The Importance of Wellness for Dentists: Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic
Key Takeaways: The COVID-19 pandemic brought unprecedented challenges to dentistry, impacting the wellness of dental professionals, their staff, and their ...
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Perspectives on Wellness: Dr. Diana Liu
Perspectives on Wellness is a series dedicated to wellness in the dental community. This article focuses on Dr. Diana Liu, ...
Be Mindful: Five Steps to Improve your Mental Health
"Where did the time go?" This is a common question nearly all of us have thought at some point. Time ...
Building and Keeping Your Dental Team
Overcoming Staff Recruitment and Retention Challenges Recruiting and retaining staff within a dental practice is one of the many challenges ...
Coping with Feelings of Fear and Anxiety About Violence
Acts of violence, whether they occur locally or abroad, can affect our sense of safety -about the present and the ...
Dealing with cultural differences in the workplace
Your office has taken on a new employee who recently migrated to Canada from Singapore. Although she seems nice, you ...
Mental Health: Cultural and ethnic stigmas
Mental illness is of such significant concern that the World Health Organization (WHO) has implemented a global Special Initiative for ...
Taking care after a traumatic event
A traumatic event is any situation that causes a person to experience unusually strong emotional reactions that have the potential ...
How a traumatic event can affect you
A traumatic event is any situation that causes a person to experience unusually strong emotional reactions that have the potential ...
Tips for helping your child through a traumatic event
Children do not have the ability to communicate worries or concerns through words. They just don't have the vocabulary. Teens ...
Managing expectations about the “new normal”
If you are feeling unsure of what to expect over the coming weeks and months, you can take solace in ...
Managing stress after a natural disaster
It can be very challenging to manage stress after a natural disaster, such as a flood, hurricane, tornado, or ...
Supporting employees affected by a natural disaster
An employee affected by a natural disaster, such as a hurricane, may need support from you as a manager. ...
Helping young children cope after a natural disaster
Although every child's reaction to stress will be unique, there are some common ways that children respond to natural disasters ...
Reduce Your Retirement Stress
The right advice makes all the difference when Planning Your Retirement. Reaching retirement should be a time of celebration. Giving up the ...
Dealing with Disappointment Due to COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has meant upheaval in many areas of life, creating feelings of sadness and disappointment for many. Dealing ...
Practising Positivity
The current pandemic has caused a lot of stress and anxiety for many people. In a world where nothing seems ...
Top Ten Tips for Remaining Psychologically Resilient
Psychological resilience refers to the ability to manage stressors and "bounce back" from challenging life events. It's important to understand ...
Beating the winter blues
Winter can be a tough time for some. As the days get shorter and the temperature colder, your mood and ...
Loneliness and the Holidays
The holiday season can be a lonely time - especially for people who live far away or are estranged from ...
Maintaining Healthy Habits During Challenging Times
We may have the best of intentions when making plans to eat well, exercise and get more sleep, but then ...
Coping with Depression During COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought on many challenges, including a rise in the number of people suffering from depression. Some are ...
Building Your Resilience with Self-Care
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact our daily lives, it's important to build resilience to help you adapt in ...
10 Back-to-School Tips for Kids and Parents
Returning to school during the COVID-19 pandemic means that both kids and parents will need to adjust to new rules ...
Coping with Stress from Making Education Decisions for your Kids Due to COVID-19
Many parents are facing difficult questions around whether to send their children to school as schools make decisions around what ...
Setting Priorities For Your “New Normal”
You may feel overwhelmed by all you must do after self-isolation lifts, from checking in on relatives to returning to ...
Tips to support frontline health care workers fighting COVID-19
Many of us have friends and family who are frontline health care workers and being there for them in such ...
How to motivate employees to build a successful dental practice
The following article is adapted and reprinted with permission from the TELUS Health website www.one.telushealth.com. As a manager, your ability ...
Consolidate Your Personal Information in a “Virtual Shoebox”
Do your loved ones a favour today. Would the people closest to you be able to easily access all your ...
How to Make Difficult Employee Conversations Easier
No matter how capable and dedicated your employees are, there are times when you need to manage a situation with ...
8 Tips to Keep Your Exercise Routine on Track
We all know that exercise is good for physical and mental health, but many find it hard to stay motivated ...
Good and bad stress: Do you know the difference?
Some stress is actually good for us. It can help our minds focus, our senses sharpen and our bodies get ...
6 Ways to Protect Your Practice from Cyber Attacks
Malware. Phishing. Password Attacks. Rogue Software. Every day, cyber attacks are becoming smarter and more aggressive. Your client list contains ...
Five Tips to Help Avoid Back Injuries
Hours spent each day leaning over patients can take an excessive toll on a dentist's back. You can reduce your ...