LinkwithLove is a new online intiative that I’m lovin’. Kal Barteski is a local artist with energy to burn. Not only is she the mother of three preschool girls who seem to be up a lot at night when the rest of us are sleeping, she is an artist with unique spirit, promoting people to …
TDC Anger Management
We have been offering sessions on anger at Bergen and Associates Counselling for several years now…in both our group format of 6-7 hours, and the individual session that total 4 hours. Our course, Transforming Destructive into Constructive, has now been well received by hundreds of people. Our thinking about anger parallels this quote: Do …
A Thought
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find it is those who, instead of advice, solutions or cures have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a …
A Reunion–a Realization
Sometimes, the stars align and the universe smiles, and a person is bless down to their socks. Does happen all the time, but I was fortunately thusly, yesterday. Years ago, I studied in California to get my counselling degree…and one of my professors came to town this week to teach a week long course here…and …
A Thought
Perspective…
Band Aid Solutions
I’ve often heard of people speaking of a “band aid solution”…and when it is said, it is usually with a note of derision. It’s a bad thing to have a band aid solution…implies that a person is not addressing the issue at its source, and is providing a temporary and inadequate solution. I’m not so …
Aargh…Blossom pinching season
I worked hard on my flower beds this weekend…given the rain we’ve had the last couple of days, it seemed like this would give them a good soak right after they got planted…and if I waited for the sunshine, it might be a long while before I could get into the dirt, given the rainfall …
Testify to Love
For as long as I shall live, I will testify to love I’ll be a witness in the silences when words are not enough Avalon
Space for Holding Pain
I’ve had hearbreak in my life…times when I thought that the pain might have me go mad. Literally. If not mad, then I might die…or perhaps it was more that I just hoped to die…to escape the pain, to not have to live with the heartache. It was brutally hard to “hold the space for …
Sitting in the Dark
Compassion is knowing your darkness well enough that you can sit in the dark with others. Pema Chodron I thought faith would say, “I’ll take away the pain and discomfort”, but what it ended up saying is, “I’ll sit with you in it”. And I never thought until I found it, that it would be …