The raw, savage pain of betrayal by one’s life partner is something that can hardly be witnessed. Experiencing the pain of knowing that the one who committed his/her life to you was in the arms of another is something that can have a person feeling: like one is going to literally “lose it”/”go crazy” …
Leaving footprints
Following 5 full days of learning and experiencing The Daring Way™ program, I had a free day to wander around the river walk today thinking and meandering and watching and gazing and musing and quietly thinking some more. The pathways, waterfalls and beautiful views alongside the water are relaxing and peaceful. After full days of thinking …
Hump Day Nudge: I am Enough
“The drummer boy” has been my favourite Christmas song every since I was a little girl. I grew up with the “Bony M” version, but the Pentatonix is my current fave version (and the new favourite of millions of others, I think, too, judging by the over 19 million views in three weeks or so) …
The Daring Way ™ Shame and Authenticity
To register for The Daring Way with Carolyn Bergen, Certified Daring Way Facilitator, please check out The Daring Way™ webpage for dates and registration info. You may or may not have met me, but allow me to introduce myself to you. My name is Carolyn and I am an author. The above line …
The Daring Way ™ Part 2
So…today we began the “3 day intensive”, participating as clients “doing the work” the same as I will when I’m facilitating the groups in Winnipeg. There are no exceptions to the route to becoming a certified facilitator of The Daring Way (TM)…all therapists are human, and all humans with capacity for empathy carry shame. Being …
The Daring Way ™ Day 1
Well, Day 1 is finished in San Antonio…I am taking the certification for The Daring Way (TM) cirriculum with Brene Brown. Her Ted Talk has millions and millions of views…because she talks about the feeling of being “not good enough”, vulnerability and authentiticy in a way that equips people to live richer, fuller, more …
Hump Day Nudge: Kid Wisdom
Around our house, I used to say, “Remember to mind your manners, offer to help out, ask them questions to show interest, and say ‘thank you’”, and so on, whenever one of my junior tribe members would go to a friend’s house for dinner or a sleep over. After a while, as they would be …
Hump Day Nudge: Loneliness
We are created for relationship. Pure and simple. A video on loneliness hardly seems like a little boost to get a person through the week, I know. But this is beautiful, clever, and the graphics say just what the voice does, ever so eloquently. Ironically, it just feels like something a person should share with …
FAQ’s about yelling at your adolescent
Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh published a study this fall that looked at the relationship between teens being yelled at and their behaviour. The results were inconvenient, to say the least, to parents who use yelling as a form of steering their teenager into appropriate behaviour. To put it quite simply, the study found …
The Marriage Hack
What if I told you a way to sustain the quality of your marriage could be done in 3 chunks of 7 minutes of writing three times a year..21 minutes to ensure your marriage doesn’t deteriorate? Would you do it? Sounds too good to be true? I love life hacks…simple strategies that can make a …