You know those times which none of us want to admit having, but we all do. The ones where we are glad the windows are shut and the curtains drawn because there exists a side of us we’d just rather not admit to anyone? Yeah, Sabrina Friesen had one of those mornings. Today. Sabrina is …
Skipper and the Problem
Skipper was my husband’s dog before I knew him. She was one of those hunting-type dogs…the kind that can and needs to run for many miles. An odd sort of dog to choose to have in the city, but they loved her. The family still occasionally tells a Skipper story…and recently related a new one …
Anger is not the real problem
I just love it when my fellow colleagues offer their thoughts on this blog. I get to work with some of the neatest people I know who have some of the most brilliant ideas…today Maryann H. Friesen shares some of her experience and story with us. This past year I had the privilege of doing …
Hope for Parenting in a Fast-Moving World Part 2
(alternate working title: Perspective Taking: Is Parenting a Chore or a Challenge?) An ongoing periodic parenting series by our own Lindsey Walsh… Let’s talk more about Tuning In and Reading our Children’s Signals. But before we start reading their signals we have to start by hearing our own inner-signals. What signals do you give yourself? …
Pursuing the Good Life Effectively
What makes for a healthy and satisfying life? What are you resolving to do in 2016? As one year closes and another begins, wouldn’t it make sense to pursue that which will have us be healthiest and most satisfied? And how do we really know what has us be most healthy and most satisfied? What …
Before it’s too late
I was talking recently to some of my colleagues about couples therapy. One of the topics that came up was the reluctance of one partner to hear the other spouse’s pain…and do something about it. Sometimes, when couples come to therapy, we ask the couples which one is the “draggee” in therapy, and one the …
I miss him like a circle
Today is my annual so-low-that-down-is-up day–I blog about it every year (here in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014). The day when we have the least amount of light, and the most amount of darkness. The day that launches a time when the days will only have more light than the day before. More light is coming…just a little bit more …
Growing Hope: That’s what we do
Around Bergen and Associates Counselling, we grow hope. We grow hope in all sorts of ways with our clients. It’s beautiful to watch hope grow. I can’t even begin to tell you how special a job I have to have a front row seat to the growth of hop in the lives of the folks …
An Open Letter to Ms. Rona Ambrose
Dear Ms. Ambrose, Wow…did you see this coming? Your role as leader of the Official Opposition? I know your party was anticipating a re-election, with Mr. Harper continuing to be Prime Minister. And now–you’re the interim leader of the Conservative party. That’s an enormous job to land in. I applaud your courage to take on …
On Changing Habits and My Relationship with Fingerpicking
A guest post by Heather Pringle, another one of my favourite colleagues in our office. Sometimes at work we get to talking about situations, and life and our lives. We have the coolest conversations: When I mentioned my finger picking to Carolyn a little while ago, it felt like a slightly risky thing to do, …