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Bob Rennebohm Clinical Social Worker Clinical Social Worker providing Counselling in the Columbia Valley, British Columbia and other locations upon request.

FULL Counselling services including EMDR, Clinical Hypnosis and PACT couples therapy

I teach the material in this article daily. Mastering the concepts forms the basis for mental wellness. Nice to see it a...
09/27/2026

I teach the material in this article daily. Mastering the concepts forms the basis for mental wellness. Nice to see it all pulled together in one summary. The material is complex, it has taken a decade to learn it all, and to turn it into actions that clients can actually take. It helps to have a coach as you try to implement the concepts in your life but the article can inform your search for a coach/therapist.

Your body can begin settling after an emotional surge, yet your mind can restart the stress response. That overlooked loop could change how you build resilience.

As I continue to work with helping clients learn to manage their anxiety, so-called 'breath work' comes up all the time....
09/16/2026

As I continue to work with helping clients learn to manage their anxiety, so-called 'breath work' comes up all the time. Much more immediate and more effective than any of the medication options for anxiety, the conscious management of your breathing is unequivocally the most useful tool for anxiety. Simple, always available, can be unobtrusive, it can be used in crisis but is best used preventatively to lower your 'resting level of arousal'. When your body is calmer/quieter, your mind can be as well and everything works better.

This fascinating article gives you some background on the basics of 'breath work'.

Subtle variations in the breath trace electrical signaling in the brain

As I know some of you read the articles I label 'complex', here's another one looking at Polyvagal Theory. I read Porges...
08/08/2026

As I know some of you read the articles I label 'complex', here's another one looking at Polyvagal Theory. I read Porges work where he lays out the basics of Polyvagal Theory not long after his first book. Took a couple of tries to absorb the material but it continues to shape what I do now with clients. If you're serious, go to the source material - however, this article is a quicker primer. It lays out the basics of why we need each other for our best mental wellness!

“The mind narrates what the nervous system knows. Story follows state.”

These days my title is 'mental wellness clinician'. People are referred to me by their doctor when they believe that it ...
08/04/2026

These days my title is 'mental wellness clinician'. People are referred to me by their doctor when they believe that it is possible for one of their patients to be 'more' mentally well. This has proven to be a challenging but satisfying role. In most instances, there is some changeable aspect of their lives that, with some effort, can shift in a life improving way. And, in most instances, I know what they might do to make that shift. Often, in addition to their willingness to make the effort, I need to loan them some hope. Hope can be in short supply when barriers to mental wellness pile up or seem to have been around forever! The article below is about the malleability (changeability) of life, I've wrestled with the ideas since my early teen years as I've fought my way forward through my ADHD to an evolving (never static) spot of my mental wellness. There's a few demons, hard places to find yourself, covered in the article but it does affirm that so called 'mental wellness' is available to you.

Sameen DavidImagine finding out that all the feelings you secretly hope are “just in your head” are actually sharp, accurate readings of reality. Not symptoms to fix, but signals that the universe might really be as cold, indifferent, and absurd as your worst 3 a.m. thoughts suggest. That is a c...

06/27/2026

The dreaded 3 am awakening:

Sameen DavidYou know that feeling: you snap awake around three in the morning, heart quietly pounding, mind racing, replaying old conversations, imagining worst‑case scenarios. It feels like you have suddenly become the most anxious version of yourself. But what modern neuroscience suggests is far...

Worth a read:
06/07/2026

Worth a read:

Researchers scanned people’s brains while they named their emotions. What happened next may explain why some people stay calm under pressure while others spiral.

Covers the neurobiology of some of your most unhelpful cognitive habits:
05/12/2026

Covers the neurobiology of some of your most unhelpful cognitive habits:

Every overthinking tip assumes the loop starts with a thought. Psychologists say it starts much earlier, and that changes everything about how to stop it.

Clients sometimes ask about their diagnosis, especially if they've been doing their own research and they're suspicious ...
05/06/2026

Clients sometimes ask about their diagnosis, especially if they've been doing their own research and they're suspicious that they fit the criteria for Borderline Personality. I spend time explaining that a diagnosis, in most situations, does not inform their treatment, either psychotherapeutic or for a medication choice. Identifying solvable life problems does. Here's a quote from this article that fits this issue:"And as Benji Waterhouse, a British NHS psychiatrist (and stand-up comedian), puts it, “Sometimes I wonder if the medical-sounding diagnoses, clusters and codes that I’m forced to enter on endless forms couldn’t more honestly be replaced by ‘NFI’ (no fu***ng idea), ‘SLS’ (sh*t-life syndrome), or ‘PNA’ (pretty normal actually).”. A mental wellness perspective suggest we all need to smile a bit more! You might appreciate the article.

As mental health diagnoses become more common and expansive, the labels meant to help us understand our suffering may be oversimplifying it.

More clients inquire about whether the focus on the vagus nerve in popular psychology is relevant to the work we're tryi...
04/30/2026

More clients inquire about whether the focus on the vagus nerve in popular psychology is relevant to the work we're trying to do. There isn't a short answer to that question but there are people selling technology to 'stimulate the vagal nerve', there's not much to back up the claims associated with such devices. Here's a decent look at the history of this growing g area of interest and inquiry. And Stephen Porges' book The Polyvagal Theory: Neurophysiological Foundations of Emotions, Attachment, Communication, and Self-regulation is your go to if you're serious about the topic (it's a dense read, I've read it twice, I'm still learning and I'll head back for a third go one if these days.

“The mind narrates what the nervous system knows. Story follows state.”

The concepts in this article can be critical in deconstructing and reconstructing your mental health! I'm often dealing...
02/28/2026

The concepts in this article can be critical in deconstructing and reconstructing your mental health! I'm often dealing with clients struggling with their important relationships. They are certain they're 'right' and they're stunned and hurt by how wilfully 'wrong' the other person's perspective is. Even worse, they've started to become suspicious that they have had this struggle in other relationships (what if it's me and not them?). It can be a hard slog forward from these moments as you realize just how fluid reality is, you construct your reality through all of your past experiences, the shaky first steps away from the certainty that your way of understanding the world is RIGHT rather than simply your best available guess is unsettling at first. When your therapist says 'perhaps there's another way to look at this', your mind yells 'how can you be on their side'. Stick with the discomfort, your therapist is trying to help you find some cognitive flexibility to carry you past a 'reality shift' that arises from your past and that has kept you trapped and unhappy.

SumiIf you’ve ever walked away from an argument thinking, “How can we have experienced the same thing and remember it so differently?”, you’ve already bumped into a strange truth: reality isn’t a fixed movie you passively watch, it’s more like a custom-made edit your brain assembles on t...

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