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Nostalgia and the Shadowed Road: Learning From the Unchosen Path

Nostalgia and the Shadowed Road: Learning From the Unchosen Path

May 23, 2025 | Feeling good about yourself, Mindfulness, self-compassion

We all carry moments that return to us unbidden. A door we didn’t walk through. A conversation that ended too sharply. A relationship that might have unfolded differently. Some regrets are small irritations, others feel seismic, and a few lie like stones in the psyche...
Toxic Shame and the Stories We Inherit

Toxic Shame and the Stories We Inherit

Feb 9, 2025 | Emotions, Feeling good about yourself, self-compassion

When Shame Stops Being a Signal and Becomes a Story Shame, in its healthy form, has a place in human life. It signals impact. It helps us take responsibility and repair. But shame becomes something else entirely when it stops referring to an action and begins...
Rejection Sensitivity Disorder (RSD) and ADHD: A Guide to Understanding and Healing

Rejection Sensitivity Disorder (RSD) and ADHD: A Guide to Understanding and Healing

Feb 2, 2025 | Emotions, Relationships, Marriage, Couple Counselling, self-compassion

When Rejection Lands Harder Than It Should Some people experience rejection not as a moment, but as a wound reopening: A delayed text. An unread message. A comment said lightly but received heavily. Rejection Sensitivity (often referred to as RSD) is not simply being...
Change at the Edge of the Old Self

Change at the Edge of the Old Self

Jan 5, 2025 | Emotions, Feeling good about yourself, self-compassion

The Calendar Turns, But the Psyche Keeps Its Time There is something hopeful about a new year — a line drawn on a calendar, a small symbolic threshold. Yet most of what shapes us does not reset with dates. Patterns persist. Longings persist. The parts of ourselves we...
ADHD and Relationships: Holding Complexity With Compassion

ADHD and Relationships: Holding Complexity With Compassion

Dec 15, 2024 | Relationships, Marriage, Couple Counselling, self-compassion

When Attention Strains Connection Living with ADHD often means your attention moves faster than your intentions.You may care deeply, yet still miss the moment to respond, follow through, or stay present.The gap between what you meant and what occurred can become...
The Voice Within: Learning a Gentler Internal Language

The Voice Within: Learning a Gentler Internal Language

Dec 8, 2024 | Emotions, Feeling good about yourself, self-compassion, Uncategorized

When the Harsh Voice Turns Inward At difficult moments, the mind often reaches not for comfort but for criticism.For many, self-talk echoes old messages — inherited from family, culture, school, relationships —voices that once trained us to perform, to endure, to stay...
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John Taylor, MA, RCC · 20+ years of experience — Registered Clinical Counsellor · Registered Psychotherapist
2B-6135 Metral Drive
Nanaimo, BC
V9T 2L7

Phone: 250-618-0216
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