Dear Coach, It wasn’t easy to support my son’s decision to travel across the country to play on your team. Now, 5 years later, with 20/20 hindsight, it was a brilliant decision. And not because the team won the National Championship…but because of the five years which led up to this championship. You see, when …
Sarah Murray–Psychology Today Sex Expert
Our therapist, Sarah Murray, is now a columnist with Psychology Today as a sex expert. Her first article was published recently: Sarah focused her doctoral dissertation on men’s experience of sexuality, looking at the connection between sex and belonging/connection/relationship. There is no shortage of stereotypes about men’s sexuality. There is much bravado and “locker room …
The Hidden Destruction of Inverse Scorekeeping
I read Donald Miller’s Scary Close book late last fall…and it was one of the best books I’d read in a long time. It was funny and clever and engaging, and all about relationships, my favourite topic. Y’know it’s a good book, when months after it’s been read, it comes back to bite you in …
Hump Day Nudge: You don’t have to try
Watching and listening and gazing into the eyes of the women in this video chokes me…it narrows my throat, and tears well up…I feel a knot when I swallow. Somehow this video says something deep and profound and wonderful and beautiful… Don’t a lot of us try hard to be who we think others want …
FAQ’s: Selfies…what they tell us about us
Ummm…I hear this word “selfie” does everyone but me know what it means? Selfies are a relatively recent development, so let me let Oxford tell you: So…why would anybody take a selfie? Why take pics of yourself to post on social media? What’s the point? Ahhh…so you’re likely not a “Millennial” if you’re asking that …
The Movement: True beauty is real
I love this video that has popped up in a few places: It’s like these women are almost surprised at how disappointed they are at how they don’t/want/can’t own the beauty of the faces in these photos..the retouched, bleached, refined, blemish-removed, pore-airbrushed faces…just not seeing that perfected “beauty” in the image, and owning it as …
The Daring Way ™ Shame and Authenticity
To register for The Daring Way with Carolyn Bergen, Certified Daring Way Facilitator, please check out The Daring Way™ webpage for dates and registration info. You may or may not have met me, but allow me to introduce myself to you. My name is Carolyn and I am an author. The above line …
Terrified courage
Folks that run into a burning building to rescue a child are regarded as brave heroes. And we often think of brave heroes as folks who fearlessly do very dangerous things. I’m thinking that anybody that enters a burning building without fear isn’t brave…I would think that’s more like a special kind of stupid. That’s …
Hump Day Nudge: Writing a Better Story
Christian Lunsford makes me swoon a little. I want all little boys to grow up to be like him. A 16 year old boy whose dad has spent most of the last 2 years in jail, and bailed on his kid a long time ago, has to wonder sometimes how he will end up. Why …
You’re beautiful!
I was surfing today and came across two pieces of info back to back. The first was this*…beautiful portraiture capturing beauty, not as the modelling world might see it, but as it truly is…the expression of joy, exuberance, loveliness, and “the sparkle” in a person’s eye as they laugh.: The second was this, …