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𝗠𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗮𝘆𝗼𝗿:

Dear Jasperites,

I write to you today with profound sorrow as we begin to come to terms with the devastating impact of last night’s wildfire that has ravaged our beloved community. The destruction and loss that many of you are facing and feeling is beyond description and comprehension; my deepest sympathies go out to each of you.

Our first priority continues to be your safety and well-being. The Incident Management Team together with responders on the ground, continue to work valiantly to protect our town – our home – and to coordinate supports for evacuees in other communities.

I want to assure you that your Mayor and Councillors are committed to supporting our community through this truly unprecedented challenge and beyond. We will work closely with all levels of government, other organizations, and volunteers to coordinate relief efforts and provide essential resources and information.

Your resilience and strength have always been the backbone of our community. In the coming days and weeks, we will rally together, support one another, and begin the daunting process of recovery.
Please continue to be patient and take care of yourselves and your loved ones.

This experience is tremendously traumatic for each of us and for the community. I encourage you to reach out to your neighbours, colleagues and friends: share your grief; share your pain; stay connected.

Offer a helping hand, a listening ear, a supportive word where you can, and know that we are all in this together.

With unwavering support and resolve,

Mayor Ireland
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Jasper, it’s hard to know where to start, but here are some resources compiled by our team:

𝗘𝗺𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗠𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵

𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗼𝗻 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀: It's normal to feel overwhelmed, anxious, or sad. Some physical symptoms might include headaches, stomach aches, or muscle tension.

𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝗦𝗲𝗲𝗸 𝗛𝗲𝗹𝗽: If you experience severe emotional reactions, such as excessive guilt, anxiety, or thoughts of self-harm, please reach out for professional help.

𝗧𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗟𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗱 𝗢𝗻𝗲𝘀

1. Eat Well and Stay Hydrated: Good nutrition and hydration are crucial for maintaining your energy, focus, and overall health.
2. Stay Active: Gentle physical activities, like walking or stretching, can help relieve stress and improve your mood.
3. Get Enough Rest: Ensure you and your family get adequate sleep to better manage stress and emotions.
4. Practice Relaxation Techniques: Deep breathing exercises can calm your nervous system and help you think more clearly.
Support for Children and Teens
• Limit Media Exposure: Protect children from repeated exposure to distressing news. When they do see or hear about the disaster, discuss it calmly and reassure them.
• Model Positive Coping: Children learn from your reactions.

𝗛𝗲𝗹𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗿𝗲𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝗽𝗲:

Encourage Open Communication: Let children express their feelings and ask questions. Answer honestly at a level they can understand.

Maintain Routines: Keeping regular meal and sleep times can provide a sense of normalcy and security.

𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲𝘀:

Psychologists’ Association of Alberta: 3 free sessions with a volunteer psychologist. 1-888-424-0297 | [email protected]

Mental Health Help Line (24/7): 1-877-303-2642

Addiction Help Line: 1-866-332-2322

First Nations & Inuit Hope for Wellness Help Line: 1-855-242-3310

Crisis Text Line Text: “CONNECT” to 741741

Alberta 211: 211 Alberta is a 24/7 crisis line and single point of contact for digital supports and services near you – no matter where you are in the province. Call or text 'INFO' to 211 or visit ab.211.ca.

Text4hope: Text HOPEAB to 393939 to subscribe.

Health Link: 811

Kids Help Phone: 1-800-668-6868, www.KidsHelpPhone.ca

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Art by Emily Kewageshig

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What is a Dynamic Disability?

Dr. Adams is incredibly proud to be part of the inaugural 103 NABBLM-C physicians who are officially board certified in Breastfeeding & Lactation Medicine.

This is such an exciting and momentous occasion as Breastfeeding and Lactation Medicine is finally being recognized as medical specialty! Thank you to all of the incredibly hard work of the North American Board of Breastfeeding & Lactation Medicine for bringing this moment to fruition.

