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Behind The Scene Presents: Mindfulness

By Khaled / June 9, 2018

5 Things We Learned from Behind The Scene Presents: Mindfulness MAX Ottawa and The Ottawa Hospital’s April edition of our monthly health and wellness talk series was on mindfulness. Sheila Robertson, MSW, RSW, and Tesia Bryski co-presented.  Sheila is a social worker and maintains a personal mindfulness practice in the tradition of the Plum Village…

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That's when I knew it wasn't going to work out.

By Khaled / July 21, 2017

Three things that counsellors have said to me in therapy that signaled the end. Content note: the link “toxic masculinity” below directs to a CBC article that talks about suicide It took me a few tries before I found a therapist that worked well with me. Between trying to find something that worked with my…

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