On June 8, 1972, Kim Phuc’s life blew up…literally. Four bombs were dropped on her village and the little 9 year old girl found herself running out of the middle of a 1200 degree firestorm with burns from the napalm on much of her body. Her parents found her three days later in the local …
Hump Day Nudge: Playful attunement
I love being a witness to human connection…this intricate interplay that is a dance of people attuning to another. Without even trying, we pick up on signals from others all the time and respond to them…again without conscious effort. Things happen without explanation…the explanation isn’t needed, because the relationship just makes obvious what happens next. …
Emotional Eating-FAQ’s
I’ll be talking with Dahlia Kurtz about emotional eating tomorrow on CJOB in the afternoon. A great topic…something that affects so very many of us. I’m not sure we get a lot of folks coming to the counselling office saying, “Help me, I eat too much”…but we get a ton of folks that are struggling …
Creative parenting impacts powerfully
I’ve developed a fondness for discovering creative ways to implement non-violent resistance…non violent resistance being understood as strategies to resist things that aren’t right, but doing so in ways that don’t accuse or shame or manipulate or humiliate or harm another. Non violent resistance can be dangerous and requires courage. I saw the movie, Lee …
Hump Day Nudge: New Life
I’m a mush-ball when it comes to babies. Babies of all kinds. So when I saw this clip of all these little turtles being born, I just gazed in fascination. How did they all know which direction to go? How, after being in eggs independently, were they ready to hatch within just minutes of each …
A letter to the man on the bridge
And so, man-on-the bridge, I’ve been thinking about you for days. Hoping that if you were contemplating if life was worth living, that someone acted on their courage and let you know that they noticed you, and that you mattered.
Marriage Rules
“Tell me what to do!!” I often get couples asking me what a healthy marriage looks like…what behaviors and strategies set them up for success. One of the questions I often ask couples is, “How do you know what you want your marriage to look like?” Increasing numbers of couples don’t have an answer …
Hump Day Nudge: Step away from those screens
This is cute, in a “ohmigosh, I hope that’s not me, but it hits too close to home” kinda way: I was prepping last night for an interview with Dahlia Kurtz. It was this afternoon on CJOB on her new afternoon show that started just yesterday. The topic was boredom at work and how boredom …
A Thought
Asking for Help Part 2
My travelling buddy for my Oprah Lifeclass adventure in Chicago last week, J, is quite simply, a force. J and I sat in on the taping of two episodes featuring Dr. Brene Brown…and it was a moving experience for the audience…most of us caregiver types. Being J’s friend is a little risky and a lot …