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Tips and strategies to help you embrace the struggle, manage stress, and live your best life. 

Stop Self-Sabotaging Your Healing After Trauma: Mar 08, 2024

 

After you go through a traumatic experience, your ability to manage stress and pressure is often negatively affected. We all know this, but why do we still self-sabotage by putting extra...

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3 Effective Strategies I Used to Manage PTSD Triggers: Mar 01, 2024

 

In 2008, I was a Canadian Forces soldier deployed to Afghanistan as part of the battle group. On one particularly hot day in August, I was in one of our Forward Operating Bases. We were...

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What does it mean to struggle? Feb 23, 2024

When I was 20, I thought I knew what it meant to struggle.

 

I had survived a combat deployment to Afghanistan as a soldier in the Canadian Forces. I was newly married. I was a new police...

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What palm trees can teach us about resilience Feb 13, 2024

Images of palm trees have always evoked positive memories of vacationing in warm, sunny destinations. There’s something about the mishappen trunks and shaggy crop of leaves on the top that...

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Is this the key to developing your will to live? Feb 02, 2024

I was recently sent a video clip where a neuroscientist and professor at Stanford University, Dr. Andrew Huberman, discussed fascinating research into one of our brain’s structures called the...

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How your beliefs affect your trauma response: Jan 22, 2024

There is a lot of power in our thoughts and the stories we tell ourselves. You possess the ability to change your story after experiencing trauma so that you can lead a happier and more fulfilling...

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