Listen to I Have My Reasons Podcast with Deandra Tousignant and Karli Brodeur in Season 03, Episode 01.

We are honoured to welcome a new team member here at Grit and Growth. Alana has accompanied our team as we have identified a huge need in more counselling support for youth in Erickson, Manitoba.

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As a clinical counsellors based in Manitoba, Karli and Deandra offer online mental health counselling services throughout Canada. A question that we sometimes are asked is, “What is the difference between a counsellor and a therapist?”

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Meditation is a practise that helps to strengthen the ability to have awareness both on yourself and your environment. All you need is 15 minutes and a comfortable place to sit or lay. Read more about why it is important to stay connected to yourself and your environment.

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A body scan meditation is a core practise of the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction program pioneered by Jon Kabat-Zinn. This meditation is done laying down in a comfortable position. With this meditation, you will be guided to systematically attune to the sensations in your body while trying to maintain a sense of openness and self-compassion.

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Read Deandra Tousignant’s thoughts on emotional eating habits and how to heal your emotional attachments to food. Create better balance with eating habits with four steps to deal with emotional eating.

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Read this post to access five self-awareness tools to help manage your anxiety. While there are many different forms of anxiety, the impact it can have on your daily life can be debilitating no matter how anxiety presents itself as. Anxiety can range from panic, generalized anxiety, social and separation anxiety to phobias and obsessive-compulsive disorder.

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Musings on Deandra’s second pregnancy, and thoughts around letting go of expectations in day-to-day life. There is a continual lesson of impermanence and letting go that parenthood brings forth.

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