Candace describes how her support group helped her to learn tools to take care of herself.
Transcript
It’s a peer support group. So there’s no, you know, therapist or counsellor there. It’s run by one of the Early Years facilitators, and we usually spend the first part of the group, we do a check in. So whether that be a, you know, balloon exer, we call them the balloon exercises. So we usually get a balloon and we write down something that we’d like to let go of. And so, we write it down, we stick it on the board, and we do a letting go exercise. Then we have some time to share. So some people need more time to share than others, depending on the week, as you can imagine while things come up. And then we have a break. And then the last part of the group is about learning different coping skills and strategies. So we go as basic as … Well, I say basic, but for … We do breathing exercises together. We will do … The other day we actually we did mantras, which was very fitting for me because that’s something I’m into right now. So they ha, sometimes they’ll have activity sheets, where we were, we are able to create our own mantras. We do a lot of active sharing, or we’ll do paired act, paired sharing, and then bringing it back to the group to sort of share what we’ve discussed. We also use the Post Partum Pacific.
Interviewer: What’s that?
Oh. Post Partum Pacific is a completely Canadian resource on adjustment related to postpartum issues. So they have tons of resources. They’ve got videos. They’ve got … We’ll talk about it more later. [Laughs]
Interviewer: Is it, is it an online thing?
Yes. It’s run, it’s run out of BC.
Interviewer: Okay.
PMH13: And … [clears throat] Excuse me. They have a website. And so, they have a sort of like a training package that I believe our support group is sort of being run based off of.
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