Mia Logie Therapeutic Counselling

01/01/2025

Happy New Year!! 🥂💫🌺

Feeling very proud this is how I started mine!! 2 minutes, yay!

Below is a guide to doing your own! I would not have made it unless I had two motivators with me, and they started in for 12 minutes!!

10/03/2024

Been a long time since I wrote a blog! Here is one that might be helpful for parents and caretakers of ND kids, and for those who wonder if their brains may be differently wired!

Neurodiversity Neurodivergent (ND) Neurotypical (NT) AuDHD ND-affirmative Self-diagnosis Late-diagnosed Masking Ableism Internalised ableism Invisible disability Variable ability Rejection sensitivity Demand avoidance Autism ADHD PDA Gifted female-presenting CPS Self-reg Disordered eating ARFID

02/26/2024

Thoughts from the teenage soup kitchen:

This past year I have had the pleasure of hosting up to a dozen kids for lunch Monday through Friday. I get to see my kids and their friends as they move through high school. It has been a huge support for my youngest as he has adjusted to the independence and responsibilities that come with this territory. These are two things that I have learned.

1. You don’t have to be a cool parent. The don’t want someone to get involved in their business. They just want an adult that is available when they need something, and that cares and notices and may anticipate what they mau not know themselves. So my ability to be a fly on the wall come in rather handy ;D There is no need to entertain. Doing so probably would make them feel less comfortable.

2. Most of them want carbs and cheese (and the ones that don’t bring their own food). I have become an expert at quickly dishing out grilled cheese sandwiches, or a large pot of mac n’ cheese. Fresh is best. If they can also charge their phones you have pretty much fulfilled all the teenage needs on the Maslow’s hierarchy :D

Next year I’m hoping to phase down the actual making of food to save myself some time. We’ll see how it goes! For now I am enjoying the priceless witnessing of them in their friend habitat!

12/07/2020

This is such a beautiful video on adolescence! It came to me through a training I am doing on family therapy. It shows the different perrspectives we come to as parents and teens, and how when we can let that go and see what the other is facing, we can just be with and support each other!

Clinicians Ben Taussig and Vanessa Knight, as well as colleague in graduate school who wishes to be unnamed, created this piece as an educational capstone pr...

09/15/2020

I can not say I have been a huge fan of Pink’s music. I do love her voice and what she stands for. This is a beautiful sentiment on relationship and the work it can take to stay together. Real, honest and authentic.

My friend took this photo of us. He’s still my favorite sweet little dirtball. He and I have been at this a long time, and it is our relentless and stubborn idealism that keeps us together.
Marriage is awful, wonderful, comfort and rage.
It is boring, terrifying, and a total nail biter.
It is loving another fallible creature while trying to love yourself.
It is a lifetime of coming back to the table. People laugh at us because we’re either fighting or laughing. They roll their eyes when we talk about therapy.
But I’ll tell you what. It’s worth it.
All of it.
Even when it isn’t. Therapy isn’t for weak people or hippies or liberals. It’s for broken people that want to be whole. It’s for runaways that want a family. It’s a lesson on how to sit down and listen. How to love yourself so that the other person can, too. I love you babe. I’m grateful we made it to this photo

06/20/2020

Sometimes life gets overwhelming. We may be coming up against major challenges. It may feel like no one has our back.

When we open up our emotional underbelly it is important that we pace the process, and feel supported in it. This is where your therapist will help you. Avoiding too much, too soon. Ensuring that we have built in a supportive connection in the relationship. Creating and facilitating structures and relationships that you can turn to for support.