Dr. Brenda Durdle, Registered Psychologist

What is a psychologist?? One of many questions we will be answering in twitter threads over #PsychologyMonth - Make sure to follow us on twitter @APNSPsych to ...ready the threads and follow us on Instagram @APNSPsych to check out the images #NowYouKnow #PsychMo #APNS #Psychology #Psychologist

Our annual bursary competition in concert with CBRM Wastewater Operations is now open to grade 12 students within the CBRM! For more info please visit: https://www.acapcb.ns.ca/bursaries

Jobs https://census.gc.ca/jobs-emplois-eng.htm

Public Health received reports from two community partners today that a substance being sold as cocaine in the Halifax Regional Municipality and Sydney, Cape Br...eton areas may have been contaminated with an unknown opioid. The substance produced opioid-like effects and required naloxone to reverse the effects. With the possibility of substance contamination, it’s important to reduce the risk of overdose: -- Don’t use alone, if possible. Keep a distance of 2 meters and respect public health measures to reduce the spread of COVID-19 if using substances with others. If you have to use alone, call a trusted support person and let them know you are using alone and provide them with your location. -- Start with a test dose. Start low, go slow. -- Have naloxone available, even if you aren’t intentionally using opioids. Naloxone is available for free from most community pharmacies and other community locations, including needle distribution and disposal organizations. For more information about where to get a free naloxone kit and how to use it, visit http://www.nsnaloxone.com/ -- Call 911 in the event of an overdose. Know your rights under the Good Samaritan Act http://www.nsnaloxone.com/good-samaritan-act.html

A lot of us begin #therapy as clients with the expectation that the therapist will be the expert, that theyll speak (or help us find for ourselves) some magic ...words that must be uttered for us to heal, and that- like most professional relationships- there wont be difficult discussions that engage conflict. In fact, experiencing and then repairing miscommunications, disagreements, and ruptures is a key part of how #goodtherapy works. See, how we respond to relational #conflict is a story uniquely wired in to each of our brains, and if we always do what we've always done, that wiring gets stronger- and if that story is making it hard for us to form supportive, satisfying relationships, that's a problem. . Good relational therapy makes room for emotionally charged conflict, and makes it safe for us to choose to stay, engage, and experiment with handling conflict differently. Doing so has a powerful ability to change our brains by giving us vividly emotional experiences that help rewrite old stories with new endings in a way that just learning about relationship skills can't- creating a greater capacity to form and maintain fulfilling relationships beyond therapy. Get a poster/handout of this doodle via the link in my profile, or read the blog post for more of the science behind this concept. #counselorsofinstagram #ruptureandrepair #attachmenttheory

So important. Shared by a friend: Sobriety, addiction, and stress are difficult bed mates. The relapse and overdose rate has increased by 30% since March 2020. Mental health issues related to our lockdown and the pandemic are especially hard for people with depression. Crisis service Canada has a 24 hour helpline: 833-456-4566.

This is the "MDMA" going around town that's laced with fentanyl. It has a neon pink tinge and majority of the dealers know its bad. PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!! We don't need to lose anymore family members.

This is the "MDMA" going around town thats laced with fentanyl. It has a neon pink tinge and majority of the dealers know its bad. PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!! We dont need to lose anymore family members.

Interesting resources https://centerhealthyminds.org/well-being-toolkit-covid19

Thanks to everyone whos supported our #RadicalAccess campaign, we are committed to awarding ONE HUNDRED scholarships to the HAT Academy over the next 12 months.... Yes you read that correctly. We are approaching our Fall Semester and the application for those scholarships is now open! This process prioritizes BIPOC and Queer youth, however it is designed and intended to help children from all walks of life who are in need of financial assistance. If you have or know a child between the ages of 5-18, interested in learning more about the performing arts, we refuse to let financial barriers be the thing stopping their curiosity and creativity from growing. The future of Cape Breton is so bright and we are committed to doing our part to invest in these young minds and hearts. APPLY TODAY: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/7WNMJKH Learn more about our program and classes offered in the Fall Semester here: http://www.highlandartstheatre.com/hat-academy-fall-2020

Thanks to everyone who's supported our #RadicalAccess campaign, we are committed to awarding ONE HUNDRED scholarships to the HAT Academy over the next 12 months.... Yes you read that correctly. We are approaching our Fall Semester and the application for those scholarships is now open! This process prioritizes BIPOC and Queer youth, however it is designed and intended to help children from all walks of life who are in need of financial assistance. If you have or know a child between the ages of 5-18, interested in learning more about the performing arts, we refuse to let financial barriers be the thing stopping their curiosity and creativity from growing. The future of Cape Breton is so bright and we are committed to doing our part to invest in these young minds and hearts. APPLY TODAY: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/7WNMJKH Learn more about our program and classes offered in the Fall Semester here: http://www.highlandartstheatre.com/hat-academy-fall-2020

Great infographic on understanding COVID-19 testing. Thanks for leading the project to create this Austin! Link to infographic: https://www.canada.ca//understanding-covid-19-testing-eng.

