Tag: mental health support
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Top 10 ways for moms with young kids to practice self-care and have better mental health this CNY
Lunar New Year can be low-key stressful if you’re a mom with young kids. I can relate. There’s the invisible mental load You’re sourcing pretty red packets (ang bao packets), ensuring that you’ve got enough brand new $2 notes, looking at the bank new notes dispenser schedule, checking off the list of older relatives, aunties,…
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25 Days to Better Mental Health, More Resilience, Joy and Peace-filled Days (Foundation for your 2025 goals and the secret tips from a therapist)
If you’re looking to have better mental health, be more resilient, more joyful and peace-filled this 2025, start investing in your self-awareness. You can sign up for the TOTALLY FREE 25 days mindfulness challenge here. Remember, this is not your “sit down-breathe-meditate” kind of mindfulness. It’s helping you to get on top of the five…
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What REALLY contributes to better mental health? (From a trained counsellor)
What comes to mind when you hear the word “mindfulness?” For me, it never fails to conjure up an image of a person sitting very still, eyes closed and possibly repeating some mantra. I used to think it’s about focusing on my breathing. But the mindfulness or having “present moment awareness” that I’m going to…
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What is counselling?
After 4 years undertaking my Masters of Arts in Counseling, my parents admitted over a family lunch, “Actually, I still don’t get it. What do you do?” Honestly, counselling sounded like fluff to me. I sit down, talk to a person for a couple of times and miraculously, my problems go away and I become…
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