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The September Shift: When Summer Ends, Even If You Don’t Have Kids
There is something about September that can make life feel like it is starting again. Even if you do not…
Why Rest Can Feel So Uncomfortable for High-Achievers
Why Rest Can Feel So Uncomfortable for High-Achievers For some people, theres nothing better than a day with no plans,…
What Happens When You’re Not Used to Talking About Feelings? Understanding Mental Health and Emotional Connection
What Happens When You’re Not Used to Talking About Feelings? Many people grow up learning how to do feelings without…
Making Friends in Squamish: Why It’s Hard and How to Build Meaningful Connections
Making Friends in Squamish: Why It’s Hard and How to Build Meaningful Connections I’ve noticed a pattern over the years…
You Are Not Your Diagnosis: A Different Way To Think About Mental Health
You Are Not Your Diagnosis: A Different Way to Think About Mental Health Sometimes having a diagnosis can feel like…
What to Expect on Your First Walk-and-Talk Therapy Session
What to Expect on Your First Walk-and-Talk Session Booking your first therapy session can feel like a big step. Booking…
Anxiety Counselling in Squamish: How Nature Can Help Calm Anxiety and Overthinking
Anxiety Counselling In Squamish: How nature based therapy supports Nature-based anxiety counselling brings together evidence-based therapeutic approaches with the regulating…
Can ADHD Therapy Support Focus, Emotions, and Daily Life?
Can Therapy Help ADHD? If you have ADHD, there’s a good chance you’ve spent years feeling misunderstood. Maybe you’ve been…
Emotional Tolerance: How to Stay With Uncomfortable Feelings
How to Build Tolerance for Uncomfortable Feelings Most people don’t struggle because they feel too much. They struggle because they…
Family Relationship Patterns: The Stories We Inherit (And How to Rewrite Them)
The Stories We Inherit About Relationships (And How to Rewrite Them) Most of us don’t walk into relationships with a…
Is It Really Guilt? Understanding People Pleasing and Emotional Responsibility
Is It Really Guilt? Understanding People Pleasing and Emotional Responsibility Guilt is often something that’s widely discussed across all aspects…
How Malls Affect Our Body Image
How Malls Affect Our Body Image Recently I went shopping. When a few girlfriends asked, “What are you doing this…
Money and Relationships Therapy: Why Finances Trigger Conflict in Couples
A relational and attachment-based perspective Money is rarely just about money. It carries meaning far beyond numbers on a screen…
Family Roles in Adulthood: How Family Systems Shape Your Relationships
The Role of Family Systems Most of us think we left our family roles behind when we moved out. The…
Toxic Workplace Recovery: When Your Nervous System Won’t Let You Sleep
When Work Isn’t Safe: Why Your Nervous System Wakes You at 2:00 a.m. Toxic workplace stress, burnout recovery, and nervous…
How to Set Healthy Relationship Boundaries With the People You Love
Boundaries as a way of preserving relationships Is it just me, or have you noticed when you open social media…
True Nature Wilderness Therapy Joins Forces With Cherry Tree Counselling to Launch Therapists for Change
A new collaborative space for therapists seeking community, sustainability, and a more human way to practice Squamish, BC — True…
Sleep, Emotions, and Why This Isn’t Something to Mess With
Sleep & Emotions: Why This Isn’t Something to Mess With When I was a kid, it felt like every adult…
First, Do No Harm: Why Ethical Counselling Matters More Than Ever
First, Do No Harm. Key considerations for those of us working to support others. Because it has been considered that…
Why Trauma-Informed Care Matters—and Why Catharsis Isn’t the Cure
Catharsis is not the answer. New understanding of the nervous system supports a more gentle approach to therapy. It was…
Red Tents: Spaces to Connect
The Red Tent: A Place To Remember We Were Never Meant to Do This Alone There is a quiet longing…
Making Room for Joy When You’re Grieving at Christmas
Making Room for Joy When You’re Grieving For many people, grief doesn’t soften during the holidays; it sharpens. For some,…
Holiday Mental Health Tips: Giving Yourself Permission to Relax
Holiday Mental Health: Giving Yourself Permission to Relax The holiday season is often painted as a time of joy, celebration,…
The Trouble With Therapy Nuance
The Trouble With TikTok & Why There’s No “Wrong” Type of Therapy (Nor Any One “Right” Way) A common things…
How to Find a Therapist
How to Find a Therapist (Without Getting Completely Overwhelmed) A question I hear all the time, from friends, clients, and…
Riding the White Rim, and Why it Mattered
The US government shut down on the day we set out. As we sank deeper and deeper into the canyon,…
My Brain on My Phone | Reclaiming Focus and Balance
My Brain is Being Ruined by my Phone (& what I’m doing about it) If you’re anything like me, you…
When You’re the Helper Burnt Out
There’s a particular kind of exhaustion that comes from being the one who holds it all together. Maybe you’re the…
How to Work with Comparison and Redefine Your Life Timeline
Untangling Comparison and Life Timelines There’s a sneaky thought that creeps in for so many of us, myself included that…
What Howe Sound Crest Trail Taught Me
Picture it: A rainy September morning, 4:30 AM. My partner and I had been talking about checking the Howe Sound…
Reflection vs. Rumination: Curiosity for a Calmer Mind
Reflection vs. Rumination: Why Curiosity is the Key to a Calmer Mind We’ve all been told to “reflect” on things,…
How to Stop Overthinking and Rumination
Why We Overthink & What To Do About It! (including a bedtime plan & practical daily tips!) We’ve all been…
Feeling the FOMO? Why You May Feel So Tired This Summer
Why You May Be More Tired in the Summer If you’ve found yourself feeling more tired than usual lately, you’re…
Why AI Falls Short in Therapy — And What Real Healing Requires
Biggggg deep breath in for this one folks. After being sent this photo last weekend… I felt it was really…
PMDD Healing Journey Supported by Wilderness Therapy
Closer to Fine By Heather Hendrie I’ve got all the resources in the world, come from a family of physicians,…
Why Therapy Isn’t Enough: The Healing Power of Community and Connection
Why You Need Friends & Why Therapy Isn’t Enough Let’s talk about something that’s both ancient and incredibly relevant: community.…
Why Therapy Requires Commitment and Consistency
Why Therapy Requires Commitment and Consistency Something I wish more people understood — and something I wish I’d known when…
Body Image and Trauma: Reconnecting with the Wisdom of Our Bodies
Body Image and Trauma: Reconnecting with the Wisdom of Our Bodies Written by our amazing colleague Cecile Tucker, RCC of…
What is Ecotherapy Anyway?
