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Happiness At Home Newsletter: What Makes Us Procrastinate?

Andrea Ramsay Speers
depression, encouragement, mental health, nagging, newsletter, parenting, Pet Peeves, self esteem, stress, teens, tweens
All of us procrastinate on occasion. For some people, it’s a chronic problem; for others, it’s only a problem in certain life areas. Procrastination is always frustrating [...]
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Happiness At Home: Managing Difficult Life Transitions

Andrea Ramsay Speers
anxiety, depression, happy families, mental health, newsletter, stress
Life is a process of beginnings and endings. In both life and nature, there are times when things move slowly and don’t seem to change very much. Then, suddenly, things change [...]
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A Few Of My Favourite Books

Andrea Ramsay Speers
announcements, anxiety, bullying, chores, communication, couples, depression, encouragement, entitlement, friendship, happy families, marriage, mental health, nagging, parenting, self esteem, stress, teens, tweens
Looking for something to keep you busy over the next few weeks? Books can be a great way to get information, get inspiration and new ideas, and to keep momentum going between [...]
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Happiness At Home: Emotional Survival Guide For Teens

Andrea Ramsay Speers
anxiety, communication, depression, health, mental health, newsletter, parenting, self esteem, stress, teens, tweens
This month’s newsletter is written for teens. If you are a teen, this is for you. If you know a teenager, please pass it along. This month, we will explore the hardest things [...]
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How Do We Define “Mental Health”?

Andrea Ramsay Speers
anxiety, depression, health, mental health, self esteem, stress
How do we know if we are mentally healthy?  What exactly is “mental health”?  These are questions that maybe we should ask ourselves.  It seems hard to expect to achieve a [...]
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Helping Your Child Cope With Divorce

Andrea Ramsay Speers
anxiety, communication, depression, mental health, parenting, stress, teens, tweens
Divorce is not easy on anyone.  When children are involved, the situation can be particularly challenging, but it doesn’t have to be traumatic.   Your child’s age will [...]
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Happiness At Home: What Causes All Of This Stress?

Andrea Ramsay Speers
anxiety, depression, mental health, newsletter, stress
In this newsletter, we will explore what stress is and what causes it. In the next, you will learn how to manage the stress in your life and protect yourself against it. [...]
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Happiness At Home: How To Balance Work And Family Life

Andrea Ramsay Speers
depression, happy families, mental health, newsletter, stress, Uncategorised
What Is Your Definition of Success? If you want to create balance in your life, it is important to know how you define success. The following list is a place to start. Cross [...]
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Happiness At Home: Parenting Your Teen With Less Stress

Andrea Ramsay Speers
communication, depression, keeping kids out of trouble, newsletter, parenting, self esteem, teens, tweens
How to Maintain Communication Even though teens need to separate from their parents during adolescence, they also need to know that the safety net of home and family is always [...]
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30Jan

What Are You Tolerating?

Andrea Ramsay Speers
anxiety, depression, gratitude, mental health, Pet Peeves, stress
We all have things that we tolerate in our lives. Some of them are big things (like a nasty neighbour), but many of them are small things (a messy desk is an example), and we [...]
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Oakville Family Institute (Trafalgar and Dundas in north Oakville)
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    Happiness At Home Newsletter: What Makes Us Procrastinate?
    depression, encouragement, mental health, nagging, newsletter, parenting, Pet Peeves, self esteem, stress, teens, tweens
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