Kelly Mental Health

Host Linda Kelly and Co-host Cassandra Nordal, dive head first into the large topic of infidelity. Specifically cheating and how it can effect your mental health, the aftermath and the difficulties we face. We also discuss the topic of staying in a relationship after the cheating has happened and how it can be okay to stay but ONLY if you and your partner are BOTH willing to work on the relationship. 

Linda Kelly & Co-host Cassandra Nordal discuss the term "Situationship" and what it means to be in one and how to know when enough is enough. 

Episode 15 - In this episode, Co-host Cassandra Nordal sits down with Registered Social Worker Kelly Graham, to discuss further into the returning to work fears and the main topic of wearing mask or not wearing masks. This episode dives a little further into why it may be difficult for some people to wear them. 

Episode 14 - During today's episode, we discussed the most recent social justice movement and impacts this had on the entire world. We discussed about the variety of emotions we are all going through right now and we also celebrated 2SLGBTIQ+ while reminding ourselves that sometimes we need to reset and get back our roots. Join Linda Kelly and Cassandra Nordal as they navigate through all of the hatred in our world and the meaning of life.

** Warning Harsh Language **

Episode 13 - In this episode, Linda and Cassandra discuss the emotions about returning to work, the new normal, new work place procedures and protocols and how group debriefing can benefit your overall team and environment 

In our latest episode, we discussed the fear and anxiety of the economy reopening, tips on how to cope with the changes in the community, learning to accept changes without personalizing them, difficulty making choices that affect other people, and the shame involved with the weight gain during the pandemic.  

Being the person who people tend to lean on means that you can’t drop anchor until everyone else is safe. In this episode, Cassandra describes how the recent loss of her grandmother has been complicated by the COVID-19 pandemic. She describes learning how to cope with loss in the midst of a rapidly changing world.

For more of our articles on how to handle grief, check out https://www.kellymagazine.ca/blog/category/grief

In this episode, Kelly Graham joins us to discuss how her wedding plans are being affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. We get to explore how the pressure from family, society, and her own expectations weigh in on her experience of anxiety. We talk about how to cope by setting boundaries and knowing when to enforce them, and how to control our feelings by focusing on what we can control, moving from what could have been, to what is.

In this episode, we discuss the following:

How using scheduling, charts or lists, etc. help to divide up responsibilities at home and keep everyone on track, giving yourself extra time to process, enjoy things, accepting that our pace needs to slow down a little, moving into the state of cautious peace, the ability to feel more gratitude, retraining your mind and using the problem-solving quadrant.