Early relational experiences are encoded in neural circuitry in the first 18 months of life. Stored as implicit memory, they are inaccessible by ordinary awaren...ess, forming templates through which we engage the world. In a moment of activation, the templates come surging online. Before we realize it, previously sequestered material has flooded our perception. Our expectations in relationship whether we can count on others, are worthy of love, will allow another to matter or whether we can take the risk to lead with our vulnerability are organized in a fragile little nervous system that yearns for connection. The neural pathways are tender and responsive, as we seek attuned, right-brain to right-brain resonance with those around us. We want to feel felt, have our experience held and mirrored, and for pure space in which we can explore unstructured states of being. While this encoding is deeply embedded, it can be rewired. While it may feel entrenched, it is not as solid as it appears. Even if your early environment was one of empathic failure, developmental trauma, and insecure attachment, it is never too late. The wild realities of neuroplasticity and the courage of the human heart is unstoppable and an erupting force of creativity. Through new relational experiences with a lover, a friend, a therapist, a baby; a star, a mountain, the moon, an animal-guide from the other world love is hidden inside the caverns of neural circuitry. It is the substance which forms the neurons and their synapses, lighting up heart-cells in a moment of connection. Each time you attune to another or to the unmet inner other within you a new world is born. As long as breath is present, you can update the narrative, recraft your perception and re-envision a new story. You can make new meaning of your life, re-imagine your purpose, and renew your commitment to being here. Slowly, you can revise your circuitry with pathways of holding awareness, flooding it with empathic attunement, presence, and warmth. No matter what is happening in your life, you can start right now, in this moment. The opportunity for reorganization is always here and wired deep within you. Dont give up. Love will never give up on you. Words: Matt Licata Image: Unknown Artist

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Are you a teacher or are you working in retail or long term care in Nova Scotia during the COVID-19 pandemic? Researchers at Acadia University are interested in... learning more about your work experiences. We need as many participants as possible. Teacher Survey: https://tinyurl.com/y4gw8dzl Retail Survey: https://tinyurl.com/y36sced4 Long Term Care Survey: https://tinyurl.com/yyle5uqf See more

Food security, food support, food action plans, food network, food banks, household food insecurity, emergency food distribution...there are a lot of big words and big discussions. We just have one question: Are you hungry? Help Starts Here

Hello everyone. We are reaching out to all Atlantic Canada First Nations because we are offering our services to those regions and encouraging other First Natio...n communities and members to share this post and like our page. Help is available. We are here to listen, here to help, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and 365 days a year. Welalin Thanks

Girl's Empowerment Camp in Sydney Mines at Community Cares. Phone number should be 902-539-2945 and ask for Lola. Please share.

Finally there are new evidence-based guidelines for the management of obesity. https://www.cmaj.ca/content/192/31/E875

Girls Empowerment Camp in Sydney Mines at Community Cares. Phone number should be 902-539-2945 and ask for Lola. Please share.

This pandemic has been tough on all of us, in our own ways. How are you coping with lockdown, our "new normal," being an essential worker, or trying to get thro...ugh the day working from home and raising kids? Lets be compassionate to ourselves and others. Share your story on Elephant: elephantjournal.com/post <3

Helpful depiction of the potential for spread

This is the checklist you need to respond to for appointments to screen for COVID-19.

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We all could use a little work on our inner child https://www.lionsroar.com/loving-kindness-healing-your-in/

This is so important for black boys and girls. Trauma of the magnitude these young folks are experiencing happens through the lens of their cultural experience of being an African American.; their background, their community, and their methods of communication and language.

This might be of interest. Many people want to help and are looking for this information https://parade.com//anti-racist-tv-movies-documentaries-/

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You have it in you: confidence, curiosity, and calm. Get in touch with it. #emdr #trauma #heal #emdria