Resources
Resources
Upcoming Shalom Style Weekend Retreats
BREATHEINLIFE
complimentary phone consultations
Schedule a complimentary, 15-minute conversation in which we can chat, and get a feel for whether my approach to therapy feels like a good fit for you.
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Helpful Information
COMMUNITY RESOURCES
Free, low barrier supports for women and their families
FOR ONTARIO
Crisis/Distress Lines
Assaulted Women’s Health Line: 1-866-863-0511 (24/7)
Barrett Centre for Crisis Support: 905-529-7878 or toll-free 1-844-777-3571 (24/7)
Black Youth Helpline: 1-833-294-8650
Canada Suicide Prevention Service: 1-833-456-4566 or text: 45645 (24/7)
COAST Crisis Outreach & Support Team (Neuro-inclusive crisis support): 905-972-8338 or 1-844-972-8338
Indigenous Hope for Wellness Hotline: 1-855-242-3310
Kids Help Phone: 1-800-668-6868
LGBTQ+Youth Line: call 1-800-268-9688 text 647-694-4275
Mental Health Crisis: 905-529-7878
Multilingual Distress Line: 1-877-298-5444
Naseeha Helpline (Muslim Support): 1-866-627-3342 text 1-866-627-3342
Sexual Assault Centre (SACHA): 905-525-4162 (24/7)
Trans Line (Trans peer support): 1-877-565-8860
Women’s Services Crisis: 905-523-6277
Postpartum Support International (PSI)
International helpline for moms and dads; texting support, resources and groups.
Helpline: 1-800-944-4773
Website: https://www.postpartum.net/
Postpartum Progress
Community of support for perinatal women and families.
Website: https://postpartumprogress.com/
Pregnancy and Infant Loss Network (PAIL)
Website: https://pailnetwork.sunnybrook.ca/
Baby’s Breathe Canada
Resources, counselling for infant loss.
Website: https://www.babysbreathcanada.ca/
Birthright Pregnancy Care Centre
Interdenominational support for women related to unplanned pregnancies.
Phone: 905-527-3677
Website: https://birthright.org/hamilton
Wellness Apps
ThinkUp (positive affirmations)
Calm (relaxation and meditation)
CBTdiary (practice CBT skills, thought records)
Headspace (meditation)
Insight Timer (meditation with search feature)
Peanut (building community and social connections)
Expectful (tracking pregnancy)
Clue (period and health tracker)
Stop, Breathe and Think
Principles of Loving
More than anything else, we want to love and be loved.
Love is a gift.
Love is not time bound.
Love is good will in action.
Love is a response to need.
Skills of Loving
Seeing:
I do not look over or through you, I see you in your uniqueness.
Hearing:
I listen to what you are saying.
Honoring of Feelings and Ideas:
I recognize your right to think and feel as you do.
Having Good Will:
I will you good and not evil. I care about you.
Responding to Need:
If you let me know what your needs are, within the limits of my value system, I will not run away. I will be there for you.
Other Resources
Visit these websites for more information about Core Energetics:
Institute of Core Energetics:www.coreenergetics.org
Exceptional Marriage:www.exceptionalmarriage.com
Shalom Mountain Retreat Centre:www.shalommountain.com
Core Energy
The center of this map is our Core, or essence. This is who we are when we are born. Pure. At some point in early life, most people experience some level of trauma, either physical, emotional, psychological or sexual. When that trauma is suppressed, the lower self develops, where primitive negative reactions are experienced. But society teaches us to go underground with our genuine feelings. So we cover our lower self with a mask. The mask prevents us from communicating authentically. In Core Energetics, we learn to penetrate the mask and express the lower self which takes us to our core essence. It is in this place that we learn who we really are.
Certification from the Institute of Core Energetics
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