Author name: Trish

Individual counsellor in Kamloops, British Columbia dealing with anxiety, grief, depression, betrayal trauma and whatever else is getting in the way of enjoying your life.

Embracing Winter & Avoiding Burnout

It happened this week. We were making last-minute preparations for the inevitable winter and it showed up. Early and unprepared…like a guest that comes when you’re still in your bathrobe. Shocking and uninvited…like that gray hair that pops up when you’re still way too young. It seems we had barely stepped into pumpkin-everything season and …

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A Place of Abundance

A place of abundance? If I were to ask you if you were in a place of abundance what would you say? On one hand, we are keenly aware, despite our internal cries for “more stuff”, that living in North America means we have a measure of abundance so many in the world can’t even dream about.  …

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Addiction – A Hiding Place in a Harsh World

The chill on the wind deepens and bites. Temperatures plummet.  Daily we add layer upon crucial layer to protect us from the bone chilling cold.  We live in a part of the world where winter is cruel and harsh. It kills every living plant that wasn’t born here – anything that doesn’t have hardiness built deep …

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“What Was I Thinking?” Dealing With Regret

What Was I Thinking? You are enjoying a beautiful morning. The sun in streaming in your windows. You are making strides with the never ending to-do list. The world isn’t so bad on this day. Then you hear the crunch of tires on your driveway. You quickly look around, the day you were ready for, …

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Get Out of My Head! Dealing with Nasty Assumptions

I’m happily typing away. My thoughts are materializing before my very eyes. Electric brain synapses fire rapidly in my head and my fingers fly across the keyboard translating thought into word. It’s a small miracle forcing the abstract into the tangible. The thoughts flow freely until… Dead stop. The Man enters my space. Like a …

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