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A drawing of a young Inuit woman wearing a red amauti, the amauti is a traditional parka worn by Inuit women. A child peeking out with a smile on their face can be seen in the pouch below the hood. The child is carried in the enlarged and extended back of the garment. The child is resting with their belly against the mother’s back. The amauti is red and decorated with marking in a ‘V’ style pattern at the neckline with colours of orange, red, blue, black and white . The sleeves of the amauti are also ordained with the same colours on the end of the sleeve. The Hood is white silver and fluffy. The woman wearing the amauti is peering over her right shoulder looking at an image of an elder woman. The elder woman appears to be lighter shading as her hand is holding the young woman’s arm and the elder woman’s hand is see-through, like she is a spirit. The Inuit woman has traditional facial tattoo markings and on her fingers. The intricate tattoo markings hold different meanings for each person, such as a symbol of how hard our ancestors fought for us to be here. The markings on the woman are 2 parallel lines making a ‘V’ on her forehead, there is a straight line under her bottom lip down her chin and 3 dots on each side of her cheekbones. Her fingers also have markings with 2 parallel lines on each of them. The woman’s hair is dark brown and pulled back behind her head. The baby behind her peers out with a smile and their little hand is touching the right cheek of the woman. The elder woman has silver hair with her hair tied in a bun in the back of her head a braid across the hairline starting at her forehead and behind her ears and tied into the bun. The elder woman also has facial tattoo markings on her face. These markings can be seen on her forehead similar to the young woman, a double line ‘v’, 3 dots on her cheekbones and parallel lines down her chin and also on her fingers. The elder woman is also wearing a traditional sewn garment coat that is beige in colour and looking at the young woman.

The words on the image in red lettering, state: If trauma can be inherited from one generation to the next, then so can love, resilience and wisdom. There is hashtag in grey lettering: ]

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Illustration by noanikhok

Repost from Wild Peace for Parents and quote from Glennon Doyle 💕

What if parenting became less about telling our children who they should be and more about asking them again and again forever who they already are? Then, when they ell us, we would celebrate instead of concede. It's not: I love you no matter which of my expectations you meet or don't meet. It's: My only expectation is that you become yourself. The more deeply I know you, the more beautiful you become to me."

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Hypermobility spectrum disorders (HSD) are connective tissue disorders that cause joint hypermobility, instability, injury, and pain.

Four types of HSD are described, based on the type of joint hypermobility present.

🔵Generalized HSD (G-HSD): HSD in which joint hypermobility occurs throughout the body
🔵Peripheral HSD (P-HSD): HSD in which joint hypermobility is limited to the hands and feet
🔵Localized HSD (L-HSD): HSD in which joint hypermobility occurs in a single joint or group of joints in the same area
🔵Historical HSD (H-HSD): HSD in which there is history of generalized joint hypermobility, but without current evidence of generalized joint hypermobility on exam

Learn more at https://www.ehlers-danlos.com/what-is-hsd/

Join our first HSD-focused event on April 1: https://www.ehlers-danlos.com/events/eds-echo-summit-series-hypermobility-spectrum-disorders/

You Asked: What Can Craniosacral Therapy Address? Although craniosacral therapy is among the gentlest of modalities, anecdotal evidence of its effectiveness abounds, and a growing body of scientific research supports its efficacy. MASSAGE Magazine…

As we step into the holiday, we are reflecting on the last year, and StillPoint Wholistic Therapy's first year of business. That’s right, we turned one this week!
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We have so much to celebrate! 🎉⁣
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We brought our vision of a safe, welcoming, and inclusive space to life in ways that are even better than we had imagined.
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We are so grateful for the continued support of our amazing clients, old and new, and everyone else that we had the honor of connecting with along the way. Thank you, from the bottom of our hearts, for making StillPoint's first year such a memorable one.⁣
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Wishing you and your family a bright and beautiful holiday season, and sending you our wishes for another incredible year ✨

Revenge of the gaslit patients: Now, as scientists, they’re tackling Ehlers-Danlos syndromes A group of young patient-researchers is showing that patient-led research can be indispensable in the effort to crack complex, long-misunderstood illnesses, like hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.

A Guide for Swimming Instructors for ......

