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Bell Let's Talk About Practicing What You Preach
A look at the good and the bad to come out of #BellLetsTalkDay Introduction to Bell Let’s Talk Day Bell Let's Talk Day was founded in...
Raquel
Jan 25, 20237 min read


What People Don't Tell You About Grief
How stigma makes those grieving even more confused. Learning to Cope The pain of loss never fully goes away, we just learn to cope. But...
Raquel
Aug 24, 20222 min read


What is a Distress Tolerance Kit?
Introduction Distress tolerance refers to an individual's ability to manage emotions, or distress, in a healthy way that prevents one...
Raquel
Aug 3, 20222 min read


What is the ACE Study and Why Is It Still Relevant?
What is the ACE Study? The adverse childhood experiences (ACE) study was a study conducted at Kaiser Permanente from 1995 to 1997. It is...
Raquel
Jul 13, 20222 min read


OCD is Not Enjoyable
Disclaimer: Some of this is me speaking about my own experience, and some is from online sources that describe my thoughts better than I...
Raquel
Jun 22, 20223 min read


It's Time to Decriminalize Drugs in Canada
The catastrophic effects set in motion by the Canadian opioid epidemic will continue to disproportionately hurt those negatively affected...
Raquel
Jun 15, 202210 min read


Dealing with Grief: A Toolkit
People don't like to talk about death. I realized that pretty quickly after losing my dad in February 2020. The pandemic made it a lot...
Raquel
Jun 8, 20221 min read


The Harms of Toxic Positivity
We’ve all heard some variation of toxic positivity. One definition of toxic positivity is “the overgeneralization of a happy, optimistic...
Raquel
May 27, 20224 min read


Caring For Mental Health Versus Mental Illness
I cannot proceed with talking about mental health on here without defining what I mean when I talk about mental health versus mental...
Raquel
May 21, 20223 min read
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