May 10th, 2012 is going to be a day of action. Family Services Ottawa and its partners will be hosting a free one-day conference highlighting the impact of movement on mental health. Intuitively everyone probably knows that being active and flexible must have positive effects on every aspect of our lives. Here is an opportunity [ read more... ]

Covering the following topics: • Making sense of emotions • Emotions and mental health • Changing how we relate to emotions   Tuesday 1:30 -3:30 pm April 10th, 2012 312 Parkdale Ave. Room 2

The MOMS group is a 10 week group program for mothers who are experiencing postpartum depression and/or anxiety. This group is designed for women who are noting the signs and symptoms of distress that go beyond the short-term “baby blues” that many women experience after birth. Common symptoms of this level of distress may include: [ read more... ]

How do you respond when someone asks, “how are you?” Do you answer honestly regardless of how you are feeling? If are you like most people, there are probably times when you don’t. All of us deal with stress, sadness, and loss in our lives, so why is it sometimes hard to talk about it? [ read more... ]

What do you say when someone asks “how are you?” Do you answer honestly regardless of how you are feeling? If you are like most people there are probably times when you don’t.  All of us deal with stress, sadness, loss and distress in our lives, so why is it sometimes hard to talk about [ read more... ]