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Breaking Free from People-Pleasing & Perfectionism: How Self-Compassion Can Change Your Life

Breaking Free from People-Pleasing & Perfectionism: How Self-Compassion Can Change Your Life

by Nicole Bolotenko | Aug 28, 2025 | Growth & Development, Mental Health

Why This Struggle Feels So Heavy If you’ve ever said “yes” when every part of you wanted to say “no,” or found yourself rewriting an email for the tenth time so it feels “just right,” you’re not alone. People-pleasing and perfectionism often go hand in hand. They can...
Helping a Colleague in Crisis: What to Say and What Not to Say in Emergency Services

Helping a Colleague in Crisis: What to Say and What Not to Say in Emergency Services

by Susan Packer | Jul 22, 2025 | Crisis, Grief, Mental Health, Trauma - PTSD, Work & Employment

“I Don’t Know What to Say”: Supporting a Colleague in Crisis In emergency services—whether you’re a firefighter, paramedic, police officer, or dispatcher—you’re trained to respond quickly and effectively to other people’s crises. But when it’s your own colleague who’s...
After The Affair

After The Affair

by Nicole Bolotenko | May 22, 2025 | Anger Management, Change, Conflict, Crisis, Infidelity, Love & Relationships, Marriage, Separation & Divorce, Sexuality

by Janis Abrahms Spring How do you forgive your partner when they do not take responsibilities for their transgressions? (With this question we are taking the position that this may be a major transgression like an affair) Often we hear from clients that they feel the...
Virtual Self… Real or Not

Virtual Self… Real or Not

by Finding Solutions Together | May 19, 2025 | Anxiety, Change, Family, Friendship, Love & Relationships, Teens

Online Consideration: A Developing Art With the advance of online chat, social media presence and virtual relationships, there seems to be an increase in discussion about the pros and cons our virtual interaction has on health and upon our social lives in general. Are...
Why are we so afraid to set boundaries?

Why are we so afraid to set boundaries?

by Finding Solutions Together | May 15, 2025 | Conflict, Crisis, Family, Love & Relationships, Parenting

Whether you are a parent who appears to have a teenager “running the household,” or you are in a romantic relationship and feel you’ve “lost who you are as an individual,” they both may stem from the difficulty of setting effective boundaries in your relationships....

Stop the Complaining Voice Today!

by Nicole Bolotenko | May 14, 2025 | Change, Conflict, Family, Love & Relationships, Marriage, Mental Health

The other day I was waiting in line and a couple behind me were talking about the tons of errands, responsibilities and chores they had to get done. “We have to get the groceries done, but then we gotta make dinner and take Joey to hockey.” “But I have to finish up...
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