How to Return to Therapy After a Summer Pause
If you took a summer pause from therapy, you might be thinking about coming back in fall or even as early as September. You might already have a session booked, in the process of scheduling, or sitting with it on the to-do list.
The return to therapy can bring up a few emotions…
Staying in Summer While It’s Still Here
Somewhere around the second week of August, a collective shift begins. Back-to-school displays appear, social media fills with September planning, and summer starts to feel like it is already over, even while you are still standing in the warm evening light on Roncesvalles.
This post is a gentle interruption of that pattern….
Vacation Anxiety Is Real: How to Actually Rest When Your Nervous System Won’t Let You
Paradoxically, one of the most regulating things you can do with vacation anxiety is to stop trying to get rid of it. Name it, notice where you feel it in your body, and let it exist alongside the good parts of where you are. Anxiety tends to loosen its grip when it stops being treated as a problem to solve.
The Summer Psyche: Why Heat, Touch, and Movement Matter for Mental Health
There is a reason people in Toronto countdown to summer. And it is not just the patios or the longer days, though those matter too. It is something more physical than that. After months of cold, grey, and indoors, the body gets a chance to remember what it feels like to be fully alive in the world.
In my Junction and Roncesvalles offices, I notice a shift in clients every July. Not just in mood, but in posture, in breath, in the way people settle into the chair. Summer does something to the nervous system that is genuinely therapeutic, and it is worth understanding why….
Slowing Down on Purpose: What the Summer Solstice Can Teach Us About the Pace of Therapy
There is something real happening neurologically when the sun stays out longer. Increased light exposure raises serotonin levels, improves sleep quality, and generally gives your nervous system more resources to work with. For many people in Toronto, where winters are long and grey and genuinely hard, summer is when the nervous system finally feels safe enough to rest….