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01/11/2026

Cycles are an important scaffolding to wellness and a harmonious life. In this episode of Dr G's Dandelion Monologues, Caroline Giroux thinks out loud about the benefits of cycles, how they structure our lives and help us stay balanced, focused and effective, and how it becomes crucial to connect with the cycles of nature for instance, especially if we lose cues of internal cycles. Interested in this topic ? Revisit her video ''The Incessant Movement of Life'' posted on April 2025.
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Cycles are an important scaffolding to wellness and a harmonious life. In this episode of Dr G's Dandelion Monologues, Caroline Giroux thinks out loud about ...

01/05/2026

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=d_OCJ54ir54

Are you tired of suffering, of being stuck in the mental prison of how people mistreated you ? What if this is not all there is ? What if our palpable beings...

01/05/2026

Who are you when you’re not your job, your story, or your past?In this episode of The Dandelion Reflections, Dr. Caroline Giroux and Christopher Arthursson e...

01/05/2026

What if peace was never something you had to search for?In this deeply touching episode of The Dandelion Reflections, Caroline and Christopher welcome a very...

01/05/2026

🌱 Challenging the Frameworks That Shape Our Lives | Dr. Caroline Giroux & Christopher ArthurssonWhat happens when we pause, look beyond our habitual thinkin...

01/05/2026

In this heartfelt and eye-opening episode of The Dandelion Reflections, Dr. Caroline Giroux and Christopher Arthursson explore the complex emotions of humili...

12/28/2025

Tears have numerous rebalancing functions: physiological, emotional, social, and spiritual. It is rather unfair that so many people have been shamed for displaying such a normal expression of powerful feelings, whether it is joy, overwhelm, frustration or sadness. As we approach the end of this calendar year, with often a natural desire to shed or purge an overflow of emotions or anything that no longer serves us, Caroline Giroux offers this Dr G's Dandelion Monologue to reframe together the tears, their essential cleansing and connection roles as we learn to finally see them as a precious hyphen between souls.

Tears have numerous rebalancing functions: physiological, emotional, social, and spiritual. It is rather unfair that so many people have been shamed for disp...

12/20/2025

My weekend offering. Happy New Moon and Happy Winter Solstice !

In this 5-min video for the Dr G's Dandelion Monologues, Caroline Giroux emphasizes certain wellness tools to stay grounded and healthy during the colder months of the year with shorter daylight exposure. She also refreshes our memory about applications of mindfulness to fully access our dandelion nature and resilience. Get outside, catch the sun rays, pause, breathe, maintain a regimen of regular physical movement, and accomplish every task with mindfulness. In other words, BE !

In this 5-min video for the Dr G's Dandelion Monologues, Caroline Giroux emphasizes certain wellness tools to stay grounded and healthy during the colder mon...

12/19/2025

This is from my blog for teens, but the topic is also relevant for adults. I work with adult patients who are bullied at work. This is a collective problem that needs to be addressed. A hostile work environment made of harassment, attempts to intimidate or dominate must be exposed and the tyrants and the systems enabling them need to be held accountable !!

When I was a kid in elementary school, the word bullying (or a French translation, such as "harcèlement", "intimidation" or "taxage") was ...

12/12/2025

My Dandelion Monologue for his week.

Are thoughts or emotions truly our own ?

In this episode of Dr G's Dandelion Monologues, Caroline Giroux, invites you to reframe our relationship with emotions and thoughts. She emphasizes how langu...

12/08/2025

https://journalofpsychiatryreform.com/2019/12/19/wellness-calendar-for-the-busy-physician-how-to-survive-the-holiday-blues/

Vol 6 #6 Giroux C1,*, Hategan A2, Eppel A3 Author information: 1 University of California, Davis Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Sacramento, California, USA; *Corresponding author: cgiroux@ucdavis.edu 2 McMaster University, Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine, Fa...

12/05/2025

Like anything else, behaviors that could be effective self-regulating techniques warrant a pause that allows for an assessment and discussion to ensure they are healthy. In this video, Caroline Giroux invites you to observe your tendencies and expand on what you are already doing that is aligned with healthy and harmonious practices by gently engaging your senses.

Do you want to learn more about another mindful approach to deal with stress and distress, and to avoid excessive, potentially detrimental behaviors, and to optimally access resilience ? If so, listen to my latest short episode of Dr G's Dandelion Monologues 🤗 🌻

Like anything else, behaviors that could be effective self-regulating techniques warrant a pause that allows for an assessment and discussion to ensure they ...