PDA and School Refusal: Understanding the Link and How to Help
As parents, educators, or caregivers, it’s heart-wrenching to witness a child struggle with school refusal. The sight of a child refusing to go to school, showing signs of anxiety, and becoming distressed is incredibly difficult. However, it’s important to consider if PDA and school refusal might be connected. But what if the cause is something […]
When to Seek Help: How Couples Counselling Can Help You
Hello, it’s Laura Banks here, Founder and Clinic Director at Mind 2 Heart Connections. Today, I want to talk about something close to my heart – couples counselling. Relationships can be so rewarding, but they can also be incredibly challenging. Sometimes, we need a little guidance to help us navigate the tricky parts. Let me […]
Managing relationship conflict during Thanksgiving: How to Navigate Uncertainty Before Separation
The holiday season often brings to mind images of joy, togetherness, and celebration. But for couples going through a rough patch, the pressure to maintain those ideals can be overwhelming. When conflict is already simmering, and separation feels like it’s looming on the horizon, the holidays can magnify the stress. For many couples, this time […]
How to Help Your Child with Back-to-School Anxiety: Tips and Ideas
Last week’s blog, Understanding Back-to-School Anxiety: Signs and Symptoms helped us to begin to think about and understand better the different ways children experience anxiety as they prepare to return to school. In this week’s post, we’ll dive deeper into specific behaviors and offer practical tips on how to support your child during this transition […]
Understanding Back-to-School Anxiety: Signs and Symptoms
If you are a parent of a child who worries, this topic may already be on your mind. As a parent of worried children myself, I understand the challenge of preparing kids for the return to school. The thought of all the routines, lunch-making, school notes, and forms might not fill you with excitement. For […]
Building Confidence and Resilience in Children During Summer: Activities and Tips
Summer is a perfect time to work on building confidence and increasing resilience in our children. With more free time and fewer academic pressures, it’s an ideal opportunity to focus on these essential life skills. Why Summer is Ideal for Building Confidence and Resilience in Children Less School Pressure: Kids get a break from schoolwork […]
Ramblings from a neurodivergent Brain- How to manage Stress
We all have stress. But doesn’t it feel like some days, it is just an out of control mudslide, moving down a mountain at an incredibly awkward speed with no hope but creating a pile of big brown crap at the bottom… That metaphor vividly captures how overwhelming and uncontrollable stress can feel at times, […]
Holidays and Loss Part 2- The final Act
After posting the first blog in this series, Loss and the Holidays Part one, I was reminded by some readers that loss comes in so many different forms. As one man pointed out, who lost his wife of 53 years, his memories bring comfort to him. Perhaps it keeps his spouse alive in his heart […]
Loss and Holiday time. Part 1
Have you seen the new Chevrolet holiday ad? Just Click Here Oh this was a really hard commercial to watch and it made me think about the feelings of loss that can be triggered for many people around the holiday season. I think I have been very aware of this because of the work I […]
What does Neurodivergent mean and What is Neurodiversity?
Neurodiversity is really the idea that our neurological differences are based on a human genome, our DNA, rather than a disorder, a pathology, a problem that needs to be fixed so we can be more like everyone else. I have written on this page
