When I hit my wall, I realized there were many early warning signs that my stress level was too high, long before I finally realized or admitted to myself that I had burned out. The problem is that sometimes as parents, and especially as single parents, we are constantly on the go and busy. We are employees, parents, teachers, chauffeurs, and more. We juggle our kids schedules, our work schedules, our household duties, and just the ordinary activities of daily life. But thi

Coming from previous work as a Social Worker with two agencies serving children and youth, what I can tell you is that the majority of time, counselling, coaching, and training, involves working with parents more than it does the children. When you really think about it, a coach, therapist, counsellor, trainer, or teacher, only has the child for a fraction of time, compared to the amount of time the parents spend with the children. Most of the child’s learning and growth w

I'm probably going to get heat for this from the counselling circles, but I don't care. I will tell you why you should not put too much stock into your feelings: it's because feelings are actually deceptive. Yes, we all "feel". We feel physical things like cold and heat, we can feel sick, and we we can feel emotional things like happiness or stress. Some amputees can even feel phantom limbs. For someone to say that they "feel" a certain way is a valid point. For that pe

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I recently listened to a podcast regarding choosing the right functional fitness movements when training a person with Autism. In the world of Autism, like most other disabilities, the medical model focuses on therapeutic aides or recovery tools that are functional, and will optimally help the individual. The view is that there is a pathology that has to be corrected. However, the thing that got me really thinking about this topic was that the podcaster said that exercise