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Unlock the Power of Whole-Person Healing

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The Moment Everything Changes

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To live a healthy lifestyle using Healthy Pathways is possible —a holistic approach often utilized in corporate and community wellness—you focus on integrating small, sustainable habits into your daily routine. Core Pill...

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Building Trust and Fostering Healing Through Effective Interaction

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Sometimes, the act of making others comfortable at your own expense becomes second nature—a reflex born from childhood lessons, cultural expectations, or inherited patterns. The effort to maintain harmony, even when it m...

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We all have to deal with difficult people sometimes, and if you have to work beside them everyday, it can get dicey.

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All children deserve to feel safe—safe from harm, fear, and lack. Safety does not mean only physical security but also emotional and spiritual well-being as well. When children feel safe within the families they were bor...

","url":"https://balancingwithin.ca/f/the-wounded-inner-child","title":"The Wounded Inner Child","summary":"All children deserve to feel safe—safe from harm, fear, and lack. Safety does not mean only physical security but also emotional and spiritual well-being as well. When children feel safe within the families they were bor...","date_modified":"2025-06-02T18:36:48Z"},{"id":"https://balancingwithin.ca/f/grief-overload","html_content":"

Some people have been blessed to have not yet experienced the loss of a loved one. Others have lost a parent or a sibling, or a child even. All devasting, terrible losses. But nothing prepares you for more than one los...

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Lot of people think childhood trauma only refers to major, obvious events like physical abuse or a serious accident. In reality, it can include a much wider range of experiences, including emotional neglect, witnessing d...

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Why can't we end the relationship?

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Every person who has experienced trauma has been marked by that experience. In the unhealed trauma brain, every event sits like a small scar on the neuropathway of our memory. The more trauma we experience, the more sca...

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The holidays are coming. For some, the holiday season is a joyous time and many people start to prepare with excitement and anticipation. They decorate, shop and wrap. They plan visits and menus. They can't wait for the...

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From birth our brains are designed for human \"connection\". Experiencing trauma is life changing in itself, no matter what horrible things we have witnessed or experienced, but then, to add insult to injury, our actual br...

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As human beings we have lots of questions, especially before we do something. Before we start something, lots of times, we pick it apart, mull it over, and then decide whether we want to do it or not. We want to know ho...

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","url":"https://balancingwithin.ca/f/saying-3-positive-things-a-day-re-frames-your-thinking-in-a-week","title":"Saying 3 positive things a day re-frames your thinking in a week!","date_modified":"2024-06-25T03:26:29Z"},{"id":"https://balancingwithin.ca/f/my-story-on-my-own-healing-journey-approach-to-healing","html_content":"

What does a healing journey mean? It can mean so many different things to every single person. The main thing is that a person has decided to heal and continue to heal as they navigate through space and time. Meaning you...

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","url":"https://balancingwithin.ca/f/radical-acceptance-is-acknowledging-and-accepting","title":"Radical Acceptance is acknowledging and accepting.....","date_modified":"2024-05-18T03:48:04Z"},{"id":"https://balancingwithin.ca/f/radical-acceptance","html_content":"

An easy way to explain Radical Acceptance:

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","url":"https://balancingwithin.ca/f/true-happiness-resides-withingo-forth-and-seek-happiness","title":"True Happiness resides within....go forth and seek happiness!","date_modified":"2024-03-01T03:47:38Z"},{"id":"https://balancingwithin.ca/f/you-can-do-all-things-no-matter-what-size","html_content":"

","url":"https://balancingwithin.ca/f/you-can-do-all-things-no-matter-what-size","title":"You can do all things no matter what size!","date_modified":"2024-03-01T03:43:52Z"},{"id":"https://balancingwithin.ca/f/effective-communication---relationship-building","html_content":"

What is Effective Communication?

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","url":"https://balancingwithin.ca/f/protecting-your-energy-negative-vs-positive","title":"Protecting Your Energy: Negative vs Positive ","date_modified":"2024-01-17T17:26:06Z"},{"id":"https://balancingwithin.ca/f/grief-and-loss","html_content":"

GRIEF AND LOSS

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","url":"https://balancingwithin.ca/f/recognize-your-limits-but-never-stop-try-to-overcome-them","title":"Recognize your limits but never stop try to overcome them!","date_modified":"2023-12-12T19:33:50Z"},{"id":"https://balancingwithin.ca/f/trauma-bonding-defined","html_content":"

What are the signs of trauma bonding?

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CBT focuses on the way people think (“cognitive”) and act (“behavioral”). CBT suggests that our thoughts about a situation affect how we feel (emotionally and physically) and how we behave in that situation.

