Fresh Hope Counselling

12/02/2025

This can be a busy and stressful season. Take it one day at a time and take care of yourself. Making a point to be intentional or strategic with coping skills is wisdom. Next thing you know, the hard part is behind you and you have gotten through it. Breathe, move, pause, boundary and create. These skills and tips are helpful when we apply them.

11/27/2025

Behind the wheel at Fresh Hope Counselling is Beth Murray and Glenn Scheideman. Beth and Glenn are pleased to own and operate Fresh Hope Counselling, along with our exceptional staff and Therapists. If you are looking for counselling and psychological care, please consider Fresh Hope. We truly value each of our clients and the referrals we get from previous clients we've been able to help over the years. We are grateful for the opportunity to provide hope, healing and freedom for almost 19 years.

11/11/2025

May we take time to remember those who fought for our country — for our military and all its branches. For those who gave their lives for our freedom and for those who came back forever changed — physically, mentally and emotionally. May we never forget the importance of peace and loving one another. May we endeavour to do better and truly appreciate the sacrifices that led to our freedom. Thank you for your service dear veterans, thank you.

11/10/2025

This is an excellent perspective on not chasing things, achievements or performance to feel loved or enough.

11/06/2025

Do you find it easy to love others but difficult to love, and extend grace, to yourself? You are worth being treated with love. What if you were to treat yourself the way you would treat others -- extending compassion, love and grace to yourself. You are worth doing that for -- you deserve to receive love.

11/04/2025

This is an excellent resource for parents and kids who are going through/have gone through divorce.

Family changes can be hard — but you don’t have to face them alone.

Join HomeBuilders, a free 11-week program that helps parents and kids find healing and connection after divorce.

🍽️ Supper provided.
➡️ Learn more: www.hb.kidsontrack.org

11/03/2025

What makes you 'you?' What do you value, enjoy, prioritize and love? How do you define yourself -- by assigning meaning from what you determine or letting others determine who they want you to be? How do you want to be as a person? Get to know yourself and become the person that YOU want to be.

10/31/2025

We are so excited for Christina Im! She's been 'running the gauntlet' with the College of Alberta Psychologists to become a Registered Provisional Psychologist. She has met all the criteria, jumped through all the hoops and is still standing! In short, this means that almost all benefit plans now cover Christina. Let's fill up her schedule to help her celebrate. Please share with anyone you know who might need some counselling assistance. You can read Christina's full bio at https://freshhope.ca/edmonton-counselors/

10/30/2025

What’s Your Relationship Like With Yourself?

Think about the most important relationships in your life. When they are going well, how are you talking to that person? Are they a priority in your life — time, energy, money, etc. Do you treat them with love and respect? How do you treat yourself? Are you kind, considerate and supportive or harsh, critical and demanding? Imagine, for a moment what it would look like to come alongside of yourself, as a good friend would. Some might think it just sounds ridiculous to work on your self-talk and your relationship with yourself. “That’s weird!” Well — isn’t it weird to trash talk, demean and spew hateful verbiage toward yourself?

Here’s some ideas to work on to befriend yourself.

1. Pay attention to your self-talk. We can become so unaware of our self-talk that it just tumbles through our minds and even out our mouths in the most careless of ways. Sometimes it’s good when we verbally speak it because it may catch our attention as to how mean or unhelpful it is. Or we might find ourselves agreeing with the negative rash of words. The bottom line is we can’t change it until we are aware of it. Start by just putting a stop to the negative, trash talk. No bashing of you!
2. Consider how you would treat someone you care about. How would you want to treat the ones you care most about? I would hope the consideration you would extend to those you love would include kindness, thoughtfulness and support for their well-being. What would it look like to share that same consideration for yourself?
3. What would keep you invested in not changing the relationship you have with yourself? Would it feel wrong to develop a positive relationship with yourself — like it’s not okay to do? Whatever keeps you stuck in this pattern, it doesn’t need to continue. Just as you can work on becoming a better friend to others, you can learn to be a better friend to yourself.

There is much written on the topic of self-compassion by Kristen Neff and other researchers. Listen to a podcast. Read a book on the topic. Practice being kind and compassionate towards yourself and see how it pays off. It is definitely worth the investment to work on improving your relationship with yourself.

10/27/2025

Thinking of everyone as we experience some flake-like moisture today! It's interesting how mindset determines our view on something like snow. If we love to ski, skate or snowmobile, we LOVE the white stuff. If we hate the cold and snow, we might feel depressed when we see the flakes coming. If we see beauty in everything, it's just snow and we look for the good in it. Perspective is everything.

10/17/2025

Help your kids to develop a strong anchoring point for their mental wellness. Confidence and resilience are built. Parents, family members, friends, caregivers and teachers all play a part in growing healthy children. Mental health is caught, taught and practiced.

10/17/2025

Having good mental health requires care and practice. Here are six mental health tips that can give you more mental space and improve overall wellness. If you do the gratitude reflection, also give yourself 10 seconds to absorb each thing you are thankful for. Let your brain ruminate on the thing you are grateful for.