How to Cultivate a Secure Attachment With Your Child

 

Is your child feeling emotionally distant or misunderstood? Building secure attachment helps children feel safe, seen, and valued. From physical affection to active listening, small actions have a big impact. Create strong emotional foundations and healthier relationships with your child. Let Bayridge Counselling Centres guide you—discover customized support for your family’s emotional well-being today read more here

What is Parental Alienation and How Can You Cope?

Is your child showing unjustified anger or rejection toward you during separation? These could be signs of parental alienation, often caused by emotional manipulation from the other parent. Understand the warning signs, protect your relationship, and take steps toward healing. Bayridge Counselling Centres offers expert guidance, therapy, and proven coping strategies to support families through this painful experience read more here

 

How Often Should Married Couples Have Sex? Healthy Sexual Relationship in Marriage

In a healthy marriage, both partners commit to the other person’s happiness and success. That means putting in the effort to make your partner happy and comfortable in the relationship (and vice versa). A healthy sexual relationship in marriage is one way to do this read more here

UNDERSTANDING EATING DISORDERS IN TEENS

 

Unfortunately, eating disorders in teens are dangerous occurrences that are more common than many people realize. The average eating disorder can lead to unhealthy and extreme weight loss, low self-esteem, and other harmful mental and physical health problems.

Helping treat your teen’s eating disorder early is essential for them to avoid serious health problems. And the only way to help someone through the challenges of an eating disorder is by educating yourself on why they happen and the best ways to break these unhealthy eating habits.

So here, we will examine the most frequently-occurring eating disorders, how to help your teen return to a healthy weight, and the best ways to prevent teen and child eating disorders from returning.

Why Eating Disorders Happen

• Mental Illness: People with depression, anxiety, or other mental conditions often modify their eating habits as a coping mechanism. For example, many people with depression find quick comfort in food and binge eating. Therefore, the best way to treat some eating disorders is to address the mental aspects and implement a diet regimen.
• Societal Beauty Expectations: Most models and actors in modern western culture are skinny, and impressionable teens will attempt to lose weight in unhealthy ways to replicate that.
• Genetics: Some researchers believe that teens can receive an eating disorder genetically through either parent. But teens can treat their genetic disorders with proper eating habits and mental health treatment, just like one caused by mental illnesses or societal expectations read more here...

What Are Negative Thoughts & How To Handle Them?

 

While our thoughts are one of the things that make us humans, they can pose a problem if they are overwhelmingly negative and repetitive. Unhelpful thoughts can take the joy out of life and affect our physical and mental health. But what exactly are negative thoughts, and how can you manage them? We will answer these questions and many more below.

What Are Negative Thoughts?

Negative thoughts refer to those random unpleasant thoughts about oneself and one’s surroundings. Thinking negatively leads to negative perceptions and can cause you to feel anxious and worried.

Read More Here

5 Reasons Why You Need to Form Good Habits

Your habits define you whether they are good or bad. If you want to transform your life for the better, you will want to form good habits. As it is not always easy to form a new good habit, having inspiring reasons to do this will be helpful. Having a strong “why” is also essential in motivating one to replace a bad habit with a good one.

If you are struggling to come up with strong enough reasons why you should take the time and effort to bring new good habits into your life, then Bayridge Counselling Centres have five excellent reasons for doing this in this article for you.

1. Your Habits Truly Define You

We have already mentioned this. A lot of people do not realize that their habits reflect who they are. Habits are something that you do regularly and are triggered in several different ways. Not all habits are bad, of course. When you wake up in the morning and take a shower and brush your teeth, these are good habits to have.

Read More Here

Fact: Either You Discipline Yourself or Somebody Else Will

There are a lot of people in this world who think that authority is a problem. They really have a tough time with anybody or anything trying to exercise authority over them. These are rebellious people. You’ve seen all sorts of kids in public places telling their moms or dads off.

They just have a tough time with authority. Fair enough. You have an issue with people telling you what to do. You think you probably have a better idea of what you can do with your life. Again, fair enough.

