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Whether you’re seeking support for yourself or a loved one, the Healing Recovery blog provides trustworthy advice, strategies, and inspiration to help you feel less alone on your journey toward mental and emotional wellness.
When Everyone Calls It Dedication: Disordered Eating in High-Performance Athletes
There’s a particular kind of eating disorder that hides in plain sight, and it hides best in sport and perfectionism. Because in sport, the early behaviours don’t look like illness. They look like commitment. The athlete who’s tracking everything, who’s first to...
Meet Robin; Our Team Psychologist – Eating Disorder, Family Therapy and Athlete Therapist Expert
Robin Marshment, M.A., C. Psych. Assoc. is a Clinical Psychological Associate at Healing Recovery Centre, registered with the College of Psychologists of Ontario. She holds a degree in School and Child Clinical Psychology and brings more than twenty years of...
The Wisdom of Melting: Why Being Frozen Is Not a Failure
There’s something I’ve been noticing in our session rooms lately. Whether it’s therapy, Reiki, nutrition counselling, massage, or even conversations within our own team — there’s a quiet tension people are holding. Maybe you’re holding it too. It’s the space between...
What Good Therapy Feels Like: Signs Therapy Is Working That No One Talks About
Article description: Wondering how to know if therapy is working? Learn what good therapy actually feels like from Healing Recovery Centre, a trauma-informed therapy clinic in Newmarket, Ontario. If you’ve ever left a therapy session wondering, “Why do I feel worse...
The Parenting Reset: What Happens When We Stop Fixing Behaviour and Start Paying Attention to Emotion
Many parents reach a quiet breaking point. They’ve tried behaviour plans, consequences, routines, rewards, therapy, and doing “everything right” — yet their child is still struggling. Anxiety feels louder. Emotions feel bigger. Family life feels fragile. If this is...
Caring for Your Mental Health Over the Holidays: Simple Skills That Actually Help
The holidays are often painted as a season of joy, connection, and magic.But for so many people, especially teens and young adults, this time of year can feel heavy, overwhelming, or quietly stressful in ways that are hard to explain. If that’s you, you’re not alone....
Navigating Body Image & Food Struggles as a Female Athlete
If you’re an athlete, you’ve probably heard things like: “Fuel your body right.”“Be in peak condition.”“Strong is the new skinny.”“Your body is your instrument.” But what most girls aren’t told is this: You can love your sport and struggle with your body at...
From Resilience to Resistance: Reclaiming Mental Health in Women’s Sport
Resilience has been defined as an individual’s ability to manage and persevere despite adversity, and for far too long, it has been celebrated as the ultimate quality to strive for. After all, it affirms one’s capacity to bounce back from and work through the...
Big Changes coming to Healing Recovery Centre
Today, I have something really exciting to share with you. Something big that we have been working on in the background for the last year. Even more exciting is that we are sharing this with you first. For the record, I am not a good secret keeper, so the fact that I...
Determination, Love and Mushrooms: A Story Of Recovery From An Eating Disorder
Disclaimer: This is the story from the perspective of a mom whose daughter battled a severe Eating Disorder for 5 years. In this blog post, identifying information has been adjusted to protect confidentiality. This blog post comes with a trigger warning, including...
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