ABOUT THE PROGRAM The Family and Friends Group: Tools for Building Emotional Resilience is a 12-week group designed for those in relationships with individuals diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder or challenged with emotional dysregulation. Through education, skills training, and network building, group members will learn how to navigate their relationships -->

Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) is an empirically-supported, 8-week training program designed to cultivate the skill of self-compassion. Based on the groundbreaking research of Kristin Neff and the clinical expertise of Christopher Germer, MSC teaches core principles and practices that enable participants to respond to difficult moments in their lives with kindness, care and understanding.

WHAT IS SELF-COMPASSION? Self-compassion is treating ourselves and our suffering with kindness and care, rather then ignoring or hurting ourselves. There are three components to  self-compassion: Self-kindness opens our hearts to suffering; it enables us to give our-selves the kindness that we need. Sense of common humanity opens us to -->

Mindful eating is an approach to food and eating that fosters greater awareness of the relationship between your  thoughts, emotions and eating behaviour. It helps you be flexible in how you understand food and eating. You develop an approach  that is accepting and joyful. Mindful eating decreases overeating, binge eating and emotional eating. Mindful eating is not a diet or weight loss plan; it is  a way of relating to food and to your body that is compassionate and balanced.