MENTAL HEALTH BLOG
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Peachey’s Picks!
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Your Curated Guide to Growth and Healing
At Peachey Counselling and Family Support, our commitment to your journey extends beyond our therapy sessions. Peachey's Picks is a carefully curated collection of book recommendations, personally selected and vetted by our team of professional counsellors, social workers, therapists, and mediators. These are the resources we trust, reference in our practice, and confidently recommend to our clients.
Habit Building - Integrating Mindfulness Into Daily Life
This final week of our Mood Boost May series is not about adding more. It is about sustaining. It is about building a mental health practice that fits your real life…
Navigating Stress with Presence: Mindfulness and Setting Boundaries for Life’s Transitions
We explore how mindfulness and boundary-setting can help you navigate life’s challenging moments with greater presence, self-compassion, and steadiness.
From Surviving to Thriving: Daily Habits That Lift Your Mood
There are small, intentional practices that can help you replenish your own reserves so you can continue to show up for the people you love—and for yourself.
Getting Grounded: The Foundations of Mindfulness
This week, we begin with the fundamentals: what mindfulness is, the science behind it, and simple grounding techniques you can use anytime, anywhere.
Welcoming What’s Emerging: Reflecting on a Month of Gentle Growth
This week, we turn inward. We reflect on what has shifted, however subtly. We celebrate the small wins that often go unnoticed. And we consider how to carry the renewal of spring into the seasons ahead.
Cultivating Connection for Your Mental Health
Explore the practice of cultivating connection. It is an invitation to refresh your social well-being with intention, compassion, and balance.
Planting Seeds of Intention
Explore the practice of planting seeds of intention. It is an invitation to shift from rigid resolutions to gentle intentions, from demanding immediate blooms to nurturing the small habits that will, in time, transform your inner landscape.
Waking Up to Your Senses: Reconnecting with Your Body and the World
We explore the practice of waking up to your senses. It is a simple invitation: to reconnect with the present moment through what you see, hear, smell, taste, and touch.
Spring Cleaning for the Mind: Refreshing Your Mental Health
We invite you to consider: what might shift if you cleared out the corners of your mind with the same care you give to your home?
How to Set Mental Health Goals for Personal Growth
Personal development is the belief that you are worth the effort, time and energy needed to develop yourself. Let’s talk about how you can you can make meaningful change in your life…
Why Goal Setting is Good for You
At the end of each year, people worldwide have one common practice: setting New Year's resolutions. While it may be easy for some, setting goals AND achieving them can be challenging for most people. Let’s talk about the importance of setting goals and why they are good for your mental health…
Empower your healing.
Looking for more ways to access expert information, practical steps and free mental health resources? Here are some more ways to grow forward through every phase and stage of life.
Wondering what to expect from therapy?
If you’re thinking about starting therapy, this FREE guide can help answer your questions and help relieve any worries…