For Your Family

On the 70^th anniversary of the Canadian Mental Health Association’s Mental Health Week, the theme is Emotional Literacy. This includes the skills of naming, expressing, and coping with our emotions (the ones we like and the ones we don’t), and their importance for our overall mental health.

This quarterly newsletter is all about resiliency.  In these unprecedented times, we are finding that it is increasingly important to build resiliency and to ensure that we are taking care of both our physical and mental health.  If you would like to learn more, click on the link  www.uics/newsletter  and select February 2021.

In the June edition of the COVID support bulletin, we take a look at some support around the reopenings and other transitions that are currently taking place around the province.  To read more, click on the link.

In this week’s Coping with COVID-19 bulletin, we take a brief look at parenting and the challenges that it presents during the pandemic period. 

http://www.uics.ca/sites/default/files/newsletter_pdf/Covid%20Support%20Bulletin%20May%2028%202020.pdf

In the 8^th Edition of the COVID-19 Support Bulletin, the topic of discussions is relationships.  Whether you have been in a committed relationship for years, a new relationship or single and dating, the current pandemic creates a unique set of challenges.  The article in this edition provides some information and resources on how to navigate those challenges.

In this week's edition of Coping with COVID-19, we focus on balancing the wide array of emotions and thoughts that accompany such a strange and unfamiliar time, while also striving to balance the budget.

To read this bulletin, please click on the link below.  You can find past editions of the bulletin on the Newsletter page of the website or visit our Facebook page where you will also find additional updates and information.

COVID-19 Weekly Bulletin – During this COVID-19 pandemic, being asked to say home and not being able to see friends and family in person, can be quite a challenge.  This week’s bulletin addresses this challenge and offers some ideas on how to stay connected even while in isolation.  You can find the bulletin on our Newsletter page or click on the link below to open it directly.

COVID-19 Weekly Bulletin - In an effort to maintain continuous contact with our members as well as provide useful information during this unprecedented time, Upper Island Counselling has started a weekly bulletin.  This bulletin will contain tips and information related to what is currently happening in the world and our community during this COVID-19 pandemic.  Below is the first of these bulletins that was sent out to our member companies last week.