Making Space for Discomfort in Transitions

We all expect hard times when a tough transition hits…a person is diagnosed with cancer, a house burns down, or there is a sudden car accident.  It’s rough when tragedy strikes and all of life changes in an instant.  In the case of serious illness, the transition may be expected…a relative dies after being in …

Think Pink by Wearing Pink

I was in Southern Ontario attending a course in August.  I went a day early to catch some sights, and found myself in St. Jacobs on Saturday morning, taking in the Farmer’s Market.  I ate a they-must-serve-these-in-heaven home made cinnamon bun for breakfast (and learned a few things to improve my cinnamon bun making technique), …

Hump Day Nudge: Mindfulness

Time is precious, isn’t it? Life is precious and I want to grab and squeeze the moments that surprise and delight me…I want to be mindful of the amount of time I spend watching other people live their lives on Facebook while I avoid living mine…I want to look for moments of beauty and humour …

Emotional Eating-FAQ’s

I’ll be talking with Dahlia Kurtz about emotional eating tomorrow on CJOB in the afternoon.  A great topic…something that affects so very many of us.  I’m not sure we get a lot of folks coming to the counselling office saying, “Help me, I eat too much”…but we get a ton of folks that are struggling …

Anchoring in Terror

She doesn’t know it, but Antoinette Tuff was my teacher today. This video is worth 16 minutes of your life.   Antoinette prevented a massive, highly dangerous man from another epic disastrously awful school shooting in Georgia yesterday. Not by pinning the man down, or calling the police, or shooting him.   She cared for …

Oprah and Brené…and me!

I come from steady, stable, secure stock. My parents both worked hard within the same organization their entire careers.  We lived in only two houses when I was growing up.  They looked–twice (very carefuly)–before they leaped. I was taught to always pay one’s credit card bill at month’s end, never spend what you didn’t have, …