Mental Health

Mental Health
22 Mar

How to use your creativity to help support you on your healing journey

How to use your creativity to help support you on your healing journey   By: Selina Mattison, Placement Student at The Gatehouse, Social Service Worker Diploma  Art is often used as an outlet for expressing difficult emotions. The arts are quite diverse, and have many different forms such as painting, architecture, sculpture, literature, music, performing and cinema. These outlets both help the artist and the viewer. However, you don’t have to be an artist to have creativity. There...

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28 Feb

How to Recognize When A Boundary Has Been Broken  

How to Recognize When A Boundary Has Been Broken   By: Ikjot Sandhu, Practicum Student  Over the developmental years of a child’s life, there are many aspects of socialization they will go through. One developmental skill that is vital for children to learn in these early years of life is boundary setting. Boundaries are limits and rules an individual set for themselves in different areas of their life to protect their own mental health. Some of these...

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28 Apr

Parenting During the Pandemic

Parenting during the Pandemic By: Maria Barcelos, MA, Executive Director, The Gatehouse & Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) The pandemic has been emotionally and psychologically exhausting. I recently read an article through the New York Times and a statement in there resonated with me “parenting through grief.” This is how I felt, and I know many more felt this way too. If being a parent was not difficult enough already at times while trying to address childhood...

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21 Feb

Trust

Trust by: Amy Tai We flex our trust muscles every day, whether we realize it or not. We trust our alarms to wake us up on time, our cars to get us to work, the pilot to land the plane, our hearts to keep beating. Without even thinking twice about it, we trust so many people and things. But at what point do we realize that trust is something that has to...

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30 Jan

Anxiety and Managing Anxiety

Anxiety and Managing Anxiety by: Jasmine Lem, BSc, Practicum Student  Anxiety is a feeling we are all familiar with. Life can be busy and complicated, filled with work, school, family, and so forth, and it can sometimes be overwhelming. Anxiety exists on a continuum of mild to severe and can be experienced through our emotions (i.e. worry or fear), thoughts (i.e. “I’m going to fail this”), and physical symptoms (i.e. racing heart)....

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