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It's Alright to Let Go of Those That Are Not Living a Healthy Lifestyle

6/13/2022

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By: ​Kristen Sohlman, MACP RP
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Sometimes having a healthy boundary means that it is alright to move forward in your life, even though someone you care about is not yet living a healthy life. You may feel guilty about leaving someone behind, and yet there is an important gift that you are giving the other person.

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How to Prevent Emotional Flooding from Drowning You & Your Relationship

5/4/2022

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By: Kristen Sohlman, MACP, RP
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​Do you ever feel like you and are partner are repeating the same pattern over and over again? You or your partner says something that pushes buttons, one or both of you lose it, and then down the rabbit hole you go! The flooding of emotions during conflicts with a partner can be overwhelming and can lead to hurt feelings, regret, fear, and can even result in relationships ending. 

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Healing from Cheating

11/18/2021

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By: Kristen Sohlman, MACP RP
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​Cheating, whether in a monogamous or polyamorous relationship, is sometimes so difficult that relationships have difficulty withstanding the hurt and pain of cheating, and sometimes the relationship will end.  For some, cheating is a limit or boundary that cannot be accepted because of one’s values and beliefs, and as such, the relationship cannot be recovered.

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Vulnerability with Boundaries

9/7/2021

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By: Kristen Sohlman, MACP RP
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​Why is vulnerability important?  Vulnerability allows us to share our feelings and emotions, our experiences, as well as our mistakes, to improve self-awareness and to practice accountability.

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When a Conversation Becomes Too Heated

7/7/2021

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By: Kelly Halonen, MSW, RSW
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We all have had that conversation with a friend, partner, or family member, that gets escalated before we know it. Often this can lead to an exchange of words spewed out of anger that people can regret. So, what can you do to stop it before it reaches this point? I’m going to share with you a few tips for keeping anger from taking over the conversation.

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Couples Who Fight Well

7/5/2021

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By: Kristen Sohlman, MACP,RP
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​Often couples evaluate their relationship based upon how much they fight.  When they are not fighting, things must be going well and when they are fighting, things must NOT be going well within their relationship. It is a myth that healthy couples do not fight or do not fight often.

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Parenting Teens in a Pandemic

6/10/2021

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By: Margo Ayoub, MSW, RSW
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​Let's face it, raising kids can be a challenge in the best of times. Throw in a global pandemic which brings with it economic impacts, anxiety over the spread of illness, and the isolation that has accompanied the lockdown restrictions and closures, and you have challenges for which the impact on youth and their caregivers is far reaching and not yet fully understood.

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Think Twice Before You Cut That Toxic Person Out of Your Life

4/26/2021

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It has been a popular trend on social media about how to ruthlessly cut out and eliminate toxic people, suggesting that this toxic person is a poison that needs to be eradicated from our lives altogether.  While I have considered the idea and have somewhat enjoyed the idea of living free from guilt or shame in not having a person in my life who has hurt me, something about this just does not feel right.  Do you ever wonder that by cutting toxic people out of your life, whether you have become a little toxic yourself?

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Privacy or Secrets: How to Set Boundaries in a Relationship

4/19/2021

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​In any relationship it is important to consider how open and transparent you may want to be within that relationship.  Sometimes there are expectations that I will be open with you if you are open with me, or if I am open with you, then you ought to be open with me, as if this is some kind of mutual exchange of goods.

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Men's Mental Health & The Workplace

2/19/2021

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By: Kristen Sohlman, MACP, RP
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Men’s mental health in the workplace is a difficult and sensitive topic to address. 

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Losing My Mother, Made Me Lose Myself

1/14/2021

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By: Cassandra Nordal, PR & Marketing Coordinator
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“Michael’s home,” my aunt yelled from the kitchen as my brother pulled into the driveway. And in that very moment, she took her last breath in my arms and drifted away peacefully.

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A Very COVID Christmas

12/7/2020

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By: Kelly Halonen, MSW, RSW
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​The holidays this year are going to look a lot different than they have before. In Thunder Bay, we are currently in our second wave. This has a lot of people worried and wondering what Christmas is going to look like. 

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