Calgary Emotional Health

03/04/2026

Beyond symptoms -- McWilliams offers 10 features of emotional health and productive therapy outcomes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tv6yNJcZhl0

Psychotherapist Nancy McWilliams teaches about the qualities of mental health. Nancy McWilliams teaches at Rutgers University’s Graduate School of Applied & ...

03/03/2026

Classic defensive barriers to productive conflict and honest connection:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1o30Ps-_8is

Certain negative communication styles are so lethal to a relationship that Dr. John Gottman calls them the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. They predict rela...

03/02/2026

Great grounding strategies for youth and old that can redirect your unhelpful mental loops to something solid beneath you in the present:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHc8hi76ZSY

We all get overwhelmed sometimes. Whether you are overwhelmed by too many feelings, too many tasks to do at once or too many racing thoughts, this video can ...

02/27/2026

Maladaptive avoidance patterns that undermine healthy conflict and genuine connection:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BMFY2fO5xU

This video explores the psychology of conflict avoidance—not peacekeeping, but a fear-driven pattern that hollows out relationships. We examine Dr. John Gott...

02/26/2026

Idealization as a barrier to realistic connection and closeness with others:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdRXv7bLuwc

Emotional Intelligence, Daily. Start now: https://www.theschooloflife.com/subscription/ Why are some of us so impossibly picky? This film explores the surpri...

02/25/2026

Good overview of common patterns of depression:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAN6iQyhlLk

Depression is more than just sadness—it affects your energy, sleep, body, and even your brain. This video explains key symptoms, why diagnosis is challenging...

02/23/2026

Video describes a special form of mental anxiety that can interrupt our normal attention, memory, sensory, and perceptual systems:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJZpvwUsQYY&t=42s

"Brain fog can be one of the most difficult symptoms of chronic illness to explain."Share this video with anyone who doesn't understand what brain fog feels ...

02/13/2026

Good info from Dr. Lamb untangling common depressive and anxiety responses from our healthy experience of anger:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSOtfdET5iA

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02/11/2026

Some resources for people experiencing traumatic stress:
https://www.ualberta.ca/en/human-resources-health-safety-environment/media-library/health-and-wellbeing/mental-health/other/coping-with-a-traumatic-event.pdf

02/10/2026

Short intro to the affective and relational effects of early emotional deprivation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aymvX-OrlS0

A lot of our adult problems come down to varieties of emotional neglect suffered in childhood. In this film, we look at one of the most famous experiments i...

02/09/2026

June Tangney -- differentiating shame, guilt, and self-blame processes common in emotional health and relationship problems:
https://youtu.be/itsnF2_7W9g?si=1YHjmxPmabcBqvwM

People often use the words “guilt” and “shame” interchangeably, but the two emotions affect us in different ways. June Tangney, PhD, of George Mason Universi...

02/05/2026

A spectrum of increasingly brutal patterns of responding to ourselves that can cut off our emotional life and self-understanding:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9s_O0nVeSUw

A particularly awful aspect of self-hatred is that we may not even be aware that we are suffering from it. Here is a list of questions to help us diagnose an...