But here’s the problem. If you think that way, you have to accept responsibility for yourself. In other words, you have to have a better game plan or road map for your life than the people that you’re turning your back on. You don’t like the authority exercised over you by your father. You don’t like the tone of the voice of your teacher. Again, understood.

Read More Here

Eating Disorder Awareness: Spread the Word

February 1st to 7th is Eating Disorder Awareness Week (EDAW), a week dedicated to make echo of the relevance of Eating Disorders, the dangers and risk of people struggling with them and the resources available to help.

An Eating Disorder, now called Feeding and Eating Disorder (FED), is a serious life-threatening illness that involves a group of typical eating habits/ behaviours that greatly endanger health. These atypical and harmful eating habits are accompanied by disrupted thoughts and emotions about eating such as excessively worrying about food, their body image and weight. Moreover, the disrupted eating behaviours are related to deeper emotional roots, self-image and coping mechanism to deal with overwhelming feelings.

Read More Here

HERE COMES MORE CHANGE…WELCOME!

 

The one thing we can seem to count on, is that life changes whether we want it to or not. In fact, sometimes it feels as though the changes far outweigh the status quo, especially in 2020. Even without a global pandemic, changes in life are continuous, every day some encounter or experience can shift our thinking whether infinitesimally or profoundly. Just the passing of time presents changes invisible on a daily basis but over a decade or more, we realize the change can be significant. How often do we look at our children and wonder where did the time went or we reach our 25- year anniversary in the job we were only intending on staying in for two years!

Change is constant.  Change is a given.  Change happens whether we welcome it or want to run from it.  The good news is that how we react to change can profoundly shape the experience and at the centre of what can sometimes feel like a turbulent sea we can, with awareness and practice find a sense of calm – within ourselves [through mindfulness].  Often we look outside ourselves especially when things are not going the way we had planned, hoped or wanted. 

Read More Here:

Racism – Starting The Conversation With Your Kids

Racism happens every day. You can choose to ignore it or you can choose to open your eyes and walk through the discomfort on the journey to healing, peace and unity. Chances are the eyes of your child are open. They are looking to their parents as well as others for meaning and understanding.

 As their parent, it is important that you take an active role in helping them shape their view of this world and their self-identity by talking to them directly about events happening around the world and in their everyday lives. Understandably that can be hard for a lot of people on this particular topic but avoidance doesn’t do anybody any good.

Read More

Women’s Day Blog

Women’s day is a day that is set aside to celebrate over 50% of the world’s population. Woman play many different roles in our lives, mothers, grandmothers, sisters, friends, coworkers, etc. 

In these relationships with find acceptance, peace, help and much more.  One of the consistent concerns expressed by woman that I see in my practise is a lack of time and energy to take care of themselves “self care”.

Read Full Blog Here

An Anti Bullying Message On Pink Shirt Day

One aspect of this very serious problem, that parents and educators may neglect, is that preventing a child from becoming aggressive, violent, or hurtful can be as important as stopping bullying in its tracks.

The harsh reality, at any age, is that hurting individuals in one way or another can hurt others. Chalk it up to projection or transference or whatever paradigm you like but the consequential inevitability remains the same.

Recognizing that a child is hurting should remain the universal focus and early interventions must become standard. Emotional regulation training, anger management skills, and support unconditional is what should be in place for all children.


Read Full Blog

Great Tip to End Nagging

I have never met anyone who has said, “One of my favourite things to do is nag.”  I’ve also never met anyone who has said, “I need to break up because you don’t nag enough.  Nagging is my favourite quality in a partner and you’re terrible at it.”  People generally hate nagging, yet it’s a common problem for many households.

From talking to people I’m not sure who hates nagging more, the nagger or the naggee because both resent it.  Nagging is actually a sign of feeling desperate.  When someone is stressed, helpless, and/or not feeling cared about, they will start to repeat themselves as a way to relieve some of these feelings. 

Read Full Blog Here

7 Tips on How Families Can Improve Family Time

The amount of time that families spend interacting and building relationships together is declining. As such, many children do not get the personal attention from their parents they crave and need.

Both the quality and the quantity of time spent together are equally important. It is one thing to require your kids to participate in family time, and quite another to engage in something that everyone enjoys. Read more here...