UpLift: Victoria, B.C. - Badge of Awesome

Enjoy a few laughs while revving up your resilience

No matter who you are, we all face stretches of stormy weather. UpLift is a one-of-a-kind wellness program designed to help you navigate those difficult times.

This webinar series was created by Josh Martin: a cancer survivor, author and regular guest facilitator for the Canadian Mental Health Association. In each of the modules below, you’ll find obstacle-busting advice and practical resources, drawing on lessons learned from life’s awesome and absurd moments.

Special thanks

A huge thank you to our amazing sponsors for making this resource possible!

Charlaine Robinson & Associates

When life gets overwhelming, we can help. Our team of EMDR therapists are dedicated to helping you to realize your potential and live a fulfilling life. We use cutting-edge, evidence-based, and results-oriented therapeutic methods and strive to provide a safe space where you feel valued and respected.

We consider it a privilege to walk alongside our clients on their path to healing and well-being and tailor our approach with flexibility and creativity to address your unique needs.

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Jessica Card Counselling

Everyone feels stuck sometimes. I help individuals, couples and families navigate conflicts, create thriving relationships and achieve personal growth.

My approach to counselling is holistic, integrative, and practical. I strive to provide tailored, individualized therapy that is strength based, emotionally focused, and aimed at practical outcomes that lead to meaningful change. My practice is trauma informed and culturally inclusive. Clients can expect a compassionate, judgment-free, unbiased approach, along with the most current counselling practices.

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Emma Watt Counselling

In my counselling practice, I emphasize the therapeutic relationship by centering collaboration and empowering my client’s agency and inherent strengths. Using an integrative approach, I focus on meaningful and actionable strategies to support sustainable personal growth. While I enjoy working with a diverse range of clients and challenges, my specialties include navigating life transitions, addressing relationship challenges, and enhancing performance through sport psychology. Reach out to book a free 20 minute consultation for more information!

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Lynne Cowburn Counselling

With 30 years of experience, I am a committed counselor and certified trauma specialist (SEP), deeply passionate about helping individuals heal and grow authentically. My personal experiences, coupled with my professional training, enable me to foster a safe and nurturing environment for meaningful psychological, emotional, and spiritual development. Additionally, I work metaphysically with the Akashic Records, providing insights into past lives, karmic patterns, and profound truths. It is an honour to support my clients on their unique journeys, in whatever form and timeframe they choose.

Lynne Cowburn M.Ed. BSW. SEP. RSW (9543)

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Viewpoints Counselling

At Viewpoints Counselling, we believe in the power of a trusting therapeutic relationship. Within this context we develop a stance of self-compassionate curiosity towards our thoughts, feelings and behaviours, and enter down a path of healing, self-reflection and personal growth.

Our therapists are experienced in working with anxiety, depression, trauma, separation and divorce, grief and loss, life transitions, interpersonal difficulties, and more.

Sessions are offered in-person and online. Book a free 20 minute consultation today.

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Soul & Soil Integrative Counselling | Sylvain Todd

Informed by my diverse experience, I offer a compassionate, integrative approach, treating the individual as a complex whole, honouring our relationships with ourselves, our communities and our planet.

I blend talk therapy with parts work, somatic, narrative, creative and ecotherapeutic techniques to address CPTSD, attachment and developmental trauma, depression, anxiety, high sensitivity, environmental and existential distress, as well as being deeply passionate about personal growth.

Offering free 15-minute consultation and solutions to make counselling accessible.

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Enjoy a free wellness webinar series

Lift up your inner awesomeness. Each self-directed module below features entertaining stories from my many misadventures, advice about tackling adversity and a collection of practical resources.

Module 1. Making your own luck: Lessons learned from a coin flip

Module 2. Improving adaptability: Lessons learned from an absurd Christmas tree

Module 3. Embracing teamwork: Lessons learned from a rogue haybale

Module 4. Leveraging tools: Lessons learned from a poorly chosen sledgehammer

Module 5. Learning humility: Lessons learned from a very brief career as a valet

Module 6. Failing forward: Lessons learned from banshee babies and buttered butts

Module 7. Avoiding shortcuts: Lessons learned from a giant backpack

Module 8. Redefining success: Lessons learned from an idiotic bet

Module 9. Letting go: Lessons learned from a gooey pit of clay

Module 10. Taking responsibility: Lessons learned from trying to catch a train

Module 11. Getting creative: Lessons learned from the toboggan hill

Module 12. Fuelling motivation: Lessons learned from sleeping in a barn

Module 13. Handing over control: Lessons learned from riding in a shopping cart

Module 14. Practising gratitude: Lessons learned from a very special list

Module 15. Prioritizing self-care: Lessons learned from a surprise birthday celebration

Module 16. Creating lasting change: Lessons learned from life’s awesome and absurd moments

Celebrate local difference-makers

As Mr. Rogers said, “When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, ‘Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.’” And across Vancouver Island, you’ll find wonderful community organizations doing exactly that, stepping up to make a positive difference. Here are just a few that we think deserve a Badge of Awesome.