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The Sunday Scaries: Why Anxiety Can Hit Before the Week Begins
It’s Sunday evening. You’re technically still in the weekend, but part of your brain has already moved on to Monday. You’re thinking about emails you haven’t received yet. Meetings that haven’t happened. The alarm going off. School. Work. Everything you need to remember. Maybe you're mentally reorganizing the entire week while simultaneously trying to convince yourself to relax. Welcome to the Sunday Scaries! Sunday anxiety can show up as racing thoughts, irritability, dread,

Savannah Dasilva
Oct 27, 20254 min read


5 Expressive Arts Ideas for Living With Chronic Illness & Pain
Living with chronic illness or chronic pain can affect much more than your physical health. It can shape your routines, relationships, energy, identity, plans, and how you relate to your body. Sometimes there are words for that experience. Sometimes there aren't. Expressive arts can offer another way to explore what's happening through visual art, writing, movement, sound, imagery, storytelling, and other forms of creative expression. You don't need to consider yourself creat

Savannah Dasilva
Oct 16, 20254 min read


Walk & Talk Therapy in Toronto: How It Works and Is It Right for You?
Sometimes talking feels different when you're moving. Instead of sitting across from each other in a therapy room or meeting through a screen, Walk & Talk therapy takes the session outdoors. We walk together while having the same kinds of conversations we might have during an individual therapy session. For some people, walking side by side feels more comfortable. You might like having somewhere to look besides directly at your therapist, find it easier to talk while moving,

Savannah Dasilva
Oct 6, 20254 min read


What Happens in Expressive Arts Therapy? You Don't Have to Be an Artist
Maybe someone has suggested expressive arts therapy and your immediate thought was: But I'm not an artist. Good news. You don't need to be! Expressive arts therapy can bring visual art, creative writing, movement, sound, music, voice, drama, imagery, and other forms of creative expression into psychotherapy alongside conversation. You might make something during a session. You might talk the entire time. You might start with words and realize an image explains something bette

Savannah Dasilva
Sep 29, 20254 min read


Queer and Neurodivergent: What Affirming Therapy Can Look Like
Being queer and neurodivergent can shape how you experience relationships, identity, communication, sensory environments, expectations, and the way other people respond to you. Those experiences don't happen separately. Maybe you've wondered whether you're masking because you're neurodivergent, queer, or both. Maybe you've spent a lot of time figuring out which parts of yourself feel safe to show around different people. You might be exploring gender or sexuality at the same

Savannah Dasilva
Sep 23, 20254 min read
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