…]

Contrary to some of the popular discourse that paint millennials as lazy, my experience with counselling and coaching millennials around[…]

Trying to relax with longer sessions of mindfulness meditation can be tough for those feeling constant agitation – particularly those[…]

Everyone has different stories about how they deal with their own families and their in-laws over the holidays. Some have[…]

While there are many ways we may feel stressed over the holidays, it’s important for couples to avoid turning on[…]

Resiliency is one of the great gifts we can develop in life — it can help to build confidence around[…]

Career transitions are rarely straight forward but often involve unhappiness in a workplace due to any number of factors including[…]

While the negative impacts of a stressful, tumultuous, unpredictable childhood on a person’s adult life have long been researched and[…]