Christian Counselling Calgary: 6 Steps to Avoid Catastrophe
July 27, 2022 Comments Off on Christian Counselling Calgary: 6 Steps to Avoid Catastrophe

Christian Counselling Calgary: Early last week, I spoke with a Calgary Christian Counselling services client about a major life decision she was facing. As the conversation wound down, she still had not reached a place of clarity about what she would do and, in frustration, commented, “Well, I’m still not sure, but really, how sure can anyone be in a world gone this insane?”
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Escaping the depressive spiral (Part #2)
December 2, 2016 Comments Off on Escaping the depressive spiral (Part #2)

So much of the psychological and medical community today speaks of, “Managing your anxiety and depression.” Think about that phrase for a moment. The implication of it is that, if you struggle with the spiral of anxiety and depression discussed in the last article, you are destined to continue to do so – permanently.
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Understanding the depressive spiral (Part 1)
November 9, 2016 Comments Off on Understanding the depressive spiral (Part 1)

Depression and anxiety. Read nearly any article on either subject written in the last decade and you will very quickly notice that the authors usually lump those two terms together.

But why?

Throw that question at the majority of mental health professionals who habitually, even daily toss those terms out, and you will learn little. The bulk of them will have to admit they use those terms together simply because everyone else does.
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Make change happen.
June 3, 2015 Comments Off on Make change happen.

During graduate school, one of the comments I most frequently heard from different professors was the line, “Change is a mystery.” At the time, it seemed so philosophical and wise. In retrospect, it just sounds like complete nonsense generally uttered by those who now appear to have fled the real world for the safety of teaching.
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Breaking through the stigma of miscarriage.
May 14, 2015 Comments Off on Breaking through the stigma of miscarriage.

As many as 75% of all pregnancies result in a miscarriage before the woman knows she is pregnant. Once the woman has tested positive on a pregnancy test, there is still a one in five chance of an early miscarriage. Later in the pregnancy, while quite uncommon, miscarriage still occurs about 1% of the time though, for some women, it may repeatedly occur.
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Healing the pain of abortion
May 8, 2015 Comments Off on Healing the pain of abortion

Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross’s five stages of grief – denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance – have been, for years, a prescriptive definition of what every grieving person must go through. They are so culturally imbedded that, when I was writing our company page on grief & loss, I had to include her name and stages or Google wouldn’t even recognize our page as legitimate.
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First steps of healing depression
April 27, 2015 Comments Off on First steps of healing depression

If you’ve never experienced depression yourself, imagine with me for a moment.

Imagine what it would be like to be unable to laugh, and unable to cry. To feel like your head is in a grey cloud that follows you everywhere and all of your thoughts just echo inside of it. Imagine living with the sense that you have no impact and the world has no impact on you — where your only release is sleep but the idea of waking up for another 16hrs fills you with dread. Imagine living inside a glass cell that you can see out of but no one else seems to be able to see you inside of or hear your pleas to get out.

That’s depression…

That’s why, for so many people who struggle with depression, thoughts of taking their own lives actually feel comforting.

If you or someone you love is experiencing this, know that things don’t have to stay this way. There is a way out and here is a map of the first steps on that journey.
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Are you finally done with antidepressants?
April 22, 2015 Comments Off on Are you finally done with antidepressants?

Science Daily

The study aimed to establish whether MBCT is superior to maintenance antidepressant treatment in terms of preventing relapse of depression. Although the findings show that MBCT isn’t any more effective than maintenance antidepressant treatment in preventing relapse of depression, the results, combined with those of previous trials, suggest that MCBT may offer similar protection against depressive relapse or recurrence for people who have experienced multiple episodes of depression, with no significant difference in cost.

Over 2 years, relapse rates in both groups were similar (44% in the MBCT group vs 47% in the maintenance antidepressant medication group). Although five adverse events were reported, including two deaths, across both groups, they were not judged to be attributable to the interventions or the trial.

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I just have no idea what I am feeling…
April 10, 2015 Comments Off on I just have no idea what I am feeling…

Our emotions are powerful, born of countless unknowable forces and planted by childhood events we may never consciously recall. For many of us, they exist as shrouded mysterious urges we mostly focus on managing and suppressing.

But, it doesn’t have to be that way. They are in us for a reason: to be a dashboard that displays the state of our entire being. Learning to listen to and name the read-outs on that dashboard is essential to caring for ourselves and loving other people.
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Why people in positions don’t seek help.
April 1, 2015 Comments Off on Why people in positions don’t seek help.

HuffPo

The revelation adds to questions about how much Lufthansa and its insurers will pay in damages for the passengers who died.

It also underlines questions about how thoroughly the aviation industry and government regulators screen pilots for psychological problems.

It’s pretty much the same story all over again.

Someone in a position of power goes off and kills others due to a common-cold level mental illness such as depression that remained untreated.
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Session Notes

Christian Counselling Calgary: 6 Steps to Avoid Catastrophe

Escaping the depressive spiral (Part #2)

Understanding the depressive spiral (Part 1)

Make change happen.

Breaking through the stigma of miscarriage.

Healing the pain of abortion

First steps of healing depression

Are you finally done with antidepressants?

I just have no idea what I am feeling…

Why people in positions don’t seek help.

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