As a coach I’m focused on your potential while as a counsellor I’m focused on helping you be at peace with yourself and your life. As a coach I can recognise if it is old core beliefs stopping you in life and as a therapist I am also recognizing if it is anxiety, depression, ptsd, adult ADHD, or another mental … Read More
Counselling vs Coaching. What’s the difference?
I offer both counselling and coaching services. Both help you to move forward, overcome obstacles and achieve your personal or professional goals. So what’s the difference? In short coaching helps you set and achieve goals while counselling helps you recognize and solve your problems in life. As a coach I’m focused on your potential while as a counsellor I’m focused … Read More
Grief is the next “vulnerability”
I was sent this remarkable excerpt on grief. Grief, I believe, is the next “vulnerability”. In order to move forward, to learn and to grow we must be willing to hold and explore not only our grief but that of others. Maybe the most difficult is recognizing our role in grief, and how our actions may have caused the experience … Read More
I’m Catherine.
I’m Catherine. Living a complex human existence. Just. Like. You. I have days where I hit it out of the park. Living my best advice and basking in self care and self awareness. Doing yoga and meditating. Eating greens and journaling. Looking like this image. And some (many…) days I don’t get out of my exercise clothes. That don’t get … Read More
Grief Time
“So exactly how long is this grief thing going to take me?” I ask my therapist. There’s a pause. And then “How long do you think it will take you, Catherine?” Dam. A fu$&ing question to answer a question. Classic. Well positioned. And I should know because I am both a patient and a therapist. Note to self: that’s a … Read More
I see you
I see you. I see you, single parent with two jobs and night school. Making the rent and lunches. Neither without stress. I see you, business owner, with long hours and endless emails. Making the decision to sink more or stay afloat. I see you, facing the tough decision between making the overtime or making the game. No win situations … Read More
Burnout?
And then it happens. The very moment you realize you’ve been running your life like a business. Taking care of the customers, attending to shareholders, maintaining the market. Metrics. Timelines. Milestones. Day after day. Year after year. But then the CEO is suddenly exhausted. Can’t seem to mobilize , think clearly or even get out of bed. The daily process … Read More
The “bluest” month
Feeling down? It’s January. The “bluest” month of the year. In a good year. Let alone in the second wave of a global pandemic. But consider this, feeling depressed is not the same as being depressed or having clinical depression. You can feel depressed and not have depression. In our contract with life we get both joy and pain. Experiencing … Read More
Deafening Silence
The things we never talk about have a deafening silence. Addiction RapeIncest Abortion Child abuse Domestic violence STI’s Adultery Self harm MiscarriageSuicide Emotional violence SIDSInfertility Mental health PTSD Bankruptcy Yet every single person has been impacted by one or more of these. Every. Single. Person. No matter if you see yourself as a the victim or the villain in your … Read More
Counselling too
Best known for our coaching services, did you know that Momentum also offers counselling. As a trained and certified general counsellor my background includes graduate studies in counselling as well as a recently completed post graduate training program with a specialization in intimacy. As a member of the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association and designations in process with other national, … Read More