Coping with Memory Loss Anxiety: Is This Normal Ageing or Something More?
By Michelle Weiss 6-minute read When memory lapses turn into panic, it can be hard to know what to do with the fear. This article looks at the emotional side of memory concerns: anxiety, grief, identity, and changing family relationships. You are standing in the middle of the kitchen holding a mug, having completely forgotten […]
Why Rest Doesn’t Feel Restful (And What Your Brain Actually Needs)
By March, I can feel what the long winter has done to me. More screen time, less rest, and somehow still depleted despite having downtime. This post is about why that happens — and why most of what we reach for when we’re tired isn’t actually restful. Plus two tools to help you find what genuinely works for you.
How Do I Know If I Need Therapy?
ReFresh Psychotherapy 5-minute read Most people who eventually come to therapy describe a long gap between when things got hard and when they actually picked up the phone. They waited for it to get bad enough. They told themselves they should be able to manage. They wondered whether what they were dealing with was serious […]
Breakups, Heartbreak, and Starting Again: How to Move Forward Without Losing Yourself (Part 2)
Breakups can make people feel unhinged in ways that are hard to explain unless they have lived through it. You cannot sleep properly, eat normally, focus, or stop replaying what happened. Even when the relationship was not right, the pain can still feel enormous. That is not weakness, and it is not melodrama. Heartbreak can […]
Dating in the Swipe Era: Why Modern Dating Feels So Hard and Why It Is Still Worth It (Part 1)
Dating today can feel less like getting to know a person and more like standing in front of a vending machine full of potential partners, trying to decide who might finally make you happy. We swipe, pause, glance, judge, reject, reconsider, and then do it all over again. One photo. One line in a bio. […]
Our Therapists’ Favourite Books (and Why We Keep Lending Them Out)
One of the questions we get all the time at ReFresh Psychotherapy is, “Do you have any book recommendations?” And honestly… yes. So many. We keep a small library in our office and we regularly lend books out to clients (the only catch is: we do want them back… eventually). Between our team of therapists, […]
Learning How to Work With Our Emotions Instead of Being Run by Them
I recently read the book Shift: Managing Your Emotions — So They Don’t Manage You by Ethan Kross (you can read or listen to a copy of this for free on the Libby app). After reading Chatter, I was curious to see how he would build on his work around inner dialogue and emotional regulation. […]
Listening to the Whisper of Change: Honouring Life’s Untitled Transitions
Not all life transitions come with titles. Some arrive quietly — a restlessness, an inner shift, a sense of outgrowing who you were. This blog explores how to honour these subtle, unnamed transitions and how therapy supports the messy, meaningful process of becoming.
I Can Do Hard Things: Your Brain’s Favourite Confidence Booster
By Tracy Wilder “You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you truly stop to look fear in the face.” – Eleanor Roosevelt I mutter the phrase “I can do hard things” under my breath often. It’s not just something I prescribe to clients but don’t practice myself. It is hard to […]