Uliana Nevzorova, M.A. - Counselling and Psychotherapy

06/22/2026

Solid advice 👍

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06/18/2026

The transformative power of taking responsibility for your actions ☀️

Not saying it’s easy tho… if you are struggling to do it alone, get professional support.

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06/09/2026

True words of wisdom - you cannot think your way into a new way of living, you can only live your way into a new way of thinking.

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05/31/2026

Medications can be helpful but need to be accompanied by work in therapy

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05/06/2026

I am delighted to introduce Valeriya Chalmers, a Russian-speaking couples therapist in Winnipeg:

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05/01/2026

Check out this amazing resource, run by two Winnipeg psyhologists, for parents to help navigate screen time for their kids: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61583036493761

Drs. Jo Ann Unger and Michelle Warren help families learn about healthy screen time use for toddlers to teens.

04/19/2026

04/19/2026

Are you looking for an interesting book? I absolutely recommend this one - it’s an eye opening and entertaining book about how group think and dogma affect new ideas in medicine and how that impacts public (our!) health. I hope you give it a read and enjoy it!

03/23/2026

🧠🗣️ YOUR WORDS ARE MAKING YOU SICK (LITERALLY) TW THE SCIENCE OF THE "NOCEBO EFFECT" THAT SUPPRESSES YOUR IMMUNE SYSTEM

Are you the type to constantly repeat "I feel bad," "I'm exhausted," or "I'm old"? There's a "neurobiological programming" that science is validating in 2026. Your cells don't have ears, but they have chemical receptors that pick up every signal sent by your brain. When you speak out of scarcity or disease, you're not just describing a reality; you're sending a direct order to your system to execute it. Your body is the most loyal soldier: it simply obeys your voice.

The phenomenon is known as the Nocebo Effect. Just as positive thinking can heal, constant negative affirmations release an immediate cascade of Cortisol and Adrenaline. These stress hormones, at sustained levels, inhibit the production of lymphocytes and T cells, leaving your immune shield "deactivated" and vulnerable in minutes. Negative language is, in practice, a self-administered poison that withers your vitality from within.

THE MISTAKE OF THE MAJORITY: Using language as a simple outlet mechanism without understanding its physiological impact. By normalizing phrases of defeat or weakness, you train your nervous system to operate in a state of constant survival. Ignoring that your internal and external dialogue is the software that runs on your biological hardware is why so many treatments fail: you're trying to heal the body while language keeps bombarding the mind with signs of deterioration.

TECHNICAL SOLUTION: Neuroplasticity

demonstrates that we can 'rewire' our biological response by changing the narrative. By replacing limiting labels with process and possibility affirmations, we reduce tonsil activation and allow the parasympathetic nervous system to initiate cellular repair functions. Research from Harvard University has confirmed that using constructive language not only improves mood, but optimizes heart rate variability and strengthens inflammatory response, demonstrating that words are biological engineering tools.
PROTOCOL TO REPROGRAM YOUR BIOLOGY:

Identify the Poison: Become aware of your "sickness crutches" (e.g. "I'm sleepy," "this is going to kill me"); whenever you say them, you're reinforcing a stress neural pathway.

Conscious Substitution: Change "I'm sick" to

"my body is working on healing"; the first is a static identity, the second is an active biological process.

The Wake-Up Window: Your first words of the

day program your morning chemistry; avoid complaining as soon as you open your eyes so you don't shoot an unnecessary cortisol spike.

Listen to your Environment: Surround yourself

with narratives that add vitality; the nocebo effect is also contagious and the words of others can affect your own internal chemistry.

Source 📚: Harvard Medical School / Journal of Psychosomatic Research (2025). "The neurobiology of the nocebo effect: How verbal suggestions and negative narratives impact immune function and endocrine response".

Have you ever noticed a link between your words and your physical energy? What's one common negative phrase you hear that could be reframed?

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