HeyJaredMiss Feelings
I write about what it is to be human, my own experiences with all my feelings, stories, ups and downs, and all the messy, magical in-betweens. With a mindfulness and compassion lens
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A teen learning mindfulness was listening... (opens the original)
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In case you don’t know, on top of being a counsellor, I’ve also been teaching mindfulness programs to children 5–11 years old and youth 12–18 for the past six years.Here is one of the most unexpected testimonials I’ve ever received:<
Glossary of Mental Health, Trauma & Healing (opens the original)
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Here is a glossary, work in progress, of words we use in the mental health, trauma, and healing world.Disillusionment is the painful collapse of a long-help belief.Embodied knowing or somatic knowing is the difference between understanding something in your mind versus feeling it in your body, your cells, your nervous system.Existential reckoning is the confrontation with the fundamental reality of being human: imperfect, limited, capable of both love and harm simultaneously.<
I Thought One Day I’d Be Perfect (opens the original)
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⚠️ Note before you read: this article touches on trauma, C-PTSD, and the painful process of accepting our human limitations. If you’re in a vulnerable place right now, read with care and be gentle with yourself. If you’re having thoughts of self-harm or harming others, please reach out to a crisis line. In Canada and USA call 988, in Canada text 45645, or list of Suicide Crisis Line of all countries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
Celebrating... Not Really (opens the original)
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If you read my last article, you’ll know that I finally became an RTCc, short for Registered Therapeutic Counsellor candidate. Yes! At last! A designation that’s tangible: my clients can now get reimbursed by their extended health insurance, if they have one (which isn’t everybody, and is honestly a privilege), and that makes me more legitimate in the eyes of some people.So. I’m supposed to be happy, to be celebrating.And yet... there wasn’t much joy.</sp
Not Knowing Is Worse Than Knowing (opens the original)
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Have you ever had to wait for something important? A visa, a job offer, a grade, an approval, a diagnosis, a registration? If you’re human, most likely yes. And if you’re not waiting for something right now, try to remember what it felt like. How frustrating it was. How consuming. Sometimes even more than frustrating, sometimes it’s physically sickening. Literally sickening.Right now, that’s exactly how I feel. 😠And I know I’m not alone. I’m thinking of people in particular as I write this, peop
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