I have to admit, this question puzzles me! Why would anybody ask? We don’t usually question the need for seeing a physiotherapist, a GP, a dietician, or a dentist. What’s different about our mind, our psychological fitness? We don’t get … Continued
As the year was coming to the end many of us were looking back and thinking of everything that happened in the last 12 months. There are summaries, lists, videos, blogs, etc. saying that it was a bad year, tragic … Continued
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On September 18 Squamish will host a charity bike ride called: “Ride away the stigma of mental illness”. What a great idea! There is certainly a lot to do in order to change our thinking about mental illness and its … Continued
What a “life purpose” really means? It’s been discussed so many times in different ways and from a different perspective. We often refer to “life purpose” as to a thing that we have to achieve in life in order to … Continued
The latest “Psychology Today” magazine published an interesting article about a “Becoming a man” project in Chicago that deals with youth violence. The program is unique and very successful. In fact, the most successful of all the programs of this … Continued
I like First Nations stories. They carry the wisdom and power that is quite different from what I have been brought up with. They are simple with the simplicity of nature; easy to see and mysterious at the same time. … Continued
This question comes up one way or another in every relationship, whether in a casual discussion, in the heat of an argument or in a therapeutic session. Quite often couples can’t agree on the answer, with one partner feeling and complaining … Continued
There is a beautiful, apparently original Native American story about two wolves. It goes like that: A Cherokee elder was teaching his grandchildren about life. He said to them, “A fight is going on inside me…..it is a terrible fight … Continued
This idea may sound strange to you, or even outrageous, considering the amount of suffering depression brings to more and more people in our society. The understanding of this contemporary plague is shifting and so are criteria for diagnosis, treatment … Continued