Chat GPT vs. Humanly-Engaged Counselling Therapy

Isabelle 

Admittedly, when people are trying to find solutions to address relatively simple problems, they might find something helpful and practical in Chat GPT.  However, what is being increasingly

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Embracing Eco Self-Care

Isabelle St-Jean 

As we are mostly beyond the pandemic, some people have settled into a new normal of being less active, more sedentary and isolated. In my coaching and counselling

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Redefining “Strong” as Gateway to Resilience

Isabelle 

When noticing comments in the news, articles and social media, stating the need for us to “be strong”, it reminds me that there is a lot of misperceptions

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New Social Life “Normal”?

Isabelle St-Jean 

While leading a webinar on re-engaging rather than retiring recently, I talked about the needed soft skills for, and the occupational hazards of, this major work-life transition. Looking

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Pandemic’s Impact on Our Window of Tolerance.

Isabelle 

At Alpine Counselling Clinic in Vancouver, through my full counselling/coaching practice, I have been even more acutely aware of the ripple effect of the pandemic on many people’s

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Finding Beauty and Sacredness through 2021

Isabelle 

The ornate, beautiful, and magical gateway in this image is meant to inspire you to think of how you will lead yourself through the gateway of your own

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What Opportunity Will You Approach as You Re-engage?

Isabelle 

As I captured the moment of this bee approaching a giant thistle flower, I noticed the largest of the two flowers had a bee nestled in, filling up

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Covid-19 Impacting Your Retirement Plans? Read On…

Isabelle 

By Isabelle St-Jean, RSW, PCC, RTC Since March, as you know, Covid-19 has impacted all areas of our world, from economies, workplaces, job markets, health care system, the

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Deliberate Positive Psycho-Social Contagion

Isabelle 

While the focus of our global community has been on the risks of infecting one another with the dreaded Covid-19 virus, even as we enter phase 2 recovery

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“All in this together”: Overcoming Collective Adversity

Isabelle 

“We’re all in this together” as we hear while facing the Covid-19 pandemic. And as the wise Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh often said, “no mud no lotus”;

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