Facebook Live: Counselling At Yoga Mamas

With counsellor and psychotherapist Danielle Hulan, and Yoga Mamas General Manager, Janet Hill

February is National Psychology Month and we wanted to kick of this month by sitting down with Danielle to discuss the importance of taking care of our mental health, how our community has responded to the addition of counselling services at Yoga Mamas, as well as some of the free workshops we are hosting this month.

During this video Danielle addresses some of the reasons people seek counselling at Yoga Mamas such as:

• Looking for a nonjudgmental place to talk through emotions or experiences without feeling like they are burdening their partner or family members.
• As a way to create a buffer or support system for the possibility of post partum anxiety and depression.
• The entire experience isn’t what they thought it would be, including, trying to get pregnant, pregnancy itself, labour, feeding the baby, and of course navigating the relationship with the now co-parent.
• And we see Dads coming in too, to talk about their experience entering fatherhood, what this has meant for their relationship, their own mental health, and how to support their partner in it all.

Watch the video below.

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Our upcoming Psychology Month workshops

FREE POSTPARTUM TEA: EXPLORING EMOTIONS SURROUNDING PREGNANCY
FRI FEB 15TH 2:30PM - 3:30PM

Join us for tea and guided conversation about motherhood with Danielle Hulan (MSW, RSW).

This event is for you if you are experiencing some or all of the following:

• Missing your old self and life, and feeling guilty about it
• The presence of feelings or experiences that are not what you expected
• Challenges in your relationships with family members
• Feeling like you aren’t ‘allowed’ to have some of the feelings that you have
• Feeling like talking to your partner or family about this would make you feel like a burden, embarrassed, or a ‘bad mother’
• Motherhood is more than feelings of love and blissful connection. If you have found that there hasn’t been space for some of the other (harder!) experiences of motherhood, we welcome you to come, sit, and find comfort in this shared experience.

You will leave 

• Knowing you are not alone 
• Having greater clarity around your own experience
• Feeling heard and acknowledged
• Feeling more compassion for your motherhood journey
• With a better understanding of how to process and deal with these feelings​

REGISTER HERE

FREE PRENATAL TEA: EXPLORING EMOTIONS SURROUNDING PREGNANCY
SAT FEB 23RD 11:15AM - 12:15PM

Come join us for tea and guided conversation with Danielle Hulan (MSW, RSW) on how mamas-to-be can move through the emotional and mental hills of pregnancy.

This event is open to all mamas-to-be looking to understand more about the following:

• Not feeling as connected to your pregnancy as you thought you would 
• Feeling guilty that you aren’t as excited as you feel you should be
• Feeling sad or anxious 
• Feeling disconnected from your partner or loved ones
• Looking for healthy ways to process these emotions

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Learn, share and connect with mamas-to-be like you as you acknowledge some of the complicated, pleasant, or sometimes unpleasant emotions that can surface in pregnancy. This workshop will allow you to explore the full emotional and physical experience of pregnancy (the one that may not be always be captured in media). ​

REGISTER HERE