Embracing Neurodiversity: Advantages of ADHD to Celebrate
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is often associated with challenges in focusing, impulsivity, and hyperactivity. However,...
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johnwoychuk
- May 19
- 3 min
Suspected ADHD? How Getting Diagnosed with ADHD Facilitates Proper Treatment and Accommodation
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a neurodevelopmental condition that affects individuals of all ages. For many, living...
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johnwoychuk
- May 1
- 3 min
A Game Changing Understanding of Anxiety
If you suffer from anxiety you know that often logic does not seem to stop it. If talking about our fears and reasoning them out doesn’t...
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johnwoychuk
- Mar 20
- 4 min
Forget everything you know about mindfulness
As a counsellor, I’ve noticed that the majority of people who have tried mindfulness or meditation feel they have failed at it. Most...
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johnwoychuk
- Sep 21, 2022
- 3 min
The Key to Releasing Negative Emotions
Negative emotions can leave you feeling depleted and stuck. It can become so natural to feel a certain way that it no longer feels...
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johnwoychuk
- Sep 7, 2022
- 2 min
Preventing Suicide: Getting Men the Support They Need
Asking for help can be hard for men who have grown up learning that to seek help is a sign of weakness. Unfortunately, this leaves men...
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johnwoychuk
- Jul 18, 2022
- 4 min
Understanding Grief
If you or a loved one are suffering from grief, it’s helpful to have an understanding of what to expect. Having understood grief better,...
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johnwoychuk
- Jun 11, 2022
- 2 min
The Paradox of Allowing Anxiety and Depression
Anxiety and depression can often feel like a battle. There may be thoughts that “it shouldn’t be happening” or that “I should be able to...
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johnwoychuk
- Apr 2, 2022
- 3 min
4 Steps to Transforming Anxiety
There are plenty of reasons to feel anxious both on a global level, from pandemics and war, to personal reasons such major life changes...
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johnwoychuk
- Feb 13, 2022
- 3 min
Navigating Anger in Communication
Some of the biggest challenges we face on a day-to-day basis is communicating with others. It’s hard enough to be aware of what we are...
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johnwoychuk
- Nov 5, 2021
- 3 min
How to Identify 8 Common Thinking Traps
Learning to identify thinking traps gives one a tool to help reduce the influence of negative thinking on both how we feel and how we behave
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johnwoychuk
- Oct 25, 2021
- 2 min
Counselling Adults With Symptoms of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
Are you or someone you know and love suffering from symptoms such as difficulty initiating tasks, finishing projects, distractibility,...
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johnwoychuk
- Oct 13, 2021
- 3 min
Mindfulness: How to Stop, Calm, Rest and Heal
Let's begin this post with a Zen story: “A man is galloping quickly on a horse and it appears that he is going somewhere important....
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johnwoychuk
- Oct 5, 2021
- 2 min
Mindfulness: Removing the Dust
I want to share a quote from an ancient wisdom text: “A man beating a rug with a stick does not aim at the rug but at the dust inside it....
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johnwoychuk
- Aug 26, 2021
- 2 min
Hey Men! Finally, a Mental Health Check-in Designed for Men
I’m a man in my mid-40s so I think I relate to some of the cultural influences that can stop men from checking in with their mental...
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