The dreaded orange dot of doom. Many of us in the city live in neighborhoods that have elm trees on either side of the boulevard…the trees have been there for 80 years or more. The elm trees meet in the middle of the street providing this beautiful archway. The leaves, this time of year are …
A Fortunate Turn of Events
Sometimes something seems too good to be true…except that it is! Linda Churchill started her internship with us today. She in an advanced intern…we weren’t quite sure what to call her. Our position has always been that we only hire therapists that have Master’s level of counselling/therapy training to be counsellors at Bergen and Associates …
Oh, what a feeling!
I’ve learned that people will forget what you said; people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. Maya Angelou This is me…at Christmas…being silly…holding my new rice bag on my head…a gift from my mom…to a daughter with chronically cold feet. Ahhh.
Inner Conversations
When’s the last time you had a conversation with yourself? The above question is not to ferret out psychosis or diagnose you with something spooky. It’s a candid question that I think is helpful for each of us to ask ourselves. What I’m talking about is: When you find yourself feeling scared, to slow down, …
Feedback Enhanced Therapy–Good Success
Had a great therapists’ meeting on Saturday. The therapists at Bergen and Associates Counselling get together every so often for lunch on a Saturday. After going over the mundane usual matters (clean up your dishes, this is where the new form is kept, blah, blah, blah), we spent some time talking with each other about …
National Encouragement Day
Today is “National Encouragement Day”…at least in the United States…but I’m thinkin’ it might not be such a bad idea for Canada, too. Hey, if you and I know about it, and we each encourage two people today, well, maybe that will impact them, and give them strength to go on to encourage two others, …
Getting Stuff Done
I saw this video about procrastination the other day and chuckled. It was cute. sitellite/util/snippets (code=6f7cfb65db7c9136f2dc7735dbe867d3) LIke I said, I thought it was cute. Except this silly video came to haunt me this week…though I’m grateful. I’ve found myself less able to pull off the sort of self-fraud that I often do. This week was …
Technology Hygiene
OK, so I invented this term…at least, when I googled it, it didn’t come up with any relevant terms. And if it’s not in Google, it doesn’t exist, right? But I’m hoping that it is a term that’s gonna catch on. Take a read, and pass it on. Put it as a screen saver for …
A GoodBye Burger
I’m at the end of an era. Eleven years ago, I asked friends of mine to pray for me as I looked to find a suitable location amidst odd circumstances for my counselling office. I only wanted a part time practice at the time for one person. A good friend of mine answered my prayer …
Is it OK to argue?
Didja ever meet a couple who never fought and then their relationship ended and everyone is surprised because they never argued? I’ve met some of those couples before they actually separate, but after they recognize that things aren’t working and they better do something to avoid divorce court. They get a little bug-eyed when they …