Ways to look after your mental health this Christmas

Dec 01 2022
man looking desperate sitting next to the Christmas tree

For most people Christmas is a time of celebration, but for others it can be a stressful and testing time mentally, emotionally, physically, and financially. Here Lee Hawker-Lecesne MBPsS, Lead Therapist at The Cabin reveals how to look after your mental health.

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5 Signs your headache might be a migraine

Nov 25 2022
woman lying in bed with a headache that seems migrane

Do you know a migraine is not merely a headache? It is much more than a nasty headache. It is an end-less intense throbbing pain or a pulsing sensation, typically on one side of the head. This neurological disease may cause debilitating throbbing pain that will leave you in bed for several days! Light, sound, movement, and other triggers may cause symptoms like nausea, tiredness, pain, numbness and tingling, visual disturbances, difficulty speaking, irritability, temporary loss of vision and many more.  Migraine may last for hours to days, and the pain may be so severe that it is likely to interfere with your daily life. Everyone somehow occasionally experiences tension headaches. But migraine headache is different from tension headaches. If you have a migraine, you might need treatment to keep your headaches from becoming severely debilitating.

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How you can help a loved one get the alcoholism treatment they need

Nov 22 2022
man lies on table drunk being watched by young child

It’s never easy to watch a loved one suffer from alcoholism. But if you’re at your wit’s end, and you’ve tried everything you can think of to get them help, it might be time to consider an intervention. An intervention is a planned meeting in which loved ones confront the alcoholic about their disease and beg them to seek treatment.

When done correctly, an intervention can be a powerful tool in getting an alcoholic the help they need to start down the road to sobriety. In this blog post, we’ll give you some tips on how to plan and execute an effective intervention for a loved one struggling with alcoholism.

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