The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friendship. Ralph Waldo Emerson Hi folks…I’m back in town from a …
A Thought…
The real power behind whatever success I have now was something I found within myself — something that’s in all of us, I think, a little piece of God just waiting to be discovered. Tina Turner, O Magazine, December 2003 US singer (1938 – )
A thought
Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit. e e cummings US poet (1894 – 1962)
Paying for Benign Neglect
My hard drive crashed last week. On Friday afternoon, after a fabulous 2 day workshop during which I typed copious notes onto my laptop, after I prepared a lengthy presentation, after I had nearly completed writing a couple of blog entries, the computer froze. The Apple Genius (confident types, those self-named-guys are) knew how to …
…listening
The first duty of love is to listen Tillich Active listening is important. If you don’t know what to say when someone you care about is talking, you’re not sure you have anything brilliant to add, that’s OK. Don’t feel pressure to be brilliant—just let him or her know what you thought you heard …
A Thought
I love life…Yeah, I’m sad, but at the same time, I’m really happy that something could make me that sad. It’s like…it makes me feel alive, you know. It makes me feel human. The only way I could feel this sad now is if I felt something really good before. So I have to take …
Voices of Depression
It feels hopeless to live with depression. Others may think it’s not hopeless, but somewhat by definition, a person in the depths of depression feels hopeless. It feels awful, and it feels like it can never end. I’m giving a talk on depression in a couple of weeks, and went over some old notes from …
Siloam Mission Accomplished
Wow! Every one in a while, a person has a chance to be involved in something rather magical. A win-win-win situation. A chance to witness something that’s special, not only because of the end result, but because of the journey to get there. Something that warms a person’s soul with a “feel good” feeling, cuz …
Intimate Partner Violence-TDC
We’ve started a new program at Bergen and Associates Counselling: Intimate Partner Violence–Transforming Destructive into Constructive. For some now, we’ve been offering an Anger Management program called Transfroming Destructive into Constructive. It’s an effective class that participants really enjoy experiencing…and a person always learns more when having a good time. However, although it was never …
Forgiveness the Antidote to Bitterness
Bitterness imprisons life: love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life; love empowers it. Bitterness sours life; love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life; love heals it. Bitterness blinds life; love anoints its eyes. Harry Fosdick Been thinking about the burden of bitterness and resentment lately…watching people I care about stumble under the crushing weight of woundedness. Over …