A Gentle, Evidence-Based Path Back to Ourselves Have you ever felt the quiet relief of walking beneath a canopy of…
Digital Detox: 10 Fun Ways to Unplug and Reconnect with Yourself
Digital Detox: 10 Fun Ways to Unplug and Reconnect with Yourself Written & Inspired by our friends at Island Clinical…
What to Expect in Your First Therapy Session
What to Expect in Your First Therapy Session (From Someone Who’s Been There Too) I still remember my very first…
Have You Ghosted Your Therapist?
Have You Ghosted Your Therapist? Here’s Why It’s OK—and How to Come Back So… You Ghosted Your Therapist Maybe it…
Why “Just Think Positive” Is Emotionally Lazy Advice
Why “Just Think Positive” Is Emotionally Lazy Advice If you’ve ever opened up about your mental health and been met…
Why Instagram Therapy Might Be Making You Feel Worse
Why Instagram Therapy Might Be Making You Feel Worse Social media is full of therapy language these days. On any given day,…
Why Some People Freeze During Conflict—And How to Move Through It
Why Do People Freeze in Conflict? When we think about responses to conflict, we often hear about fight (pushing back) or flight (avoiding). But…
10 Things I Wish I Knew Before Starting Therapy (As a Therapist)
10 Things I Wish I Knew Before Starting Therapy (As a Therapist) Maybe you found this post because you’re thinking…
The Heart Behind The Therapist Collective
The Heart Behind The Therapist Collective Private practice was the route I always knew I wanted to take in my…
The Comfort (& Co-Regulation) of Cats
The Comfort (& Co-Regulation) of Cats I was lucky enough to grow up with cats in my household. My parents…
The Magic of Small Wins and Joys
The Magic of Small Wins and Joys: Why They’re More Important Than You Think: Picture this: You finally remember to…
The Differences Between Registered Clinical Counsellors (RCCs) & Life Coaches… And Why It Matters!
The Differences Between Registered Clinical Counsellors (RCCs) & Life Coaches… And Why It Matters! Did you know that in BC,…
Understanding Soul Lag: Reconnecting to Yourself After Travel and Transitions
Understanding Soul Lag: Reconnecting to Yourself After Travel and Transitions What is Soul lag? Soul lag (/sōl/ /laɡ/) The moment…
New Year’s Resolutions: Why They Aren’t All That Bad
New Year’s Resolutions: Why They Aren’t All That Bad Every January, a familiar chorus of skepticism greets the topic of…
Navigating December
Navigating December: Connection, Loneliness, and Building New Traditions As December rolls in, the world seems to be buzzing with holiday…
Autumn’s Invitation to Slow Down, Reflect, and Let Go
Autumn’s Invitation to Slow Down, Reflect, and Let Go. As autumn settles in, nature begins its quiet transformation. The days…
Giving Thanks, Listening & Learning
Giving Thanks, Listening & Learning As the crisp autumn air settles in and leaves begin to fall, it’s a time…
Relentless Resilience
Relentless Resilience by Heather Hendrie & Jody Radtke Wilderness Therapists & Registered Clinical Counsellors (RCC) in Squamish, BC Sitting around…
A COVID Christmas Letter
A COVID Christmas As we launch into our first (and may it be our last) COVID Christmas, I’m taking a…
Mindfulness
Today’s mindfulness moment features Heather, True Nature Wilderness Therapy founder, reading a poem by David Whyte. The World Was Made…
Love Letter
A love letter to Squamish’s drive-through COVID test siteI’m having the best day. Not surprising really, given that I’m in…
Ripe
Ripe. This I need to remember. That sometimes, it just isn’t time. This morning, when I raised my hand to…
Maturity
On hope & growing up – My Masters work with The Montana Academy Maturity Model.Fostering growth through love & limitsLet’s…
Heed the Call
HEED THE CALL – SO SAYS THE WHITE STAG.What would it be like to stop driving yourself so hard and…
You’re Awesome
You’re Awesome! …it’s what I want to say to pretty much everyone who walks through my door. But I don’t,…
It’s About Time
IT’S ABOUT TIME I used to pride myself on how much I could get done in a day. I was…
