Today we kicked off something very exciting. Our first, official – Wellness Wednesday! <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I wanted to do something to help anyone who might be feeling overwhelmed by the weight of the world right now. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cost of living is crazy. There is a lot of heaviness around us with world events, and in our own community. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I think we are all still reeling from the death of Dane Nisbet in the tragic shooting that took place a few weeks ago. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I wanted to give space for that and knew I couldn’t do it alone. Life’s Seasons Care & Support offers trauma based counselling to our area. And they offer their counselling services on a sliding scale making it affordable for EVERYONE which matters. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
My story? My family went through tragedy in July of 1990 when my mom, brother and sister were killed in a car accident. I lived with that for decades. Staying busy. Staying distracted. Until covid hit, I turned 50 and suddenly couldn’t handle the weight of it anymore. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
You can’t hide from big hurt no matter how busy you keep yourself. I’m glad I reached out. I was able to share my story, share my grief and was able to understand that it was trauma. I was able to understand how to live with it. How to process it. How to share it. And for the first time I felt understood, listened to, and my feelings were validated. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Taking care of our mental health is so important. We need to remove the shame and stigma from seeking help from a professional. We need to stop putting on a brave face and pretending we’re okay when we’re not. And honestly, you don’t have to be broken to seek counselling. Maybe it just helps with the day to day heaviness. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Over the next few weeks we’re going to get into some deep discussions about trauma, counelling and how to handle life when it’s heavy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
This week we talked about how to cope after tragedy in the community. The recent shooting at the Lambton College pub affected all of us in some way. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
One of the greatest things we can do when it comes to taking care of ourselves, and focusing on wellness, is moving our bodies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Today we got to talk to Paul Skuza – General Manager – of the Jerry McCaw Family Center YMCA. He joined us in studio to share a few fun exercises we can do no matter how small our workspace is. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
We talked about the importance of movement when it comes to our physical health, and finding fun with fitness through many different programs offered at the Y. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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We want to give you the chance to win a FREE one-week membership at the Y. For your chance to WIN — enter online <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today we kicked off something very exciting. Our first, official – Wellness Wednesday! I wanted to do something to help anyone who might be feeling overwhelmed by the weight of the world right now. Cost of living is crazy. There is a lot of heaviness around us with world events, and in our own community.","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-06 14:33:17","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/foxfm.com\/uncategorized\/2026\/04\/wellness-wednesday-may-6\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37336,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37335\/revisions\/37336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}