Mindful Conversations: Why you should embrace laughter
Welcome to a brand new series on KelownaNow where we’ll talk about healing and being more mindful. Our host, Nikki Csek, will talk with different guests each episode about topics that will inspire a new sense of mindfulness!
Today, Nikki sat down with Paige Mathison from Another Chapter Counselling to discuss the “unprecedented” times we are living in and how we can better cope, instead of suffering in silence.
Paige talks about her prior career as a psychiatric nurse, and her transition into counselling, where she found she could really impact people’s quality of life.
“Quality of life truly comes down to being able to enhance those moments of joy and happiness, because even when the world is filled with misery or really tragic things, we are in this lifetime living it,” expresses Paige. “We need to reclaim our life, which we haven't been able to do as much, or we went through such a huge shift for so many years now people are really struggling to reintegrate.”
Paige and Nikki go over the toll that the pandemic took on many people, and how laughter is often the most healing thing we can do to make it through challenging times.
Paige says that she encourages laughter in her sessions, but that laughter can be both a sign of pain, and a “beautiful sign of release.”
“It’s the genuine laughter that is healing,” she adds.
Learn more by listening to the full episode! Stay tuned for the next edition of Mindful Conversations!
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