What if I told you a way to sustain the quality of your marriage could be done in 3 chunks of 7 minutes of writing three times a year..21 minutes to ensure your marriage doesn’t deteriorate? Would you do it? Sounds too good to be true? I love life hacks…simple strategies that can make a …
The Woman Cold
So…last post about the man cold…and this one about the woman cold. And now is when the woman say: What woman cold? There is no such thing as a woman cold. I don’t have time to be sick”. Yes. exactly. That would be the exact context of the woman cold. You see, women struggle with …
The Man Cold
You’ve seen this, or a version of it, while watching a commercial for cough syrup or cold symptoms, right? Some research suggests that women are biologically more sensitive to pain and therefore more likely to struggle during illness. Other research suggests that men have different temperature receptors in their brain and feel “rougher” during the …
The dark side of integrity–terror! :)
As a therapist, I have a front row seat every day to displays of raw courage. There ain’t nothing like it…I see people take enormous risks and say things out loud that they’ve never even dared form into an official thought inside their head. It’s awesome…truly. A gift that clients give me daily is to …
The Daring Way ™
I can remember the moment, fundamentally, my perspective changed. Years, ago, I began dancing with a limp…I birthed the most beautiful, perfect little boys you could imagine…they were born silently. No screaming or crying. Ever. I was heartbroken. Heck, I was just plain broken. Period. My dream of having children, a life long passionate dream, …
The balance bar
Permeable and porous…not wide open, nor shut tight. Sigh… …so not easy. I wrote recently of the challenges and the richness of “both/and” living…embracing the joys and sorrows of life simultaneously. It’s easier to be “either/or”…a Pollyanna or an Eeyore…but being stuck in one posture leaves little flexilibility to be both joyful and authentic, to …
I dared greatly
So, today was Fall Convocation at the University of Manitoba. Occupational Therapy students graduate in Fall Convocation because of the way the U of M program is run…so today was the graduation luncheon for the students. I got a call several days ago asking if I would present the Communications Award at the luncheon. Makes …
Life Lesson #2 Benign Neglect
The second of the series featuring unlikely and surprising but important principles for living well…we’ll start with a story… Not so long ago, one of my junior tribe members asked to go outside in dark late at night with a friend (who didn’t have his license) and practice parallel parking on the street with our …
The richness of both/and living
Life would be easier and simpler (though not better) living in an “either/or” world, rather than a “both/and” world. I may fail often, but I choose, as much as possible, as a matter of personal policy, to choose, “both/and” living. Lemme explain. I used to work in a rehab clinic helping people figure out how …
Space for Holding Pain
I’ve had hearbreak in my life…times when I thought that the pain might have me go mad. Literally. If not mad, then I might die…or perhaps it was more that I just hoped to die…to escape the pain, to not have to live with the heartache. It was brutally hard to “hold the space for …