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World Sleep Day 2025
World Sleep Day is a yearly event, started in 2008, with the aim to highlight the importance of good sleep, while also providing awareness and education on ways to lessen the burdens of sleep problems. The day was created as a response to the increasing prevalence of various sleeping disorders, as well as sleep deprivation. World Sleep Day is observed on the Friday before the Spring Equinox, for 2025 that day was March 14th, and the theme this year it is “Make Sleep a Health Priority&rdquo...
World Mental Health Day: Be Like the Bonsai
I was having a conversation recently, and the topic of hobbies arose. One person shared that one of their passions was growing and maintaining bonsai trees. For those unfamiliar, bonsai are miniature trees that require patience and care to grow into beautiful horticultural displays. Some take 10-15 years or more to mature fully, but all require detailed attention to thrive. No, Walmsley Employee and Family Assistance Program (EFAP) hasn't become a blog just for green thumbs, but there are import...
Workplace Trauma Support
Walmsley counsellors are trained to provide on-site Critical Incident Stress Debriefing in the event of a workplace crisis: death of an employee, layoff, natural disaster, accident, violence, or other highly stressful situations. These services can also be developed with the assistance of employee representatives. It is normal to have a stress reaction to an abnormal traumatic event. However, with appropriate support, information, and compassion, most people can get through a critical inciden...
Workplace Change
Change—it’s like the unexpected guest at your dinner party, showing up whether you invited it or not. In the workplace, this guest can arrive in the form of a new software system everyone must learn, a shift in your job role, or even a complete change in company leadership. While some of us might welcome this guest with open arms, excited by the novelty, others might feel like hiding in the kitchen until it leaves. Change is challenging, inevitable, and often laden with a mix of emot...
Working with Unwanted Intrusive Thoughts
October 10th is World Mental Health Day. What better day to turn our attention to managing our unwanted intrusive thoughts? These are the thoughts that pop into our minds, get stuck, cause us distress, and interfere with our ability to focus on the task at hand. Some are just annoying, but others can be extremely upsetting and may even compromise our ability to do our job safely. How we work with these thoughts influences the impact that they have on our mental health and day-to-day lives....
Working with Passive Aggressive Colleagues
Working with Passive Aggressive Colleagues Today's blog is the first in a 3-part series on working with passive aggressive colleagues. Part 1 focuses on common behaviors and expressions used by the passive aggressor. Part 2 will examine why people are passive aggressive and part 3 will demonstrate how to deal with persons who are passive aggressive. 12 Things passive-aggressive people always do - but don't realize appear sweet, compliant and agreeable, but...
Work-Related Hypervigilance
Work-Related Hypervigilance Hypervigilance is a state of increased alertness to the possibility of danger in the environment. Hyervigilance is generally associated with PTSD or anxiety; both which cause a person to perceive danger where none exists. But work-related hypervigilance (WHV) has recently been recognized as a contributing factor to chronic stress symptoms. Research on WHV among RCMP members and security guards show that exhaustion, physical health symptoms, family conflict, slee...
Work Life Balance
In today’s fast-paced society, juggling work responsibilities with personal commitments has become increasingly complex. While the desire to excel professionally is commendable, it should not come at the expense of personal well-being. Achieving a healthy work-life balance is not just a luxury; it’s a necessity for maintaining strong mental health. The Consequences of Imbalance. Ignoring the balance between wor...
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