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What’s in your emotional toolkit? Jennifer Boyatt, life coach and speaker, believes we all have the strategies and skills necessary to cope with life in our toolkits. It’s just how or if we use them that makes the difference between healing or coping. Jennifer lived through her own painful marriage, depression, anxiety, loneliness, self-hatred and…

When I was in grade school, we were asked to paint anything we wanted using the three colours yellow, blue, and red. People blended the colours and painted green fields with flowers. Me, I painted an ocean with the sun shining down upon a beach. I never thought about combining the colours, just using the…

Your friend just told you that he or she self-harms. How should you react? What should you say? What can you do if your friend hasn’t said anything but you think he/she might be self-injuring? Here’s 8 things you can do when a friend self-injures: Stay calm. Don’t panic or over-react. That will just increase…

You’re a parent or guardian and just found out that your child self-injures. You’ll probably react with a mixture of anger, shock, guilt, worry, and anxiety. You might be convinced that your child is suicidal. Self-harm by itself isn’t suicidal behaviour. But if the emotional distress that causes self-injury continues, it can cause suicidal thoughts.…
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