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Monthly Archives: August 2009

Crazy Daisy’s petal power

August 28, 2009   admin   No comments

Struggling with mental illness since adolescence, Sarah Moir launched a floral shop with a mission: to promote mental wellness through flowers
August 24, 2009
Meredith Macleod
The Hamilton Spectator
(Aug 24, 2009)
It’s ironic that flowers have saved Sarah Moir’s life.

Moir, who feels emotions at an often crippling fever pitch, has found her mission in helping others express emotions through flowers.

Struggling with mental illness since adolescence, Moir hit the lowest point of her life at 27.

“It was a major turning point,” she says, with tears sliding down her cheeks. “I had become every negative stereotype. If I wanted to live, I had to learn how to … No one in my life wanted to be around me anymore. I didn’t want to be around me anymore.”

She pushed for help, got a diagnosis for her illness and plunged herself into studying floral design and opening her own business.

Almost exactly a year ago, Moir, 34, launched Crazy Daisy.

It’s much more than a floral shop. It’s a business with a social mission and Moir’s saviour.

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Coping with the stress of school

August 27, 2009   admin   1 Comment

What a great article to remind us of the next couple weeks for both the kids and us.

From the first day of kindergarten to the last day of high school, social and academic pressures can take a toll on students.

“At this time of year, obviously school anxiety pops up,” said Dr. Nina Olsen, a neuropsychologist at NESCA, a specialized pediatric neuropsychology practice in Newton established by Dr. Ann Helmus of Lincoln.

School anxiety, primarily in the form of separation anxiety, may affect children as early as preschool or kindergarten, said Olsen, who specializes in children with primary learning disabilities and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), as well as children who struggle with emotional issues and/or anxiety.

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Fear of eating in front of others

August 25, 2009   admin   No comments

The fear of eating in front of others can wreak havoc on your personal and professional life. Socializing usually includes some form of food and drink. Business meetings often take place over lunch or dinner. If eating and drinking in front of others causes you extreme anxiety, you may either endure these situations with great discomfort or avoid them altogether. Avoidance creates a vicious cycle in that the more narrow your life becomes, the harder you will find it to eat and drink in front of others. You may find yourself limiting your career choices or turning down invitations because of your fears.

For the full article go to Arlin Cunic’s About.com “Fear of Eating in Front of others”

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PCMH’s new workshop – From the Inside

August 24, 2009   admin   No comments

What a fantastic opportunity provided to us through PCMH. Here’s the details.

The conference is the launch of PCMH’s new workshop – From the Inside
- Designed to give caregivers, professionals, and public a sense of what it is like for children suffering from a myriad of mental health disorders. Utilizing simulations, participants gain an experiential look at the Invisible Disability and what it is like – From the Inside.

Dr. Goldbloom, the keynote speaker, speaks openly about stigma, its effects, ways it can be beaten, and the reason why we neat to beat it!

The conference offers opportunity for parents to train to be presenters of our workshop as we role it out and offer it Province-wide. Parents who attend the conference do not have to attend the training. The Face of Psychiatric Disability – is another interactive workshop re-enforcing the point that children cannot be judged by their pictures alone. This workshop is also available to parents who do not want to attend the training session.

Sponsorship of parent attendance has been provided by the Kinark Foundation – keeping the registration fees for parents as reasonable as possible.

If you have any further questions – please contact us at admin@pcmh.ca
Registration form and further details please visit PCMH’s website

This unique workshop hopes to offer an increased capacity in understanding and providing accommodations for our unique children.

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How appropriate!

August 24, 2009   admin   No comments

Here’s my horoscope for today:
Your emotional state is a little messy today, but that’s no cause for alarm! Every now and then you need to let yourself break down just a bit so you can rearrange all the pieces in a new way.

I thought this was quite appropriate given that today over the stink of messy green bin and the exhaustion of spending 8 hours; that’s right 8 hours helping my 9 year old try to do some summer/fall cleaning of his room I began to weep.

It’s started already with Sydney and the anxiety over school and it’s killing me. I’ve been good with respect to slowly beginning to talk about the how and the why. I’ve gotten out a calendar and we’re marking down the days so she can have a visual. I’m dealing with her unhappiness and moodiness already and I HATE IT!

I need to visit the school with her one day this week and we have already done all the back to school shopping, of which she asked to do it so I took the opportunity by the horns and ran with it. I hated the whole back to school routine as well and I hope that things go a little more smoothly than they have been over the last few days.

So as I weep over the small things I thought this was quite an interesting horoscope because it is so true. I took stalk of what needed to happen and I re-focused but first I needed to let it all out. I guess I have to remember that Sydney is doing that as well.

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