Wellness Matters Webinar - Wellness through Winter

If you struggle with low mood, loneliness, anxiety, or grief during the winter, this talk is for you. Learn how to navigate the challenges of the season, such as reduced social engagement and the stresses of holiday gatherings, and discover strategies to improve your mental health and well-being during the colder, darker months of the year.

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Wellness Matters Webinar — Emotions What They Are and What To Do With Them

Emotions can be a complicated mess that doesn’t seem to make any sense at all. Fortunately they’re not magic or random. We can make sense of our emotions, and in the process understand our experiences and ourselves in a much deeper way. In this talk you will learn:

  • What makes emotions an essential part of being a person

  • How to be aware of and identify emotions

  • What causes emotions

  • What emotions tell us about ourselves

  • How emotions can help us meet our needs

  • What a healthy & unhealthy relationship with emotions looks like

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Wellness Matters Webinar — Living Well with Depression

So, you have depression. Or does depression have you?

Even after you have successfully navigated your way through your first bout of depression, there is a pretty good chance (50% actually) you will experience depression again and again throughout your lifespan. Because depression is a highly recurrent disorder it is important to learn how to manage the symptoms during an episode, learn from the experience, build resilience, and develop healthy coping skills to prepare and brace yourself for the inevitable future episodes. In this webinar, Ramona explores the definition and diagnostic criteria of depression. Current trends and best practices in the treatment of depression will be discussed. Understanding the disorder better and gaining knowledge of available self-help treatments will empower participants to live well with

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Hope: A Belief or an Emotion?

Facebook bloggers to philosophers have debated whether hope is a belief, an emotion, or spiritual state. Regardless, keeping it as a foundation is critical to 'flattening the curve' and getting through the COVID-19 pandemic individually and collectively. Discussing strategies for engaging with hope through your mental, emotional, social, spiritual and physical self, means that you keep it present throughout your lifestyle and accessible through our shared public crisis or other challenges your life's journey might present.

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Manage Your Pain - wellness webinar

Living with pain can be debilitating not only physically, but psychologically as well. During this mental wellness webinarLori Tiemer explores the mind-body connection and discusses various strategies, including cognitive and relaxation techniques, for managing your pain and improving your quality of life. 

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Hope - a belief or an emotion?

Recently, I have been reading, reflecting and conversing about our human experience of hope and its role in maintaining a healthy lifestyle and approach to life’s challenges. I have witnessed academics and Facebook bloggers, philanthropists and tragedy survivors debate whether hope is a belief or an emotion, an attitude, or a divine connection.

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