Rescue won't get dogs back
Single-use cup fee repealed
Rash of suspicious fires
Safety recall on scooters
Fight over psilocybin access
Women are drinking more
Planets on parade this week
Shooter bought 7 guns
Tornadoes may get worse
Bank rules under review
Charged with China bribes
Owed more by Flair
Cristall a WHL all-star
Teen sets world record
Rockets up for challenge
'Rattled' after ski crash
Ratajkowski to freeze eggs
Homme accuses Dalle
Antidotes to Emptiness
When things are going well
Although there are many great aspects to psychology and psychotherapy, one pitfall is that sometimes we can get too focused on problem solving. This can...
Feeling stuck
Last week I wrote about change and how we need to take action in order to change. Sometimes change is also in how we see the world, think about ourselves, treat...
You have to change to change
One of my favorite authors, Irvin Yalom, MD, is a psychotherapist who has written a book entitled Existential Psychotherapy. I’m sure I have mentioned him...
Anxiety and Control
Anxiety is a complicated mental, emotional, and physical human experience. There is not usually one answer or cause to one’s experience of anxiety....
Who are you?
So often in counselling/psychotherapy/social work and many self-help books, the focus is on “fixing” pathology. The focus is on exploring...
Addiction is good for you!
I’ve written before on the idea that addiction can give a person reason to look more deeply into his/her life, resolving issues, hurts, and longings...
Hope
Hope doesn’t seem to be a word we use much anymore – at least I haven’t used it much and I don’t hear others using it. I hear my clients...
Addiction in relationships
I work with couples that are trying to mend their relationships after or during the impact of an addiction. There is a typical dance that happens in many of...
Addiction and potential
The more I work with the phenomenon of addiction, the more fascinating it becomes as an extremely dynamic coping strategy – dynamic in the sense that it can...
I don""t love you anymore
“I don’t love you anymore,” is a phrase that gets thrown around either in the middle of a deteriorating relationship or at the end. One person does not...
Our existence
In continuation of last week, I wanted to address the third area of the unseen – our spiritual/existential dimension. This is another area that often plagues...
The unseen
I am struck by the impact of the unseen in our lives as human beings. I spend most of my time with clients talking about aspects of themselves or their lives...
Holiday depression
Now that we are pretty much into the holiday season, I wanted to write an article for those of you who do not find this time of year to be full of holiday...
Emotional sobriety
This week I wanted to share a book that can be quite helpful to those struggling to overcome addictions or to manage their more drastic emotions. Emotional...
Space and place
An area of our lives that does not always get a lot of attention in the realms of psychology and spirituality is that of place. There is a lot of focus on...
You are not your emotions
One thing the Eastern religions have given us in the West is a perspective that we are not our emotions, that we are the part that can observe our emotions and...
Coloring outside the lines
“Hey, you! Yea, you! Why you trying to be so perfect? Who do you think you are anyway? Do you really think you are going to work so hard that you never let...
Acceptance and change
Acceptance can be a very powerful approach or mindset to deal with suffering. It is not always about self-acceptance but overall acceptance of the way things...
Something to hold on to
Gordon Neufeld and Gabor Mate wrote a book entitled Hold On To Your Kids, which is written for the purpose of educating parents on the concept and practice of...
Boredom
Psychologist Rollo May (1909-1994) wrote quite a bit on the issues of our existence as human beings, especially subjects such as anxiety and emptiness. In his...
