It's Not Just You

Counselling in Context

Skip to content
  • Home
  • What Can Counselling Help You With?
  • Make an Appointment
  • Online Counselling Services
  • Contact
  • Recommended Reading*
  • Bio
Search

Mental Illness

When YOU are the Volcano – 7 Ways to Care for Yourself

November 10, 2017April 25, 2019 / Joy Eidse MSW, RSW / 21 Comments

Sometimes we get to a point where we risk losing relationships and potentially our own health, freedom, or life, as a result of things that we’ve said or done.

7 Ways to Love a Volcano

November 5, 2017April 25, 2019 / Joy Eidse MSW, RSW / 15 Comments

If you love someone who seems to be randomly explosive, it can feel like you’re loving  volcano.

Mental Illness & Diagnosis – Saving Normal

October 18, 2017April 25, 2019 / Joy Eidse MSW, RSW / 6 Comments

Our society has become increasingly perfectionistic, with less and less tolerance for anything considered less than perfect or ‘outside of the narrowing range of normal.’

Addiction, Your Best Frenemy?

October 14, 2017April 25, 2019 / Joy Eidse MSW, RSW / 14 Comments

But if we start with the assumption that humans are rational creatures whose primary concern is their own survival, then we need to assume that people made decisions regarding their behaviors and substance use for a reason. Sometimes, for a very good reason.

Mental Illness – A Relationship Story

October 10, 2017April 25, 2019 / Joy Eidse MSW, RSW / 10 Comments

Counselling can also help you to build a healthier relationships with anxiety and depression or sadness, as each may be useful at various points in your life, and each may be destructive at other times. 

How to Make a First Aid Kit for Your Emotions

September 28, 2017August 8, 2018 / Joy Eidse MSW, RSW / 18 Comments

A first aid kit is not a cure. It it is not meant to resolve any relationship issues, social issues or life challenges, but it might give you some energy to carry on.

Depression Vs Grief – When You’re Down

September 26, 2017November 17, 2017 / Joy Eidse MSW, RSW / 18 Comments

Despite the diagnostic criteria given for depression... there is debate within the mental health community when a diagnosis or medication is appropriate.

A Good Time to Panic

September 25, 2017November 15, 2017 / Joy Eidse MSW, RSW / 21 Comments

But what if the panic is there for a reason? What if you actually are in danger? 

Bibliotherapy- Just for Fun;)

September 24, 2017November 15, 2017 / Joy Eidse MSW, RSW / 4 Comments

It is actually a book where you look up your ailment, from "broken dreams," to "tax return, fear of doing" to "cancer, having" and are given recommendations on what to read.

Are the Kids Okay? – Children & Mental Health

September 22, 2017November 15, 2017 / Joy Eidse MSW, RSW / 14 Comments

Listen closely and support your child’s emotions. There’s no wrong way to feel. Let them know that you are on their side.

Posts navigation

← Older posts
Newer posts →

Joy Eidse

About Joy Eidse

Joy Eidse is a registered Social Worker living in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. She works as a counsellor for individuals wanting to work on issues related to mental health or trauma. Send Joy a message.

For in person or remote appointments, click below. Only weekday appointments currently available.

Joy @ Wolseley Wellness

For remote counselling, below or email joy.eidse@gmail.com.

In person and remote appointments available.

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 473 other subscribers

It’s Not Just You

It’s Not Just You

Instagram

No Instagram images were found.

Topics

  • abuse (24)
  • Addictions (26)
  • ADHD (4)
  • Adventure Therapy (1)
  • Anger (25)
  • Anxiety (52)
  • Behaviour Modification (1)
  • Bi Polar I & II (6)
  • Body Image (15)
  • Body Positive (3)
  • Books (1)
  • Borderline Personality Disorder (8)
  • Bullying (5)
  • Burn out (16)
  • Cheating / Infidelity (16)
  • Climate Grief (6)
  • communication (7)
  • Counselling (18)
  • Couples/Marriage/Intimate partners (50)
  • Creative Writing Therapy (4)
  • Depression (39)
  • Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT) (3)
  • divorce (4)
  • eating disorder (8)
  • Education (3)
  • EMDR (5)
  • Emotions (2)
  • Family members/ caregivers/ loved ones (23)
  • Feminism (8)
  • Generalized Anxiety Disorder (14)
  • Grief (36)
  • holidays (2)
  • Justice (2)
  • LGBT2SQ+ (13)
  • Life issues (28)
  • Loneliness (4)
  • Mental Illness (32)
  • Mood Disorder (20)
  • Narrative Therapy (5)
  • Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (8)
  • Panic disorder (11)
  • parenting (42)
  • Personality Disorders (9)
  • physical health (8)
  • Pornography (6)
  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (17)
  • Poverty (2)
  • racism (3)
  • Relationship Conflict (47)
  • Relationships/Friendships (58)
  • Religion/Spirituality (20)
  • Restorative Justice (5)
  • Self Help (4)
  • Sex (16)
  • Sex Positive (4)
  • Sleep (14)
  • Social Anxiety (15)
  • Social Change (17)
  • Social Justice & Environmentalism (16)
  • Stress (21)
  • Suicide (7)
  • Therapies (10)
  • Toxic Masculinity (6)
  • Trauma (40)
  • Truth and Reconciliation (4)
  • Uncategorized (38)

Recent Posts

  • Life As a Dream-Creative Writing Exercise September 8, 2025
  • Creative Memoir Writing- A Therapy Workshop September 3, 2025
  • Creative Writing Therapy for Body Image-Poetry January 15, 2025
  • Creative Writing Therapy -for Anxiety January 7, 2025
  • The Village Well December 31, 2023

To make an appointment

If you are looking for in-person or remote counselling, you can make an appointment with me by clicking here OR you can contact me directly for more information by clicking here.

Blog at WordPress.com.
  • Subscribe Subscribed
    • It's Not Just You
    • Join 186 other subscribers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • It's Not Just You
    • Subscribe Subscribed
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
 

Loading Comments...