In today's episode:

I bring on my friend, Laura, who runs Laura Gatien & Associates Counselling Services. Laura does a great deal for her local community, including weekly free counselling services. Laura's goal is to bring more awareness to the importance of normalizing proactive mental health care and removing barriers so that all have access to mental health services.

We discuss why there's a difference in the way we care about our physical health care versus our mental health care and how we can help change this. Not only within ourselves, but in the healthcare system.

We also talk about how outside factors that can have an impact on our mental health or pre-existing disorders, such as social media. We also dive into common barriers that present themselves around addressing trauma.

We also cover the underlying stress of experiencing a global pandemic and how we can support ourselves.

To find out more about Laura & her team please visit www.lauragatien.com.

Full show notes HERE

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