By: Andrea De Bartolo, HBSc The school year is almost ending and I think it is safe to say that students, teachers, and parents are more than happy to put these past 9 months behind us. With changes in administration policies and personal health safety, elementary and high school students have endured chaotic semesters in […]
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Attachment Styles: How to Form Secure Connections
By Imogen Sloss We learn so much during our early years on this planet. We begin as helpless newborns and quickly develop cognitively, physically and socially. We develop the building blocks for our lives as we interact with the world around us through eating, sleeping, observing, interacting, and playing. During this stage, we also create […]
Appreciation and Coping during Transition Periods
By Rhiannon Ueberholz, B.A. Transitions are the awkward in-between periods that come with closing one life chapter and beginning another. These can be exciting times, for example, graduations, marriages, or moving into a new home all involve change and subsequent adjustment. However, once the excitement is over, they force us to face the anxiety-inducing question […]
International No Diet Day
By Therese Kenny, MSc, PhD Student Every year on May 6th, organizations around the world work to dismantle diet culture. International No Diet Day is an initiative that aims to increase awareness about the misconceptions of dieting, push back against the diet industry which robs us of hundreds of millions of dollars every year, and […]
TV Therapists: Fiction vs Reality
By Marlyse Bergstra, MSW RSW I’m guessing most people cringe when they see their job portrayed on TV. Nurses and servers especially come to mind as two professions that seem incredibly fun and simple until you actually set foot in a hospital or sit in a crowded restaurant! When I watch therapist characters, I typically […]
“Getting Up and Doing Things” When You Don’t Feel Like It
By Dr. Aranda Wingsiong, PhD, C.Psych There is this misconception that we need to be motivated before we can engage in an activity. But actually, increasing our level of activity even when you do not feel like itis an evidence-based approach for treating depression. This is called Behaviour Activation; and it helps to break the cycle […]
‘Bodied’ – How the Nervous System Responds to Cues of Stress & Ways to Attend to it
By Adanna Anucha, MSW RSW “There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.” – Friedrich Nietzsche When Socrates exclaimed his now famous words, “know thyself”, I’ll venture a guess that he probably was not referring to knowing the body’s autonomic nervous system! Nonetheless, the invitation to “know thyself” (typically used in association for […]
Working, Learning, Sleeping From Home
By Amanda Ferguson, MA, Ph.D. Candidate Much has changed in the last year. Many of us have started spending more time at home – working from home, learning from home, and socializing (virtually) from home. You’ve likely always slept at home, but take a moment to reflect – has your sleep routine changed alongside these […]
The Art of ‘Mindfully’ Relating
By Agustina Jorquera, M.Ed., Registered Psychotherapist When I was first introduced to mindfulness, I held onto a lot of judgment. I had mistakenly held on to the idea that to be mindful, was to be QUIET in the mind, to have my mind go BLANK and to be able to achieve an internal state of […]
Parenting is Hard. Pandemic Parenting is Harder.
Parenting stress: What is it and six tips to manage its impact By Tamara Meixner, MA, Ph.D. Candidate One year has passed since the World Health Organization classified COVID-19 as a global pandemic. With this, families began distancing from everything familiar, and the ensuing effects on parents have been – to put it mildly – […]
Reducing Explicit Racial Bias in Children
By: Sharon Chan, M.Sc. (PhD candidate) Ask someone what colour shirt they are wearing and the answer comes with relative ease and with minimal discomfort. Yet ask for the description of a person and some will inevitably shy away from using colour to label skin tone, as salient of a descriptor as it might be, […]
Lessons Learned from Lunar New Year Traditions
By Lynn Nguyen In a matter of days, the streets of Ho Chi Minh City transitioned from its typical raucous, of honking motorbikes and vendors hawking their wares, to eerie silence of blowing wind and tweeting birds. You may think this is a description of pre and post-lockdown from COVID-19 measures. However, this transition occurs […]
Online Learning and How to Cope with the Challenges
By Laura Davidson, MSW Student As the acceptances for Graduate school came out, the hope for classes to be in-person was the first thing on my mind. How will I learn the material and practical skills through zoom? Should I defer the program by one year? With all of these questions looming above me, I […]
When People Go Through Hard Things
By Dr. Leann Lapp, Ph.D., C.Psych “My mother just died.” “My child has been diagnosed with a serious illness.” “I didn’t get the job I was promised.” “My partner wants to leave me.” We have all gone through hard things, because life is full of them. Hard things are unavoidable. There are the heart-stopping events, like break-ups, […]
The Pandemic’s Impact on Social Connections
By Dr. Christine Klinkhoff, Psy.D, C.Psych As fundamentally social creatures, humans seek relationships with others. Building connections offers us a sense of satisfaction and gives life purpose[1]. The ongoing pandemic has made it challenging to connect with the people in our social circles and has placed a strain on relationships. While connecting online through Zoom […]
Shyness & Social Anxiety Group for Adolescents
We are pleased to announce that Broadview Psychology will be starting a 10-week virtual Social Anxiety group starting on February 2nd! The group is for adolescents and will be facilitated by Stephanie Voth, MSW RSW, and Lynn Nguyen. The group is aimed towards a better understanding of what social anxiety is, what it looks like, […]
The Power of Play
By Jenny Gomez, M.A. “Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?” – C. Bukowski. When did you lose your ability to play? To be creative? To approach life with a sense of playfulness, awe, and wonder? Perhaps you haven’t lost this part of yourself. Perhaps you are lucky and have managed to hold onto […]
Puppy Mindfulness
By Dr. Christine Sloss Ph.D., C.Psych My family has joined the ranks of those who have adopted a pandemic puppy! With our adolescents home from school last spring, our youngest began asking persistently for a puppy. Our older two had long given up on their parents and assumed that there was no hope of adding […]
Is Change Even Possible? Creating Realistic Expectations for Yourself in 2021
By Stephanie Voth, MSW RSW New Year’s resolutions are not a new concept and for many people, they are something to avoid. Most of us have grand intentions on New Year’s Eve, but the motivation slowly fizzles out and the urge to avoid sets in. But perhaps we’ve been going about these resolutions all wrong. […]
Making Peace with your Anger
By Gibran Rodriguez de los Reyes, M.A. There is no arguing that emotions are quite complex. Not only do they involve a myriad of bodily and brain systems, mental processes, and behavioural responses, but emotions are also heavily reliant on culture and language. Think about it: when we are born, we can’t identify discrete or […]