Author: jaeeun kim

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It’s the New Year!!! Happy 2017 everyone J As they say, new year new me, and here are some way to improve your mental health for the new year. Get enough sleep Pay attention to your feelings Spend time in nature Pursue a hobby Laugh often Grieve your losses Accept yourself, imperfections and flaws Only […]

Here is a list of different self-care and relaxation activities you can do, most of which I have used to make myself feel a little better and happier overall: o Reading your favorite book o Reading a new book (a good one is Milk and Honey, it’s a quick read) o Watching your favorite movie […]

Now that 2016 has ended, it’s fun to look at some infographics and statistics about the past years! This infographic shows an increase in the number of Canadian children and youth using health services for mental disorders . That increase might mean that more Canadians are more comfortable talking about mental health, as we can […]

Breathe. A single word that almost anyone suffering from anxiety has heard in their moments of panic. It’s the go to. What happens when inhaling and exhaling, as people love to say, aren’t enough in a moment of worry? Counselling for anxiety can often be expensive, and is not always an option for everyone. What […]

The choices you make indicate who you are as a person, or so I think. I’ve thought about this for a long time, and recently, I’ve been haunted by a choice I made 6 months ago. I was faced with two job positions and both positions are incredible opportunities. Job A was a door which […]

I have always been curious as to what floating was. I would walk pass a shop called the Float House and I was always curious as to what it was. So, I looked it up and their website stated, floating is a simple way to achieve profound relaxation, mediation and wellness. What happens is you […]

We will never know what is it like to be someone else; the closest we can get is to imagine putting into their shoes and try to guess how they are feeling. It is even harder to understand what is it like to be autistic when you are not on the spectrum, but it is […]

As a citizen of the United States and as someone who grew up there, hearing the results of the 2016 Presidential Election was very difficult for me. I spent that night crying in my living room alone, fearful of the events to come. I want to say for anyone who is a U.S. citizen as […]

Mental health, for a considerable amount of people, still remains one of those topics that’s a little “iffy” to talk about. However, there are countless individuals who have taken the torch and started significant and lasting conversations about mental health with large audiences, aimed to make concrete changes in the way we think and act […]