How often do we hear that mental health challenges are ‘just personal problems’? What if the real issue runs much deeper—beneath the surface of individual struggles, into the very systems that shape our world? What if societal systems themselves are shaping not just...
If you take anything away from this blog post, let it be this: we need to stop telling trauma survivors that what they went through made them stronger. This idea minimizes the real impact trauma has on an individual and can invalidate their experience. My Trauma...
Beneath every behaviour, there is a feeling. And beneath every feeling is a need. And when we meet that need rather than focus on the behaviour, we begin to deal with the cause and not the symptom. How many of us walk around day to day with unmet needs? We all have...
When we hear the words trauma response we think of the four F’s – fight, flight, freeze, and fawn. Each of these actions are adaptive, functional, and necessary in the short term enabling us to survive.But what happens in the long term? When the impact from that...
Some may ask, Lindsay, why are you so passionate about this side of mental health? And the honest answer is — because the significant flaws in the current Western mental health system almost killed me.My journey has shown me the importance of challenging established...
