Fresh-Insight

Fresh-Insight Fresh Insight offers psychotherapy and nutritional counselling to individuals, couples, and families of all ages in-person in Markham and online.

Our mission is to inspire hope, catalyze change, and foster a sense of personal empowerment. Our therapists have experience working with presenting concerns like anxiety, depression, stress management, perfectionism, infertility, communication issues, infidelity, eating disorders, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), addictions, trauma, and more. We have experience providing support for members of the LGBTQ++ and BIPOC communities as well.

06/16/2026

The person who never does drugs ever ever ever vs. the very active drug user—and why are their sessions always back to back 😅?

Since being back from France (which, yes, is all I’ll be talking about for weeks 🥲), I can’t help but feel heightened aw...
06/15/2026

Since being back from France (which, yes, is all I’ll be talking about for weeks 🥲), I can’t help but feel heightened awareness about our culture’s insane value on productivity.

We can’t take a break at work because there’s “so much to do.”

We can’t go for a walk because it will “take too long.”

We watch our videos at 2x speed because we need to absorb everything quicker.

Even just looking at the photo in this post of a woman sitting in the grass—no phone, no agenda—makes me breathe a bit more deeply.

So on this beautiful day, I invite you to go sit in some grass, socks off and phone-free. I assure you that sitting with yourself and enjoying a moment of quiet is anything BUT “unproductive.”

Week 1: Avignon 🏯🇫🇷During my recent four-week leave from work, I spent my first week in Avignon—a historic walled city i...
06/12/2026

Week 1: Avignon 🏯🇫🇷

During my recent four-week leave from work, I spent my first week in Avignon—a historic walled city in the Provence region of southern France. Amazingly, the Palais des Papes was the home to seven popes, which I didn’t know until this trip!

I also saw the famous “Bridge to Nowhere, commonly known as Pont d’Avignon. Originally stretching nearly 900 meters with 22 arches, it kept collapsing from floods and other issues and was eventually abandoned in the 17th century. Today, only four arches remain, stopping abruptly in the middle of the river.

06/10/2026

The woes of trying to create content between sessions 😅

06/09/2026

Don’t back your partner into a corner; it’s not a good look 🫠

06/04/2026

Reflections after getting the hell out of here for three whole weeks 💛🥹 (and I will say, I’m fully aware of how much of a luxury and privilege it is to take that much time off, let alone travel 🙏).

06/02/2026

TRUST ME WHEN I SAY there’s a time and a place to challenge someone and see another’s perspective…

AND THEN THERE ARE TIMES when that’s just so not cool in my books, in and outside the therapy room 😂

Who is in your “special place in hell” books?

Today I made these simple, 6-ingredient, gluten-free crackers that were SO easy to make—and delicious to boot! Why? Beca...
06/01/2026

Today I made these simple, 6-ingredient, gluten-free crackers that were SO easy to make—and delicious to boot!

Why? Because so many crackers are SUPER processed, and many contain quite bit of sugar, too!

Recipe 👩‍🍳:
3/4 cups of finely ground almond flour
1/4 cup ground flaxseeds
1/4 cup nutritional yeast
2 tablespoons of water
1 tablespoon of olive oil
1/4 teaspoon of salt (plus more for sprinkling)
Optional: garlic powder, onion powder, or other spices you’d like to use in your crackers! If using everything bagel seasoning, remove the salt from this recipe.

Instructions ⏲️:
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees (or 325 degrees if using a convection bake setting).
2. Add all of the ingredients to a medium-sized bowl and stir with a fork until it’s a crumbly dough.
3. Line a small baking sheet with parchment paper. Put the dough on top and flatten with your hands into a rough square shape. Place another piece of parchment paper on top and use a rolling pin to roll the dough very flat and thin.
4. Lightly score the dough with a sharp knife for easier breaking later. Sprinkle the top with sea salt or more spices if you wish.
5. Cook in the oven until golden brown. (You may start at 12 min. and work your way up from there. Mine took about 20 min. because I didn’t quite roll it thin enough 😅).
6. Cut the crackers into squares of whatever size you prefer.

For me, I really liked the taste of these but will acknowledge that they weren’t as crunchy as store-bought crackers, but it could have been because mine weren’t fully rolled thinly enough 🫠. I prefer these to store bought crackers any day just for knowing what I’m putting into my body!

05/07/2026

Creatine is actually naturally produced in the body and helps power cells by rapidly regenerating ATP—the fuel that keeps our muscles, brain, and heart running during intense activity.

Research now shows that supplementing with creatine can boost short bursts of physical performance and may even support mood, memory, and cognitive speed—especially in people with lower baseline levels.

According to a recent study by Taylor & Francis group, supplementation began with a “loading phase” of 20g per day (split into four doses) for 5 - 7 days. This was then followed by a “maintenance dose” of 3 - 5g per day. This approach “rapidly saturates muscle creatine stores, but a lower daily dose of 3 - 5g can achieve a similar saturation over a longer period” (of approximately 28 days), according to Dr. Boroujerdi, who was part of this research.

I personally supplement with creatine with Primal Queen’s “Goddess Bites.” 5 gummies pack 5g of creatine, so you can control your dosage accordingly if you want to take less or more (and they taste great). Primal Queen is a woman-owned company made BY women for women, and I really love their stuff (including their beef liver supplement). They’ve been kind enough to gift my followers 25% off your first purchase if you check out the link in my bio ➡️!

05/05/2026

Depression is NOT about “just being sad all the time.”

SOURCES:

(2022). “How and why are irritability and depression linked?” Child and Adolescent Psychiatrics Clinics of North America.

(2009). “Irritability is associated with anxiety and greater severity, but not bipolar spectrum features, in major depressive disorder.” Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavia.

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L3R 9S7

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Tuesday 9am - 9pm
Wednesday 9am - 9pm
Thursday 9am - 9pm
Friday 9am - 9pm
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