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Joanna Townsend
"Knowing" vs Knowing
Self-awareness: the essential ingredient to self-understanding, self-reflection, and introspection. Self-awareness is so important!...
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Joanna Townsend
- 2 min
Permission to Rest
What's your relationship with rest? Is it complicated? Earned? Prioritized? Guilt-ridden? I'm glad you're here. Let's unpack it. We need...
Joanna Townsend
- 3 min
Feeling Feelings
feelings! I've been in the mental health field for a decade and practicing as a therapist for seven years now. And that's just referring...
Joanna Townsend
- 4 min
On Being Imperfect
Oh imperfection. What role you've played in all of our lives. Which leaves me wondering: We know we are imperfect. But what does that...
Joanna Townsend
- 5 min
Handling Body Shaming + Diet Talk Over the Holidays
It's about that time of year. The weather is getting cooler, the days are getting shorter, trips home are being planned...and diet and...
Joanna Townsend
- 2 min
5 Tips for Winter Blues
Our 5 tips to support your mental wellness as the winter months approach. 1. Connect We tend to stay indoors + avoid being out in cold...
Joanna Townsend
- 2 min
Toxic Positivity
Breaking down toxic positivity and offering you an alternative to the mushy, inauthentic, & harmful "positive vibes only" rhetoric. What...
Joanna Townsend
- 3 min
Therapy in a socio-political climate
In the wake of George Floyd's murder (and the murders of Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and many, many more horrific cases and losses),...
Joanna Townsend
- 4 min
The power of opposites: A new tool for your mental health toolbox
Emotions are signals. They communicate cues to us, help us connect to our experiences, understand our needs, and prompt us take...
Joanna Townsend
- 2 min
Boundaries: Why they matter and how to set them
Setting boundaries is hard. Despite knowing they're important, so many of us find ourselves burnt out, feeling walked all over, fearing...
Joanna Townsend
- 3 min
How to handle coronavirus anxiety
Alright, folks. The level of pandemic fear about the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) circulating through our news and social media is...
Joanna Townsend
- 3 min
When healthy eating becomes an obsession
Orthorexia or·tho·rex·i·a noun 1. An obsession with eating pure Dr. Steven Bratman, an American physician, invented the term “orthorexia”...
Joanna Townsend
- 2 min
Self-care or numbing: When self-care is not actually self-care
Self-care is surely a buzzword these days. We hear about it on the news, in social media, amongst friends, in advertising, apps, and most...
Joanna Townsend
- 2 min
Navigating the psychological impacts of a warming world
"our mental wellbeing is just as vulnerable to global warming as is our earth." — the American Psychological Association from wildfires...
Joanna Townsend
- 3 min
What exactly does a healthy relationship with food look like?
We live in a society that is obsessed with thinness, weight loss, dieting, wellness, food rules, and achieving optimal health. So it's no...
Joanna Townsend
- 2 min
Therapy is not a dirty word
We all have a mental health. Just as we all have a physical health. Mental health simply refers to the way we express, cope, and regulate...
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