Christine McPhail MSc, MA, RD, RP

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Christine McPhail MSc, MA, RD, RP

🌈 Queer, Weight-Inclusive & Feminist
🦋 2SLGBTQIA* + EDs + grief + life transitions + self-compassion
🏡 Co-Founder .counselling

08/28/2025

Wondering if your friendship is a healthy one? These are some signs you can look for. Friendships can be a powerful source of healing and connection. A healthy friendship doesn’t mean it’s perfect or free of conflict—it means there’s mutual respect, care, and safety 🩷✨

As a therapist, I often remind people that friendship is about quality, not quantity. Even one supportive, balanced friendship can make a big difference for your mental health. We are social beings, who benefit from positive social interaction even on a casual level!

👉Did I miss anything? What would you add?

08/26/2025

Taking care of myself is important. Here are some ways I fill my cup ✨🩷

🌿 Getting outside, for a walk, just to rest, to garden, you name it!

☕ Spending a cozy morning with brunch, coffee and a book.

🎶 I love music. Playing music that shifts my mood or allows me to connect with my emotions more.

📺 Watching documentaries, nostalgic TV and movies!

🧘 Stretching or moving my body gently. My foam roller is the best.

✍️ Journaling what’s on my mind or practicing some creative writing.

🤝 Talking with a friend who gets it or speaking with my therapist

🎨 Crafting, drawing, colouring, and cross stitching.

😌 Letting myself rest without guilt and just seeing what I feel like doing.

08/21/2025

Friendly Reminder that therapy IS political ✨✨✨

As a therapist, I see the invisible weight people carry living under capitalism. An economic system that we are taught to accept and not question.

Under capitalism, burnout is normalized. Rest is labeled as “laziness" or something you have to earn. Self-worth gets tied to productivity and monetary achievements. Basic needs (housing, healthcare, food) can feel like privileges instead of human rights.

Therapy can help us reclaim compassion for ourselves, but collective healing also means naming the systems that harm us and challenging and changing them.

It’s not a personal failing if you’re struggling — it’s a systemic issue.

08/14/2025

Grief is a story you carry...❤

I love this metaphor for working through grief and how we grow around it mentally and emotionally.

Grief can feel like a chapter you didn’t want to write— one filled with loss, ache, and longing. Over time, you may add other chapters to it or edits and revisions. You will continue to write chapters in your own book. The grief chapter will always be part of the book, but it will not be the only one.

08/12/2025

✨🩷 Every human has a story or narrative. Some of these stories help us, while others keep us stuck in roles that don’t fit. Narrative therapy helps us notice, question, and re-author the stories that no longer serve us. Thankfully, we can examine and create new narratives. Ones that reflect our values, our voice, and our truth.🩷✨

08/07/2025

Therapy doesn’t only happen in the therapy room! ✨🌿💛

Nature can be a quiet, steady support for your mental health—reducing stress, lifting mood, and offering space to reconnect with yourself and your environment.

And no, it doesn’t need to be a mountain retreat or guided hike. Nature is all around us such as: a balcony breeze, your feet in the grass, or even noticing a tree outside your window!

🌱 What’s your favourite way to be in nature?

08/05/2025

I'm not a regular dietitian...I'm a cool dietitian! ✨🩷🌿

Here's some insight into things you might overhear in one of my nutrition counselling sessions. Helping people heal their relationship with food and use food as a a source of joy and nourishment that it can be, is something I'm so grateful for!

07/30/2025

Affirmations won’t erase the pain of grief, but they can offer a soft place to land, when you are struggling with it. If you’re carrying loss, these reminders are for you. Save or share if they resonate 🖤

07/28/2025

✨💛🩷 Grief can be such a confusing and painful human experience and it's one we will all experience because death and loss generally is a part of life. I've worked through grief and found I really benefited from support because of how complex it was. I now hope to give my clients that space and understanding to help them navigate their own experiences with grief.

Grief can be sadness, numbness, anger, exhaustion, even laughter. It can come in waves, or catch you off guard years later.

If you’re grieving right now, I see you 🩷💛✨

07/23/2025

I work with some pretty incredible humans! I am grateful that I get to do this work everyday ✨🌿

Here's what I want my clients to know:

-I have so much respect for you! Asking for support and being vulnerable with another human is SO brave. I still think it’s pretty amazing how you are learning and growing and showing up for yourself.

-I sometimes worry if I’m doing “enough” in our work for you and with you. Thankfully, I seek supervision and your feedback regularly. I know showing up for you with compassion is the most important thing and I am grateful for your feedback too!

-You inspire me! Your life may be similar or very different from mine but I think you’re someone to admire. Getting to hear your story and how it changes is such a privilege.

-I do not have all the answers! I am a messy human too and seek my own therapy for a reason. I love my work and I have worked hard to learn more for you all but I trust your lived experience and intuition more than a textbook intervention.

Thanks for sharing your time with me always! 🩷

07/21/2025

I discovered the concept of self-compassion in my own healing journey (special thanks to my therapist!). I understood the concept but truly had not applied it to myself intentionally. It may seem like a simple concept but as I worked through The Mindful Self-Compassion Workbook by Kristin Neff PhD and Christopher Germer PhD, I realized I had to do a lot of unlearning and learning and of course practice.

Here's an important expert about self-compassion, that can be great to re-visit as you try to implement self-compassion in your life.

Self-compassion has three parts:

1️⃣ Self-kindness – Talking to yourself with care instead of criticism. You may not realize how harshly you speak to yourself in comparison to how you speak to others. A great starting place is thinking about what you would say to a close friend or loved one.

2️⃣ Common humanity – Reminding yourself you’re not alone in your struggle and that suffering is a universal human experience. Pain that leaves us feeling isolated just hurts more. Connecting to the broader human experience can help us feel less "broken".

3️⃣ Mindfulness – Meeting your emotions with curiosity, not judgment. Knowing that they will pass and that they don't need to influence your next move.

07/18/2025

🫶🩷✨ Let's talk about the weight-inclusive approach to nutrition care

My first career was working as a dietitian (before I became a therapist too hehe) and that is where I learned that weight-centric messaging was getting in the way for many of my clients. They distrusted themselves and felt shame, especially when they kept hearing "they weren't doing enough" from health professionals and society. I could see it was doing harm to them and I wanted no part of it. This prompted me to start to examine different ways of approaching nutrition, which eventually lead me to the weight-inclusive approach to health and fat liberation as well. It has made a world of a difference in my work with clients!

The weight-inclusive approach isn’t just about being “body positive”—
It’s far more nuanced and complex. It's about reducing harm, challenging stigma, and improving access to respectful, effective care for everyone.

The weight-inclusive approach recognizes that all bodies are worthy of compassionate, evidence-based care—without shame or stigma 🫶🩷✨

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http://www.blossomcounsellingcentre.com/, https://blossomcounselling.janeapp.com/

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