Your Healthy Mind

The Dreaded Winter Blahs: How to Deal

Posted by the BEACON team on Jan 23, 2020 4:02:55 PM

Some people really love winter. They love the crisp air, fresh snow, skiing, and hot cocoa by a roaring fire.

Topics: Well-being, CBT, Mindfulness, Seasonal Affective Disorder, BEACON results, Mental Health, Holidays

How Can BEACON Therapy Help Me?

Posted by the BEACON team on Jan 17, 2020 5:07:02 PM

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (or CBT) is all about building a resilience to cope with life’s challenges, and it can help improve your frame of mind – like when you’re feeling overwhelmed or[...]

Topics: Well-being, CBT, Mindfulness, BEACON results, Mental Health

Workplace Stress: It’s actually not all bad!

Posted by the BEACON team on Jan 13, 2020 5:38:57 PM

Work certainly can feel demanding some of the time! Mostly every day we face deadlines, setbacks, challenges, different personalities, and more – all of these things can add up to create stressful[...]

Topics: Stress, Depression, Anxiety, Well-being, Mindfulness, Lifestyle, Sleep, Exercise

Are You Suffering from Burnout?

Posted by the BEACON team on Dec 16, 2019 2:59:32 PM

Burnout is something that seems to come up a lot these days – not surprising, when you consider the fast-paced culture in which we live, where pulling long days and never quite logging off[...]

Topics: Stress, Anxiety, Well-being, Lifestyle, Sleep, Insomnia

How to Spot and Squash Holiday Stress

Posted by Dr. Khush Amaria, PhD, CPsych on Dec 2, 2019 5:32:00 PM

The holidays are a wonderful time to celebrate with family and friends, but the season – often packed with chores and commitments – comes with its own set of stressors. The expectations we put on[...]

Topics: Dr. Khush Amaria, Well-being, CBT, Mindfulness, BEACON results, Mental Health

Prioritize Your Mental Health With These Tips

Posted by the BEACON team on Nov 25, 2019 5:21:25 PM

Life certainly has a way of feeling overwhelming sometimes. Work, personal relationships, or countless other reasons can affect our mental health in different ways, but making strides to feel[...]

Topics: Well-being, CBT, Mindfulness, Spring cleaning, Millennials, Lifestyle, Work, Sleep, Exercise, Nutrition, Co-worker

Childhood OCD

Posted by CBT Associates on Oct 21, 2019 5:22:00 PM

“Step on a crack, and you break your mother’s back.” We’ve probably all heard this before, and maybe even avoided stepping on cracks when we first heard this as children for fear of being[...]

Topics: Well-being, CBT, Mindfulness, BEACON results, Mental Health

Lumino Health | How to overcome negative thinking

Posted by the BEACON team on Oct 21, 2019 4:00:29 PM

Originally published by Lumino Health, on October 7, 2019 by Anna Sharratt

Negative thinking can have a big effect on your daily life. But you can rewire your brain to see the world in a positive[...]

Topics: Media coverage, Dr. Khush Amaria, Well-being

How to Tell Your Co-Workers You’re Struggling with Mental Health

Posted by Priya Sholanki, MSW, RSW on Sep 27, 2019 10:49:47 AM

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For many of us, work is a big part of our lives that we dedicate a great deal of time towards. Yet, the places we work in can be demanding with our stressful deadlines, different personalities to[...]

Topics: Depression, Well-being, CBT, Work, Co-worker

Why Sleep Matters (And How To Get More Of It)

Posted by the BEACON team on Sep 17, 2019 1:23:04 PM

We aspire to do it nightly, think about it often, and lament when we don’t get enough of it –sleep is undeniably an important part of our routines, yet in our hectic, busy lives, we often[...]