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Conversations on Mental Health
Social prescribing can be used to counter isolation – for any age group. How an Rx for connection is helping communities....
After battling loneliness and chronic pain, one woman discovered a new sense of belonging by supporting her unhoused neighbours—offering a lesson in the power of connection and mattering.
“Put somebody into housing – then look after their needs.”
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Here’s my definition – and why we need to expand narrow views of disability.
Psychotherapist Rahim Thawer offers a powerful resource for queer men navigating mental health, relationships, and resilience while giving clinicians and allies an essential cultural roadmap.
Experts weigh in on the growing impact of political stress on mental health.
“Unmasking” is the theme for this year’s Mental Health Week – meaning to remove the “mask” that people living with mental health challenges often wear to protect themselves from stigma.
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Jun03
Disability Grief: It’s a Thing
Here’s my definition – and why we need to expand narrow views of disability.
May15
Book Club: The Mental Health Guide for Cis and Trans Queer Guys
Psychotherapist Rahim Thawer offers a powerful resource for queer men navigating mental health, relationships, and resilience while giving clinicians and allies an essential cultural roadmap.
May06
Is Political Anxiety the New Normal?
Experts weigh in on the growing impact of political stress on mental health.
Apr22
Masters of Disguise No More
“Unmasking” is the theme for this year’s Mental Health Week – meaning to remove the “mask” that people living with mental health challenges often wear ...
Systems need to hear from those they serve – these advocates and leaders drive policy change and push for cultural awareness and lived experience in decision-making. Meet the Mental Health Commission of Canada Youth Advisory Council Co-Chairs: Em Alexander and Colbi Mike.
The best advice from advocates: talk about the issues and use terms that people use to refer to their own lived experience.
Hard-and-fast rules have eluded the burgeoning field of electronic mental health. Canada’s First E-Mental Health Strategy offers practical tools and recommendations.
How spending time in, on, or around water can reduce stress, encourage physical activity, and kindle social engagement.
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Book Club – Mind the Science
Author and clinical psychologist Jonathan Stea gives people tools to sort truth from twaddle in a wellness wild west.
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Designing for Equity
From Grocery Aisles to AI: The Hidden Costs of Failing to Design for Diversity
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The Sounds and The Feels
Four bandmates, four decades of musical discovery. Documenting shifting understandings of temperament and temperance. This isn’t just music; it’s resilience, renewal, and reckoning, woven into ...
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