What Nature Teaches Us About Anxiety
I spent 5 blissful days deep in the woods and lakes of Algonquin Park, and here’s 5 lessons I learned about anxiety. 1) Anxiety is fuelled by overstimulation Our world is filled to the…
What Makes Therapy Effective?
What is the #1 predictor of success in psychotherapy? What contributes to its effectiveness and positive client outcomes? Find out here.
Redefining Success
The way we define success influences how we feel about ourselves. Society leads us astray in telling us what success is. How do we define it?
How Do I Feel Happy?
It’s not easy to feel happy in our current world. But happiness is something we all need and want. Here’s how to feel happier.
A Holiday Survival Guide
The holidays can be a difficult time of year. Find out how to survive it if we’re alone, grieving, or stuck with people that trigger us.
Anxious About Feeling Anxious?
It can be such a frustrating cycle we can get looped into. “I’m scared I’ll feel anxious forever.” “What if I never get this anxiety under control?” “What if I can’t handle this feeling?”…
How Do I Trust My Choices?
Life is full of never-ending big and small choices. These choices can be both exhausting and energizing. However, if we struggle with anxiety, self-doubt, or low self-confidence, these choices are likely tiring. Self-doubt may…
Poems That Can Change Your Life
Poems have a way of transporting us into realms of feeling that our everyday language often can’t. They can give us permission to alter an overly negative inner dialogue. I teach yoga as part of my…
How Do I Get Over a Breakup?
Breakups are some of the most gut-wrenching experiences, yet so many of us experience it in our lifetime. Most of us want to fast-forward through the painful emotions associated with losing someone. On top…
How Do I Stop Feeling Guilty?
What is Guilt? Guilt is an emotional state where we experience inner conflict at having done something that we believe we should not have done. Or opposingly, we feel conflict at having not done something we believe we should have…
Clare Karasik, MSW, RSW 