I can identify with this video on some days…I start out ambitious to pull of something pretty special and joyous that will delight the folks I love…and then it starts to go sideways. Not that long ago, one of the junior tribe members brought over someone for me to meet…and I wanted it to …
Back’atcha
So, last fall, I had a friend that life had burned badly…a nasty divorce, a bad job situation, heartbreak with her children…I could go on. She lives out of province, and I cared, but living so far away it was hard to know what to do. She and I have been close: we share quotes …
Carved different now
Twenty years ago yesterday, I went to sleep in my hospital bed with the comforting memory of the strong heartbeats heard earlier in the evening ringing in my ears. Twenty years ago today, I woke up to nurses not being able to find the heartbeats. Twenty years ago today is the day of birth of …
A Thought
Hump Day Nudge: Sticking Together–Literally
There is very little that is of more value in this world than friends. Folks who don’t have to be with you, like family does. Folks who choose to be with you… …even after, and sometimes especially after, they get to know you. Folks who love you enough to: laugh with you until milk …
Everybody’s got stuff
Melanie, our office administrator/client care manager is fond of the line: “Everybody’s got stuff”. She uses it to remind us to have compassion with folks that rub us the wrong way, like suppliers who are late, or someone who has cut us off in traffic. Recently, a company that owns computer system we use, stopped …
Do we treat addiction?
Often on our contact page, or on the phone, folks ask us, “Do you treat addiction?” Sooooo many folks struggle with extreme and disordered behaviour, when spending too much, working too hard, eating too much (or not enough), drinking too much, using and abusing street drugs, abusing prescription medication, or consumed with electronics…facebook, gaming, …
Hump Day Nudge: Nature’s beauty
It’s Tuesday night. Hump Day is tomorrow. Yesterday was a stressful, conflicted, yammering, kind of day around our house, with seemingly everyone bagging on each other, not enough time, and the pressures of the world crowding in around us…the tones were tense, and it required effort to not go off on each other. We pulled …
Taking the Mask Off
There is the very real dilemma and tension of needing to put on a mask and to armor up against fear and vulnerability on the job, and then find ways of reversing that to be emotionally available to his family: The brain is affected by trauma…we know what the names of the brain are …
Too careful translates into wobbly
I rode my bike to the Smith St. office this week for the first time this year. Downtown. I wear a helmet, and yet my mother asks me if I’m safe. I’ve been an adult for a couple of decades now, and still my mother asks me if I’m safe on my bike. Apparently, mothering …