Often people do not have an ability to change their circumstances. We are stuck with living with what has happened to us…our past. We are born into the families we have…nothing we can do to change that. Often, life circumstances can be dictated as well…economic circumstances may dictate employment, housing and so on. What’s the …
Trust and uncommon friendship is always beautiful to witness. It challenges and inspires us to look for connection and allow ourselves to risk trusting another that change lives. sitellite/util/snippets (code=a62f60087818095a7f0d6e5653c604fc) “They harbor no fears, no secrets, no prejudices. Just living two creatures who somehow manage to look past their immense differences….if they can do it, …
Challenge Met!
Very little gives a high like succeeding at something that is a challenge. We have a saying around the office: “Robyn sez”…our interior designer is fabulous…amazing how I can be in s space and not see something that she does…moving a chair here, or changing something over there and voila, it’s better! So. knowing she …
Relational Compensation…A Painful Balance
So…what happens when you put a cold mama and a hot junior tribe member in a Honda? Nope, this is not the beginning of some corny joke. It’s life in my household. A coupla times in the last coupla weeks, I found myself in a situation where I am running around doing errands, in and …
The Raising of a Mother
Parenting demands more love, more patience, more endurance that I would have thought possible. Mothering involves sleepless nights and cleaning up puke, restlessly trying to break a little one’s fever, talking to a teacher that has hurt a little one, phoning a doctor’s office to advocate for month’s sooner appointment even after they said it …
Cooperation and Connection
I remember being on the threshold of graduation from university. While my fellow students and I knew we were fortunate to have the opportunity to attend university, many of us were weary from living on a student budget. We sat around dreaming about the day was going to be like when we received our first …
Parenting Perspective
I had a choice the other day when one of the junior members of my tribe asked me to join him for a bowl of popcorn and a show we both enjoy. My temptation was to say that it didn’t work…we were moving our office. That meant that I was doing a bunch of things …
Progress
Coming together is a beginning, Keeping together is progress, Working together is a success. Henry Ford We have a solid beginning. We have made great progress. We continue to work well together…and that feels completely successful. We have operated for a week in our new office…found a few kinks we’re working on, and now have …
Believe before you can see
…if we are willing to slow down, listen, and say yes to what is before us, we can see beauty in what is disregarded, value what is not valued & know that we are home before we even arrive Liz Song of HopeLab
This Mess was Blessed
Bergen and Associates Counselling will open tomorrow morning at 1483 Pembina Highway, ready for clients to work with therapists to remove the barriers that interfere with them making the sorts of connections in their lives that they really desire. We are excited to be working out of the new space, and are thrilled with how …