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","url":"https://balancingwithin.ca/f/embrace-your-journey-thats-how-we-learn-and-grow","title":"Embrace your journey that's how we learn and grow","date_modified":"2023-10-12T17:18:56Z"},{"id":"https://balancingwithin.ca/f/learning-to-respect-yourself-ensures-others-to-appreciate-you","html_content":"

","url":"https://balancingwithin.ca/f/learning-to-respect-yourself-ensures-others-to-appreciate-you","title":"Learning to respect yourself ensures others to appreciate you","date_modified":"2023-10-12T17:09:22Z"},{"id":"https://balancingwithin.ca/f/note-to-self","html_content":"

","url":"https://balancingwithin.ca/f/note-to-self","title":"Note to Self...","date_modified":"2023-10-04T17:35:15Z"},{"id":"https://balancingwithin.ca/f/healing-is-a-beautiful-ray-of-light","html_content":"

","url":"https://balancingwithin.ca/f/healing-is-a-beautiful-ray-of-light","title":"Healing is a beautiful ray of light...","date_modified":"2023-10-04T17:34:33Z"},{"id":"https://balancingwithin.ca/f/maybe-healing-is-about-letting-go","html_content":"

","url":"https://balancingwithin.ca/f/maybe-healing-is-about-letting-go","title":"Maybe healing is about letting go...","date_modified":"2023-10-04T17:33:00Z"},{"id":"https://balancingwithin.ca/f/your-vision-becomes-clear","html_content":"

","url":"https://balancingwithin.ca/f/your-vision-becomes-clear","title":"Your vision becomes clear...","date_modified":"2023-10-04T17:31:20Z"},{"id":"https://balancingwithin.ca/f/somatic-anxiety","html_content":"

When you're anxious and stressed, your fight-or-flight response kicks into gear, releasing chemicals that can cause tension and pain in your body. Anxiety that manifests in your body is called somatic anxiety. It may fee...

","url":"https://balancingwithin.ca/f/somatic-anxiety","title":"Somatic Anxiety","summary":"When you're anxious and stressed, your fight-or-flight response kicks into gear, releasing chemicals that can cause tension and pain in your body. Anxiety that manifests in your body is called somatic anxiety. It may fee...","date_modified":"2023-09-30T14:04:19Z"},{"id":"https://balancingwithin.ca/f/navigating-through-identity-crisis","html_content":"

How can a mental health professional help with identity problems?

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Fear is an emotion that often holds people back from achieving their goals. Fear of the unknown doesn't have to stop you from living your life. In this blog post, we will discuss how to cope with fear and conquer your fe...

","url":"https://balancingwithin.ca/f/conquer-your-fear-of-the-unknown-how-to-take-risks-and-succeed","title":"Conquer Your Fear of the Unknown: How to Take Risks and Succeed","summary":"Fear is an emotion that often holds people back from achieving their goals. Fear of the unknown doesn't have to stop you from living your life. In this blog post, we will discuss how to cope with fear and conquer your fe...","date_modified":"2023-08-01T15:50:08Z"},{"id":"https://balancingwithin.ca/f/stress-less-and-boost-your-productivity-tips","html_content":"

Stress Less and Boost Your Productivity With These Mindfulness Meditation Tips:

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What is the meaning of encouragement? To the best of my knowledge and understanding it is and act of good will offered by kind words, leading a hand in times of need, being there for someone who just needs to be heard an...

","url":"https://balancingwithin.ca/f/encouragement","title":"Encouragement","summary":"What is the meaning of encouragement? To the best of my knowledge and understanding it is and act of good will offered by kind words, leading a hand in times of need, being there for someone who just needs to be heard an...","date_modified":"2023-07-05T20:17:35Z"},{"id":"https://balancingwithin.ca/f/self-validation","html_content":"

I was reading an article on self validation and the article discussed the importance of why is self validation important and how to start the process according to Sharon Martin LCSW, article \" Why It's So Important to Va...

","url":"https://balancingwithin.ca/f/self-validation","title":"Self Validation","summary":"I was reading an article on self validation and the article discussed the importance of why is self validation important and how to start the process according to Sharon Martin LCSW, article \" Why It's So Important to Va...","date_modified":"2023-07-04T21:30:10Z"},{"id":"https://balancingwithin.ca/f/the-path-to-healing","html_content":"

We all experience hard times, struggles, and suffering in our lives. For some of us it begins in early childhood, while others only experience their worst hardships later on, in adulthood. Either way, life challenges ar...

","url":"https://balancingwithin.ca/f/the-path-to-healing","title":"The Path to Healing...","summary":" We all experience hard times, struggles, and suffering in our lives. For some of us it begins in early childhood, while others only experience their worst hardships later on, in adulthood. Either way, life challenges ar...","date_modified":"2023-05-12T14:00:00Z"}]}