Shannon M Simms Insight Counselling & Consulting Ltd

10/10/2025

It’s World Mental Health Day.
Prioritize care of your brain 🧠

🌍 World Mental Health Day 2025 💚

Behind every badge, uniform, and title — there’s a human being carrying stories most will never see.

According to , nearly 1 in 2 public safety personnel in Canada screen positive for at least one mental health condition: 21% for PTSD, 27% for anxiety, and 26.9% for mood disorders. These aren’t signs of weakness — they’re the result of exposure, service, and sacrifice.

Across Canada, 1 in 5 adults experience a mental health disorder each year, yet only half reach out for help. Too often, stigma keeps people silent — the fear of being judged, of being seen differently, of not being “strong enough.”

💬 Let’s change that narrative. Asking for help is not a failure — it’s courage. It’s the first step toward healing.

Today, and every day, we honour all those who show up despite the weight they carry. You are seen. You matter.

09/11/2025

September 11, 2001
We will never forget.
Remembering those who lost their lives, those who gave their lives, and thinking of everyone whose lives were changed forever

11/11/2024

🇨🇦 Remembering & Honouring those who made the ultimate sacrifice, human and service animal alike.

Remembering those gone forever and those forever changed.

Appreciating all the emphasis on the psychological health of our military family this year. The Silver Cross Mother at the National Remembrance in Ottawa this year lost both of her sons (her only children), who took their own lives due to PTSD.
I’ve always appreciated the philosophy that Post Traumatic Stress is a Response, rather than labelling it a Disorder, it’s a natural response to unnatural or overwhelming circumstances.
If we break our leg, we have no shame asking for help to treat that. I’m glad the stigma is reducing regarding experiences that (understandably) ‘break’ our brain.

07/10/2024

Accepting the Yin & Yang of life:

Life is amazing, and it’s awful, and it’s ordinary, mundane, routine & boring.

‘Breathe in the amazing, hold on through the awful and relax and exhale through the ordinary.
That’s just living heartbreaking, soul-healing, amazing, awful, ordinary life’. L.R. Knost

Leave room for possibilities 🌟

06/17/2024

A common experience in my work - people who have found gambling as the only ‘medicine’ that helps them escape physical pain and/or emotional / psychological pain. Here’s a short podcast episode with some tips to help identify the risks & help get back in the driver’s seat around gambling.

Fold Em Podcast - Gambling Problem Help
Kuldip Counselling & Consulting

03/01/2024

Excuse the language, but I think a lot of us are feeling this way 😆☀️

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