This is my 500th post…a bit of a marker for me on this cold dreary wet October morning. That’s kind of a big deal. When I was finishing high school, I did one of those “career aptitude” tests. It suggested that my top options were to be a nurse or a nun. The latter seemed …
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 …
Lesson for Living #1 Radical Acceptance
The latest edition of Psychology Today has a key article emphasizing the fundamental importance of relationships in having any sort of healthy and satisfying life…relationships being key to overall life satisfaction, physical health, and resilience to stressors. Relationships, are simply a key to a vitalized life. The Psycholgoy Today article, entitled Lessons for Living, outlined …
Daring Greatly
The question that used to guide my life was ‘What would you do if you knew you couldn’t fail?’ Since I wrote the book, Daring Greatly, and since I came across this quote, my new question is ‘What’s worth doing even if I fail?’ Brené Brown Bust through the fear of not being …
Let’s Talk
When you work with someone long enough, and work very collaboratively and effectively with each other, it gets a l’il spooky… Today I was in the middle of a lunch time meeting with a coupla therapists and in the middle of it I suddenly realized I was booked to be in class on Friday afternoon …
Connecting with the Olympics
from Kal Barteski In our household, we’ve had a long standing tradition of a simple supper on Sunday nights in front of the TV…which means one day a week we giggle together over something that we can converse over…like “America’s Got Talent”, or “Undercover Boss”. The other six days we sit around a table and …
Make Mistakes
Like many folks this time of year, I was attending high school graduation festivities last week. The speaker at one of the events quoted C.S. Lewis in his speech: I loved the endorsement to fall…the expectation that falling is necessary. What I particularly loved was how the student themselves reinforced this principal, unwittingly as they …
Harder is Easier to Notice
I’m cross training for my part in the Manitoba Marathon relay…I’m taking my bike to work these days. Ok…I drove my bicycle yesterday and today…I realize that hardly makes it a habit…but a person has gotta start somewhere, right? On the way this morning, it was a tough slog to work. Although it was a …
Embracing the Stitch
Sometimes I forget that discomfort is not only to be tolerated, but can be embraced… I run. Not fast, not as regularly as I’d like, but I’ve been running for about 11 years. Gets me out in the sun, enjoying the beautiful outdoors, is healthy for my body, and good for my soul. But I’m …
Powerful Medicine
Would you be interested in an intervention that reduced anxiety by 48% in a meta-analysis, and with low dose gave relief to 30% on those with depression , and with an increased dose, that effect increased to 47%? That treatment is available to pretty much all of us…and there are further significant benefits from this …