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Boost Team Health and Performance

What do high-performing teams have in common? Psychological safety! Psychological safety is all about preventing psychological harm from things like toxic stress and workplace bullying, but also about promoting positive mental health while making it safe for people to take interpersonal risks. When people feel safe to be themselves, they contribute their whole selves, are more innovative, and perform better. How can this be achieved? Psychological safety guru Amy Edmondson, a professor at Harvard, suggests three simple things. Be curious, be vulnerable, and view problems as opportunities to learn.

Don’t Let Dentures Scare You!

Because dentures have been around for such a long time, they have had centuries to generate stories and myths. These fables and warning stories are sometimes used to scare children into taking better care of their teeth. While some concerns may have been valid in the past, they don’t hold anymore. The quality of modern dentures is continuously improving. After an adjustment period, you can enjoy the benefits of white, straight, and attractive teeth. Also, you can eat, drink, and speak normally, without embarrassment. Dentures are lighter, more natural-looking, and much easier to manage than ever before, giving you confidence and a beautiful smile!

Living Without Regret

Holding onto regret is like dragging around the weight of the past wherever you go. It drains our energy and makes us less available for living life tin the present because we are constantly looking behind us to the past. When we continue to feed this endless pattern, it weighs us down. When we can choose to move into applying what we have learned instead of becoming stuck, we transfer our energy into something constructive and creative that gives us back our life force and sets us free. Regret when released becomes a learning that allows us to grow.

Acupuncture for Post-Partum Depression

Post-partum depression involves depressive symptoms or episodes after giving birth, affecting up to 30% of new mothers. The rates of suicide linked to post-partum depression continue to increase, so it’s important to address any symptoms of the condition as soon as they become apparent. Along with psychological intervention, acupuncture may help with the symptoms of post-partum depression, and some studies have shown that this combination can be as useful as certain anti-depressants. It’s thought that acupuncture helps to stimulate the nervous and immune systems and balance various neurotransmitters, reducing the brain’s reaction to stress and therefore the depressive state.

Community Announcement

Join your recovery day hosts in celebrating recovery – SRWC, The Bruce Oake Recovery Centre, Canadian Mental Health Associations, Sara Riel, and Two Ten Recovery. It will be a fun filled informative, educational, fun filled day, with a number of bands, speakers, local and international celebrities, a Kids and Family fun Zone with face painting, games, bounciest castles, community agencies and resources, vendors and food trucks, and more. For more information on how you can support recovery day as a sponsor, community agency, volunteer, or vendor – Visit recoverydaywpg.com, or email [email protected], You never know, it might just save a life!

Community Announcement

Stigma: The stigma around substance use is one of the biggest barriers for people seeking and receiving treatment for addiction. It is also a barrier for those individuals who have tried to access services in the past. Stigma is often displayed in the form of discriminating attitudes, beliefs, and behaviours. We often use words to describe people and their health conditions that reflect our attitudes and approaches to helping them. Sometimes the words we use can be pejorative and counter productive. International studies by the World Health Organization show that people with alcohol and drug use disorders are among some of the most stigmatized of all health conditions.

Community Announcement

Why is Recovery Important? Thousands of individuals are affected by substance abuse disorder. But they may never receive the help they need due to the stigma around substance abuse. Many Canadians needlessly die each month, leaving their families and friends grieving because they are ashamed to go for help.

Community Announcement

Did You Know: That September is Recovery month in Canada? Since 2012 RECOVERY DAY has been a national movement with a network of people in recovery, families, service providers and entire communities. We come together to celebrate RECOVERY. We are committed to mobilizing and organizing Canadians in recovery from addiction and addiction-related problems. Our mission is to build awareness, challenge societal stigma, and celebrate the role that recovery plays in improving life for individuals, families, communities, cities and countries. We envision a world in which recovery from addiction is a common, and celebrated reality.