This International Women’s Day we wanted to give a voice to the women of Latitude — to elevate their perspective and celebrate their contributions to the workplace. In honour of this sacred day, we asked some of our practitioners to share some wisdom they’ve picked up along the way — about and for women.

Benefits of Vancouver Chiropractic Care for Sciatica Pain

Sciatica is a severe condition that affects millions of people worldwide. Sciatica radiates pain along the sciatic nerve, running from the lower back down the legs. This blog will explore how chiropractic adjustments can help alleviate sciatica pain and improve overall spinal function. Latitude Wellness Vancouver offers Vancouver chiropractic care, provided by Dr. Sereena Uppal, with a holistic approach to treatments for individuals with sciatica pain.

Latitude Wellness and Counselling offer DBT (Dialectical Behaviour Therapy). DBT is based on cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) with a greater focus on social and emotional aspects.

Research has demonstrated that DBT is highly effective for folks struggling with anxiety, depression and mood disorders, borderline personality disorder, relationship issues, self-harm & suicidal behaviours and complex trauma. DBT teaches tools and skills to live in the moment, develop healthy ways to cope with stress, regulate emotions, and improve relationships with others.

Welcome to Latitude Wellness! Lauren Legere and Dr. Sereena Uppal are thrilled to introduce you to our wellness clinic and have you as a part of our community. Latitude Wellness is a multidisciplinary wellness clinic located in the heart of downtown Vancouver, BC. Our goal is to help improve the way healthcare is provided to patients.

The holidays can be a wonderful time of the year. And they can also be an incredibly stressful, grief-stricken time of the year. As we are go into this December break, we are sharing some coping mechanisms to help keep you regulated and make the most of the time off.

Oftentimes, people will talk about someone being “irrational” or being “too emotional” in a way that discounts the purpose and function of emotions. We might also do this to ourselves. But there are problems with being in both emotion mind and logic mind.

Thanksgiving can be a welcome time of togetherness, belonging, gratitude, and love. Yet, for many of us, it can be a stressful period of navigating broken relationships, that hard-headed family member, and those topics that have been swept under the rug only to pop up when the entire gang is around the table.

Calling an emotion “good” or “bad” doesn’t give us a lot of information as to why someone is feeling this way, and it becomes especially hard to be helpful. Different coping strategies and support work for different emotions and so it’s important to be specific about emotions. We want to name them and include nuance.

Invalidation can be exquisitely painful to experience, especially when it’s ongoing or occurring in close relationships. Regardless of the other person’s intentions, invalidation can lead to people not feeling worthy of support, to doubt their own experiences, to feel alone, and to judge their own emotions and thoughts.

One way to improve repair in relationships when you’ve done something that hurts someone else is to use correction-overcorrection. This can also be helpful if you are struggling with feelings of shame, guilt, and regret for having done something that negatively impacted someone else.

Urge surfing is a technique that can help you manage unwanted behaviour by learning to ride it out, like a surfer riding a big wave safely to shore.

Being able to fully experience moments of pleasantness, happiness, and joy is not always a straightforward and easy task. In the short-term, it can feel easier to avoid feeling good in order to not experience feelings of loss or disappointment.

Let’s back up a bit and start with the why of self-care. Why do we do it? Why is it necessary? We do it to evoke agency, to connect with ourselves, to check in with ourselves and to not only use it as a preventative tool, but also to sustain us. When we practice self-care and prioritize ourselves, we can begin to feel our best and function at our best.

Given that there are many folks who have been working at home due to covid-19, this won’t necessarily be news that’s hot off the press, but maybe you are looking for ways to revamp your approach.

Comparisons are something that we do all the time and I do think there’s a time and place for it. They can have their benefits when it comes to determining the value of something because we generally don’t make decisions in a vacuum. Comparisons with others can also give us ideas about what’s important to us and can feel motivating to know that other people were able to achieve what we want.

This idea of becoming a better person (whatever that means) involves the idea that there is something happening right now within ourselves that we need to escape from. Pema Chödrön calls this an act of “subtle aggression” against ourselves.

I recently attended a workshop on the topic of Matrescence held by Cayley Benjamin, a Motherhood Coach. She explains Matrescence as “the profound transformation – physical, psychological, social, economic and existential – that a mother experiences as they become a mom and journey through motherhood”

Silence in therapy can be just as rewarding for both the therapist and client. At first, silence in the therapy session seems unnatural, whether the conversation takes place virtually or in person. We are not accustomed to silence when speaking with people.

Shame is a deep-rooted belief hidden in the parts of your subconscious and it can become a roadblock in building more profound and meaningful relationships with your partners.

Ironic process theory refers to the process by which suppressing thoughts (e.g., intrusive thoughts, anxious thoughts, urges to drink) can lead to such thoughts emerging with vengeance. This theory posits that there are two cognitive processes at play here.