Developmental coordination difficulties are though to affect between 5-10% of school-aged children. In the UK these difficulties are often referred to as Dyspraxia although in other countries the term Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) is more commonly used.
These children often struggle with physical activities and sports. They can appear awkward and clumsy, and make slow progress compared to other children. Children with dyspraxia/DCD have particular difficulty learning new movements and they aren't able to transfer learned skills easily to different situations.
If children with movement difficulties are not encouraged to participate in physical activities this will affect their fitness and general health over time. It is important to encourage people with dyspraxia/DCD to participate in and enjoy physical activities throughout their lives.
Swimming is particularly good for children with dyspraxia/DCD as it is made up of repetitive sequences of movements and it isn't as unpredictable as team and ball games. Although difficult to learn the early skills it is worth encouraging the child to persevere as he or she will often become quite proficient. Swimming style can however be rather individual!
Swimming can help with the development of balance, strength, flexibility, endurance and coordination as well as self-esteem and social skills. Children with dyspraxia/DCD will however need special encouragement and individual attention to prevent them from becoming dissatisfied and disillusioned.
Difficulties experienced by children with dyspraxia/DCD when swimming
Movements appear awkward and uncoordinated.
Children often swim better underwater or on their back rather than on their front.
They have difficulty using limbs separately from their body so the torso lifts when doing front crawl. Sometimes they may turn right over.
Children may have difficulty attending to instructions because of the noise around them and there may be a delay before they respond.
They may have difficulty organising their body to get into the swimming pool.
Some children have no fear of water while others are very afraid of their feet leaving the ground.How you can help
Reward effort.
Encourage participation and fun rather than competition.
Teach skills in smaller, more manageable parts.
Breast stroke may be easier than front crawl because both sides of the body move at the same time.
Give clear, concise instructions and repeat these for the child if necessary.
Position the child next to a wall so that he can follow the pool edge when swimming lengths.

⏳ BREASTFEEDING FACT ⏳

Breastfed babies DO NOT eat on a schedule…and if they do start to have a “routine”, you can pretty much count on it to change MULTIPLE times!

That is the nature of breastfeeding, breast milk, your developing baby… and allowing your BABY to do what he or she needs to grow and thrive.

When you hear the term or phrase “let your baby feed on demand”, that means allow your baby to guide when they are hungry, not the clock.

Breast milk changes over time. Breast milk changes throughout the day. Your growing baby changes EVERY day and so do their needs for food.

It is your baby’s needs and hunger and desire to nurse more or less frequently that is helping your body make the perfect amount of milk for your baby. Interfering with that process may lead to insufficient milk production and a “creation” of a problem that would not have existed if you had just a followed your baby’s cues.

Babies also breastfeed for more than just hunger or food. Breastfeeding is comfort for a baby and you are that place that they feel safe and loved and soothed, especially when they are tired, cranky, not feeling well or wanting some snuggle time! ❤️

📸 Chrrissy (one of our mamas!)

It’s hard to believe that the end of 2022 is only 2.5 months away! ⁣⁣
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Now is the time to think about maximizing your use of your benefits before they roll over. ⁣⁣
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Our schedules are filling up quickly - we highly recommend that you book ahead, if possible, to ensure that your spot is secured. ⁣⁣
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Online booking link can be found on our website (link is in our profile ✨).⁣⁣
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Questions? Drop us a DM!⁣⁣

City U Edmonton Counselling Clinic CityU Edmonton's Counselling Clinic is closed for the academic year and will re-open on September 6, 2022. In the interim, please direct all requests for free counselling to our...

One of Long COVID’s Worst Symptoms Is Also Its Most Misunderstood Brain fog isn’t like a hangover or depression. It’s a disorder of executive function that makes basic cognitive tasks absurdly hard.

Join us in wishing our neighbours at a happy 10th anniversary! ⁣🎉
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LiveWell is hosting a Patient Appreciation Carnival on September 17th, and we will be there to celebrate them. ⁣
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We will have a tent set up to provide information and CranioSacral Therapy demos, and would love it if you came to say hi. Bring your family and friends to take part - there will be bouncy castles, a BBQ, a dunk tank, face painting, local vendors, draws for exciting prizes and so much more. ⁣
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This event always fills up, so please RSVP using the following link (also in our profile). ⁣ https://www.punchbowl.com/parties/d8c10dd22798b1d88b33
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We can’t wait to see you there! ⁣

No apologies necessary: Indoor gym offers neurodiverse kids opportunities to play