What are emotions?
Ashley Beland2023-06-16T07:41:16-05:00Written by Chuck LeBlanc Part of my role as a therapist is to help people connect with and understand themselves better so they can grow [...]
Male Mental Health
Ashley Beland2023-08-21T10:55:41-05:00Written by Chuck LeBlanc One of the reasons I decided to focus my practice on male mental health had a lot to do with my [...]
New Years Resolutions
Ashley Beland2022-12-31T09:43:58-05:00To be honest I’ve never been a big fan of the New Year’s resolution style of thinking. Mainly because it asks us to use shame [...]
Grieving as a Survivor of Suicide Loss: One Year Later
Ashley Beland2022-11-21T12:33:13-05:00By Chuck LeBlanc This past weekend marked one full year since my dear friend passed away by suicide. In the last blog post I talked [...]
World Mental Health Day
Ashley Beland2023-10-10T06:51:09-05:00By Chuck LeBlanc Today is World Mental Health Day. This is a day designed to spread awareness of mental health and wellbeing and was brought [...]
Happy Podcast Day
Ashley Beland2023-06-08T10:19:22-05:00Written by Chuck LeBlanc Podcasts are one of my favorite sources of media. Now a days there are hundreds of thousands of different podcasts [...]
Quiet Quitting and the Problem of Burnout
Ashley Beland2022-09-20T09:58:16-05:00By Chuck LeBlanc Quiet Quitting is a new term I am seeing a lot of recently. It does not mean quietly leaving out the [...]
The Purpose of Grief Therapy
Ashley Beland2023-06-16T07:18:48-05:00By Chuck LeBlanc After reflecting on her mother’s passing, Simone De Beauvoir one of the most influential and important existential philosophers of all time wrote, [...]
National Hugging Day
Ashley Beland2022-01-21T11:24:52-05:00Written by Chuck LeBlanc Hugging or hug comes from the Norse word Hugge, which means “to embrace” or “to comfort”. According to nationaltoday.com, National Hugging [...]
Blue Monday
Ashley Beland2022-01-17T19:08:40-05:00Written by Chuck LeBlanc Blue Monday has been dubbed the most depressing day of the year. Could be because it’s cold, or the sun [...]
The Paradox Of People Pleasing
Ashley Beland2022-02-11T09:32:07-05:00Written by Chuck LeBlanc When you start taking responsibility for other people's happiness, then what you're saying is essential, other people can't be happy [...]
Grieving as a Survivor of Suicide loss
Ashley Beland2021-11-19T17:11:00-05:00Written by Chuck LeBlanc Grief is one of the most difficult and powerful emotions we have. Like a raging storm, It can call on almost [...]
