When I was a small child, too small to attend camp on my own, I went to camp with my mom. She was camp nurse and I became a sort of camp mascot. I got to run around and do my own thing and the older campers would see me and be kind to this …
Hump Day Nudge: Play
We laughed out loud around our office at some of the shenanigans of Charlie Todd and his crews in this video: If you haven’t got time to watch the whole thing, skip to 6:25 and watch what happens when a hundred people dressed in khaki pants and blue polo shirts walk into a Best Buy …
Courage to stand up and walk over
Won’t you stand up and use your voice? There are a lot of folks who are depressed and struggling and anxious and lonely and desperately in need of connection…who are curled up on the inside (and maybe or maybe not on the outside) and would so benefit from another coming alongside. {! admin/html?id=a48d0e75ba205d3e954c26f13596dec0 !} For …
Hump Day Nudge: Silliness
It’s not hard to find experiences of struggle, sadness, betrayal, unfairness, or brokenness in our lives. Getting out of bed and out the door is a sure way to experience some challenges of life. Our “reptilian brain” is on guard for danger and seeks to protect us from it…it looks for things that can harm …
Meet Gail Shaver
Gail Shaver has been a part of the Bergen and Associates Counselling group for coming onto two years. Gail is great. She has a passion for the work. She went back to school as a mature student to become a therapist because she wanted to invest her life into working with people this way. She …
Hump Day Nudge: A teaching of love
This Wednesday, as you take a break from a busy day and look at the Hump Day Nudge, I want you to focus on the love in this video, shown in obvious ways by a teacher to his students, a father to his son, and a son to his father. Two things stand out …
Women burning clean anger
It breaks my heart when women are so nice that they don’t tell their partners or their friends or their kids when they are mad. It frustrates me when women: suppress what they want to have happen pretend it didn’t really hurt all that much or stop themselves from expressing a different opinion on the …
Gardens of Memories
I took a Junior Tribe Member out for lunch today…as I have done on their birthdays from the time they were in preschool. We go to the restaurant of their choice…many years it was at McDonald’s or Dairy Queen, then later, out for pizza, and lately the choice has been Cora’s. Lunchtime at school is …
Silly Fun
We had pie for lunch today. Not for dessert. For lunch. Today is International Pi(e) Day. At Bergen and Associates, we’re not shy about finding things to celebrate…we love to create joy…and Del, who came in for a half day today, made sure we celebrated in style. Lemon meringue pie. YUM! The pie was seriously awesome. …
Hump Day Nudge–Triumph Against All Odds
In our office we have a calendar that gives advice from nature. It’s cute and we like it, and creates some interesting and casual conversation as folks are nervously waiting for a session to start. I saw this video that reminded me of that calendar. I love a story where a water buffalo gets attached …