Mental Illness/Disorder has long held a stigma and shame around it that has always baffled me. I know the effects, and more importantly the SHAME associated with that stigma, however it’s always eluded me exactly why that even exists to begin with. This week my anxiety and shame around the…

Today the kids were home — sick with a head cold (thankfully confirmed as Covid-negative) and I took the opportunity of having them both at home to get started on a Christmas tradition at our house: Gingerbread house making. The kids were surprisingly cooperative and engaged at the beginning. …

I’ve been sitting on this post for awhile in my head, continually adding and revising what point I wanted to make, the examples I wanted to include and the theme I hope I would convey… and I’m laughing at myself now as the very act of my procrastination lends itself…

(I wrote this a month ago but couldn’t post it as I moved house and I’m in transition to move my whole blog to a new site. But I figured I should’t let this one collect dust… as the message still applies today) The pandemic ebbed and now is hitting…

Originally posted on Mar 25, 2020 www.vibrantconnections.ca Since November of last year, my 7 year old son has refused grade one classes except for a couple of hours once a week at most. His attendance on his term three report clocked 64 school days absent by Mar 2. We actually…

Heading into my Week 2 of officially homeschooling two kids, I was starting to feel confident about how things were going. My kids were slowly accepting the new routine and more importantly, to me, I was managing somehow to maintain some semblance of sanity and grounding about the whole process.

Originally published Mar 31, 2020 www.vibrantconnections.ca I hesitated to put Coronavirus or Covid-19 in the title as goodness knows we’ve all been inundated with enough articles, memes, charts and quips about empty toilet paper shelves. I personally, in general, have a tendency to consciously shield myself from news media —…

I still remember the day I learned it was okay to cry — I was attending a parent talk at my daughter’s preschool by Deb MacNamara, PhD, clinical counsellor and author of best selling book “Rest, Play, Grow:Making Sense of Preschoolers”. …