Understanding “Food Noise” and How to Quiet the Constant Mental Chatter
Struggling with constant thoughts about food? Discover what food noise is, why it happens, and gentle strategies to calm intrusive eating thoughts and improve your relationship with food.
How to Talk to Kids About Body Image: A Practical Guide for Parents
This post teaches parents how to discuss body image with kids in healthy, empowering ways. It shares practical language shifts that build confidence beyond looks.
Healing Intergenerational Trauma and Legacy Burdens Through Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy
Explore how Internal Family Systems therapy supports the release of inherited trauma and legacy burdens, offering a path toward deep personal and generational healing.
The Downward Spiral of Depression: Understanding the Cycle and Finding a Way Out
Depression can feel like a downward spiral, affecting your thoughts, emotions, and daily life. Learn how CBT, Behavioural Activation, and MBCT can help break the cycle and guide you toward hope and healing
The Hidden Sense That Shapes Our Minds: Why Interoception Is Crucial for Mental Health
Learn how tuning into your body can improve emotional regulation, support trauma recovery, enhance decision-making, and deepen your sense of self. Learn why listening to your body is key to feeling grounded, resilient, and fully alive.
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR): How to Explore It Individually with a Counsellor
Discover how Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) can help you manage stress, build resilience, and find greater calm in everyday life. This post explores how working one-on-one with a Registered Clinical Counsellor trained in MBSR offers a personalized, trauma-informed approach to mindfulness practice—integrating therapeutic support with evidence-based mindfulness teaching for lasting well-being.
Understanding the Five F's: Fight, Flight, Freeze, Fawn, and Flop Responses
When we face stress or danger, our nervous system automatically activates one of five survival responses: fight, flight, freeze, fawn, or flop. Through the lens of Polyvagal Theory, we can understand why these responses happen, recognize our own patterns, and learn to build a more flexible nervous system that can return to safety and connection.
Body Liberation Therapy: Healing Beyond Body Image
This blog explores Body Liberation Therapy as a transformative, justice-oriented approach that helps individuals unlearn body shame, reject diet culture, and reconnect with their bodies through self-compassion and embodiment. It outlines the core principles, who it’s for, and how this therapy offers an alternative to traditional body image treatment by centering autonomy, inclusivity, and healing beyond appearance.
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) for Relationships: Rebuilding Connection, One Step at a Time
Learn how Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) can help couples and partners in all types of relationships move from disconnection to deeper emotional intimacy. This post explores the core principles of EFT, what to expect in the process, and how Being and Becoming Counselling & Wellness in Burnaby, BC can support you.
Breaking Free from Anxiety: How CBT and Mindfulness Can Transform Your Mental Health in Burnaby
This comprehensive guide explores how Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and mindfulness-based approaches can effectively transform your relationship with anxiety through evidence-based techniques and practical strategies. Learn about powerful tools for managing anxious thoughts and cultivating present-moment awareness, plus discover how our Burnaby-based team can support your journey to greater mental wellness and peace of mind.