MENTAL HEALTH BLOG
Helping Folks Take Steps Towards New Horizons
Welcome to our blog! We’re so glad you’re here!
This is a space created with care to share insights, reflections, and resources on mental health and wellbeing. Here, you’ll find posts that shine a light on different areas of mental health, from everyday stress and coping strategies to deeper explorations of emotions, attachment, and personal growth.
Our blog is guided by the realities many of us face: balancing responsibilities, navigating change, caring for loved ones, and seeking healthier ways to connect with ourselves and others. Whether you are looking for guidance as an individual, ways to strengthen your family relationships, or ideas to foster connection with the people you care about most, we want this blog to feel like a supportive space along the way.
If there’s a topic you’d love to see explored, please don’t hesitate to reach out. We’re always happy to listen and explore together.
Grief in Childhood: How to Support Healing at Every Age
While your first instinct may be to “fix” their pain, it is important that children have the space to experience the loss without it seeming like it has to disappear. Children’s understanding of death and loss will continue to shift as they process loss and as they grow. Instead of offering quick solutions, look to create a warm, safe and understanding space when they can come for support
Teaching with Intention: Building Inclusive and Equitable Classrooms
Inclusion and diversity are essential to students feeling safe, supported and respected within the classroom. Educators have an important role in shaping young minds, when they model respect, embrace and celebrate diversity, students are better set up for success.
Growing Calm Minds: Mindfulness Practices for Kids and Teens
Mindfulness isn’t about being a perfectly calm and in control person, or trying to push aside challenging feelings. It’s about taking small steps and learning self-awareness, leaning into the mind/body connection. Whether it is for kids who are learning mindfulness as a game, or a teen who is exploring journalling for the first time to vent big emotions, mindfulness is versatile and adjustable as you grow. Over time, habits strengthen your brain and help you build confidence in who you are and how you handle adversity.
No Shame, Just Support: Having Healthy Conversations About Mental Health
When parents and educators hold space for questions and honest dialogue, it helps to reduce the stigma that surrounds mental health, and normalizes that mental health and big emotions are a normal part of life.