Everyone has bad days at work, but there are signs that employees need to watch out for before a bad week at the office turns into never-ending, debilitating work stress that ruins your health. A toxic job can make you sick in a multitude of ways.

The Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy approach works by positively impacting the two-way relationship between thoughts (“cognitions”) and behaviours.

You've found ways to make it this far during this COVID-19 pandemic. These suggestions will help you build compassion and resilience so you can find your path forward while protecting your mental health.

Some couples forced to stay at home together during the pandemic have found all that togetherness trying. Here are some tips that will help you stay together by managing conflict effectively.

Workplace bullying is harmful, targeted behaviour that happens at work. It might be spiteful, offensive, mocking or intimidating. It forms a pattern, and it tends to be directed at one person or a few people.

Researchers found that 34% of coronavirus survivors received a diagnosis for a neurological or psychological condition within six months of infection, according to the research published in Lancet Psychiatry and other global research studies.

You can’t reason with an unreasonable person, but there are proven techniques to manage these situations better. I’ll share proven tactics that professional crisis intervention teams use, and you can learn them, too. 

A year of chronic, unpredictable chronic stress caused by the ongoing pandemic leaves many of us feeling unmotivated, unable to focus and lethargic.  More than half of Canadians report increased stress during the pandemic — and it’s the chronic and unpredictable stress that tends to leave us unfocused and unproductive.

Mental health has continued to deteriorate throughout the pandemic. The third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic has eroded citizens' already fragile emotional well-being.

The danger and scope of the COVID-19 pandemic have upended “normal” life for more than 1 year now, causing billions of people worldwide to experience unexpected emotional turmoil.

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a psychiatric disorder that can occur in people who have experienced or witnessed a traumatic event such as a natural disaster, a serious accident, a terrorist act, war/combat, rape or other violent personal assault.

Authoritarian organizations develop cultures that tend to blame problems on individuals, and task accomplishment becomes a secondary priority.

Moving on past trauma, for many people, can feel like it will take a lifetime. For this reason, many people drop out of therapy and give up.  

Moving on past trauma, for many people, can feel like it will take a lifetime. For this reason, many people drop out of therapy and give up.

PTSD is often misunderstood because PTSD survivors typically resist telling their friends or loved ones about their diagnosis because they are afraid they will be viewed as dangerous or unstable.