{"id":130908,"date":"2022-12-12T16:45:39","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T21:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=130908"},"modified":"2022-12-12T16:45:39","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T21:45:39","slug":"beating-the-winter-blues-a-local-therapists-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/beating-the-winter-blues-a-local-therapists-perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"Beating the winter blues: a local therapist&#8217;s perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With fewer daylight hours and, typically, less social interaction, <a href=\"https:\/\/cmha.ca\/winter-blues-101\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">winter can be challenging on mental health<\/a> -- but we don't have to suffer through it, a Cortes Island therapist says.<\/p>\n<p>Registered clinical counsellor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openingworks.com\/bio\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kira MacDuffee<\/a> has a practice, Opening Works, in Mansons Landing. MacDuffee said that the long winter months are comparable to COVID-19 lockdown periods: all that alone time can be confronting but is, simultaneously, a huge opportunity for healing and transformation, she said.<\/p>\n<p>\"I always say, what are we depressing? I don't see depression so much as a condition, but as a reaction to pain that we're trying not to feel,\" says MacDuffee.<\/p>\n<p>To beat the winter blues, she recommends organizing or joining social gatherings, getting plenty of fresh air and spending time outside, as well as committing to a regular practice, like a creative pursuit.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to the full CKTZ interview with Kira MacDuffee below:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With fewer daylight hours and, typically, less social interaction, winter can be challenging on mental health &#8212; but we don&#8217;t have to suffer through it, a Cortes Island therapist says. Registered clinical counsellor Kira MacDuffee has a practice, Opening Works, in Mansons Landing. MacDuffee said that the long winter months are comparable to COVID-19 lockdown&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":130910,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,223],"tags":[16050,3761,16855,1107,16856,16852,21554,21553],"radio":[252],"origine":[280,266,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130908"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130908"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130964,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130908\/revisions\/130964"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130908"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=130908"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=130908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}