by Richard Amaral | Jun 4, 2022 | Mental Health, Mind-Body Health, Psychology, Stress, Youth and Adolescents
By the time this post gets released, it will have been around two weeks since the last school shooting in Texas, and about three weeks since a racist mass shooting in Buffalo. Regardless of where or how often these kinds of tragedies occur, the reality is that...
by Richard Amaral | May 28, 2022 | Balanced living, Mental Health, Psychology, Stress, Thinking
My plan for this post was to follow up on some of the thoughts and experiences from taking a personal mental health day. “My Day Off – Part 2” is what I was going to call it. However, with the horrific events in Buffalo, NY (10 people killed...
by Richard Amaral | May 7, 2022 | Mind-Body Health, Psychology, Relationships, Thinking, Youth and Adolescents
When I was a kid, there was a playground just down the street from where I lived – McCormick Park. I remember the park well. The park and recreation centre of the same name was my home away from home. Every day after school, I’d run down to the park and...
by Richard Amaral | May 1, 2022 | Psychology, Relationships
April 2022 is the inaugural “Counselling and Psychotherapy Month” in Canada. Since I plan on writing about relationships for the next few weeks, I thought I’d share a couple of thoughts on how psychotherapy can help develop your relationship...
by Richard Amaral | Apr 17, 2022 | Abuse, Anger and Aggression, Mental Health, Mind-Body Health, Psychology, Relationships, Thinking
After hearing and watching the infamous “slap” by Will Smith during the Oscars this year, I had quite a few thoughts rushing to my mind. But, of course, most of those thoughts have already been discussed and written about extensively in the media. But one...
by Richard Amaral | Apr 10, 2022 | Emotions, Lifestyle, Mental Health, Mind-Body Health, Psychology, Thinking
In last week’s post, I talked about how I build hope during difficult times. In summary, I try to do three things: Put effort into finding hope Spend time with hopeful people Embrace uncertainty In today’s post, I want to explore point #1 – putting...
